Played a minotaur called Skulltaker in 2nd ed. He was a large sized creature and a total bad arse fighter/mage. Even so, one of the most dangerous things he could do was walk into town. Did actually get hunter by a mage looking to take his horns as spell components and had to flee from town on more than one occasion to prevent being lynched by an angry mob chasing away the monster in their midst. Got around it a bit with illusion spells, but appearing as simply a bigger than average human doesn't stop that chair from breaking under your 500+ lbs when you sit down. Even got to eat some humans (tasty), hey it was self defense and to not eat them would just be a waste. For this guy I used the rules from the 2nd ed Complete Book of Humanoids. Which has many great tips on roleplay and forces some rather hefty penalties on you to compensate for the fact your a killing machine. Could talk about Skulltaker's background, superstitions, tribulations and the sheer joy of not being one of the civilized races for hours, but in short I'll just say - had heaps of fun playing the monster, would recommend.
Awesome story. Thank you for sharing it, I'm really glad you had a goos time with skulltaker, sid you actually take the skulls of your enimies? I could imagine a bunch of town folk loosing their minds as a Minotar walking into town covered in skulls :D
I was going to say that D&D 5e isn't ready for a proper minotaur, but after some more thought, D&D over the editions, has been increasingly evasive on adventurer size, something pretty essential to a proper minotaur or halfling.
A Minotaur tried to attack our party to rob our food but instead apparently the half ork thought he looked like a sexy beast and flirted to make friends with him and we all invited him to breakfast. That was pretty funny and her(half ork) and man bull kept in touch and it's now a big ship we all love.
I am absolutely in love with the way you illustrated the Minotaur's anatomy, it looks so cool and you manage to make the muscles look both proportional AND exaggerated in a way that is amazing.
So in our group today, I started a new campaign with my friends. It's about 4 of us. I wanted to play outside the box and play as a minotaur. My DM was okay with it because it's different. Whereas other groups we've had hated the fact that I wanted to play obscene races. So we had a minotaur barbarian, a gnome rogue, half orc fighter and a dwarf cleric. My friend who is playing the cleric was kinda mad about it at first but seemed to be okay with it. The whole backstory is that I was from a pirate minotaur tribe that was just pillaging local villages and never really spoke clear common. I was 9 feet tall and about 600 pounds, all I knew was to swing an axe or club. I was slightly smart but not wise amongst my kin. One day I had stumbled upon a small gnome that was lost, my clan mate ordered me to kill him but one day I said no. My captain had told me I was to either kill him or leave the tribe. I picked the gnome up and let him sit on my shoulder as we walked away. After years of learning more common tongue through the gnome, we were essentially a duo from there and becoming mercenaries into this campaign where we're attempting to find a prince that's currently held captive for ransom. I'm personally enjoying it so far just running like a madman and headbutting everything in sight, letting the gnome think for me for the most part.
Thats a great backstory, do you get to throw down some sick pirate puns from time to time? I also hope someone had made a sea cow refrence. Keep at it and tell me how it goes!
Holy shit my friends and I are doing almost the EXACT same thing except my character sees the gnome rouge as his older brother. This was surreal to read.
I love playing the giant monster races. My first ever dnd character was a bugbear who was bribed into protecting the group and was too dumb to realize his services weren't needed anymore so he just stuck with them. (He has a low intelligence XD )
I played as a 10 foot tall minotaur I named Rocc in 5th edition. I made his as a Fighter/druid armed with a large kanabo. Brown furred, coal eyes. Very gentle with children and fiercely loyal and protective of those he calls friends and family, so much so I'd have him rush head first into a fight reguardless of the danger because someone he knew was in danger. His backstory was he found as a caff by a small group of traveling monks who decided to bring Rocc back to their temple home where he was raised up. He has a strong respect for nature as he's a druid and since his race are practically bred for battle, the monks thought it best to higher a mercenary to teach him combat to balance his chi. He lives in a fairly large village as its guardian. When he arrived, the people were a little frightened by him, tho seeing the large beaded prayer necklace that the monks wore they became more accepting towards him.
My favourite one of my characters was Big Hughes a 15ft tall minotaur barbarian who could literally carry the entire party on his shoulders and he has a tabaxi bard that travels around he is the only super large minotaur and is incredibly strong part of his backstory is that he was kept as a military slave and magpie the tabaxi thought it would be funny to release him as a prank and Big Hughes proceeded to slaughter the entire encampment and vowed to protect magpie for the rest of his life for freeing him
Minotaurs are one of my favorite monsters from myth. Always felt it was a shame that there was only one in that maze, instead of being more wide spread. Happy that they're a playable race and can't wait to get into a game to play one myself.
Easily my favorite of your videos and I couldn’t agree with you more about playing the monster as a monster. I’m currently playing and running a monster campaign in 3.5 rules with a Minotaur cleric of Baphomet and I love it.
Honestly of of my favorite characters I ever played was a Minotaur who was a blood hunter. His subclass was a homebrewed order of blood hunters that took on the curse of vampirism.
Exactly, I love the idea that if you're playing monstrous races normal encounter mobs won't attack you. But random guards on the roads become an major issue.
I have a minotaur character ready called Asterion, ready to use in a bronze age campaign, he's in that bronze musculata armor and has a big axe and shield, and he's a high wisdom fighter. he's well spoken and likes to mess with people by letting them think he's big and dumb before he talks and just starts rattling off poetry and epics he has memorized. in this setting minotaurs also live hella long, so he's actually quite old and he's this out of practice adventurer getting back into the swing of things, but he also used to be a bandit chief, mercenary, and other stuff in his youth, so there's some comedy in him where they'll show up to a place he's been, and the bandit gang could be his old gang, but like a century later so they don't think a minotaur actually ran the gang at some point.
It's hella fun in combat, but it is on a higher damage curve. so I usually only allow it when were doing high fantasy and everything is about to Go crazy. In our last campaign he got shrunk to diminutive size and fast ball special ed at a goblin one Ant Man montage later... no more goblin.
Ive been wanting to play a large 12-14 ft tall character Dragon Born barbarian thats under the influence of a enlarge spell but i keep being told how NO ONE would want to DM / play it and its honestly HUGELY disappointing how many people just want to play everything but scaled back / made less interesting. Like what would you say to these people who seem to constantly just immediately go for the nope option when even bringing in the possibility of a charachter thats more then box standard size wise ? Im glad im not the only one that thinks that playing a creature thats ment to be Large as LARGE and not 7-8 feet tall which is the cop out way of playing this kinda thing.
I usually tell people that everything comes with a cost. Yes you'll be a powerhouse in combat but your movement is hampered your restricted in spaces designed for medium sized creatures. All your gear is custom made and cost more. It's defintly more work for your dm but I really enjoy the challenge for you and the dm
@@Rookzer0 I mean i went into the charachter with all this in mind mind you. I was well aware of the potential problems and willing to hash things out with the GM (i also make maps so was very willing to help out with those ) and art stuff. I just feel like everyone the moment its even suggested it they dont even want to entertain it like its some sorta curse.
Thats a bummer to hear. I hope you are able to sway people in the future. Feel free to chat about your ideas on the discord. Unique character make the game better in my mind
This gave me a lot to think about, thanks! I've made a Minotaur Barbarian ready for my next campaign, planning to play him kinda shamanistic, a protector of the natural world and balance. His barbaric rage coming from totem of the warrior (bear flavoured as a bull) and his ancestral spirits.
while being large is cool, I think the idea is that one) if you look at old art of the Greek Minotaur, he was just as tall as Theseus, also two) think of it like Goliath though I won't deny, being large is factually cooler
Yeah there is some discrepancy there, I think the original text said. "above 6 feet tall but with a neck and shoulders big enough for a bull" so that's a bit odd. but still good call, Big cows = better cows in my book.
1st campaign and i wanted to play a minotaur. Comes from a tribe who sends the young minotaur reaching adulthood on a pilgrimage like rumspringa. Learning to control their rage or become full enraged beast. His barbarian rage is like the hulk. He might not care so much about friendly fire. Now if only i could get a party member to say "suns getting low big guy"
Love this video! I have a Minotaur character idea in mind that I am just waiting for an opportunity to play. I see his backstory involving being from a foreign continent where Minotaur live free in little communities. Being so large and fearsome looking however made them ideal slaves and so my character was taken across the sea to the potential setting of the game and sold off to a Master that set him to fight in the Arena as a Gladiator. Channeling the rage of being taken from his home and forced into this situation against his will, he becomes a self taught Berserker, who eventually wins the favor of the crowd and earns his freedom, to eventually become an Adventurer, seeking some place to belong along.
I was so excited when I saw a minotaur as a player race. That excitement was immediately squashed when I saw they were a medium race, only had 3 racial traits, and all 3 were simply "you can do stuff with your horns."
I think you mean Minotaur Oath of Conquest Paladin. Who needs to fit into a door when you can just impose terror on people and spawn in your own food and water.
Its crazy that this ran across my feed now!😂 im currently building one for a 5e campaign a friend is trying to get of the ground. But instead of a bull my Minotaur looks like an american bison that's slate gray. Haven't named him yet and still hammering out all the details but i have a feeling this echo knight fighter will be fun! 😁
Welp, I just played my first session as a chaotic evil character. Rakkus, the minotaur barbarian. He didn't like waiting in caves. He took his bloodlust to the open sky and reeked havoc. Rather than kill him, a group of mages created a magical collar and set of cuffs to enslave him. It worked! He worked as a slave in the mages' tower for months, until he was handed over as payment to a monster hunter. In game I will actively try to slip away or move fast enough to get away with things I want to do (mostly eat corpses), while the other player simply snaps his fingers and painfully paralyzes me. The minotaur has mostly given up at this point, knowing he rarely gets away with things, but will try on occassion anyway. His owner will force him to meditate with him and share tea with me, and the pair have become a wonderful comedic relief.
My fav minotaur was the Gestalt i played in 3.5. Artificer/dreadnecro/pale master. He was tombtainted born that way. Took it as a sign he was ment to tread the path of magic and death to bring to his people something they never had. A Kingdom of thier own. He travaled the low lands among the hairless monkey's passing himself off as a paladin of his strange god. All the wile pulling a wagon loaded with books notes and tomes on laws, farming, managment, technology, magic and bags of holding full of bones. I miss him so...
My Minotaur "Seeng" is a Paladin. This was for our tyranny of dragons campaign. He was rescued by a demi-god as a child when his tribe was destroyed by a wandering dragon. Left by the steps of an cathedral like orphanage located within a large forest, he was taken in by the Mother and Father which helped raise him. Growing up there he always felt distant from the other children but the sisters would reassure him thats hes has a good heart. Wanting to do more, he started helping around the orphanage thanks to his large stature and good strength. During those times, he started learning swordsmanship and melee combat from the Father who use to be a soldier while also learning more about faith from the Mother who was a cleric. As he grew older, being classed as a paladin in training (untill lvl 3), he would continue his training and protecting the orphanage. When the Father died due to old age, he decided to set of to be on adventurer to start earning money so he may send it back to the orphanage in order to insure his siblings stay safe.
@@Rookzer0 Indeed as do I. I was planning on him becoming that demi-gods champion throughout the campaign but we have it on hold for now. Hopefully i can play him again, really enjoyed his character.
I think your minotaur will be able to fit through a door if he just leans on his stunted leg and ambles his way through. That plus maybe taking the door off the hinges.
I've thought about adding Minotaur's for my players and making them a playable race. However, instead of having Demonic Ancestry, I've always loved the Tauren from WoW. Maybe as an Uncommon species so if you are seen in a town or city people are overwhelmed with your size or in shock of your rarity "OMG, a Minotaur!!!"
One of my favorite characters was a Minotaur. Played him in 3.5 and yes as a large creature. Had him be mute. Snorted and twitched his ears. His actions spoke louder then words.
I homebrew Minotaurs the playable race is a smaller race than the monster Minotaur like goblin and hobgoblin. The monster is a larger and more savage version than the smaller more common race.
That's a fair way to look at it. I think that's the though that Wizards does as well. The "playable" races they use are the more humanistic version of their monstrous counterparts
It's so tempting as a Minotaur to not just rely on your horns and immense strength all game. Like I'm a giant bull, why wouldn't I run through everything in sight? At that point an axe is just decoration. This sentient pain train has no brakes
I am playing a minotaur barbarian in a 3.5 game, and in my most recent session he had drawn the comet card from a deck of many things, and had to complete the next encounter by himself, and when he walked into a room, he found three hobgoblins and three black dragon wyrmlings, he killed them all within two rounds using great cleave. Hands down best experience I have had playing him so far.
I’m playing a Minotaur Cleric in my new campaign- 6 and a half feet tall, 7 foot with horns and fucking buff. And a sweetheart. Just constantly trying to stop others from screaming as she’s trying to heal them 😅 She’s always the cinnamon roll trying to stop the other characters from fighting whilst also constantly getting distracted by shiny things and adding them to her pack. Also her name is Ellie (short for Elestra). The only thing that makes her turn nasty is when people threaten her herd or friends and then the bonus to intimidation comes in heavy.
I have never played DnD and when asked to create a character, I IMMEDIATELY gravitated to the minotaur. I love the idea of a huge character that is misjudged by his appearance. I have created my character, Bromir, but I haven't started playing yet. This video made my day! Do you do commissions?
My current character is a Minotaur named Bjorn, that was raised by bears and joined a clan of Viking Minotaurs before eventually becoming an ancient paladin of the wild mother. I love playing him he doesn't bitch about sketchy shit because he's true neutral, only really caring about the natural balance on the big scale. Survival of the fittest is the natural law.
I play a bright blue Minotaur, like tardis blue named Ae Minotaur who is really a grung cursed to be a Minotaur but has no idea, he is legit the funniest character I’ve ever played just because he stands out and playing a rogue barbarian makes him the best combination of ominous and purely bad ass
First ever Dnd character I played was a minotaur blood hunter called Hard Horn. I had no idea what a blood hunter going into it but wanted to try cause it sounded cool.... what can I say I'm a bloke. I remember saying to my DM about it and he replied with a look of well this could be fun for your first character. I loved were you spoke about scaring people, I've had a few times where my minotaur has fazed through a wall/locked door with a flaming axe ready in hand to scare the crap out of people and make them do what the party wants. Also my character is 8 1/2 feet tall, albino white fur and blood red eyes. Even just starting a few months ago I love playing the game. Its awesome.
My friend’s character is a Minotaur/Oath Breaker Paladin that harnesses the power of the Negative Energy Plane, and has both the eye and hand of Vecna. Every level he gains the more undead he looks, when he reaches max level he will look like a demonic/undead version of himself, also his name is Mad Max!
I know I’m also super late to this, but I’ve been looking for videos like this recently because of one of my home brew races the Uhyre. Basically I loved the design and lore for Asterios (aka the Minotaur) from FGO, but couldn’t find a suitable build similar to him that wasn’t meant as a boss monster, so I made one for 3.5. Currently I’m playing my 10’11” Minotaur base wild mage Robert, and it has been nothing but shenanigans and/or trauma. I love RPing with him, but as a general agreement with my dm, just so they don’t have to rework the whole world to try to fit him, we had to implement a magic item that would keep him and other Uhyres medium size while worn. (This rule only came about after 2-3 sessions though). So far in the campaign he’s tripped down stairs, crushing all of his allies, got stuck in a small hallway for a few rounds, ripped out a doorway just to enter a pub, and a whole bunch of other issues 😂
Love the art it's always got your certain aesthetic, currently playing a bard ratfolk with tons of charisma, I'm wondering if I could make a backup character in the form of a minotaur
@@Rookzer0 we have 2 ratfolk so swarming is one of the strats, I'd have to check with our dm but I feel like playing as an adolescent minotaur would be fulfilling gameplay and rp wise
I know I'm über late to this but I wanted to try out a medium minotaur wizard. He was the runt of the clan and is missing his left horn because in minotaur culture if you lose a battle with another minotaur you get your left horn broken off and he lost so much that his left horn no longer grows. Long story short, runs away and hides in a library to be alone, roaming the 'maze' of the bookshelves as an assistant.
my DM wont allow me to play as a large creature cause it says that the minotaur is medium sized...but i created him as a Rune Knight Fighter so he is able to get large through the Giants Might feature from lvl 3...In fact i dont play him as an evil creature but as an archaeologist who seeks new runes and is pretty overwhelmed by the world of the humans...he has never seen citys and has one friend a shadow monk rougue multiclass goblin who does the talking in town ....but i gotta say its a very cool class and i love playing it! we just had 1 session so i cant say much about how my dm lets his world see me..great art btw!
I am 7 foot 1, 400 pound minotaur. I said my backstory is that my parents and I were exiled from our tribe and we wanna be good but the world hates us for the monsters we are. My character worked for some dwarves for a while and learned to work with metal and create things (ulike his brute brother eine). He took the self mission to become the strongest, to show that he is a heroic figure so his family and him can be accepted into human society.
I have yet to play a minotaur but, as to be fair I have yet to even play D&D, i'm setting up a campaign with cousins, but if not because we are all trying to learn the game, I would already be designing a minotaur druide. It's been on my mind for a while, I want to play a big minotaur someday. I'm really looking forward to learning the game and designing such character to fit my purpose. Thanks for the ideas, food for though with my dm once I start trying to play this.
I'm currently playing a massive 12 ft 900 lb minotaur with a giant axe and a trident that I can throw. I basically throw the trident with such force that it instantly kills most mobs and then I use the mobs as crude shields and clubs. I just lost my trident so I made a new one out of femurs and a thick enchanted tree handle. I also found a special gnome butter that allows me to slide through most doors
Ok but what I wanna play against type as a friendly minotaur fey wanderer ranger who just wants to make friends even tho he can throw his enemies ten feet away
Right now I'm trying to whip up a tanky character for a 3 man morally ambiguous party. We have a punk rock bard, an Old Ones Warlock, and whatever I drum up. So in Pathfinder 2e, I'm thinking a minotaur ruffian rogue w/martial artist archetype. (3rd party minotaur race, free archetype variant rule). Basically he's a bully that can rough people up up close, take hits, but also fight dirty. Less thievery stuff (although trained) more intimidation and leg breaking. Seems like a fun time that can round our group out.
I made a Minotaur character but haven’t used her yet. The funny thing is that I haven’t played as a human, elf, dwarf, halfling, or half-orc before. I’ve played or have a character for Dragonborn, Changeling, Firbolg, and Kitsune. I don’t think I’ve played as one of the standard races before at all. Still want to play some of the other random less human races.
I'm playing a barbarian minotaur and we are in the shadowfell. We was fight a mini boss you can call the monster creature. He was up against the wall so I used my Minotaurs charge to bash into a pillar which I rolled 16 plus my bonuses for strength so got a nice 20 Pillar comes falling down and crushes the enemy boss and makes some tasty jam for me to eat
i made a version of the minotaur for my group called "Ramhead" they stand 7ft tall at the shortest normally being 10ft with incredible strength and endurance, immunity to stun and resistance to stagger, they are a monsterous race with a hierarchy ruled by physical might... i roleplayed my main pc of the race Grond as a brute who doesn't speak common or at least only knows a few words, a complete slaughter machine in combat and great for intimidation checks (the Half Orc Paladin threatened to feed a lower lord to him if he didn't give up the info, then did it anyway)
Recently I just worked out the minimum and maximum height and weight of all DND races. In ancient Greece the Minotaur is said to be ~7ft tall in DND the Minotaur's max possible height is 6'8".
Currently playing a Minotaur Warlock who's Patron is an Efreet. Having an ELDRITCH BLAST of a time! Looking to get a few levels in Fighter to buff him up more.
I made a world that a god of knowledge took pity on some minotaur and made them a city in the astral city. This makes all of the guards have five levels in either Barbarian or fighter with an additional five levels in wizard. I really want to make a storyline were the party has to steal something from the inner depths of the castle. It will be soooooo much fun.
My Minotaur's name is Bjorkus, a barbarian, RP wise he was not that smart and was easily frightened but Loved cute little critters and only time he would "rage" is if his friends were being hurt cause he thought he had to protect them as they are so much smaller than him
Ive had a few player play with idea that their rage was more based on the senerio than just as a combat move. I think it adds a lot of flavor. Had a bloodrager that would only rage if someone went unconscious
Idea for an actual fucking Minotaur character (i.e LARGE). While the rest of the party is sleeping at the inn, the Minotaur (who was forced to sleep outside) patrols the city streets for thieves and brigands, which they proceed to eat as a late night snack!
I played a Minotaur Monk once. He was born a bastard and deemed by the patriarch Minotaur to be unworthy due to not having a father. A travelling monk found the calf lying in a field where they dropped him off, and took him in. He has a fairly stoic, yet amiable personality. Though he still has the instincts in the back of his head to be a savage monster, which is why he adventures to overcome this feral urge. He was always treated with suspicion at the very least, if not out right prejudice or hostility. Now, the reason why I chose a monk was because his horns get the unarmed bonus since they are a natural weapon he has proficiency with. Lots of foes were rammed by his swinging head. Good times, and much fun.
Playing a Minotaur in a current campaign. He’s a barbarian battle master fighter named Angus McVeal. 😂. He’s an absolute beast in battle and destroys just about everything he goes up against. Our DM gave him a +3 greataxe and a belt of storm giant strength. He laughed last week saying he did that to himself.
I want to play a minotaur that was discovered by a traveling circus and trained to play instruments and learn some magic. After leaving the circus to seek more of the martial thrills of his nature, he joins a mercenary guild and learns to fight. He is now a bard/fighter who uses a massive double hand sledge that is also a stand up base, and huge flutes that double as blow guns. His stage name would be Blaster.
I made a minotaur ranger, who his favored enemys was humans and elves, and he is neutral good, in his vision and in the vision of his village, he is just a folk hero protecting the village from the bloodthirsting humanoid adventurers... And entirely party was made by monster characters, who are the good guys
if i ever play navel i would make a minotaur barbarian mabey not that exciting but at level 3 i would take storm herald and the take the sea as my storm and at level 6 you can breathe underwater and you get 30 feet to swim speed it would make such an awesome torpedo and + bull rush yes please
i once as a DM allowed my player to play as an owlbear, I believe it was mostly intelligent. sadly, one of the early dungeons involved hunting for mites under their massive treehome and the medium sized characters were having to squeeze. i worked around it by letting him dig his way through which opened up the areas he carved for the smaller people, but he quickly got tired of his large size character suffering penalties. guess he never considered the adverse effects of being Large sized and only saw the massive str bonus attached
That sounds hella awesome! Im glad there were penaltys to work though, I think a good investment for all large creatues is a wand of reduce size for when you NEED to be smaller. But there are penalties :) keep those stories comming!
I started playing a barb Minotaur and almost got myself killed by asking my party if I can eat the King’s kids. It is pretty fun though, especially combat.
My fist ever DnD character was a minotaur named reyortsed (destroyer backwards) he was a druid a protector of nature and those around him, he was a very old minotaur with great wisdom and many a downside. My favourite memory of him was him and my gnome companion Sindre Timbers in which he picked the gnome up rolled him into a ball and proceeded to throw him down a corridor at a group of enemies then continued to charge at them with his greatclub and horns alongside the rest of the party.
somewhat you could say, in the end the gnome was hurt more than the enemies he hit but then again the gore reyortsed did afterwards to the opposition made up for it also that was the first time yet not the last time this tactic was used.
So I haven't played him yet but I just created a Forge Cleric Minotaur. The concept being that to fight the inner turmoil he has chosen to dedicate his life creating and fixing both people and items. If he can create an item that fixes a person even better. This being in Ravnica makes the whole monster issue easier to deal with. The str/con bonuses are great for a heavier front line type cleric too. As for the size issue in 5e at least their base height is 7'9" and while still quite imposing, and awkward fit, still technically fits in most spaces a medium creature can.
One of my friends had a habit of playing Minotaurs and he had an interesting relation with our Orc barbarian, Graah One Boot, Slayer of Minotaurs (rolled a nat 20 and max damage against the first Minotaur the party faced)
I am fixing to start a new campaign and play a Minotaur paladin who worships Mogis god of Slaughter from Theros and offer blood tribute to Mogis daily, shaping up to be really interesting
Played a minotaur in Dragonlance, (krynn, so coming from Irda (ogers)) did not roll it. He came from convention. I just kept the character. It is a fully fledge culture (Klingon meets Romans), they really is no character quite like that. it was really fun and a nice change from the usual, Survived Ravenloft with him, there is nothing like staking vampires to trees. Don't have horns attacks as thy are quite civilised but have a roman take on the world, Try to find a bed that can accommodate the 8' 5 and 550 lbs would be a problem is only there was an inn that had the level of raffinement that a patrician of minotaur league as come to expect. plus the intimidate roll is always a boon when a patron suggested the stables (linking Krynn minotaure to cow is a deadly insult, From a game point of view they have +2 ins strength (both maxing at 20) and constitution and -2 in charisma and wisdom), surprised only 1, have the track skill for free, natural armour (+3 i think), never lost and immune to maze spell and you must spend at least on non weapon prof point in boatwright (and us it for sailing) and rope use, their are supposed to be the best sailor of the Krynn. From a power level perspective, we tried a lot things and nerfing did not really works so we boosted the encounters and the dungeon instead, we ended up wither getting for the parity size above when determining the difficulty of encounters/dungeons or when not possible adding 10-20% more low mobs or adding a level to the boss and under boss. Funnily enough yes, it enable you to feel awesome as a damage factory, but really it is much better used to actually enable other classes to shine, sending people prone is making you the rogue best friend no to mention being caster last line of defence. as well so much resources are needed to tie you up that medium sized warrior have a much easier time to get the enemy caster. not to mention that you can get the Kender (kind of hobbit), or elf or slightly build human creature if the DM is kind enough one level up in one sweet move.
My friend was a minotaur and I was a immortal/invincible rouge cleric(I was cursed) and his sister was a human raised by minotaurs, and as a meme when there is a giant wall, He throws me at high walls and at any tall mountains to insure I "secure" areas
@@Rookzer0 "TIME TO USE MY FAVRIOTE SPEAR" the minatour says as out Warlock paralyzed me so far its a meme of me getting thrown so that's fine(I am also used to disarm traps...)
I played a female minotaur barbarian that was an archeology student that paid her college tuition with a rugby scholarship. Her main method of solving puzzles in ancient deathtraps was to plow through them. I ran with the ideas that minotaurs are known for labyrinths and charging at things. I don't remember why she was female, I think it was because I only ever see female minotaurs wearing shirts.
I'm playing a minotaur barbarian whose tribe rejected the demonbeast and took control of their own rage. They stopped eating humanoid flesh, for the most part, and followed a path of ancestral guardians. He's only 6' 6" though, he was separated from his clan as a child and saved from drowning by a pirate captain. He joined his current adventuring party when the ship docked for repairs. His horns are dipped in bronze and his hair, tail, and chin beard are dyed fuschia and he has tribal branding marks all over his body. Every time he makes a kill while in a rage the demonbeast speaks in his head and taunts him, urging him to keep killing.
I played a minotaur (Gunder Black mane) actually as one of my first characters, (a dwarven metal golem was my first), he was by far to this day my best rolled character, and even though he was still medium sized, i made him as tall as my dm would allow at 8'6". When i rolled the stats to this character, not single stat was lower than 15, i got one 18, one 17, two 16s, and two 15s. his intelligence was the highest in the group and at one point i intimidated the literal shit out of a gnoll. and then later rolled a nat 1 on my first drink in drinking contest....
I really wanna play a female Minotaur Druid thats basically just a big floofy cow with a motherly, caring personality, it's far from a typical Minotaur but i LOVE the idea!
@@Rookzer0 I was mostly imagining a highland cow but now that you mention it, yaks look pretty cool as well :D I might include elements of both once i get to designing the Character^^
Played a minotaur called Skulltaker in 2nd ed. He was a large sized creature and a total bad arse fighter/mage. Even so, one of the most dangerous things he could do was walk into town. Did actually get hunter by a mage looking to take his horns as spell components and had to flee from town on more than one occasion to prevent being lynched by an angry mob chasing away the monster in their midst. Got around it a bit with illusion spells, but appearing as simply a bigger than average human doesn't stop that chair from breaking under your 500+ lbs when you sit down. Even got to eat some humans (tasty), hey it was self defense and to not eat them would just be a waste. For this guy I used the rules from the 2nd ed Complete Book of Humanoids. Which has many great tips on roleplay and forces some rather hefty penalties on you to compensate for the fact your a killing machine. Could talk about Skulltaker's background, superstitions, tribulations and the sheer joy of not being one of the civilized races for hours, but in short I'll just say - had heaps of fun playing the monster, would recommend.
Awesome story. Thank you for sharing it, I'm really glad you had a goos time with skulltaker, sid you actually take the skulls of your enimies? I could imagine a bunch of town folk loosing their minds as a Minotar walking into town covered in skulls :D
I was going to say that D&D 5e isn't ready for a proper minotaur, but after some more thought, D&D over the editions, has been increasingly evasive on adventurer size, something pretty essential to a proper minotaur or halfling.
@@Rookzer0 how did you make your minotaur in pathfinder 2e? I struggle making one and could use a little inspiration.
A Minotaur tried to attack our party to rob our food but instead apparently the half ork thought he looked like a sexy beast and flirted to make friends with him and we all invited him to breakfast.
That was pretty funny and her(half ork) and man bull kept in touch and it's now a big ship we all love.
Thats some good clean d&d right there! Well done!
I dig this. I love it when people role play the kind of stuff that most people wont normally do.
@@blazeteck :)
thats very wholesome
niiice
I am absolutely in love with the way you illustrated the Minotaur's anatomy, it looks so cool and you manage to make the muscles look both proportional AND exaggerated in a way that is amazing.
Thank you very much! I'm glad you enjoyed it! Feel free to use it for home games and personal character sheets
Any time I can’t find in a tavern or shop I just koolaid man right through the wall
I see town gaurds in your future
@@Rookzer0 complain to guards that the bricks were red and you need glasses
Dang that's a bad ass sketch. Love the axes. You've got some serious skills
Thank you my good soup can!
So in our group today, I started a new campaign with my friends. It's about 4 of us. I wanted to play outside the box and play as a minotaur. My DM was okay with it because it's different. Whereas other groups we've had hated the fact that I wanted to play obscene races. So we had a minotaur barbarian, a gnome rogue, half orc fighter and a dwarf cleric. My friend who is playing the cleric was kinda mad about it at first but seemed to be okay with it. The whole backstory is that I was from a pirate minotaur tribe that was just pillaging local villages and never really spoke clear common. I was 9 feet tall and about 600 pounds, all I knew was to swing an axe or club. I was slightly smart but not wise amongst my kin. One day I had stumbled upon a small gnome that was lost, my clan mate ordered me to kill him but one day I said no. My captain had told me I was to either kill him or leave the tribe. I picked the gnome up and let him sit on my shoulder as we walked away. After years of learning more common tongue through the gnome, we were essentially a duo from there and becoming mercenaries into this campaign where we're attempting to find a prince that's currently held captive for ransom. I'm personally enjoying it so far just running like a madman and headbutting everything in sight, letting the gnome think for me for the most part.
Thats a great backstory, do you get to throw down some sick pirate puns from time to time? I also hope someone had made a sea cow refrence. Keep at it and tell me how it goes!
Holy shit my friends and I are doing almost the EXACT same thing except my character sees the gnome rouge as his older brother. This was surreal to read.
The creativity of these kinds of videos is overwhelming.
Thank you, I have a lot of fun figuring them out.
My first character ever was a Minotaur. So badass. Always play them. Large. Bar fights with a Minotaur. Try it.
Those horns are a nice addition to any bar fight
I love playing the giant monster races. My first ever dnd character was a bugbear who was bribed into protecting the group and was too dumb to realize his services weren't needed anymore so he just stuck with them. (He has a low intelligence XD )
I played as a 10 foot tall minotaur I named Rocc in 5th edition. I made his as a Fighter/druid armed with a large kanabo. Brown furred, coal eyes. Very gentle with children and fiercely loyal and protective of those he calls friends and family, so much so I'd have him rush head first into a fight reguardless of the danger because someone he knew was in danger. His backstory was he found as a caff by a small group of traveling monks who decided to bring Rocc back to their temple home where he was raised up. He has a strong respect for nature as he's a druid and since his race are practically bred for battle, the monks thought it best to higher a mercenary to teach him combat to balance his chi. He lives in a fairly large village as its guardian. When he arrived, the people were a little frightened by him, tho seeing the large beaded prayer necklace that the monks wore they became more accepting towards him.
My favourite one of my characters was Big Hughes a 15ft tall minotaur barbarian who could literally carry the entire party on his shoulders and he has a tabaxi bard that travels around he is the only super large minotaur and is incredibly strong part of his backstory is that he was kept as a military slave and magpie the tabaxi thought it would be funny to release him as a prank and Big Hughes proceeded to slaughter the entire encampment and vowed to protect magpie for the rest of his life for freeing him
That sounds so bad ass.
That is the most badass Minotaur art I’ve ever seen
Thank you
Minotaurs are one of my favorite monsters from myth. Always felt it was a shame that there was only one in that maze, instead of being more wide spread. Happy that they're a playable race and can't wait to get into a game to play one myself.
Easily my favorite of your videos and I couldn’t agree with you more about playing the monster as a monster. I’m currently playing and running a monster campaign in 3.5 rules with a Minotaur cleric of Baphomet and I love it.
Awesome to hear! Are you a large sized minotaur?
@@Rookzer0 yeah right out of savage species with the thrall of baphomet prestige class.
Honestly of of my favorite characters I ever played was a Minotaur who was a blood hunter. His subclass was a homebrewed order of blood hunters that took on the curse of vampirism.
Vampire minotaur sounds terrifying. I love it.
I like to imagine goblins sneaking up on a campfire, see a minotaur on night watch and immediately go "yeah fuck that"
Exactly, I love the idea that if you're playing monstrous races normal encounter mobs won't attack you. But random guards on the roads become an major issue.
I have a minotaur character ready called Asterion, ready to use in a bronze age campaign, he's in that bronze musculata armor and has a big axe and shield, and he's a high wisdom fighter. he's well spoken and likes to mess with people by letting them think he's big and dumb before he talks and just starts rattling off poetry and epics he has memorized. in this setting minotaurs also live hella long, so he's actually quite old and he's this out of practice adventurer getting back into the swing of things, but he also used to be a bandit chief, mercenary, and other stuff in his youth, so there's some comedy in him where they'll show up to a place he's been, and the bandit gang could be his old gang, but like a century later so they don't think a minotaur actually ran the gang at some point.
Uh, is his last name Moloc?
Let's not forget that Minotaurs are heavily related to Poiedion, since he is the Minotaur's fahter
Man, maybe im just a crazy wannabe buff af cannibal but playing a minotaur seems fun...
It's hella fun in combat, but it is on a higher damage curve. so I usually only allow it when were doing high fantasy and everything is about to Go crazy. In our last campaign he got shrunk to diminutive size and fast ball special ed at a goblin one Ant Man montage later... no more goblin.
I just started playing and my friend convinced me to make my first character as a type of minotaur! Thanks for making this vid I'm learning a lot
Use those horns! I hope you are enjoying the game.
Ive been wanting to play a large 12-14 ft tall character Dragon Born barbarian thats under the influence of a enlarge spell but i keep being told how NO ONE would want to DM / play it and its honestly HUGELY disappointing how many people just want to play everything but scaled back / made less interesting. Like what would you say to these people who seem to constantly just immediately go for the nope option when even bringing in the possibility of a charachter thats more then box standard size wise ?
Im glad im not the only one that thinks that playing a creature thats ment to be Large as LARGE and not 7-8 feet tall which is the cop out way of playing this kinda thing.
I usually tell people that everything comes with a cost. Yes you'll be a powerhouse in combat but your movement is hampered your restricted in spaces designed for medium sized creatures. All your gear is custom made and cost more. It's defintly more work for your dm but I really enjoy the challenge for you and the dm
@@Rookzer0 I mean i went into the charachter with all this in mind mind you. I was well aware of the potential problems and willing to hash things out with the GM (i also make maps so was very willing to help out with those ) and art stuff. I just feel like everyone the moment its even suggested it they dont even want to entertain it like its some sorta curse.
Thats a bummer to hear. I hope you are able to sway people in the future. Feel free to chat about your ideas on the discord. Unique character make the game better in my mind
This gave me a lot to think about, thanks! I've made a Minotaur Barbarian ready for my next campaign, planning to play him kinda shamanistic, a protector of the natural world and balance. His barbaric rage coming from totem of the warrior (bear flavoured as a bull) and his ancestral spirits.
Nice I like the idea, will he wear a bearskin? I love tauren shamen from wow wielding the giant totems. Cool idea let me know how it plays.
The Tauren basically. 😎👌
while being large is cool, I think the idea is that one) if you look at old art of the Greek Minotaur, he was just as tall as Theseus, also two) think of it like Goliath
though I won't deny, being large is factually cooler
Yeah there is some discrepancy there, I think the original text said. "above 6 feet tall but with a neck and shoulders big enough for a bull" so that's a bit odd. but still good call, Big cows = better cows in my book.
1st campaign and i wanted to play a minotaur. Comes from a tribe who sends the young minotaur reaching adulthood on a pilgrimage like rumspringa. Learning to control their rage or become full enraged beast.
His barbarian rage is like the hulk. He might not care so much about friendly fire.
Now if only i could get a party member to say "suns getting low big guy"
I really like your "pilgrimage"
idea, I think that's a cool idea for a barbarian tribe.
Love this video! I have a Minotaur character idea in mind that I am just waiting for an opportunity to play. I see his backstory involving being from a foreign continent where Minotaur live free in little communities. Being so large and fearsome looking however made them ideal slaves and so my character was taken across the sea to the potential setting of the game and sold off to a Master that set him to fight in the Arena as a Gladiator. Channeling the rage of being taken from his home and forced into this situation against his will, he becomes a self taught Berserker, who eventually wins the favor of the crowd and earns his freedom, to eventually become an Adventurer, seeking some place to belong along.
Nive, I fo enjoy a good gladiator story! Let me know if you get to try it out!
I was so excited when I saw a minotaur as a player race. That excitement was immediately squashed when I saw they were a medium race, only had 3 racial traits, and all 3 were simply "you can do stuff with your horns."
Yeah definitely play them large! Way more fun
I think you mean Minotaur Oath of Conquest Paladin. Who needs to fit into a door when you can just impose terror on people and spawn in your own food and water.
Its crazy that this ran across my feed now!😂 im currently building one for a 5e campaign a friend is trying to get of the ground. But instead of a bull my Minotaur looks like an american bison that's slate gray. Haven't named him yet and still hammering out all the details but i have a feeling this echo knight fighter will be fun! 😁
Ever sent a basilisk 10 feet off a cliff ledge by head butting it
That sounds like a good way to deal with a basilisk
Welp, I just played my first session as a chaotic evil character. Rakkus, the minotaur barbarian. He didn't like waiting in caves. He took his bloodlust to the open sky and reeked havoc.
Rather than kill him, a group of mages created a magical collar and set of cuffs to enslave him. It worked! He worked as a slave in the mages' tower for months, until he was handed over as payment to a monster hunter.
In game I will actively try to slip away or move fast enough to get away with things I want to do (mostly eat corpses), while the other player simply snaps his fingers and painfully paralyzes me. The minotaur has mostly given up at this point, knowing he rarely gets away with things, but will try on occassion anyway.
His owner will force him to meditate with him and share tea with me, and the pair have become a wonderful comedic relief.
Cool idea, is there a plan for revenge if he ever breaks free or would he just run?
My fav minotaur was the Gestalt i played in 3.5. Artificer/dreadnecro/pale master. He was tombtainted born that way. Took it as a sign he was ment to tread the path of magic and death to bring to his people something they never had. A Kingdom of thier own. He travaled the low lands among the hairless monkey's passing himself off as a paladin of his strange god. All the wile pulling a wagon loaded with books notes and tomes on laws, farming, managment, technology, magic and bags of holding full of bones. I miss him so...
My Minotaur "Seeng" is a Paladin. This was for our tyranny of dragons campaign. He was rescued by a demi-god as a child when his tribe was destroyed by a wandering dragon. Left by the steps of an cathedral like orphanage located within a large forest, he was taken in by the Mother and Father which helped raise him. Growing up there he always felt distant from the other children but the sisters would reassure him thats hes has a good heart. Wanting to do more, he started helping around the orphanage thanks to his large stature and good strength. During those times, he started learning swordsmanship and melee combat from the Father who use to be a soldier while also learning more about faith from the Mother who was a cleric. As he grew older, being classed as a paladin in training (untill lvl 3), he would continue his training and protecting the orphanage. When the Father died due to old age, he decided to set of to be on adventurer to start earning money so he may send it back to the orphanage in order to insure his siblings stay safe.
Very cool arc. I hope his stories are told in legends and he becomes an epic paladin
@@Rookzer0 Indeed as do I. I was planning on him becoming that demi-gods champion throughout the campaign but we have it on hold for now. Hopefully i can play him again, really enjoyed his character.
I think your minotaur will be able to fit through a door if he just leans on his stunted leg and ambles his way through. That plus maybe taking the door off the hinges.
They probably didn't need the door anyhow
I've thought about adding Minotaur's for my players and making them a playable race. However, instead of having Demonic Ancestry, I've always loved the Tauren from WoW. Maybe as an Uncommon species so if you are seen in a town or city people are overwhelmed with your size or in shock of your rarity "OMG, a Minotaur!!!"
Very cool, I like to do this regionally, the idea that a few towms arnt scared of them and will be excited to see one.
One of my favorite characters was a Minotaur. Played him in 3.5 and yes as a large creature. Had him be mute. Snorted and twitched his ears. His actions spoke louder then words.
Stamp once for yes, twice for no?
@@Rookzer0 did do some of that lol
I homebrew Minotaurs the playable race is a smaller race than the monster Minotaur like goblin and hobgoblin. The monster is a larger and more savage version than the smaller more common race.
That's a fair way to look at it. I think that's the though that Wizards does as well. The "playable" races they use are the more humanistic version of their monstrous counterparts
It's so tempting as a Minotaur to not just rely on your horns and immense strength all game. Like I'm a giant bull, why wouldn't I run through everything in sight? At that point an axe is just decoration. This sentient pain train has no brakes
I love this design. Great job man.
I am playing a minotaur barbarian in a 3.5 game, and in my most recent session he had drawn the comet card from a deck of many things, and had to complete the next encounter by himself, and when he walked into a room, he found three hobgoblins and three black dragon wyrmlings, he killed them all within two rounds using great cleave. Hands down best experience I have had playing him so far.
I’m playing a Minotaur Cleric in my new campaign- 6 and a half feet tall, 7 foot with horns and fucking buff. And a sweetheart. Just constantly trying to stop others from screaming as she’s trying to heal them 😅 She’s always the cinnamon roll trying to stop the other characters from fighting whilst also constantly getting distracted by shiny things and adding them to her pack. Also her name is Ellie (short for Elestra). The only thing that makes her turn nasty is when people threaten her herd or friends and then the bonus to intimidation comes in heavy.
I dig it! Best of luck is your shiney collections!
I have never played DnD and when asked to create a character, I IMMEDIATELY gravitated to the minotaur. I love the idea of a huge character that is misjudged by his appearance. I have created my character, Bromir, but I haven't started playing yet. This video made my day! Do you do commissions?
Awesome, Minotaur make great first characters. I do take commissions you can contact me on the discord if you'd like.
My current character is a Minotaur named Bjorn, that was raised by bears and joined a clan of Viking Minotaurs before eventually becoming an ancient paladin of the wild mother. I love playing him he doesn't bitch about sketchy shit because he's true neutral, only really caring about the natural balance on the big scale. Survival of the fittest is the natural law.
I play a bright blue Minotaur, like tardis blue named Ae Minotaur who is really a grung cursed to be a Minotaur but has no idea, he is legit the funniest character I’ve ever played just because he stands out and playing a rogue barbarian makes him the best combination of ominous and purely bad ass
That sounds amazing. Does he have the blue tree frog markings??? Does he act at all like a grung?
Never watched one of your videos. I enjoyed it immensely!
Glad to hear! thanks for watching.
First ever Dnd character I played was a minotaur blood hunter called Hard Horn. I had no idea what a blood hunter going into it but wanted to try cause it sounded cool.... what can I say I'm a bloke. I remember saying to my DM about it and he replied with a look of well this could be fun for your first character. I loved were you spoke about scaring people, I've had a few times where my minotaur has fazed through a wall/locked door with a flaming axe ready in hand to scare the crap out of people and make them do what the party wants. Also my character is 8 1/2 feet tall, albino white fur and blood red eyes. Even just starting a few months ago I love playing the game. Its awesome.
Another awesome video! These are my favourite
My friend’s character is a Minotaur/Oath Breaker Paladin that harnesses the power of the Negative Energy Plane, and has both the eye and hand of Vecna. Every level he gains the more undead he looks, when he reaches max level he will look like a demonic/undead version of himself, also his name is Mad Max!
Undead minotaur sounds good to me
I know I’m also super late to this, but I’ve been looking for videos like this recently because of one of my home brew races the Uhyre. Basically I loved the design and lore for Asterios (aka the Minotaur) from FGO, but couldn’t find a suitable build similar to him that wasn’t meant as a boss monster, so I made one for 3.5. Currently I’m playing my 10’11” Minotaur base wild mage Robert, and it has been nothing but shenanigans and/or trauma. I love RPing with him, but as a general agreement with my dm, just so they don’t have to rework the whole world to try to fit him, we had to implement a magic item that would keep him and other Uhyres medium size while worn. (This rule only came about after 2-3 sessions though). So far in the campaign he’s tripped down stairs, crushing all of his allies, got stuck in a small hallway for a few rounds, ripped out a doorway just to enter a pub, and a whole bunch of other issues 😂
Awesome video! Loved the tips on playing a Minotaur!
You sir are unbelievably underrated
Thank you Agent Jenkins, I appreciate the compliment!
Love the art it's always got your certain aesthetic, currently playing a bard ratfolk with tons of charisma, I'm wondering if I could make a backup character in the form of a minotaur
Couldn't hurt, Plus with the right feats you could both occupy the same space :P POCKET ROGUE
@@Rookzer0 we have 2 ratfolk so swarming is one of the strats, I'd have to check with our dm but I feel like playing as an adolescent minotaur would be fulfilling gameplay and rp wise
I know I'm über late to this but I wanted to try out a medium minotaur wizard. He was the runt of the clan and is missing his left horn because in minotaur culture if you lose a battle with another minotaur you get your left horn broken off and he lost so much that his left horn no longer grows. Long story short, runs away and hides in a library to be alone, roaming the 'maze' of the bookshelves as an assistant.
my DM wont allow me to play as a large creature cause it says that the minotaur is medium sized...but i created him as a Rune Knight Fighter so he is able to get large through the Giants Might feature from lvl 3...In fact i dont play him as an evil creature but as an archaeologist who seeks new runes and is pretty overwhelmed by the world of the humans...he has never seen citys and has one friend a shadow monk rougue multiclass goblin who does the talking in town ....but i gotta say its a very cool class and i love playing it! we just had 1 session so i cant say much about how my dm lets his world see me..great art btw!
I am 7 foot 1, 400 pound minotaur. I said my backstory is that my parents and I were exiled from our tribe and we wanna be good but the world hates us for the monsters we are. My character worked for some dwarves for a while and learned to work with metal and create things (ulike his brute brother eine). He took the self mission to become the strongest, to show that he is a heroic figure so his family and him can be accepted into human society.
I'm always a fan of blacksmith character or blacksmith adjacent back stories
I have yet to play a minotaur but, as to be fair I have yet to even play D&D, i'm setting up a campaign with cousins, but if not because we are all trying to learn the game, I would already be designing a minotaur druide. It's been on my mind for a while, I want to play a big minotaur someday. I'm really looking forward to learning the game and designing such character to fit my purpose. Thanks for the ideas, food for though with my dm once I start trying to play this.
PC: Inspired to play a Minotaur
GM: Cool whats your name?
PC: Shrek!
Oh no, it begins
I'm currently playing a massive 12 ft 900 lb minotaur with a giant axe and a trident that I can throw. I basically throw the trident with such force that it instantly kills most mobs and then I use the mobs as crude shields and clubs. I just lost my trident so I made a new one out of femurs and a thick enchanted tree handle. I also found a special gnome butter that allows me to slide through most doors
Ha ha omg gnome butter??!?!?!
Ok but what I wanna play against type as a friendly minotaur fey wanderer ranger who just wants to make friends even tho he can throw his enemies ten feet away
I don't see a problem with that. Although It seems to be more common than the monstrous ones.
Right now I'm trying to whip up a tanky character for a 3 man morally ambiguous party. We have a punk rock bard, an Old Ones Warlock, and whatever I drum up.
So in Pathfinder 2e, I'm thinking a minotaur ruffian rogue w/martial artist archetype. (3rd party minotaur race, free archetype variant rule).
Basically he's a bully that can rough people up up close, take hits, but also fight dirty. Less thievery stuff (although trained) more intimidation and leg breaking. Seems like a fun time that can round our group out.
Cool idea, makes me think of Marv from from sin city. Super cool idea
Man they won't even make CENTAURS large size, and centaurs traditionally can't get Large weapons anyway. The big-phobia in D&D is real.
They should be... Absolutely..
I actually run a 3.5 Minotaur campaign led by a cleric thrall of baphomet. My players love the new campaign.
Keep it up!
I made a Minotaur character but haven’t used her yet. The funny thing is that I haven’t played as a human, elf, dwarf, halfling, or half-orc before. I’ve played or have a character for Dragonborn, Changeling, Firbolg, and Kitsune. I don’t think I’ve played as one of the standard races before at all. Still want to play some of the other random less human races.
Monster folk is best folk
I'm playing a barbarian minotaur and we are in the shadowfell. We was fight a mini boss you can call the monster creature.
He was up against the wall so I used my Minotaurs charge to bash into a pillar which I rolled 16 plus my bonuses for strength so got a nice 20
Pillar comes falling down and crushes the enemy boss and makes some tasty jam for me to eat
Would you call it monster jam or minotaur jam
@@Rookzer0 I think we called it smush smush jam
i made a version of the minotaur for my group called "Ramhead" they stand 7ft tall at the shortest normally being 10ft with incredible strength and endurance, immunity to stun and resistance to stagger, they are a monsterous race with a hierarchy ruled by physical might... i roleplayed my main pc of the race Grond as a brute who doesn't speak common or at least only knows a few words, a complete slaughter machine in combat and great for intimidation checks (the Half Orc Paladin threatened to feed a lower lord to him if he didn't give up the info, then did it anyway)
Evil campaigns can be a good time
I have never ever played anything related to D&D but this drawing is top quality
Liked and subbed to the channel Nicholas
Recently I just worked out the minimum and maximum height and weight of all DND races. In ancient Greece the Minotaur is said to be ~7ft tall in DND the Minotaur's max possible height is 6'8".
To keep things simple most races in did are medium.. I tell my players they can usually go up or down a size category if they want.
Currently playing a Minotaur Warlock who's Patron is an Efreet. Having an ELDRITCH BLAST of a time! Looking to get a few levels in Fighter to buff him up more.
Eldrich bullrush!
I made a world that a god of knowledge took pity on some minotaur and made them a city in the astral city. This makes all of the guards have five levels in either Barbarian or fighter with an additional five levels in wizard. I really want to make a storyline were the party has to steal something from the inner depths of the castle. It will be soooooo much fun.
cool idea!
My Minotaur's name is Bjorkus, a barbarian, RP wise he was not that smart and was easily frightened but Loved cute little critters and only time he would "rage" is if his friends were being hurt cause he thought he had to protect them as they are so much smaller than him
Ive had a few player play with idea that their rage was more based on the senerio than just as a combat move. I think it adds a lot of flavor. Had a bloodrager that would only rage if someone went unconscious
Idea for an actual fucking Minotaur character (i.e LARGE). While the rest of the party is sleeping at the inn, the Minotaur (who was forced to sleep outside) patrols the city streets for thieves and brigands, which they proceed to eat as a late night snack!
Oh snap, that would be awesome. Tales of a huge horned beast devouring villans at night.
Just make Large characters playable, gods damn it!
It's not like we're asking for Huge, or Gargantuan characters!
Id love to see someone play a huge character and just get defeated by doors all the time. "Dungeon dive!, ah shit.... ill wait out here"
@@Rookzer0 Then when the DM makes a tower you just punch through the windows and let your party skip through the first 3 floors
@@mme.veronica735 BRILLIANT! "They can call him Charles the Ladder." He's like a door man but he only opens doors to the 3rd floor.
I played a Minotaur Monk once. He was born a bastard and deemed by the patriarch Minotaur to be unworthy due to not having a father. A travelling monk found the calf lying in a field where they dropped him off, and took him in. He has a fairly stoic, yet amiable personality. Though he still has the instincts in the back of his head to be a savage monster, which is why he adventures to overcome this feral urge. He was always treated with suspicion at the very least, if not out right prejudice or hostility.
Now, the reason why I chose a monk was because his horns get the unarmed bonus since they are a natural weapon he has proficiency with. Lots of foes were rammed by his swinging head. Good times, and much fun.
Sounds like a cool backstop, and good use of the horns
Honestly I might run the yakfolk in the Storm King's Thunder more like this instead of having them be body swapping creepers 😂
Playing a Minotaur in a current campaign. He’s a barbarian battle master fighter named Angus McVeal. 😂. He’s an absolute beast in battle and destroys just about everything he goes up against. Our DM gave him a +3 greataxe and a belt of storm giant strength. He laughed last week saying he did that to himself.
That sounds terrifying. Are you a medium or large sized creature?
I want to play a minotaur that was discovered by a traveling circus and trained to play instruments and learn some magic. After leaving the circus to seek more of the martial thrills of his nature, he joins a mercenary guild and learns to fight. He is now a bard/fighter who uses a massive double hand sledge that is also a stand up base, and huge flutes that double as blow guns. His stage name would be Blaster.
I made a minotaur ranger, who his favored enemys was humans and elves, and he is neutral good, in his vision and in the vision of his village, he is just a folk hero protecting the village from the bloodthirsting humanoid adventurers... And entirely party was made by monster characters, who are the good guys
Good old monster squad! Some of my favorite campaigns
TBH i don't play DND but this was funny to watch plus you do good drawings. Keep up the good work! Minotaurs are bad ass though!
if i ever play navel i would make a minotaur barbarian mabey not that exciting but at level 3 i would take storm herald and the take the sea as my storm and at level 6 you can breathe underwater and you get 30 feet to swim speed it would make such an awesome torpedo and + bull rush yes please
sea cow Torpedo rush..... Yes... Everything about this is Dnd. Well done.
I would love to play a full sized Minotaur, I don't think my DM would approve of that though 😂
Take the good with the bad and run with it. Talk to them about it before hand.
I’ve wanted to play an intellectual type Minotaur for a while now
You should. Moo, horns, fireball. Makes sence to me
i once as a DM allowed my player to play as an owlbear, I believe it was mostly intelligent. sadly, one of the early dungeons involved hunting for mites under their massive treehome and the medium sized characters were having to squeeze. i worked around it by letting him dig his way through which opened up the areas he carved for the smaller people, but he quickly got tired of his large size character suffering penalties. guess he never considered the adverse effects of being Large sized and only saw the massive str bonus attached
That sounds hella awesome! Im glad there were penaltys to work though, I think a good investment for all large creatues is a wand of reduce size for when you NEED to be smaller. But there are penalties :) keep those stories comming!
When creating a Minotaur what should I used to figure out abilities and everything
You can look at the monster Manuel and just reduce the damage on the movies I'd you like. But you may want to talk to your dm for ballancing.
I started playing a barb Minotaur and almost got myself killed by asking my party if I can eat the King’s kids. It is pretty fun though, especially combat.
Nice job keeping it historical!
My fist ever DnD character was a minotaur named reyortsed (destroyer backwards) he was a druid a protector of nature and those around him, he was a very old minotaur with great wisdom and many a downside. My favourite memory of him was him and my gnome companion Sindre Timbers in which he picked the gnome up rolled him into a ball and proceeded to throw him down a corridor at a group of enemies then continued to charge at them with his greatclub and horns alongside the rest of the party.
Ha ha I dig it, did the gnome survive?
somewhat you could say, in the end the gnome was hurt more than the enemies he hit but then again the gore reyortsed did afterwards to the opposition made up for it also that was the first time yet not the last time this tactic was used.
So I haven't played him yet but I just created a Forge Cleric Minotaur. The concept being that to fight the inner turmoil he has chosen to dedicate his life creating and fixing both people and items. If he can create an item that fixes a person even better. This being in Ravnica makes the whole monster issue easier to deal with. The str/con bonuses are great for a heavier front line type cleric too. As for the size issue in 5e at least their base height is 7'9" and while still quite imposing, and awkward fit, still technically fits in most spaces a medium creature can.
You would have thought, with the minotaur, all you have to do is gore someone and they're done for the day lol
The last time I played d&d, the guy who played a Minotaur played as a heavy hitter tank but also role-play as healer
Cow clerics op!
One of my friends had a habit of playing Minotaurs and he had an interesting relation with our Orc barbarian, Graah One Boot, Slayer of Minotaurs (rolled a nat 20 and max damage against the first Minotaur the party faced)
lol that sounds like there might be more to that story.
Rookzer0 luckily they didn’t cross roads too often, but that Minotaur he killed did happen to be a distant relation
I am fixing to start a new campaign and play a Minotaur paladin who worships Mogis god of Slaughter from Theros and offer blood tribute to Mogis daily, shaping up to be really interesting
My minotaur names Goki takes the approach of an always drunk killer that feels no remorse
Pure monster threw and threw I like it. Let's home the villagers don't get the torches out.
I think they even made the Luxodons (elephant men from the Ravnica MTG setting/expansion) medium instead of large.
They did.... i did a whole video complaining about that..
Played a minotaur in Dragonlance, (krynn, so coming from Irda (ogers)) did not roll it. He came from convention. I just kept the character. It is a fully fledge culture (Klingon meets Romans), they really is no character quite like that. it was really fun and a nice change from the usual, Survived Ravenloft with him, there is nothing like staking vampires to trees. Don't have horns attacks as thy are quite civilised but have a roman take on the world, Try to find a bed that can accommodate the 8' 5 and 550 lbs would be a problem is only there was an inn that had the level of raffinement that a patrician of minotaur league as come to expect. plus the intimidate roll is always a boon when a patron suggested the stables (linking Krynn minotaure to cow is a deadly insult, From a game point of view they have +2 ins strength (both maxing at 20) and constitution and -2 in charisma and wisdom), surprised only 1, have the track skill for free, natural armour (+3 i think), never lost and immune to maze spell and you must spend at least on non weapon prof point in boatwright (and us it for sailing) and rope use, their are supposed to be the best sailor of the Krynn. From a power level perspective, we tried a lot things and nerfing did not really works so we boosted the encounters and the dungeon instead, we ended up wither getting for the parity size above when determining the difficulty of encounters/dungeons or when not possible adding 10-20% more low mobs or adding a level to the boss and under boss. Funnily enough yes, it enable you to feel awesome as a damage factory, but really it is much better used to actually enable other classes to shine, sending people prone is making you the rogue best friend no to mention being caster last line of defence. as well so much resources are needed to tie you up that medium sized warrior have a much easier time to get the enemy caster. not to mention that you can get the Kender (kind of hobbit), or elf or slightly build human creature if the DM is kind enough one level up in one sweet move.
My friend was a minotaur and I was a immortal/invincible rouge cleric(I was cursed) and his sister was a human raised by minotaurs, and as a meme when there is a giant wall, He throws me at high walls and at any tall mountains to insure I "secure" areas
Seccuring the area!!!! YEET
@@Rookzer0 "TIME TO USE MY FAVRIOTE SPEAR" the minatour says as out Warlock paralyzed me so far its a meme of me getting thrown so that's fine(I am also used to disarm traps...)
I played a female minotaur barbarian that was an archeology student that paid her college tuition with a rugby scholarship. Her main method of solving puzzles in ancient deathtraps was to plow through them.
I ran with the ideas that minotaurs are known for labyrinths and charging at things. I don't remember why she was female, I think it was because I only ever see female minotaurs wearing shirts.
Soinds like a good time
I'm playing a minotaur barbarian whose tribe rejected the demonbeast and took control of their own rage. They stopped eating humanoid flesh, for the most part, and followed a path of ancestral guardians. He's only 6' 6" though, he was separated from his clan as a child and saved from drowning by a pirate captain. He joined his current adventuring party when the ship docked for repairs. His horns are dipped in bronze and his hair, tail, and chin beard are dyed fuschia and he has tribal branding marks all over his body. Every time he makes a kill while in a rage the demonbeast speaks in his head and taunts him, urging him to keep killing.
In my fantasy world, Minotaurs are similar to the Tauren in WOW. They look like the Narnia Minotaurs and are built like pro wrestlers.
Sounds like a good combo
The ones with the horns not tieflings though
Tiefling is pure edge
currently playing as a large character. a 12ft warforged juggernaut!
and yes, playing as a giant robot is just as fun as a Minotaur
Ah just wait till you start fighting Minotaur, KAIJU BATTLE!!!
@@Rookzer0 I would pay to see that,also you know what would make it better? Make them even bigger then we got war of the titans
@@rasineidedossantossantos5094 Get a little fast and loose with the Giant growth potions.
Minotaur shadow monk matador urban bounty hunter, big sneaky guy that teleports above, below or some other weird angle to surprise his victims
I played a minotaur (Gunder Black mane) actually as one of my first characters, (a dwarven metal golem was my first), he was by far to this day my best rolled character, and even though he was still medium sized, i made him as tall as my dm would allow at 8'6". When i rolled the stats to this character, not single stat was lower than 15, i got one 18, one 17, two 16s, and two 15s. his intelligence was the highest in the group and at one point i intimidated the literal shit out of a gnoll. and then later rolled a nat 1 on my first drink in drinking contest....
Ah the beauty dice rolls.
Spare a thought for the reverse Minotaur with the body of a bull and the head of a human; fate hasn’t been kind to them.
Just the face? That sounds terrifying
@@Rookzer0 it’s still better off than a reverse mermaid, it it’s the reverse centaur that has it worst- a horses head on human legs (no arms...).
I really wanna play a female Minotaur Druid thats basically just a big floofy cow with a motherly, caring personality, it's far from a typical Minotaur but i LOVE the idea!
Nice idea, are you thinking Highland cattle or like a yak?
@@Rookzer0 I was mostly imagining a highland cow but now that you mention it, yaks look pretty cool as well :D
I might include elements of both once i get to designing the Character^^
@@BlackMew13 Nice! let me know how it goes!