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Are Tarrasques actually supposed to be more powerful than archdevils and archdemons lore-wise or is its higher CR purely a gameplay feature?

Like is a Tarrasque actually supposed to be more powerful than Zariel or Orcus or a Demogorgon according to lore?

And by more powerful I’m just talking about raw power here. I know archdevils and archdemons have armies and are intelligent and all that. But I would think as pseudo deities they are just straight up more powerful than any non-divine monster in terms of raw power too.

As someone who is a big fan of HEMA and longsword, it really bums me out that it seems like a 2H longsword is objectively worse than a greatsword in every way. Other than I guess in some gish builds that can’t afford the 13 strength.

The only exception that comes to mind is maybe a grappler build? Or at least a build that grapples some of the time? And even then it only makes sense with the defensive fighting style since otherwise you’d be outdamaging it with a 1h longsword and dueling anyway.

What fighting style or feats or strategy would you take if you were to build a martial character that used a 2H longsword and actually had a real mechanical reason for using a 2h longsword over a greatsword?

As someone who is a big fan of HEMA and longsword, it really bums me out that it seems like a 2H longsword is objectively worse than a greatsword in every way. Other than I guess in some gish builds that can’t afford the 13 strength.

The only exception that comes to mind is maybe a grappler build? Or at least a build that grapples some of the time? And even then it only makes sense with the defensive fighting style since otherwise you’d be outdamaging it with a 1h longsword and dueling anyway.

What fighting style or feats or strategy would you take if you were to build a martial character that used a 2H longsword and actually had a real mechanical reason for using a 2h longsword over a greatsword?