Minotaur Legs...

[Tetsubo]

Human-like or Bovine-like?

I like them with hooves...

 

[HeavenShallBurn]

hooved and bovine, they are upright cattle after all

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Bovine, because it's less common and thus more interesting.

 

[Aeric]

Bovine, because it's less common and thus more interesting.

Agreed that it is more interesting, but less common? I don't think I've ever seen an illustration or miniature of a minotaur that didn't have hooves. Seems to be the norm, actually.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Agreed that it is more interesting, but less common? I don't think I've ever seen an illustration or miniature of a minotaur that didn't have hooves. Seems to be the norm, actually.

I meant less common among humanoids and monstrous humanoids, sorry. Hooves make a minotaur stand out.

 

[Perun]

If we're talking standard, MM, not-very-suitable-as-PCs minotaurs, I guess I'd pick hooves (they look monsterier that way).

But, if it's a PC-friendly minotaur (a la Dragonlance CS), then I'd go with a combination of two, based on a picture in AD&D 2e Tales of the Lance boxed set -- minotaurs have human-like legs and feet, but they end in two big, hoof-like toes (instead of the regular 5 human toes). In DL it nicely solves the problem of magic footwear and makes sence since mintaurs are the best mariners on Krynn (it's hard to climb masts with hooves ).

Regards.

 

[Xyanthon]

Count me in the bovine camp. It gives them a much more feral feel I think.

 

[Cam Banks]

We pretty much go with the "minotaurs have feet, not hooves" line for Dragonlance. Richard Knaak, the "minotaur guy" of the Dragonlance novelists, asserts that they have feet and so we listen to him.

Cheers,
Cam

 

[arwink]

All Bovine, all the time.

 

[Jdvn1]

Does that do it for you?