Minotaur Legs...

[Cam Banks]

The pic I posted is from Dragonlance.....and he has hooves.

And it was wrong.

Cheers,
Cam
PS: Dragonlance minotaurs often wear boots, sandals, or other kinds of footwear. Hooves throw that off, including "hoof toes," so I just don't mention the hooves at all.

 

[HeavenShallBurn]

PS: Dragonlance minotaurs often wear boots, sandals, or other kinds of footwear. Hooves throw that off, including "hoof toes," so I just don't mention the hooves at all.

Nothing says you can't wear a shoe equivalent it would just look different. There are "boots" to protect the paws of hunting dogs from thorns and such. A hooved creature could wear a similar "boot" or "sandal" to support the arch from the hoof to the ankle. And they'd need to, even humans need arch support if we're carrying a heavy load and being digitigrade or unguligrade would exacerbate that greatly.

Humanity is overrated. Why should anything else try to look like disgusting hairless apes with delusions of grandeur? I revel in things as inhuman as possible.

 

[Klaus]

And it was wrong.

Cheers,
Cam
PS: Dragonlance minotaurs often wear boots, sandals, or other kinds of footwear. Hooves throw that off, including "hoof toes," so I just don't mention the hooves at all.

I'll send you a sketch or two of hoof-toe minotaurs wearing boots and sandals.

God, I loved Taladas: The Minotaurs...

 

[Gez]

<3e Monster Manual pic>
Does that do it for you?

Nope. The thing I don't like with that minotaur is that it doesn't look bovine at all. More like some sort of Sasquatch, I don't know. Makes me think either the artist never saw a bull's head, or deliberately wanted to make a minotaur that doesn't look like a bull-headed monster.


Here's a minotaur that looks like a minotaur:

 

[Cam Banks]

I'll send you a sketch or two of hoof-toe minotaurs wearing boots and sandals.

God, I loved Taladas: The Minotaurs...

If you can manage it without an axe in the picture I'd be even more impressed.

Cheers,
Cam

 

[Klaus]

And it was wrong.

Cheers,
Cam
PS: Dragonlance minotaurs often wear boots, sandals, or other kinds of footwear. Hooves throw that off, including "hoof toes," so I just don't mention the hooves at all.

Not so, Cam:

 

[Klaus]

If you can manage it without an axe in the picture I'd be even more impressed.

Cheers,
Cam

Dude, don't dare me like that!

But can you fault a guy for giving a labyrs (two-bladed axe that was the symbol of minoan culture) to a minotaur, and putting the symbol of Taurus on its belt?

 

[Cam Banks]

Nice work, Klaus!

Yes, I think that works.

Cheers,
Cam

 

[xrpsuzi]

Minotaurs wearing split-toed shoes.... That's awesome Claudio!

I prefer mine bovined legged and hooved, and take the human part of minotaurs in the pelvic structure (they're standing upright, right?) and the hands.

-Suzi

 

[Korgoth]

People feet. Minotaurs aren't cow furries or satyrs.

EDIT - Erol Otus pretty much settled the issue back in 1980:

Now that's a minotaur!

I guess it depends on what your minotaurs are supposed to represent. If the minotaur represents the monstrous product of marital infidelity with enchanted livestock... then it's a monster and is supposed to look incongruous.