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Building a Minotaur

Minotaur Traits

Your minotaur character has the following racial traits.
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. Here's how to determine your height and weight randomly, starting with rolling a size modifier:
Size modifier = 2d8
Height = 5 feet + 4 inches + your size modifier in inches
Weight in pounds = 1 75 + (2d6 x your size modifier)
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 ld6 + 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 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 NAMES

  In the labyrinthine polis of Skophos, the deeds of minotaur champions are carved among the winding halls. Minotaurs often name their children after these great heroes, believing that a child will inherit the strength, audacity, guile, or fearsomeness of a heroic namesake.   Other minotaur parents invent their own names, though, believing in their child's potential to light a new constellation in Nyx with the brightness of their own soul.     The Minotaur Namesake table suggests possible qualities or deeds that a minotaur's namesake might have been known for. Your character might strive to emulate that quality or seek to forge a new legacy to be associated with your name by future generations.   Female Names: Bozzri, Dhazdoro, Erinimachis, Ghalantzo, Halafoti, Kerania, Mitevra, Philoprodis, Tavromiki, Ypoudoris   Male Names: Bamvros, Fotiyinos, Halafotios, Keranios, Menetavro, Nikavros, Prodos, Rhordon, Tavrostenes, Thyrogog

Minotaur Namesake Table

d8 Ancestor's Qualities
1 My namesake defeated a massive enemy.
2 My namesake was known for fierce devotion to a god.
3 My namesake ran the entire breadth of Phoberos in order to warn the minotaurs of an Akroan attack.
4 My namesake was famous for great magical ability.
5 My namesake was a hero's devoted companion.
6 My namesake is remembered for incredible generosity.
7 My namesake was a great oracle.
8 My namesake was a respected leader of other warriors.

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