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Message: <blockquote data-quote="der_kluge" data-source="post: 1126093" data-attributes="member: 945">Minotaur characters possess the following racial traits.+4 Str, +4 Con, -4 Int, -4 ChaMedium sizeA minotaur’s base speed is 30 feet.Darkvision out to 60 feet.Racial Hit Dice: A minotaur begins with two levels of monstrous humanoid, which provide 2d10 Hit Dice, a base attack bonus of +2, and base saving throw bonuses of Fort +3, Ref +0, and Will +3. Racial Skills: A minotaur’s monstrous humanoid levels give it skill points equal to (2 + Int modifier) x 2. Minotaurs have a +2 racial bonus on Search, Scent, and Listen checks.Racial Feats: A minotaur’s monstrous humanoid levels give it one feat.Weapon Proficiency: A minotaur is proficient with the greataxe and all simpleweapons.+2 natural armor bonus.Natural Weapons: Gore (1d8).Powerful Charge (Ex): A minotaur typically begins a battle by charging at anopponent, lowering its head to bring its mighty horns into play. In addition tothe normal benefits and hazards of a charge, this allows the beast to make asingle gore attack with a plus equal to his base attack bonus, +2 for chargingthat deals 4d6(+any strength modifiers) points of damage.Natural Cunning (Ex): Although minotaurs are not especially intelligent, theypossess innate cunning and logical ability. This gives them immunity to mazespells, and prevents them from ever becoming lost.Level adjustment +1.This is what I sent to my player.  This would give the minotaur an ECL +3, but then I further told him that he could drop the racial feat, the skill points, and the hit dice, and make it ECL +1, and start as a Barbarian8/Minotaur1.I felt like this made it more in-line as a PC race.  He further wanted to decrease the creature's eyesight.  In his mind, minotaurs are horribly near-sighted, and have no proficiency with ranged weapons, and have a penalty to thrown weapons, and no bonus to search skills.  I gave him a +2 to his Scent skill (house ruled new skill), and gave him a bonus blind-fight feat to make up for those sight penalties.Thoughts?</blockquote>

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