Playing Minotaurs

[Fallen Seraph]

D&D Playing Minotaurs

Well in this newest Dragon article we get:

-Tons of fluff
-Minotaur Stats
-Four Heroic Feats
-Three Paragon Feats
-One Epic Feat
-Three Paragon Paths

Also this might peak the interest of some:

to be a member of a race that favors the barbarian, fighter, and warden classes.

 

[Maltese Changeling]

We're also told that minotaurs make excellent wardens--have we heard of this class before? Are we seeing the advent of the primal defender?

 

[Fallen Seraph]

There has been rumblings that this was a possibility. But nothing definite till now.

 

[thecasualoblivion]

Note that this Minotaur doesn't get oversized weapons

 

[thecasualoblivion]

There has been rumblings that this was a possibility. But nothing definite till now.

That means that the four Primal classes are all but confirmed as Druid, Barbarian, Warden, and Shaman.

Assuming Warden is the Defender(safe assumption), we know Barbarian is a Striker, and Shaman has been spoken of as the Primal Leader. Time to assume that Druid is a Controller?

 

[HazardCatcher]

Note that this Minotaur doesn't get oversized weapons

I was almost sure this would happen.

I've seen some pretty in depth damage potential by race/class charts and the minotaur and bugbear always topped them because of their "OVERSIZE" feature.


Warden sure does sound very defendery, and I suppose they could mean it as in "a warden of the woods", someone who protects nature. Plus we now know the barbarian is not a defender(it's a striker) so the Primal Power Source needs one. My first thought though was this was the Divine striker, though that didn't sit right with me. I'm a little disappointed the "W" didn't stand for WitchHunter. I was hoping we would see a "monster slayer" build and an "inquisitor" build.

 

[Fallen Seraph]

I'm putting my bet on Primal Defender as well. I could see it being Primal and all having Powers oriented towards having the land/spirits that it watches over rising up to defend himself and his allies.

Come on Warden summoning twin spirit hounds to carrel enemies toward him and away from his allies

 

[frankthedm]

Note that this Minotaur doesn't get oversized weapons

Thank god. 4E did pretty well keeping damage output sane. The oversized weapons ability really wonked that up.

 

[Jack99]

Very nice article.

Aside from the race and some decent fluff (I really like the new(?) take on the minotaurs' relationship with mazes), we also got some crunch.

4 Heroic feats
3 Paragon feats
1 Epic feat
3 Paragon Paths

I think it would be cool if WotC would follow-up on the core races, and make some more racial feats as well (and especially) some racial paragon paths for them.

 

[Runestar]

Which means I can probably expect a similar nerf to the bugbear in a future article...

Goodbye, my 2d6 brutal2 large executioner axes. It was great knowing you...