Minotaur
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Minotaurs are barrel-chested humanoids with heads resembling those of bulls. Their horns range in size from about 1 foot long to great, curling weapons easily three times that length. They often ornament their horns with metal rings or sheathe them in metal to protect them from damage.
Minotaur Features (Ravnica)
Sources: Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica
- Ability Score Increase. Your Strength score increases by 2, and your Constitution score increases by 1.
- Alignment. Most minotaurs who join the Boros Legion lean toward lawful alignments, while those associated with the Cult of Rakdos or the Gruul Clans tend toward chaotic alignments.
- Size. Minotaurs average over 6 feet in height, and they have stocky builds. Your size is Medium.
- Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
- Horns. Your horns are natural melee weapons, which you can use to make unarmed strikes. If you hit with them, you deal piercing damage equal to 1d6 + your Strength modifier, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike.
- Goring Rush. Immediately after you use the Dash action on your turn and move at least 20 feet, you can make one melee attack with your horns as a bonus action.
- Hammering Horns. Immediately after you hit a creature with a melee attack as a part of the Attack action on your turn, you can use a bonus action to attempt to shove that target with your horns. The target must be within 5 feet of you and no more than one size larger than you. Unless it succeeds on a Strength saving throw against a DC equal to 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Strength modifier, you push it up to 10 feet away from you.
- Imposing Presence. You have proficiency in one of the following skills of your choice: Intimidation or Persuasion.
- Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and Minotaur.
Minotaur Features (Theros)
Source: Mythic Odysseys of Theros
- Ability Score Increase. Your Strength score increases by 2, and your Constitution score increases by 1.
- Age. Minotaurs mature and age at about the same rate as humans.
- Alignment. Minotaurs who leave the walls of Skophos have the opportunity to be free of its culture and pursue chaotic alignments, while those who remain within the polis and its tyrannical regime tend toward lawful alignments.
- Size. Minotaurs average over 6 feet in height, and they have stocky builds. Your size is Medium.
- Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
- Horns. Your horns are natural melee weapons, which you can use to make unarmed strikes. If you hit with them, you deal piercing damage equal to 1d6 + your Strength modifier, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike.
- Goring Rush. Immediately after you use the Dash action on your turn and move at least 20 feet, you can make one melee attack with your horns as a bonus action.
- Hammering Horns. Immediately after you hit a creature with a melee attack as a part of the Attack action on your turn, you can use a bonus action to attempt to shove that target with your horns. The target must be within 5 feet of you and no more than one size larger than you. Unless it succeeds on a Strength saving throw against a DC equal to 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Strength modifier, you push it up to 10 feet away from you.
- Imposing Presence. You have proficiency in one of the following skills of your choice: Intimidation or Persuasion.
- Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and Minotaur.
Minotaur Features (Amonkhet)
Source: Plane Shift: Amonkhet
- Ability Score Increase. Your Strength score increases by 2, and your Constitution score increases by 1.
- Age. Minotaurs develop more slowly than humans, reaching full maturity around the age of 20. They typically become acolytes at around 8 or 9 years old, making them among the older members of their crops. Once they reach maturity, though, minotaurs age quickly, rushing headlong through the trials (as they do all aspects of life) to complete them before they pass their peak. A minotaur allowed to die of old age would rarely live beyond 40.
- Alignment. Most minotaurs lean toward chaotic alignments, and they have a slight inclination toward evil.
- Size. Minotaurs average over 6 feet in height, and they have strong, stocky builds. Your size is Medium.
- Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
- Natural Weapon. You can use your horns as a natural weapon to make unarmed strikes. If you hit with your horns, you deal bludgeoning damage equal to 1d6 + your Strength modifier.
- Menacing. You gain proficiency in the Intimidation skill.
- Relentless Endurance. When you are reduced to 0 hit points but not killed outright, you can drop to 1 hit point instead. You can’t use this feature again until you finish a long rest.
- Savage Attacks. When you score a critical hit with a melee weapon attack, you can roll one of the weapon’s damage dice one additional time and add it to the extra damage of the critical hit.
- Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and Minotaur.
Minotaur Features (Krynn)
Source: Unearthed Arcana 4: Waterborne Adventures
- Ability Score Increase. Your Strength score increases by 1.
- Conqueror’s Virtue. From a young age, you focused on one of the three virtues of strength, cunning, or intellect. Your choice of your Strength, Intelligence, or Wisdom score increases by 1.
- Age. Minotaurs enter adulthood at around the age of 17 and can live up to 150 years.
- Alignment. Minotaurs believe in a strict code of honor, and thus tend toward law. They are loyal to the death and make implacable enemies, even as their brutal culture and disdain for weakness push them toward evil.
- Size. Minotaurs typically stand well over 6 feet tall and weigh an average of 300 pounds. Your size is Medium.
- Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
- Horns. You are never unarmed. You are proficient with your horns, which are a melee weapon that deals 1d10 piercing damage. Your horns grant you advantage on all checks made to shove a creature, but not to avoid being shoved yourself.
- Goring Rush. When you use the Dash action during your turn, you can make a melee attack with your horns as a bonus action.
- Hammering Horns. When you use the Attack action during your turn to make a melee attack, you can attempt to shove a creature with your horns as a bonus action. You cannot use this shove attempt to knock a creature prone.
- Labyrinthine Recall. You can perfectly recall any path you have traveled.
- Sea Reaver. You gain proficiency with navigator’s tools and vehicles (water).
- Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and Minotaur.