Half-Minotaur (3.5e Race)

Personality

Half-Minotaurs are usually hot-headed and stubborn. They're mistrustful people in general, typically because they have had troubled childhoods and/or have been chased out of towns and scorned by people for their appearance/race. Due to this they tend to be wanderers of sorts and live in the wilderness.

Physical Description

Half-Minotaurs resemble humans for the majority and as such are medium creatures. The average male is around 6'6" tall and the average female is around 6'1" tall. The average male weighs at least 230 lb., whereas the average female weighs at least 180 lb. Most of the time their skin color matches their human parent, but Half-Minotaurs can also have tan, red, brown, white, gray, and black skin colors. Half-Minotaurs can have most feasible eye colors, though red and violet are very rare. Hair colors tend to be brown, black, white, gray, and red, though red is a rare for them. Just about all Half-Minotaurs have horns, even the females. When generating a Half-Minotaur, if you feel the need, roll a percentile die. 1% have no horns. Some Half-Minotaurs have hooves, but this is an uncommon trait, about a 10% chance. Half-Minotaurs have about a 40% chance to have a tail. Most Half-Minotaurs tend to grow more hair than humans and in more places. It's about a 5% chance for a Half-Minotaur to grow hair over their entire body.

Relations

Half-Minotaurs are disliked by most races.

Alignment

Though most often chaotic neutral, Half-Minotaurs can be any alignment.

Lands

Half-Minotaurs feel most comfortable living in plains, large grassy fields, barrens, open forests (not thickly clustered forests), dungeons, mazes and caves.

Religion

Half-Minotaurs tend to revere the gods of nature, since they feel a close relationship with all things natural, and a special respect for wildlife. However, their parent´s religion may influence their overall view of life. It is unusual, but not unheard of, for Half-Minotaurs to worship a racial deity, since they will often be but a half-breed in the eyes of proud minotaur gods, or an aberration in the eyes of other gods. This may cause a great hatred in Half-Minotaurs towards certain excluding churches. A hatred neutral evil gods will not hesitate to use for their own dark purposes, manipulating this race.

Language

Half-Minotaurs tend to pick up Common some way or another. They can learn other languages spoken in the region they live in.

Names

Half-Minotaurs are usually named by their mothers if not orphaned. If the Half-Minotaur is orphaned and not adopted, it goes nameless until it learns a language and names itself something that it identifies with in the language they learn. Names can differ based on what's common in the region they live in.

Racial Traits

• +6 Strength, +2 Constitution, -4 Intelligence
• Humanoid (Minotaur)
• Size: Medium
• Half-Minotaur base land speed is 30 feet
• Darkvision out to 60 feet.
• Scent
• Bonus Feat: Track
• +2 natural armor bonus. Half-Minotaurs have thicker and stronger skin than most humans.
• Half-Minotaurs have a racial bonus of +3 to listen and spot.
• Immense Build: The physical stature of Half-Minotaur lets them function in many ways as if they were one size category larger. For the purpose of weapons, special attacks, and prerequisites a Half-Minotaur is considered one size category larger if it is advantageous to them. However, his space and reach remain those of a creature of his actual size. The benefits of this racial trait stack with the effects of powers, abilities, and spells that change the subject’s size category.
• Weapon Proficiency: A Half-Minotaur is automatically proficient with the greataxe.
• Natural Weapon: Gore (1d6).
• Powerful Charge: A Half-Minotaur is able to perform a special charge utilizing it's horns. In place of the normal attack at the end of a charge, this allows the Half Minotaur to make a single gore attack that instead deals 2d6+Strength Modifier points of damage.
• Natural Cunning (Ex): Although Half-Minotaurs are not especially intelligent, they possess some of the natural intuition of their forebears. This gives them immunity to maze spells, and prevents them from ever becoming lost. Half-Minotaurs can not be caught surprised and always act on the surprise round.
• Automatic Languages: Common. Bonus Languages: Any
• Favored Class: Barbarian
• Level Adjustment: +2

Vital Statistics

Table: Half-Minotaur Random Starting Ages

Adulthood	Simple	Moderate	Complex
16 years	+1d4	+1d6	+1d10

Table: Half-Minotaur Aging Effects

Middle Age1	Old2	Venerable3	Maximum Age
75 years	160 years	240 years	+4d20 years
At middle age, -1 to Str, Dex, and Con; +1 to Int, Wis, and Cha. At old age, -1 to Str, Dex, and Con; +1 to Int, Wis, and Cha. At venerable age, -1 to Str, Dex, and Con; +1 to Int, Wis, and Cha.

Table: Half-Minotaur Random Height and Weight

Gender	Base Height	Height Modifier	Base Weight	Weight Modifier
Male	6'6"	+2d8	230 lb.	× (2d4) lb.
Female	6'1"	+2d6	180 lb.	× (2d4) lb.

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