Minotaur
Humanoid bovines known for their strength and brutality. Minotaurs are powerful, territorial beings bred for violence and survival, combining brute strength with an eerie, instinctive sense of direction. Minotaurs are often raised in isolation, gladiatorial pits, or brutal cultures that reward strength and dominance. Even free minotaurs may struggle with confinement, authority, or subtlety—but many channel their ferocity into loyalty and discipline once they find a cause worth fighting for.
CREATURE TRAITS (17 XP)
- Types Size 5 Sapient Bipedal Organism (Humanoid, Minotaur, Ungulate)
- Reach 5 feet
- Speed Land 30 feet
ATTRIBUTES (1 XP)
- +2 Strength, +2 Constitution, -2 Intelligence
LANGUAGES (0 XP)
- Starting Languages: Tauric, Undercommon
- Bonus Languages: Any common language.
INNATE ABILITIES (16 XP)
- Darkvision (2 XP): Minotaurs can see in the dark allowing them to ignore concealment created by dim lighting and darkness, but not magical darkness. They cannot see color in darkness, only shades of grey.
- Gore (1 XP): Minotaurs have an innate gore attack dealing 1d6 piercing damage.
- Intimidating (1 XP): Minotaurs have a +2 innate (racial) bonus to Intimidate rolls.
- Labyrinth Cunning (4 XP): Minotaurs have a +2 innate (racial) bonus to Perception and Survival rolls. This bonus is doubled for rolls made to navigate labyrinths, mazes, and similar circumstances as well as those made to solve puzzles, riddles, and similar battles of wit. They can also take 10 on these types of rolls, even when threatened or distracted.
- Natural Armor (4 XP): A minotaur has a +2 innate (natural) armor bonus.
- Powerful Build (4 XP): Minotaurs count as one size larger when determining carrying capacity and bonuses to combat maneuvers. This doesn't stack with other effects that treat them as larger.
VARIANTS
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ADDITIONAL ABILITIES
Minotaurs begin with their innate traits and can gain additional traits from the following list as feats.
BLOODED CHARGER (2 XP)
Prerequisites: Minotaur
Benefits: You gain a +2 racial bonus on damage rolls when charging. You lose the Labyrinth Sense racial trait.
CRUSHING RUSH (COMBAT) (2 XP)
Prerequisites: Minotaur, Improved Bull Rush, 3rd level.
Benefits: You gain a +2 bonus on bull rush combat maneuver checks. A successful bull rush also deals damage equal to your Strength modifier.
GORE MASTERY (COMBAT) (4 XP)
Prerequisites: Minotaur, Horned Head, base attack bonus +6
Benefits: Your gore attack becomes a primary natural attack instead of a secondary natural attack.
LARGE FRAME (7 XP)
Prerequisites: Minotaur, Strength 17, 5th level
Benefits: You lose the Powerful Build racial trait and permanently increase your size to Large, gaining all normal size modifiers for your new size, including reach.
MAZE-BORN HUNTER (2 XP)
Prerequisites: Minotaur
Benefits: You gain Stealth as a class skill and a +2 innate (racial) bonus on Stealth checks while underground or in dungeon environments.
NATURAL CUNNING (4 XP)
Prerequisites: Minotaur, 3rd level
Benefits: You gain the full natural cunning ability. You are immune to maze spells, can never become lost, and are never caught flat-footed.
POWERFUL CHARGE (COMBAT) (3 XP)
Prerequisites: Minotaur, Gore, 5th level.
Benefits: When you charge and hit with your gore attack, the attack deals 2d6 damage (Medium) plus 1-1/2 times your Strength modifier.
RELENTLESS PREDATOR (3 XP)
Prerequisites: Minotaur, Constitution 15, 7th level.
Benefits: Once per day as an immediate action, you may ignore the effects of being staggered, fatigued, or shaken for 1 round.