Best Cleric Domains

[RUMBLETiGER]

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Copy the webpage address (In this case "http://cdn.highwire.com/3116004.jpg")

Then among the post options is and "insert Image" button, it looks like a tiny picture of two mountain peaks on a yellow background.

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[Shaghayegh]

I once had a Minotaurean culture in a 2Ed homebrew that was based on Plains Indisn cultures. They were not horsemen (too large) but did use chariots. They were accomplished archers and javelineers, and we're also good with spears and throwing hand/axes.

We're I doing them now, I'd look at Sun, Travel, Animals, Plant, Healing, Protection, War, Weather, Trickery and the Elemental domains as being popular in their pantheon. I might throw in Ancestors, especially if I were using Shamans instead of Clerics.

Also, I would be tempted to have those with the War domain have a slightly different granted power were I to use the Plains Indian model. A priest with that domain could choose to have Wespon focus with his natural weapons (or IUC) for the purpose of counting coup.

Chariots? Hmm... Anyone know if any tribes in the Americas ever developed chariots or wagons?

 

[GhostBear]

I can't recall of any native American tribes that developed anything like chariots. Remember, horses in general were a new creature to the Americas at this point in time: they didn't exist here until the Europeans brought them across the ocean. It also took them a while to adapt them to mounted combat. Also, the wheel was also a generally unknown technology.

And, actually, very few tribes engaged in mounted combat. A lot of combat pre-horse involved ambush, and they kept this style of combat since it worked so well. The problem is that sneaking up on someone with horses is pretty difficult. Instead, horses were used to get in the vicinity of their target then everyone would dismount, leaving a few people behind to handle the animals.

For further reading, consider [ame="http://www.amazon.com/Empire-Summer-Moon-Comanches-Powerful/dp/1416591052"]Empire of the Summer Moon[/ame] which is an excellent read. It details the rise and fall of the Comanche, of which the horse (and their use of the horse) was a driving factor. These are the guys who popularized mounted combat among the native tribes and they were REALLY good at it. Plus, these were people with a striking distance of 300-400 miles from their primary encampment. All without maps. Much of the travel being in the dead of night. The mind boggles!

The US military had a hell of a time fighting these guys because, with such a large range, it was extremely difficult to find out where their camps were located and they could appear anywhere, anytime. The ultimate guerrilla warfare of the time.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Chariots? Hmm... Anyone know if any tribes in the Americas ever developed chariots or wagons?

None did, AFAIK, but it was the only way to keep a horse culture and combat mobility as part of those Minotaur tribes.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

The problem is that sneaking up on someone with horses is pretty difficult.

Appaloosas are notoriously unwilling to wear shinobi shozoko and tabi.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

LiL KiNG:
Well, got my keyboard wet with that one... thanks a lot lol.

I get a kickback from Microsoft & Logitech...

 

[Shaghayegh]

None did, AFAIK, but it was the only way to keep a horse culture and combat mobility as part of those Minotaur tribes.

They could ride something more rugged, like a bison... And North America had equines that went extinct thousands of years ago, they were larger than modern horse...

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Wouldn't work- a 2Ed Minotaur was nearly as massive as a bison. Plus bison aren't really domesticable.

I mean, yeah, it was my campaign, and I could have scoured the monster manuals or homebrewed something, but chariots were easier.

 

[Herzog]

Did you know the 'minotaur' has also been depicted as a kind of centaur?
Maybe you could do something with that?

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I always preferred the classic "Bull's headed" Minotaurs, myself.