Do your minotaurs have hooves or feet?

[Gez]

Zeus wasn't involved. When he changed into a bull, it was to take Europa across the sea. (So Zeus changed into, hmm, an aquatic bull. A walrus? And it was only for approaching the girls -- Europa was not alone -- without being recognized, and for the travel.)

Or another version I just found

This one is closer to the myth; however Minos didn't jailed Daedalus, he tasked him with building the labyrinth first. Then he marooned Daedalus and his son Ikarus on a small, desert island so that nobody would know the secret of the labyrinth, and nobody would know about Pasiphae and the Minotaur.

Then later Minos asked as tribute of Thebes, a city he vainquished, to send each year seven young maiden and seven young men, which were sent into the labyrinth to feed the monstrous beast; and this lasted until Theseus, with the help of Ariane, killed the minotaur and left the Labyrinth.

 

[Turanil]

The real question is: Can a minotaur with hooves wear boots?

Because if he can't, you've got a nice way to annoying him a lot, especially when he won't be able to use that fabulous pair of artifact +5 boots of speed / flying hehe...

 

[Gez]

But what about the horseshoes of a zephyr?

 

[Anime Kidd]

I go for something more with a mix of both. Best example of what I think it looks like is on the Dragonlance novel, Lands of the Minotuars.

 

[DragonLancer]

Was this the inspiration for that myth about the death of Catherine the Great.

Whats the myth about Catherine the Great?

 

[Stormrunner]

Whats the myth about Catherine the Great?

Something about having sex with a horse, IIRC. I don't remember if she was supposedly crushed to death, or torn open, or what. Obviously she didn't read her Greek mythology, or couldn't find a trustworthy carpenter.

On minotaurs, the myth says "head of a bull" but doesn't mention feet one way or the other, which is why all the controversy. Myself, I give the full-blooded minotaurs full bovine legs and hooves, while half-minotaurs have human legs and feet (but still retain the bovine head and tail).

 

[megamania]

Back on subject- I use both. If I'm looking for stealth, it's feet. If it's the fear factor, it's hooves.

As my tangent-
I once had a player tell me it was a fiend simplily because it had hooves instead of feet. Minotaurs were bull headed large men only.

 

[shilsen]

Hooves, horseshoes of speed, and cowbell of bull's (duh!) strength.

 

[Thanee]

The real question is: Can a minotaur with hooves wear boots?

Centaurs can, so I guess minotaurs should be no exception.

In the rules for centaurs (Races of Faerun, I think) it even says, that it will look funny.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Nifft]

heh, heh, heh -- apparently I'm an idiot some mornings. Sorry!

-- N