Tauren
Ability Score Increase
Your Constitution score increases by 2 and your Wisdom increases by 1.
Size
Tauren are between the 9 and 10 feet tall. Your size is Medium.
Speed
Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
Traits
Brawn Tauren are large, able-bodied warriors and gain a bonus to critical strikes. You do an extra 1d4 damage when you hit a critical strike. Cultivation You are proficient in the herbalism kit. Endurance You can focus yourself to occasionally shrug off injury. When you take damage, you can use your reaction to roll a d12. Add your Constitution modifier to the number rolled, and reduce the damage by that total. After you use this trait, you can’t use it again until you finish a short or long rest. Nature Resistance Since you are working with nature a lot, you gained resistance against poisonous berries and venomous animals. You are resistant to poison damage. Powerful Build You count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity and the weight you can push, drag, or lift. Languages You can speak, read, and write Common and Taur-aheBasic Information
Anatomy
Tauren are described as half-bovine beings and are known to have a very large bulk and weight, long tails, bipedal hooves, and only three fingers per hand. Both males and females have horns of varying size and shape.
Tauren are large, muscular humanoids and bovine in appearance, complete with hooves and horns. They weigh anywhere from 400 to 800 pounds. Their immense bodies are covered with fine, short fur that ranges in color from black to gray to white to red to brown to tan and any mottled combinations or variations thereof. When tauren grow old, their pelts start to become dotted with gray.
Growth Rate & Stages
Tauren reaches adulthood at the age of 16 and can live over 100 years.
Additional Information
Social Structure
The tauren are a noble race that embrace the natural world. They have shed their nomadic roots and united in their ancestral lands. Their race may be one of spirituality, reverence for nature, and respect for elders, but it also possesses powerful warriors that willingly fight when the situation demands it. The tauren strive to live honorable and dignified lives filled with respect for nature and the Goddess of Nature. Although strong and capable warriors when roused in battle, most tauren reserve combat for when all other options are exhausted. They prefer course of wise discussion and careful rumination before embarking on any great endeavor, and they have great respect for the wise, spiritual and elderly among their people. The tauren are not wrathful by nature, but sometimes a thirst for justice causes them to take up arms in anger.
Though the noble tauren are peaceful in nature, the rites of the Great Hunt are venerated as the heart of their spiritual culture. Every tauren, warrior or otherwise, seeks identity as both a hunter and as a child of the Earthmother. Tauren, young or otherwise, seek to prove their bravery by setting themselves against the creatures of the wild. Hunting is a tauren's greatest honor; at times they hunt for food, at times for honor, and at times to earn the Earthmother's teachings. Hunters are important to the tribes as a strong part of tauren tradition and history and are respected and revered if they serve their people well.
They don't hear the good hunters, unfortunately. While mighty warriors defend the tauren's homes, shamans show the ancestors' past and druids discover the Goddess of Nature's will, hunters learn many aspects of those roles and blend them together. They represent the heart of the tauren people and are looked to for guidance and protection. Despite killing the animals, the tauren are taught never to waste anything given to them by nature and to give back what they can. They learn the fine balance that exists in nature and that if they honor the Goddess of Nature, she will bless them in return.
Many tribes claim that it is a gift to be blessed with the aptitude to use magic or to talk to the ancestors, but tauren warriors are taught that they are just as gifted. They are a special breed also, not unlike the druids and shamans, and are just as important. They are the ones called upon to defend the borders and to go to war. Every warrior plays a role in their tribe, and they must all go through the same rites.
Their buildings are called longhouses and great tent.
Lifespan
Tauren reach adulthood at the age of 16 and can live over 100 years
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