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:''No relation to the [[Space Marine]] [[Chapter]] called the [[Minotaurs]], who have several references to the mythological creature.''

A '''minotaur''' is a half-[[human|man]], half-bull, taking the form of a humanoid figure - originally purely human, but adding any combination of fur, a tail and digitigrade hooved legs became popular somewhere around the 80s - with a bull's head. Though at least one artist drew the minotaur as a messed up centaur, with a human head on a hulking bull.

This creature originates in Greek [[mythology]], much like its fellow [[Medusa]]. Also like Medusa, "the Minotaur" was the name/title of a unique individual abomination rather than a species. ''Still'' also like Medusa, its origin story is pretty weird and fucked up, even by the standards of Greek mythology. The original minotaur, whose title means "the bull of Minos" and whose true name was actually Asterion or Asterius, was born to one Queen Pasiphae. Minos was supposed to sacrifice a white bull to the god Poseidon, but he refused because he took a liking to the majestic creature. As punishment, Poseidon had his wife Pasiphae take a bigger likng, and by "bigger liking" we mean that she had a giant hollow statue constructed so [[/d/|she could consummate her feelings for the bull]]. After the minotaur was born, Minos was understandably livid that his wife cheated on him with an animal, but killing the bastard wasn't on the list (probably for good reason), so the hybrid was kept in a labyrinth so that ordinary people wouldn't have to look at it.

This might seem like a pretty raw deal for the minotaur, but on the other hand the Cretans forced the Athenians to send virgins for the monster's meals, because apparently omnivore + herbivore = obligate carnivore: once every seven years (or just every year, depending on the source) seven of the bravest youths and seven of the fairest maidens would be the minotaur's munchies. This would mean that either the Minotaur would be able to survive off of one teenager for six months and the rest would keep wandering around for up to six and a half years (aside from the question of how ''they'' didn't starve to death), or else be he ate them all in one sitting and digest them over the course of several years like the [[Star Wars|Sarlacc Pit Monster]]. When it was time for the third serving of Soylent Happy Meals, a bloke named Theseus came along and objected to this man-eating. He took the place of one of the youths (meaning that he must've been one hell of a bishie), sailed to Crete (where he fell in love with a local princess, but that's a tale for another time) and set up a rope that he could follow back. He found the center of the maze by constantly going straight ahead and never going left or right, and encountered the sleeping minotaur. Depending on the source he either stabbed it in the throat or [[Awesome|strangled it with his bare hands]], after which he walked out unmolested by the Creteans, who didn't stop him because they were too busy scratching their heads wondering why they didn't try that before.

As a result of this story, minotaurs are associated with labyrinths and mazes of all kinds. In [[AD&D]] minotaurs are immune to the Maze spell, which is odd given that the labyrinth was intended to keep the original thing in to begin with. In [[Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition]] they enjoy puzzles and feel at home in twisting, turning passages. Whenever minotaurs build towns or cities, the roads are always arranged in the most confusing way possible. To the locals, this makes perfect sense. To adventurers, it's a fucking pain. To [[GM]]s, it's an easy way to take up an hour or two of the party's time after they breeze through your perfectly designed challenge in 5 minutes and you have nothing left this session.

An interesting way to play with this trope might be to have a Minotaur philosopher character, who [[Tzeentch|makes heavy use of labyrinthian logic full of twists and turns and who jumps through many a hoop to reach his conclusion. One could also have a minotaur character be the center of such a labyrinthian ''plot'' ]].

==Dungeons & Dragons==
Minotaurs in [[Dungeons & Dragons]] traditionally worship [[Baphomet]], Demon Prince of Beasts, which makes them bitter enemies of the [[Gnoll]] race, due to the rivalry between Baphomet and [[Yeenoghu]].

4e was also the first edition to make minotaurs a mainstream playable race, rather than monsters - they had first been given a playable write up in [[Dragonlance]]. In [[Points of Light]], Minotaurs were originally ruled over by Baphomet, the Horned King. After the Dawn War ended, he was cast into the Abyss and [[Erathis]], the goddess of civilisation, called dibs on the minotaurs. This went well for a short while, until [[Cultist-Chan|cultists]] of Baphomet corrupted the city, and [[Melora]] had to kill them with fire. Individual minotaurs struggle with the insane beasts that rages in the maze within their heads. If they succumb to this madness, they often fall into thralldom to Baphomet. If they were to overcome this insanity or keep it at bay their entire lives, minotaurs can be civilised creatures, though often preferring to live on the edge of society.

In [[Dragonlance]], it's noted that minotaurs actually have two-toed but otherwise human-like feet, with hooves being restricted to corrupted throwback-mutants. They're also famous for being even more Greco-Roman inspired than minotaurs usually are, having a highly disciplined, warlike culture based on a strong army and martial honor, gladiatorial games being super-important (it's even how they select their emperors!), and being expert sailors. So much so that 5e made minotaurs playable by using the Krynn variant as inspiration and releasing it in the Waterborne Adventures web-enhancement [http://media.wizards.com/2015/downloads/dnd/UA_Waterborne_v3.pdf here].

===D&D Racial Stats===
Playable minotaurs have never received a lot of attention, but they have appeared here and there throughout the editions.

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====AD&D====
Playable minotaurs appeared twice in [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]]. The first time, for AD&D 1e, was in [[Dragon Magazine]] #116. They were then present in the 2nd edition sourcebook [[The Complete Book of]] Humanoids. The Savage Coast of [[Mystara]] sourcebooks for 2e also provided stats for the [[Enduk]], a race of winged minotaurs native to that gonzo-fantasy world.

====Dragonlance====
Minotaurs have ''long'' had a prominent place in [[Dragonlance]]. In fact, if you don't count [[Tinker Gnome]]s and [[Kender]] (which most people prefer not to, seeing as how they're more annoying setting-specific versions of [[gnome]]s and [[halfling]]s), minotaurs were one of the two ''new'' PC races introduced in "Dragonlance Adventures", the first ever sourcebook for the setting in [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]] 1st edition. This is a position they share with the [[Irda]].

Minotaurs in this setting are basically Greco-Klingons, combining a brutal warrior culture with codes of honor and scholarship. Their society is built on Three Virtues, Strength, Cunning, and Learning, and they're famed navigators and pirates. They tend towards Lawful Evil rather than chaos.

In the 3.5 Sourcebook "Races of Ansalon", Minotaurs got a chapter all to themselves. Their stats are as follows:

:: +4 Strength, –2 Dexterity, –2 Intelligence, –2 Charisma. Minotaurs are large and powerful, but not very agile. From youth, minotaurs focus on developing their muscle over their minds. Minotaur arrogance can be offensive to other races.
:: Medium: As Medium creatures, minotaurs have no special bonuses or penalties.
:: A minotaur’s base land speed is 30 feet.
:: +2 natural armor bonus.
:: Gore: A minotaur may use his horns as natural weapons to make a gore attack, dealing 1d6 points of damage plus the minotaur’s Strength modifier. If the minotaur charges, his gore attack deals 2d6 points of damage, plus 1 ½ times his Strength modifier. A minotaur can attack with a weapon at his normal attack bonus and make a gore attack as a secondary attack (–5 penalty on the attack roll and half Strength bonus on the damage roll).
:: +2 racial bonus on Intimidate, Swim, and Use Rope checks. Minotaurs are familiar with the sea and naturally adept at skills useful among seafarers.
:: Minotaurs may take the scent special quality as a feat. (See the Monster Manual.)
:: Automatic Languages: Common, Kothian. Bonus Languages: Kalinese, Nordmaarian, Ogre, Saifhum.
:: [[Favored Class]]: [[Fighter]].

====3e====
3rd Edition featured two extremely different versions of playable minotaurs. The first version, appearing in the [[Monster Manual]], was quite a beast, with 6 hit dice and a +2 level adjustment, meaning that minotaur player characters had to start at ECL 9. The full statblock, as printed in the 3.5e Monster Manual, is as follows:

:: +8 Strength, +4 Constitution, –4 Intelligence, –2 Charisma.
:: Large size.
:: Space/Reach: 10 feet/10 feet.
:: A minotaur’s base land speed is 30 feet.
:: Darkvision out to 60 feet.
:: Racial Hit Dice: A minotaur begins with six levels of monstrous humanoid, which provide 6d8 Hit Dice, a base attack bonus of +6, and base saving throw bonuses of Fort +2, Ref +5, and Will +5.
:: Racial Skills: A minotaur’s monstrous humanoid levels give it skill points equal to 9 × (2 + Int modifier, minimum 1). Its class skills are Intimidate, Jump, Listen, Search, and Spot. Minotaurs have a +4 racial bonus on Search, Spot, and Listen checks.
:: Weapon Proficiency: A minotaur is proficient with the greataxe and all simple weapons.
:: +5 natural armor bonus.
:: Natural Weapons: Gore (1d8).
:: Special Attacks: Powerful charge.
:: Special Qualities): Natural cunning, scent.
:: Automatic Languages: Common, Giant. Bonus Languages: Orc, Goblin, Terran.
:: Favored Class: Barbarian.
:: Level adjustment +2.

A few months after the launch of 3.5e, the Draglonlance Campaign Setting was updated for Third Edition rules, and it featured a severely nerfed form of Minotaur that players could play at level one. Its full stat block is as follows:

:: +4 strength, -2 dexterity, -2 intelligence, -2 charisma
:: Medium size
:: Base land speed 30 feet
:: Natural armor +2
:: a gore attack for 1d6 + str modifier
:: a charge + gore attack for damage equal to 2d6 plus 1.5x str
:: +2 to intimidate, Swim, and Use Rope checks
:: can take Scent as a feat
:: Automatic languages: Common and Kothian. Bonus languages: Kalinese, Nordmaarian, Ogre, and Saifhum
:: Favored class: Fighter

====Pathfinder====
Like most OGL monsters from 3E, Minotaur's only changes in [[Pathfinder]] are system wide (which means no LA so they can't be playable). In [[Golarion]] minotaurs are, in addition to a true breeding race, a result of a curse on human parents by [[Lamashtu]]. This means any organization in or near human lands could have a Minotaur around as some muscle.

Dreamscarred Press, in love with [[Psionics|old]] [[Incarnum|often weird]] [[Book of Nine Swords|subsystems]] (they even toyed around with making [[Truenamer]] not shit!), created their own version of the Monster Classes introduced in Savage Species (and used by the World of Warcraft RPG mentioned above). Naturally one of the monster classes they made was the Minotaur. Minotaur is one of the simplest monster classes, having all the abilities of the "real" minotaur at the same strength across the same number of hit die and just being a grandular progression from level 1. They are great melee brutes, but with one obvious flaw: They aren't proficient with armor. They either need to dip into some class or stick to 0 ACP armor like (masterwork studded) leather. They do however get the ability to pick an awesome minotaur only feat at 15th level called Labyrinth Lord: It's simultaneously a maze SLA, a way to force enemies into one on one combat, an infinite size portable hole and a Mordenkainen’s Magnificent Mansion.

====World of Warcraft: The Roleplaying Game====
Tauren, the aforementioned Good Guy Minotaurs, appeared in the original [[Warcraft]] D20 RPG, but were re-written with a much better format (including dumping the racial level adjustment) in the [[World of Warcraft]] re-release. They were there from the corebook, and they had these stats:
:: +2 Strength, -2 Agility (Dexterity)
:: Medium
:: Base land speed 30 feet
:: Natural Weapon (Ex): Taurens have a set of horns that function as a natural weapon that deals 1D8+ Str bonus damage. Tauren are automatically proficient in the use of their horns.
:: Weapon Familiarity: Tauren Halberds and Tauren Totems are Martial weapons rather than Exotic for Tauren.
:: Weapon Proficiency: Longspear and Shortspear
:: +2 Racial bonus on Handle Animal and Survival checks. Handle Animal and Survival are always class skills for Tauren.
:: Racial Class: Tauren
:: Favored Class: Warrior

Tauren Racial Class
:: Hit Die: D10
:: Skill Points (1st level): (2 + Int modifier) x 4
:: Skill Points (else): 2 + Int modifier
:: "Class" Skills: Climb, Concentration, Handle Animal, Listen, Sense Motive, Spellcraft, Spot, Survival.
:: Weapon & Armor Proficiency: Simple Weapons, exluding Crossbows, and Light Armor
:: Level 1: BAB +0, Fort Save +2, Ref Save +0, Will Save +2,+1 Strength, Tauren Charge (when charging, a tauren may use their horns instead of a melee weapon; this lets the tauren inflict a Gore attack that does horn damage + 1 1/2 times the tauren's Strength modifier in addition to the normal benefits)
:: Level 2: BAB +1, Fort Save +2, Ref Save +0, Will Save +2, +2 Spirit (Wisdom), +4 racial bonus on saves vs. fear, Tauren Weapon Proficiency (gain proficiency in either Tauren Halberd or Tauren Totem)
:: Level 3: BAB +2, Fort Save +3, Ref Save +1, Will Save +3,+1 Strength, Improved Tauren Charge (tauren is considered Large size for charging and bull rushing, +4 racial bonus on Strength checks for bull rush effects), Tauren Weapon Proficiency (gain proficiency in either Tauren Halberd or Tauren Totem)

====D&D 4e====
The sad proof that, for all 4e's efforts at trying to undo the pigeonholing effect of race from editions past, it hadn't quite gotten past it yet. Not a mechanically ''bad'' race, few 4e races were, but so heavily optimised for close-quarter combat that there was little encouragement besides fluff to be anything other than a melee brute.

:: Ability Scores: +2 Strength, +2 Constitution OR +2 Wisdom
:: Size: Medium
:: Speed: 6 squares
:: Vision: Normal
:: Skill Bonuses: +2 Nature, +2 Perception
:: Vitality: +1 healing surge
:: Ferocity: When you drop to zero hit points or fewer, you can make a melee basic attack as an immediate interrupt.
:: Heedless Charge: You have a +2 racial bonus to AC against attacks of opportunity you provoke during a charge.
:: Goring Charge: You have the Goring Charge racial power.

Goring Charge
Minotaur Racial Encounter Power
''You charge the enemy and gore it with your horns.''
:: Standard Action
:: Melee 1
:: Effect: You charge and make the following attack in place of a melee basic attack:
:: Target: One Creature
:: Attack: Strength, Constitution or Dexterity +4 (6 at 11th level and 8 at 21st level) vs. AC
:: Hit: 1D6 + Strength, Constitution or Dexterity modifier damage, and you knock the target prone.
* Level 11: 2D6 + Strength, Constitution or Dexterity modifier damage, and you knock the target prone.
* Level 21: 3D6 + Strength, Constitution or Dexterity modifier damage, and you knock the target prone.

====D&D 5e====
The first playable version of a Minotaur in 5e appeared in [[Unearthed Arcana]] for May, 2015. This version was explicitly modeled after the Krynnish version, since WoTC this time realised that with the [[half-orc]], [[warforged]], and [[goliath]] already done, the "big tough bruiser" racial niche is already pretty overcrowded. The 1d10 natural weapon is powerful at low level, but it loses out to magic weapons & feat boosts later on.

Krynnish/Nautical Minotaur:
:: Ability Score Increase. Your Strength score increases by 1.
:: Conqueror’s Virtue. From a young age, you focused on one of the three virtues of strength, cunning, or intellect. Your choice of your Strength, Intelligence, or Wisdom score increases by 1.
:: Age. Minotaurs enter adulthood at around the age of 17 and can live up to 150 years.
:: Alignment. Minotaurs believe in a strict code of honor, and thus tend toward law. They are loyal to the death and make implacable enemies, even as their brutal culture and disdain for weakness push them toward evil.
:: Size. Minotaurs typically stand well over 6 feet tall and weigh an average of 300 pounds. Your size is Medium.
:: Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
:: Horns. You are never unarmed. You are proficient with your horns, which are a melee weapon that deals 1d10 piercing damage. Your horns grant you advantage on all checks made to shove a creature, but not to avoid being shoved yourself.
:: Goring Rush. When you use the Dash action during your turn, you can make a melee attack with your horns as a bonus action.
:: Hammering Horns. When you use the Attack action during your turn to make a melee attack, you can attempt to shove a creature with your horns as a bonus action. You cannot use this shove attempt to knock a creature prone.
:: Labyrinthine Recall. You can perfectly recall any path you have travelled.
:: Sea Reaver. You gain proficiency with navigator’s tools and vehicles (water).
:: Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common.

An alternative ovine-featured minotaur appeared in "Plane Shift: [[Amonkhet]]", but they're only reskinned [[half-orc]]s with a Natural Weapon instead of Darkvision. Not overpowered by any means, and certainly competing for mechanical space with the half-orcs.

Amonkhetian/Sheep-Headed Minotaur:
:: +2 Strength, +1 Constitution
:: Medium
:: Base speed 30 feet
:: Natural Weapon - Horns: You can use your Horns as a natural weapon to make an unarmed strike. A Horn Attack inflicts 1d6 + Str modifier Bludgeoning damage.
:: Menacing: You have Proficiency in Intimidation.
:: Relentless Endurance: When you would be reduced to 0 hit points, but not killed outright, you can choose to be reduced to 1 hit point instead. Once you have used this trait, you must complete a Long Rest before you can use it again.
:: Savage Attacks: When you inflict a Critical Hit with a melee weapon, increase the damage inflicted by a further +1 weapon damage dice result.

And a third 5e Minotaur appeared in May 2018, three years after the original debuted. This one was closer to the "generic" minotaur in concept. It also loses out on the awesome and flavorful Labrynthine Recall in favor of being the "big tough bruiser" the previous UA minotaur was trying not to be, and represents the persistent overvaluation of natural weapons by the design team this edition. Whelp.

Standard Minotaur:
::Ability Score Modifiers: +2 Strength, +1 Constitution
::Size: Medium
::Speed: 30 feet
::Vision: Normal
::Horns: You possess horns, which are a natural weapon that you have proficiency with. When you hit with a horn attack, you inflict 1d6 + Strength modifier Piercing damage.
::Goring Rush: Immediately after you use the Dash action on your turn and move at least as far as your speed, you can make one melee attack with your horns as a bonus action.
::Hammering Horns: Immediately after you hit a creature with a melee attack as part of the Attack action on your turn, you can use your reaction to make a shove attack against that creature. You can only make this shove attack on a creature that is no more than one size larger than you and which is within 5 feet of you. The creature must succeed on a Strength saving throw (DC 8 + your Proficiency bonus + your Strength modifier) or be pushed up to 5 feet away from you.
::Menacing: You have Proficiency in the Intimidation skill.
::Hybrid Nature: You count as being both a Humanoid and a Monstrosity in terms of Creature Type, and thus can be affected by any game effect that specifically targets either of your types.

Finally, the "Official Minotaur" debuted in the Guildmaster's Guide to [[Ravnica]] in November 2018; this is the exact same stats as the UA "Standard Minotaur", but dropping Hybrid Nature and trading Menacing for Imposing Presence (free proficiency in either Intimidation or Persuasion).

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== In Magic: The Gathering ==
Minotaurs are amongst the many, many races of creatures that appear throughout the [[plane]]s of [[Magic: The Gathering]], being native to [[Alara]], [[Amonkhet]], [[Dominaria]], [[Theros]], [[Ravnica]], [[Ulgrotha]], and [[Zendikar]]. Some planes actually have multiple distinct forms or cultures of minotaur, and the race includes ram- and antelope-headed versions as well as the classic bull-headed version.

Amokhet's minotaurs are ovine-featured instead of bovine-featured, and are notorious for being rowdy, boisterous and direct. If one takes "Plane Shift: Amonkhet" as canon, they're actally incredibly short-lived, even given that they live in a world where everybody considers the point of life to be achieving a glorious death and become an undead slave to the God-Pharoah - according to this document, they don't fully mature until the age of 20, but don't live much longer than age 40, which is why they're so driven to squeeze the most out of life. Although they prefer close combat, they're also capable of producing talented spellcasters, favoring fiery magic and buffs, and those few who take up long-ranged weaponry are devastating with their heavy bows and javelins.

In Dominaria, minotaur variants include the spiritual yet warlike clans of the Hurloon Mountains, famous for their practice of singing hymns to honor the fallen on both sides after a battle, the rare (possibly extinct) and super-shaggy minotaurs that roamed the Karplusan Mountains during the Ice Age, the eleven minotaur clans of Mirtiin, the radical and xenophobic minotaurs of Stahaan, who have been known to launch crusades against other races, and the vain, hairless, xenophobic, crystal sword-wielding minotaurs of the Talruum mountains, who are skilled [[wizard|illusionists]] and regard their kinsfolk as very ugly.

Therosian minotaurs are primal, carnivorous savages, little more than beasts stalking the night in search of blood. While they have existed for a while, this is when they started to get a lot of support like tribal effects.

In Ravnica, minotaurs are mostly native to Ordruun, where they serve the Boros Legion and the Wojeks, but they also have been seen fighting for the Izzet Legion.

Ulgrotha is home to both the Anaba, a shamanistic tribe of minotaur mystics, and to the Labyrinth Minotaurs, immortal guardians possibly created by magic.

Finally, Zendikar houses many different tribes of minotaurs, ranging from feral beasts to aggressive and impulsive, yet honorable, civilized tribes, who often practice earth-manipulating magic.

Minotaurs have earned some memetic laughs for the frequency with which they are the targets of various nasty effects in card art:
* [http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/arcana/217 Sympathy for the Minotaur, Part 1]
* [http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/arcana/436 Sympathy for the Minotaur, Part 2]
* [http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/arcana/1274 Sympathy for the Minotaur, Part 3]

This probably started for the same reason [[Star Trek|Worf]] gets beat up all the time: They're big, tough and easy to recognize as big and tough so whatever beats them up must be ''really'' strong. It continues mostly as a tradition.

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== In Warhammer ==
The Minotaurs of [[Warhammer Fantasy]] were a bovine form of beastman, not to be confused with older lore stating that [[Slaanesh|Slaangors]] often mutated to look more bovine. Mindless, bloodthirsty carnivors, a minotaur on the tabletop was a fucking rape train, half-bull half-man killing machine employed by the [[beastmen|chaos furries]]. Their generic characters the Doombull and Grebull are Minotaur characters that is able to do just as fucking rapetastic shit.

Taurox was a named Minotaur character who was favored by [[Khorne]], despite being a beastman, aka the unwanted bastard children of the dark gods, meaning he was epic as shit to be noticed by the higher up. Sadly, he got shot down by Markus Wulfhart.

In AoS, they're back under the [[Games Workshop|more copyrightable name]] "Bullgors". Not much has changed, only instead of them pissing and shitting everywhere in forests in the Old World, it's forests across the realms.

== Other /tg/ Appearances ==
[[Warcraft]] was one of the first settings to give good minotaurs a look, in the form of the tauren, which are basically minotaurs done by way of the "noble savage Native American" stereotype. They eventually gave them an arctic EVIL equivalent as well.

In [[White Wolf]]'s [[Scion]] setting, minotaurs are a race of Demigod-tier mooks spawned when the aforementioned White Bull of Crete emerged from the sea, raped Pasiphae, and then began rampaging all over Crete raping every woman it encountered until Hercules came along and caught the fucking thing - King Minos couldn't stop it because it would have pissed off Poseidon, who sent it to do this pretty much for shits and giggles. All-male themselves, minotaurs have to keep raping human women to keep their numbers up.

In [[Monster Hunter International]] they, or at least one Texas based tribe of them, prefer to be called Bullmen. They are among the few monsters that are both friendly to humans and PUFF exempt thanks to one of their own serving in the Vietnam war. They hold loyalty high enough one volunteers to have his hide made into a leather jacket to continue protecting the person he died protecting. Said jacket is tough enough that it is both bulletproof (though this hasn't been seriously tested) and can survive the wearer turning into a werewolf.

==Monstergirls==
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Alongside [[centaurs]] (their fellow Greeks), minotaurs share the dubious honor of being a race that is alternatively embraced and shunned by fans of both [[monstergirls]] and [[furry]] - though their native form leans much closer to the furry side, monstergirl minotaurs are basically [[musclegirl]]s with huge tits and at least one of several potential minor bovine features - long horns are near-universal, but they may also possess any or all of cow-like ears, a cow-like tail, digitigrade legs, hooves instead of feet, or unusual breasts/nipples (multiple boobs, oversized/multiple nipples, etc). You know, around the 10% mark on the furry meter, a bovine analogue to [[faun]]s. As for why minotaur monstergirls are so common, it's probably because of the connotation between "cow monstergirl" and "fucking huge tits" oppai Oppai OPPAI.

In fact, the presence of Minotaurs in the monstergirl fandom is a little contentious; "[[cowgirl]]s", bovine-featured girls who tend to be hugely busty, often pleasingly curvy or soft in build, and very shy and gentle, are about as prolific in the MG fandom as the [[catgirl]], and considered similarly "entry tier". Many argue that a cowgirl isn't a "real" minotaur MG unless she's also an [[amazon]], or at least a [[musclegirl]], and even then there's arguments about whether she has to have a brazen and forceful personality, matching the traditional violent/warlike depiction of the minotaur-as-monster, or if she can still be (at least in the right circumstances) as sweet and gentle as ordinary cowgirls. So in short, the difference between a cowgirl and a minotaur girl is the same as the difference between a domestic farm cow and an undomesticated aurox.

This divide is referenced in [[Life With Monstergirls]]: whilst their Minotaur "Liminal Race" is supposedly divided into the aggressive "Bullfighting" Minotaur and the more gentle and docile "Milking" Minotaur, the sample minotaur character Cathyl is a Milking type with an extremely aggressive nature who is quick to revert to violence. All minotaur females look like horned women with digitigrade, furry, cow-hooved legs, furry elf-like ears, and a cow's tail. Milking Types have huge tits which steadily swell bigger as they produce the day's milk, growing to painfully swollen and tender proportions far larger than a human head - Cathyl's breasts are bigger than even those of Tio, the [[ogre]] monstergirl who had previously been the must buxom member of the cast. Minotaur men are bull-headed muscular brutes with cow tails and legs, in a standard Japanese "men are more bestial than women" art style. It's unclear if both types of minotaur women are [[musclegirl]]s; Cathyl is a Milking type who is visibly ripped, but she's also a farm-girl who spends a lot of time doing heavy labor. Of course, the same would probably be true of the average Milking type.

===MGE===
[[File:MGE Minotaur.jpg|300px|thumb|right|The MGE's Minotaur stands out from the [[cowgirl]] herd in a few ways.]]
The [[Monster Girl Encyclopedia]] actively embraces the minotaur/cowgirl divide by making them into two separate species; the ox/bull-based minotaur, and the cow-based holstaur. Minotaurs tend to be brazen, crass, forceful and violent in everything they do. If they see a potential partner they like they won't think twice about forcing themselves onto them. Extremely lazy by nature, they are hedonists who are driven by their emotions and live to eat, sleep and have sex. When not doing any of those things, they are usually working off some pent-up fury, which is one of the reasons why they are so ripped. The other reason is probably their love of rough sex, making every one of their constant bouts of lovemaking into a real workout.

Minotaur mamono are notorious for their peculiar trait of flying into a lustful frenzy if exposed to the color red.

Some translations of the name call them the Minotaurus race instead.

For details on their more "dainty" cousins, the Holstaur and the Hakutaku, see the [[Cowgirl]] page.

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Minotaur

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:''No relation to the [[Space Marine]] [[Chapter]] called the [[Minotaurs]], who have several references to the mythological creature.''

A '''minotaur''' is a half-[[human|man]], half-bull, taking the form of a humanoid figure - originally purely human, but adding any combination of fur, a tail and digitigrade hooved legs became popular somewhere around the 80s - with a bull's head. Though at least one artist drew the minotaur as a messed up centaur, with a human head on a hulking bull.

This creature originates in Greek mythology, much like its fellow [[Medusa]]. Also like Medusa, "the Minotaur" was the name/title of a unique individual abomination rather than a species. ''Still'' also like Medusa, its origin story is pretty weird and fucked up, even by the standards of Greek mythology. The original minotaur, whose true name was actually Asterion or Asterius though was usually just called "The Minotaur" meaning "The Bull of Minos", was born to Pasiphae, the wife of a king of Crete named Minos. Minos was supposed to sacrifice a white bull to the god Poseidon, but he refused because he took a liking to the majestic creature. As punishment, Poseidon made Pasiphae like the bull even more, so much so that she had a giant hollow statue constructed where [[FATAL|she could consummate her feelings for the bull]]. After the minotaur was born, Minos was understandably livid that his wife cheated on him with an animal, so the hybrid was kept in a labyrinth so that ordinary people wouldn't have to look at it.

This might seem like a pretty raw deal for the minotaur, but on the other hand the Cretans forced the Athenians to send virgins for the monster's meals, because apparently omnivore + herbivore = obligate carnivore: once every seven years (or just every year, depending on the source) seven of the bravest youths and seven of the fairest maidens would be the minotaur's munchies. This would mean that the Minotaur would be able to survive off of one teenager for six months, meaning that either the rest would keep wandering around for up to six and a half years (aside from the question of how ''they'' didn't starve to death) or it would eat them all in one sitting and digest them over the course of several years like the [[Star Wars|Sarlacc Pit Monster]]. When it was time for the third serving of Soylent Happy Meals, a bloke named Theseus came along and objected to this man-eating. He took the place of one of the youths (meaning that he must've been one hell of a bishie), sailed to Crete (where he fell in love with a local princess, but that's a tale for another time) and set up a rope that he could follow back. He found the center of the maze by constantly going straight ahead and never going left or right and encountered the sleeping minotaur. Depending on the source he either stabbed it in the throat or [[Awesome|strangled it with his bare hands]], after which he walked out unmolested by the Creteans, who didn't stop him because they were too busy scratching their heads wondering why they didn't try that before.

As a result of this story, minotaurs are associated with labyrinths and mazes of all kinds. In [[AD&D]] minotaurs are immune to the Maze spell, which is odd given that the labyrinth was intended to keep the original thing in to begin with. In [[Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition]] they enjoy puzzles and feel at home in twisting, turning passages. Whenever minotaurs build towns or cities, the roads are always arranged in the most confusing way possible. To the locals, this makes perfect sense. To adventurers, it's a fucking pain. To [[GM]]s, it's an easy way to take up an hour or two of the party's time after they breeze through your perfectly designed challenge in 5 minutes and you have nothing left this session.

An interesting way to play with this trope might be to have a Minotaur philosopher character, who [[Tzeentch|makes heavy use of labyrinthian logic full of twists and turns and who jumps through many a hoop to reach his conclusion. One could also have a minotaur character be the center of such a labyrinthian ''plot'' ]].

==Dungeons & Dragons==
Minotaurs in [[Dungeons & Dragons]] traditionally worship [[Baphomet]], Demon Prince of Beasts, which makes them bitter enemies of the [[Gnoll]] race, due to the rivalry between Baphomet and [[Yeenoghu]].

4e was also the first edition to make minotaurs a mainstream playable race, rather than monsters - they had first been given a playable write up in [[Dragonlance]]. In [[Points of Light]], Minotaurs were originally ruled over by Baphomet, the Horned King. After the Dawn War ended, he was cast into the Abyss and [[Erathis]], the goddess of civilisation, called dibs on the minotaurs. This went well for a short while, until [[Cultist-Chan|cultists]] of Baphomet corrupted the city, and [[Melora]] had to kill them with fire. Individual minotaurs struggle with the insane beasts that rages in the maze within their heads. If they succumb to this madness, they often fall into thralldom to Baphomet. If they were to overcome this insanity, or keep it at bay their entire lives, minotaurs can be civilised creatures, though often preferring to live on the edge of society.

In [[Dragonlance]], it's noted that minotaurs actually have two-toed but otherwise human-like feet, with hooves being restricted to corrupted throwback-mutants. They're also famous for being even more Greco-Roman inspired than minotaurs usually are, having a highly disciplined, warlike culture based on a strong army and martial honor, gladiatorial games being super-important (even how they select their emperors!), and being expert sailors. So much so that 5e made minotaurs playable by using the Krynn variant as inspiration and releasing it in the Waterborne Adventures web-enhancement [http://media.wizards.com/2015/downloads/dnd/UA_Waterborne_v3.pdf here]

===D&D Racial Stats===
Playable minotaurs have never received a lot of attention, but they have appeared here and there throughout the editions.

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====AD&D====
Playable minotaurs appeared twice in [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]]. The first time, for AD&D 1e, was in [[Dragon Magazine]] #116. They were then present in the 2nd edition sourcebook [[The Complete Book of]] Humanoids. The Savage Coast of [[Mystara]] sourcebooks for 2e also provided stats for the [[Enduk]], a race of winged minotaurs native to that gonzo-fantasy world.

====Dragonlance====
Minotaurs have ''long'' had a prominent place in [[Dragonlance]]. In fact, if you don't count [[Tinker Gnome]]s and [[Kender]] (which most people prefer not to, seeing as how they're more annoying setting-specific versions of [[gnome]]s and [[halfling]]s), minotaurs were one of the two ''new'' PC races introduced in "Dragonlance Adventures", the first ever sourcebook for the setting in [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]] 1st edition. This is a position they share with the [[Irda]].

Minotaurs in this setting are basically Greco-Klingons, combining a brutal warrior culture with codes of honor and scholarship. Their society is built on Three Virtues, Strength, Cunning, and Learning, and they're famed navigators and pirates. They tend towards Lawful Evil rather than chaos.

In the 3.5 Sourcebook "Races of Ansalon", Minotaurs got a chapter all to themselves. Their stats are as follows:

:: +4 Strength, –2 Dexterity, –2 Intelligence, –2 Charisma. Minotaurs are large and powerful, but not very agile. From youth, minotaurs focus on developing their muscle over their minds. Minotaur arrogance can be offensive to other races.
:: Medium: As Medium creatures, minotaurs have no special bonuses or penalties.
:: A minotaur’s base land speed is 30 feet.
:: +2 natural armor bonus.
:: Gore: A minotaur may use his horns as natural weapons to make a gore attack, dealing 1d6 points of damage plus the minotaur’s Strength modifier. If the minotaur charges, his gore attack deals 2d6 points of damage, plus 1 ½ times his Strength modifier. A minotaur can attack with a weapon at his normal attack bonus and make a gore attack as a secondary attack (–5 penalty on the attack roll and half Strength bonus on the damage roll).
:: +2 racial bonus on Intimidate, Swim, and Use Rope checks. Minotaurs are familiar with the sea and naturally adept at skills useful among seafarers.
:: Minotaurs may take the scent special quality as a feat. (See the Monster Manual.)
:: Automatic Languages: Common, Kothian. Bonus Languages: Kalinese, Nordmaarian, Ogre, Saifhum.
:: [[Favored Class]]: [[Fighter]].

====3e====
3rd Edition featured two extremely different versions of playable minotaurs. The first version, appearing in the [[Monster Manual]], was quite a beast, with 6 hit dice and a +2 level adjustment, meaning that minotaur player characters had to start at ECL 9. The full statblock, as printed in the 3.5e Monster Manual, is as follows:

:: +8 Strength, +4 Constitution, –4 Intelligence, –2 Charisma.
:: Large size.
:: Space/Reach: 10 feet/10 feet.
:: A minotaur’s base land speed is 30 feet.
:: Darkvision out to 60 feet.
:: Racial Hit Dice: A minotaur begins with six levels of monstrous humanoid, which provide 6d8 Hit Dice, a base attack bonus of +6, and base saving throw bonuses of Fort +2, Ref +5, and Will +5.
:: Racial Skills: A minotaur’s monstrous humanoid levels give it skill points equal to 9 × (2 + Int modifier, minimum 1). Its class skills are Intimidate, Jump, Listen, Search, and Spot. Minotaurs have a +4 racial bonus on Search, Spot, and Listen checks.
:: Weapon Proficiency: A minotaur is proficient with the greataxe and all simple weapons.
:: +5 natural armor bonus.
:: Natural Weapons: Gore (1d8).
:: Special Attacks: Powerful charge.
:: Special Qualities): Natural cunning, scent.
:: Automatic Languages: Common, Giant. Bonus Languages: Orc, Goblin, Terran.
:: Favored Class: Barbarian.
:: Level adjustment +2.

A few months after the launch of 3.5e, the Draglonlance Campaign Setting was updated for Third Edition rules, and it featured a severely nerfed form of Minotaur that players could play at level one. Its full stat block is as follows:

:: +4 strength, -2 dexterity, -2 intelligence, -2 charisma
:: Medium size
:: Base land speed 30 feet
:: Natural armor +2
:: a gore attack for 1d6 + str modifier
:: a charge + gore attack for damage equal to 2d6 plus 1.5x str
:: +2 to intimidate, Swim, and Use Rope checks
:: can take Scent as a feat
:: Automatic languages: Common and Kothian. Bonus languages: Kalinese, Nordmaarian, Ogre, and Saifhum
:: Favored class: Fighter

====Pathfinder====
Like most OGL monsters from 3E, Minotaur's only changes in [[Pathfinder]] are system wide (which means no LA so they can't be playable). In [[Golarion]] minotaurs are, in addition to a true breeding race, a result of a curse on human parents by [[Lamashtu]]. This means any organization in or near human lands could have a Minotaur around as some muscle.

Dreamscarred Press, in love with [[Psionics|old]] [[Incarnum|often weird]] [[Book of Nine Swords|subsystems]] (they even toyed around with making [[Truenamer]] not shit!), created their own version of the Monster Classes introduced in Savage Species (and used by the World of Warcraft RPG mentioned above). Naturally one of the monster classes they made was the Minotaur. Minotaur is one of the simplest monster classes, having all the abilities of the "real" minotaur at the same strength across the same number of hit die and just being a grandular progression from level 1. They are great melee brutes, but with one obvious flaw: They aren't proficient with armor. They either need to dip into some class or stick to 0 ACP armor like (masterwork studded) leather. They do however get the ability to pick an awesome minotaur only feat at 15th level called Labyrinth Lord: It's simultaneously a maze SLA, a way to force enemies into one on one combat, an infinite size portable hole and a Mordenkainen’s Magnificent Mansion.

====World of Warcraft: The Roleplaying Game====
Tauren, the aforementioned Good Guy Minotaurs, appeared in the original [[Warcraft]] D20 RPG, but were re-written with a much better format (including dumping the racial level adjustment) in the [[World of Warcraft]] re-release. They were there from the corebook, and they had these stats:
:: +2 Strength, -2 Agility (Dexterity)
:: Medium
:: Base land speed 30 feet
:: Natural Weapon (Ex): Taurens have a set of horns that function as a natural weapon that deals 1D8+ Str bonus damage. Tauren are automatically proficient in the use of their horns.
:: Weapon Familiarity: Tauren Halberds and Tauren Totems are Martial weapons rather than Exotic for Tauren.
:: Weapon Proficiency: Longspear and Shortspear
:: +2 Racial bonus on Handle Animal and Survival checks. Handle Animal and Survival are always class skills for Tauren.
:: Racial Class: Tauren
:: Favored Class: Warrior

Tauren Racial Class
:: Hit Die: D10
:: Skill Points (1st level): (2 + Int modifier) x 4
:: Skill Points (else): 2 + Int modifier
:: "Class" Skills: Climb, Concentration, Handle Animal, Listen, Sense Motive, Spellcraft, Spot, Survival.
:: Weapon & Armor Proficiency: Simple Weapons, exluding Crossbows, and Light Armor
:: Level 1: BAB +0, Fort Save +2, Ref Save +0, Will Save +2,+1 Strength, Tauren Charge (when charging, a tauren may use their horns instead of a melee weapon; this lets the tauren inflict a Gore attack that does horn damage + 1 1/2 times the tauren's Strength modifier in addition to the normal benefits)
:: Level 2: BAB +1, Fort Save +2, Ref Save +0, Will Save +2, +2 Spirit (Wisdom), +4 racial bonus on saves vs. fear, Tauren Weapon Proficiency (gain proficiency in either Tauren Halberd or Tauren Totem)
:: Level 3: BAB +2, Fort Save +3, Ref Save +1, Will Save +3,+1 Strength, Improved Tauren Charge (tauren is considered Large size for charging and bull rushing, +4 racial bonus on Strength checks for bull rush effects), Tauren Weapon Proficiency (gain proficiency in either Tauren Halberd or Tauren Totem)

====D&D 4e====
The sad proof that, for all 4e's efforts at trying to undo the pigeonholing effect of race from editions past, it hadn't quite gotten past it yet. Not a mechanically ''bad'' race, few 4e races were, but so heavily optimised for close-quarter combat that there was little encouragement besides fluff to be anything other than a melee brute.

:: Ability Scores: +2 Strength, +2 Constitution OR +2 Wisdom
:: Size: Medium
:: Speed: 6 squares
:: Vision: Normal
:: Skill Bonuses: +2 Nature, +2 Perception
:: Vitality: +1 healing surge
:: Ferocity: When you drop to zero hit points or fewer, you can make a melee basic attack as an immediate interrupt.
:: Heedless Charge: You have a +2 racial bonus to AC against attacks of opportunity you provoke during a charge.
:: Goring Charge: You have the Goring Charge racial power.

Goring Charge
Minotaur Racial Encounter Power
''You charge the enemy and gore it with your horns.''
:: Standard Action
:: Melee 1
:: Effect: You charge and make the following attack in place of a melee basic attack:
:: Target: One Creature
:: Attack: Strength, Constitution or Dexterity +4 (6 at 11th level and 8 at 21st level) vs. AC
:: Hit: 1D6 + Strength, Constitution or Dexterity modifier damage, and you knock the target prone.
* Level 11: 2D6 + Strength, Constitution or Dexterity modifier damage, and you knock the target prone.
* Level 21: 3D6 + Strength, Constitution or Dexterity modifier damage, and you knock the target prone.

====D&D 5e====
The first playable version of a Minotaur in 5e appeared in [[Unearthed Arcana]] for May, 2015. This version was explicitly modeled after the Krynnish version, since WoTC this time realised that with the [[half-orc]], [[warforged]], and [[goliath]] already done, the "big tough bruiser" racial niche is already pretty overcrowded. The 1d10 natural weapon is powerful at low level, but it loses out to magic weapons & feat boosts later on.

Krynnish/Nautical Minotaur:
:: Ability Score Increase. Your Strength score increases by 1.
:: Conqueror’s Virtue. From a young age, you focused on one of the three virtues of strength, cunning, or intellect. Your choice of your Strength, Intelligence, or Wisdom score increases by 1.
:: Age. Minotaurs enter adulthood at around the age of 17 and can live up to 150 years.
:: Alignment. Minotaurs believe in a strict code of honor, and thus tend toward law. They are loyal to the death and make implacable enemies, even as their brutal culture and disdain for weakness push them toward evil.
:: Size. Minotaurs typically stand well over 6 feet tall and weigh an average of 300 pounds. Your size is Medium.
:: Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
:: Horns. You are never unarmed. You are proficient with your horns, which are a melee weapon that deals 1d10 piercing damage. Your horns grant you advantage on all checks made to shove a creature, but not to avoid being shoved yourself.
:: Goring Rush. When you use the Dash action during your turn, you can make a melee attack with your horns as a bonus action.
:: Hammering Horns. When you use the Attack action during your turn to make a melee attack, you can attempt to shove a creature with your horns as a bonus action. You cannot use this shove attempt to knock a creature prone.
:: Labyrinthine Recall. You can perfectly recall any path you have travelled.
:: Sea Reaver. You gain proficiency with navigator’s tools and vehicles (water).
:: Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common.

An alternative ovine-featured minotaur appeared in "Plane Shift: [[Amonkhet]]", but they're only reskinned [[half-orc]]s with a Natural Weapon instead of Darkvision. Not overpowered by any means, and certainly competing for mechanical space with the half-orcs.

Amonkhetian/Sheep-Headed Minotaur:
:: +2 Strength, +1 Constitution
:: Medium
:: Base speed 30 feet
:: Natural Weapon - Horns: You can use your Horns as a natural weapon to make an unarmed strike. A Horn Attack inflicts 1d6 + Str modifier Bludgeoning damage.
:: Menacing: You have Proficiency in Intimidation.
:: Relentless Endurance: When you would be reduced to 0 hit points, but not killed outright, you can choose to be reduced to 1 hit point instead. Once you have used this trait, you must complete a Long Rest before you can use it again.
:: Savage Attacks: When you inflict a Critical Hit with a melee weapon, increase the damage inflicted by a further +1 weapon damage dice result.

And a third 5e Minotaur appeared in May 2018, three years after the original debuted. This one was closer to the "generic" minotaur in concept. It also loses out on the awesome and flavorful Labrynthine Recall in favor of being the "big tough bruiser" the previous UA minotaur was trying not to be, and represents the persistent overvaluation of natural weapons by the design team this edition. Whelp.

Standard Minotaur:
::Ability Score Modifiers: +2 Strength, +1 Constitution
::Size: Medium
::Speed: 30 feet
::Vision: Normal
::Horns: You possess horns, which are a natural weapon that you have proficiency with. When you hit with a horn attack, you inflict 1d6 + Strength modifier Piercing damage.
::Goring Rush: Immediately after you use the Dash action on your turn and move at least as far as your speed, you can make one melee attack with your horns as a bonus action.
::Hammering Horns: Immediately after you hit a creature with a melee attack as part of the Attack action on your turn, you can use your reaction to make a shove attack against that creature. You can only make this shove attack on a creature that is no more than one size larger than you and which is within 5 feet of you. The creature must succeed on a Strength saving throw (DC 8 + your Proficiency bonus + your Strength modifier) or be pushed up to 5 feet away from you.
::Menacing: You have Proficiency in the Intimidation skill.
::Hybrid Nature: You count as being both a Humanoid and a Monstrosity in terms of Creature Type, and thus can be affected by any game effect that specifically targets either of your types.

Finally, the "Official Minotaur" debuted in the Guildmaster's Guide to [[Ravnica]] in November 2018; this is the exact same stats as the UA "Standard Minotaur", but dropping Hybrid Nature and trading Menacing for Imposing Presence (free proficiency in either Intimidation or Persuasion).

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== In Magic: The Gathering ==
Minotaurs are amongst the many, many races of creatures that appear throughout the [[plane]]s of [[Magic: The Gathering]], being native to [[Alara]], [[Amonkhet]], [[Dominaria]], [[Theros]], [[Ravnica]], [[Ulgrotha]], and [[Zendikar]]. Some planes actually have multiple distinct forms or cultures of minotaur, and the race includes ram- and antelope-headed versions as well as the classic bull-headed version.

Amokhet's minotaurs are ovine-featured instead of bovine-featured, and are notorious for being rowdy, boisterous and direct. If one takes "Plane Shift: Amonkhet" as canon, they're actally incredibly short-lived, even given that they live in a world where everybody considers the point of life to be achieving a glorious death and become an undead slave to the God-Pharoah - according to this document, they don't fully mature until the age of 20, but don't live much longer than age 40, which is why they're so driven to squeeze the most out of life. Although they prefer close combat, they're also capable of producing talented spellcasters, favoring fiery magic and buffs, and those few who take up long-ranged weaponry are devastating with their heavy bows and javelins.

In Dominaria, minotaur variants include the spiritual yet warlike clans of the Hurloon Mountains, famous for their practice of singing hymns to honor the fallen on both sides after a battle, the rare (possibly extinct) and super-shaggy minotaurs that roamed the Karplusan Mountains during the Ice Age, the eleven minotaur clans of Mirtiin, the radical and xenophobic minotaurs of Stahaan, who have been known to launch crusades against other races, and the vain, hairless, xenophobic, crystal sword-wielding minotaurs of the Talruum mountains, who are skilled [[wizard|illusionists]] and regard their kinsfolk as very ugly.

Therosian minotaurs are primal, carnivorous savages, little more than beasts stalking the night in search of blood. While they have existed for a while, this is when they started to get a lot of support like tribal effects.

In Ravnica, minotaurs are mostly native to Ordruun, where they serve the Boros Legion and the Wojeks, but they also have been seen fighting for the Izzet Legion.

Ulgrotha is home to both the Anaba, a shamanistic tribe of minotaur mystics, and to the Labyrinth Minotaurs, immortal guardians possibly created by magic.

Finally, Zendikar houses many different tribes of minotaurs, ranging from feral beasts to aggressive and impulsive, yet honorable, civilized tribes, who often practice earth-manipulating magic.

Minotaurs have earned some memetic laughs for the frequency with which they are the targets of various nasty effects in card art:
* [http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/arcana/217 Sympathy for the Minotaur, Part 1]
* [http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/arcana/436 Sympathy for the Minotaur, Part 2]
* [http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/arcana/1274 Sympathy for the Minotaur, Part 3]

This probably started for the same reason [[Star Trek|Worf]] gets beat up all the time: They're big, tough and easy to recognize as big and tough so whatever beats them up must be ''really'' strong. It continues mostly as a tradition.

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== In Warhammer ==
The Minotaurs of [[Warhammer Fantasy]] were a bovine form of beastman, not to be confused with older lore stating that [[Slaanesh|Slaangors]] often mutated to look more bovine. Mindless, bloodthirsty carnivors, a minotaur on the tabletop was a fucking rape train, half-bull half-man killing machine employed by the [[beastmen|chaos furries]]. Their generic characters the Doombull and Grebull are Minotaur characters that is able to do just as fucking rapetastic shit.

Taurox was a named Minotaur character who was favored by [[Khorne]], despite being a beastman, aka the unwanted bastard children of the dark gods, meaning he was epic as shit to be noticed by the higher up. Sadly, he got shot down by Markus Wulfhart.

In AoS, they're back under the [[Games Workshop|more copyrightable name]] "Bullgors". Not much has changed, only instead of them pissing and shitting everywhere in forests in the Old World, it's forests across the realms.

== Other /tg/ Appearances ==
[[Warcraft]] was one of the first settings to give good minotaurs a look, in the form of the tauren, which are basically minotaurs done by way of the "noble savage Native American" stereotype. They eventually gave them an arctic EVIL equivalent as well.

In [[White Wolf]]'s [[Scion]] setting, minotaurs are a race of Demigod-tier mooks spawned when the aforementioned White Bull of Crete emerged from the sea, raped Pasiphae, and then began rampaging all over Crete raping every woman it encountered until Hercules came along and caught the fucking thing - King Minos couldn't stop it because it would have pissed off Poseidon, who sent it to do this pretty much for shits and giggles. All-male themselves, minotaurs have to keep raping human women to keep their numbers up.

In [[Monster Hunter International]] they, or at least one Texas based tribe of them, prefer to be called Bullmen. They are among the few monsters that are both friendly to humans and PUFF exempt thanks to one of their own serving in the Vietnam war. They hold loyalty high enough one volunteers to have his hide made into a leather jacket to continue protecting the person he died protecting. Said jacket is tough enough that it is both bulletproof (though this hasn't been seriously tested) and can survive the wearer turning into a werewolf.

==Monstergirls==
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Alongside [[centaurs]] (their fellow Greeks), minotaurs share the dubious honor of being a race that is alternatively embraced and shunned by fans of both [[monstergirls]] and [[furry]] - though their native form leans much closer to the furry side, monstergirl minotaurs are basically [[musclegirl]]s with huge tits and at least one of several potential minor bovine features - long horns are near-universal, but they may also possess any or all of cow-like ears, a cow-like tail, digitigrade legs, hooves instead of feet, or unusual breasts/nipples (multiple boobs, oversized/multiple nipples, etc). You know, around the 10% mark on the furry meter, a bovine analogue to [[faun]]s. As for why minotaur monstergirls are so common, it's probably because of the connotation between "cow monstergirl" and "fucking huge tits" oppai Oppai OPPAI.

In fact, the presence of Minotaurs in the monstergirl fandom is a little contentious; "[[cowgirl]]s", bovine-featured girls who tend to be hugely busty, often pleasingly curvy or soft in build, and very shy and gentle, are about as prolific in the MG fandom as the [[catgirl]], and considered similarly "entry tier". Many argue that a cowgirl isn't a "real" minotaur MG unless she's also an [[amazon]], or at least a [[musclegirl]], and even then there's arguments about whether she has to have a brazen and forceful personality, matching the traditional violent/warlike depiction of the minotaur-as-monster, or if she can still be (at least in the right circumstances) as sweet and gentle as ordinary cowgirls. So in short, the difference between a cowgirl and a minotaur girl is the same as the difference between a domestic farm cow and an undomesticated aurox.

This divide is referenced in [[Life With Monstergirls]]: whilst their Minotaur "Liminal Race" is supposedly divided into the aggressive "Bullfighting" Minotaur and the more gentle and docile "Milking" Minotaur, the sample minotaur character Cathyl is a Milking type with an extremely aggressive nature who is quick to revert to violence. All minotaur females look like horned women with digitigrade, furry, cow-hooved legs, furry elf-like ears, and a cow's tail. Milking Types have huge tits which steadily swell bigger as they produce the day's milk, growing to painfully swollen and tender proportions far larger than a human head - Cathyl's breasts are bigger than even those of Tio, the [[ogre]] monstergirl who had previously been the must buxom member of the cast. Minotaur men are bull-headed muscular brutes with cow tails and legs, in a standard Japanese "men are more bestial than women" art style. It's unclear if both types of minotaur women are [[musclegirl]]s; Cathyl is a Milking type who is visibly ripped, but she's also a farm-girl who spends a lot of time doing heavy labor. Of course, the same would probably be true of the average Milking type.

===MGE===
[[File:MGE Minotaur.jpg|300px|thumb|right|The MGE's Minotaur stands out from the [[cowgirl]] herd in a few ways.]]
The [[Monster Girl Encyclopedia]] actively embraces the minotaur/cowgirl divide by making them into two separate species; the ox/bull-based minotaur, and the cow-based holstaur. Minotaurs tend to be brazen, crass, forceful and violent in everything they do. If they see a potential partner they like they won't think twice about forcing themselves onto them. Extremely lazy by nature, they are hedonists who are driven by their emotions and live to eat, sleep and have sex. When not doing any of those things, they are usually working off some pent-up fury, which is one of the reasons why they are so ripped. The other reason is probably their love of rough sex, making every one of their constant bouts of lovemaking into a real workout.

Minotaur mamono are notorious for their peculiar trait of flying into a lustful frenzy if exposed to the color red.

Some translations of the name call them the Minotaurus race instead.

For details on their more "dainty" cousins, the Holstaur and the Hakutaku, see the [[Cowgirl]] page.

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File:Buff Minotaur.jpg|Delicious beef.
File:Shy Minotaur.jpg|Stronger than she looks.
File:Quadbreasted Minotaur Warrior.jpg|Some artists apply bovines having four udders in a [[/d/]]ifferent way to cowgirls.
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Asterion Moloc

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[[File:Moloc.JPG|350px|thumb|right|Lord Asterion Moloc, the Chapter Master of the Minotaurs. Not to be confused with [[Bane]].]]
[[File:99590101231 AsterionMolocIvanusEnkomi06.jpg|350px|thumb|right|His Forgeworld Model]]
'''Asterion Moloc''' is the [[Chapter Master]] of the [[Minotaurs]] and one hardass motherfucker.

Lord Asterion Moloc (how he wishes to be called) takes an almost perverse glee in [[/d/|stabbing dudes in the face with the Black Spear]], a weapon that may or may not be based on an [[Adeptus Custodes]] halberd. And instead of having a [[bolter]] strapped to the underside it has a built-in laser to vaporize dudes. Lord Moloc himself is a huge dude riddled with cybernetic augmentation that allows him to ignore even more wounds than he already could with his simmering rage. Despite him often being on the battlefield alongside his [[Terminators]] stabbing dudes in the face, he has a ruthless mind for warfare, siegecraft, logistics and strategy. Lord Moloc's preferred enemy is fellow Space Marines, and he has become frighteningly efficient at fighting them. The large amount of high-end equipment used by the Minotaurs combined with them almost always deploying at full Chapter strength means that the Minotaurs have a good shot at kicking heretic ass, as the [[Lamenters]] and [[Inceptors]] can attest. Because of the full deployment Lord Moloc is always in charge of the Chapter in entirety, meaning that in battle his [[Brother-Captain|captains]] are little more than his seconds.

There seems to be something strange going on with Lord Moloc. During the Orphean War he fought against [[Maynarkh Dynasty‎|Kutlakh the World-Killer]] in a [[Necron]] vessel. Moloc was spaced during the battle when the Imperial Navy blew open the ship he was on. His body was recovered and he was nursed back to health, which is not abnormal for a Space Marine who is merely spaced, but marks at least the seventh time that Lord Moloc was critically injured in battle yet lived to fight another day in five centuries.

Some of the possible explanations for this (barring "Forge World gave him lots of [[plot armor]]", obviously) are as follows:
*He is embedded with a nonsensically [[Colonel_"Iron_Hand"_Straken|large amount of cybernetics]] [[Iron Hands|to the point]] [[Adeptus Mechanicus|where there isn't enough fleshy bits left for him to "die."]]
*He kept himself from dying through sheer force of will, because he's just that much of a spiteful cunt. This is the explanation favored by IA itself.
*His gene-seed was somehow modified to grant him greater regenerative capabilities.
*[[Phoenix Lord|His name and equipment are inherited by the next Chapter Master, possibly alongside his personality through way of engrammatically-enforced memories and personality]].
*He is secretly another [[Perpetual]], in that he literally will come [[Yarrick|back from the dead]] if killed.
*He's a Custodes in disguise (see talk page for the full original theory)

He possibly parallels [[Khorne]] himself, symbolically or otherwise, as his description says his name is a byword for slaughter, he rules over a chapter of raging berserkers that seek out worthy opponents, he comes back after allegedly dying which makes him more an undying concept than an individual (just as Khorne is the undying concept of hate, slaughter, and rage itself), and he's described as spending his off-battle time sitting on his "brazen throne" measuring the drops of blood that his chapter spilt. He is named after the eponymous [[Minotaur]] (a being which Khorne himself appears similar to in some depictions as well).

There is a theory (which the Inquisition keeps deleting) that Moloc is a Custodes due to his great size, strength, durability, survival, and his possible Custodes weaponry. This branches into other things such as a High Lords' Custodes made in secret, a rogue Custodes siding with them over the Emperor, or that he is essentially the Legio Custodes version of a Commissar for the Chapter. Since the Minotaurs seem to have been indoctrinated to serve the High Lords, not the Emperor, the Custodes would definitely want control over that. What better than to have it be led by someone capable of slaughtering the Chapter by himself if necessary? Fear ensures loyalty!

Fun fact: Asterion is the true name of the original [[Minotaur]] from [[Mythology]].
==On the Tabletop==
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| '''Asterion Moloc:''' || 235 || 6 || 5 || 4 || 4 || 4 || 5 || 4 || 10 || 2+/3++
|}

On the battlefield he is incredibly expensive to field: Just as much as [[Lugft Huron]] and just under [[Marneus Calgar|The M.A.C. Daddy's]] point cost. In return you get a beast in Terminator armor with 4 wounds, a Storm Shield, an S6 AP2 weapon that strikes in Initiative order, Frag Grenades and all the goodies you'd expect from a Chapter Master. He also gives his squad Fearless and Frag Grenades through his special rule, meaning that [[Awesome|somehow he wills fragmentation grenades into being through nothing but his sheer]] [[RAGE]], which is something that even the [[Angry Marines]] have to respect. He also has the ability to give the really shitty Minotaur Chapter Tactic an upgrade, giving every model who has it Preferred Enemy (Space Marines) in addition (yes this does mean any and all Loyalist marines, regardless of Codex), which by itself is almost worth taking him considering how many Marines are around now.

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Asterion Moloc is also a grade A++ character hunter able to kill Lysander, Calgar, Draigo, and Mephiston easily, and have a fair crack at Abbadon and the Swarmlord. In other words just about anyone short of a Black Mace Daemon Prince or [[Chapter Master Smashfucker|Smashfucker]] had better get on their knees and start sucking when Moloc start rolling in. Don't think you can win a challenge against him, he will rip off any balls of adamantium you think you have and force feed them to you, and get victory points for doing it. If you're running a Minotaurs army and ''do not'' take Moloc as your Warlord consider yourself an official retard in the eyes of [[/tg/]]. Enclosed in this section is how Asterion Moloc fares against all other named Chapter Masters (or their closest equivalents), since he's basically tailor made to kill them. [https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-US/Asterion-Moloc-and-Ivanus-Enkomi-of-the-Minotaurs His model is also fucking awesome]

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* Asterion Moloc VS Papa Smurf
**Marneus Calgar, wearing the Armour of Antilochus attacks 5 times, hitting 2.5 times, wounding 2.083 times, causing 0.694 wounds after saves.
**Asterion Moloc attacks 4 times, hits 2.333 times, wounds 2.268 times, causing 1.134 wounds after saves.
**Asterion Moloc wins.
**Asterion Moloc starts off strong, dealing nearly twice the damage Papa Smurf can deal back, even though he has fewer attacks. Note that Marneus Calgar could choose Iron Resolve for his warlord trait, in which case he'll get a mutual KO against Moloc thanks to the fact that his fists aren't Unwieldy.

* Asterion Moloc VS Shrike
**Shrike attacks 4 times, hitting 2.2 times (because master-crafted), wounding 1.65 times, causing 0.321 wounds after saves.
**Asterion Moloc attacks 4 times, hits 2.333 times, wounds 2.268 times, causing 1.134 wounds after saves.
**Asterion Moloc wins.
**A bit of an unfair fight, after all Shrike is armed with just an AP3 weapon and he just became a Chapter Master very recently, he hasn't even received a normal Chapter Master's statline yet.

* Asterion Moloc VS Captain Lysander
**Lysander attacks 3 times, hitting 1.875 times (because master-crafted), wounding 1.563 times, causing 0.521 wounds after saves.
**Asterion Moloc attacks 4 times, hits 2.333 times, wounds 2.268 times, causing 0.503 wounds after saves.
**Asterion Moloc wins.
**While not a Chapter Master, Lysander might as well be one as he certainly has the statline and special rules to be one, and puts up the hardest fight yet. Unfortunately the end result comes down to one factor, Lysander has the Unwieldy rule, and Moloc does not, allowing him to kill Lysander just before he dies. Even including Concussive, Lysander just cannot put out enough damage to keep Moloc Concussed throughout the fight (not to mention Moloc isn't concussed in the turn he finishes off Lysander).

* Asterion Moloc VS Pedro Kantor
**Pedro Kantor attacks 4 times, hitting 2 times, wounding 1.666 times, causing 0.555 wounds after saves.
**Asterion Moloc attacks 4 times, hits 2.333 times, wounds 2.268 times, causing 0.756 wounds after saves.
**Asterion Moloc wins.
**Putting out the third toughest fight so far is Pedro thanks to Iron Resolve, unfortunately just like Lysander he loses the damage race.

* Asterion Moloc VS High Marshal Helbrecht
**Helbrecht attacks 4 times, hitting 2.2 times (MC), wounding 1.1 times, causing 0.183 wounds after saves.
**Asterion Moloc attacks 4 times, hits 2.333 times, wounds 2.268 times, causing 1.134 wounds after saves.
**Asterion Moloc wins.
**Rounding off the sons of Dorn, this fight is more of a joke thanks to Helbrecht lacking an AP2 weapon, as such he's crushed just as he normally is whenever he'd up against an opponent wearing terminator armour.

* Asterion Moloc VS Lugft Huron
**Huron attacks 4 times, hitting 2 times, wounding 1.5 times, causing 0.833 wounds after saves (thanks to Ghost Razor).
**Asterion Moloc attacks 4 times, hits 2.333 times, wounds 2.268 times, causing 1.134 wounds after saves.
**Asterion Moloc wins.
**While Huron puts out a very impressive amount of damage, he simply cannot kill Moloc fast enough.

* Asterion Moloc VS Lias Issodon
**Lias attacks 3 times, hitting 1.5 times, wounding 0.75 times, causing 0.125 wounds after saves.
**Asterion Moloc attacks 4 times, hits 3.111 times, wounds 3.025 times, causing 3.025 wounds after saves since Lias has no listed invuln.
**Asterion Moloc wins.
**A complete joke of a fight that's so pathetic it's not even funny, which it should be since Lias is not made for close combat. If Moloc charges and has hatred from a chaplain he can kill Lias in just one round.

* Asterion Moloc VS Tyberos The Red Wake
**Tyberos attacks 5 times, hitting 2.917 times, wounding 2.836 times, causing 0.945 wounds after saves.
**Asterion Moloc attacks 4 times, hits 2.333 times, wounds 2.268 times, causing 1.512 wounds after saves.
**Asterion Moloc wins.
**A combat monster, Tyberos can certainly dish out the hurt, he just can't take it as he's stuck with only a 5+ invuln.

* Asterion Moloc VS Lord High Commander Carab Culln
**Culln attacks 2 times (smashing as AP2 is better than 4 attacks at AP3), hitting 1.167 times, wounding 0.973 times, causing 0.324 wounds after saves.
**Asterion Moloc attacks 4 times, hits 2.333 times, wounds 2.268 times, causing 1.134 wounds after saves.
**Asterion Moloc wins.
**Culln is proud to live, proud to die, and not hard at all to kill in this fight.

* Asterion Moloc VS Malakim Phoros
**Malakim Round 1: Phoros attacks 4 times, hitting 3 times, wounding 2 times, causing 0.333 wounds after saves.
**Malakim Round 2 and on: Phoros attacks 5 times, hitting 2.708 times, wounding 1.805 times, causing 0.301 wounds after saves.
**Asterion Moloc attacks 4 times, hits 2.333 times, wounds 2.268 times, causing 1.134 wounds after saves.
**Asterion Moloc wins.
**Malakim Phoros is another pretty good melee beatstick that is sadly unsuited for this fight thanks to his AP3 power glaive.

* Asterion Moloc VS Commander Dante
**Dante attacks 5 times, hitting 2.708 times, wounding 2.257 times, causing 0.752 wounds after saves.
**Asterion Moloc attacks 4 times, hits 2.333 times, wounds 2.268 times, causing 1.134 wounds after saves.
**Asterion Moloc wins.
**Dante puts up a good fight, and can attempt to close the gap a little with Hit and Run, unfortunately even if he manages to get perfect Hit and Run rolls, and getting the charge every single turn he still cannot cause even 1 wound per turn.

* Asterion Moloc VS Gabriel Seth
**Gabriel attacks 4 times, hitting 2 times, wounding 1.666 times, causing 0.323 wounds after saves.
**Asterion Moloc attacks 4 times, hits 2.333 times, wounds 2.268 times, causing 1.134 wounds after saves.
**Asterion Moloc wins.
**Unfortunately Gabriel Seth would have a hard time dealing with a Captain if they wearing power armour, let alone a Chapter Master in terminator armour thanks to his AP4 weapon.

* Asterion Moloc VS Kaldor Draigo
**Draigo attacks 4 times, hitting 2.2 times, wounding 1.833 times, causing 0.611 wounds after saves.
**Asterion Moloc attacks 4 times, hits 2.333 times, wounds 2.268 times, causing 0.756 wounds after saves.
**Asterion Moloc wins.
**While certainly an impressive fighter and very resilient, Draigo loses the damage race, dying one turn before he can kill Moloc.

*[[TL;DR]]: Moloc's built for wiping out Space Marines, and it's a job he does very well despite not having that impressive of a statline (it's the same as the generic Chapter Master), outdamaging everyone except Lysander, who he still manages to beat since he strikes first. The closest match in the entire list is Marneus Calgar, since Calgar can give himself Iron Resolve, in which case the fight ends in a draw.
**Note, Mephiston isn't included in this list both because he's not a Chapter Master and because he has no listed invuln, which means he'll be dead within two turns.
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===8th Edition===
Lord Moloc is still a beast in 8th Edition. A beefy statline paired with the altered Black Spear (S+2 AP-3 D3, +1 Attack against characters) means that while he's less likely to cause individual wounds, once he hits something it STAYS hit. The Black Spear's shooting attack is now a 12" S8 AP-2 Dd3 trick that he can use as a regular attack, so make sure to get some zaps in. He also has some new auras: he gets the standard [[Chapter Master]] aura where all units (not just infantry) within 6" of him get to re-roll failed to hit rolls (this includes himself) and Minotaurs Infantry units get to re-roll failed Charge rolls (so the guy is fast as well), Moloc himself gets to make his attacks when he's slain in combat in case he dies before attacking and on top of all that he can teleport in like a a regular Terminator as well. All in all Moloc is less the death machine on legs that he used to be, but he still has a good shot at murdering dead anyone who gets in his way.

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Minotaur

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:''No relation to the [[Space Marine]] [[Chapter]] called the [[Minotaurs]], who have several references to the mythological creature.''

A '''minotaur''' is a half-[[human|man]], half-bull, taking the form of a humanoid figure - originally purely human, but adding any combination of fur, a tail and digitigrade hooved legs became popular somewhere around the 80s - with a bull's head. Though at least one artist drew the minotaur as a messed up centaur, with a human head on a hulking bull.

This creature originates in Greek mythology, much like its fellow [[Medusa]]. Also like Medusa, "the Minotaur" was the name of a unique individual abomination rather than a species. ''Still'' also like Medusa, its origin story is pretty weird and fucked up, even by the standards of Greek mythology. The first minotaur, whose true name was actually Asterion or Asterius though was usually just called The Minotaur meaning "The Bull of Minos", was born to Pasiphae, the wife of a king of Crete named Minos. Minos was supposed to sacrifice a white bull to the god Poseidon, but he refused because he took a liking to the majestic creature. As punishment, Poseidon made Pasiphae like the bull even more, so much so that she had a giant hollow statue constructed where [[FATAL|she could consummate her feelings for the bull]]. After the minotaur was born, Minos was understandably livid that his wife cheated on him with an animal, so the hybrid was kept in a labyrinth so that ordinary people wouldn't have to look at it.

This might seem like a pretty raw deal for the minotaur, but on the other hand the Cretans forced the Athenians to send virgins for the monster's meals, because apparently omnivore + herbivore = obligate carnivore: once every seven years (or just every year, depending on the source) seven of the bravest youths and seven of the fairest maidens would be the minotaur's munchies. This would mean that the Minotaur would be able to survive off of one teenager for six months, meaning that either the rest would keep wandering around for up to six and a half years (aside from the question of how ''they'' didn't starve to death) or it would eat them all in one sitting and digest them over the course of several years like the [[Star Wars|Sarlacc Pit Monster]]. When it was time for the third serving of Soylent Happy Meals, a bloke named Theseus came along and objected to this man-eating. He took the place of one of the youths (meaning that he must've been one hell of a bishie), sailed to Crete (where he fell in love with a local princess, but that's a tale for another time) and set up a rope that he could follow back. He found the center of the maze by constantly going straight ahead and never going left or right and encountered the sleeping minotaur. Depending on the source he either stabbed it in the throat or [[Awesome|strangled it with his bare hands]], after which he walked out unmolested by the Creteans, who didn't stop him because they were too busy scratching their heads wondering why they didn't try that before.

As a result of this story, minotaurs are associated with labyrinths and mazes of all kinds. In [[AD&D]] minotaurs are immune to the Maze spell, which is odd given that the labyrinth was intended to keep the original thing in to begin with. In [[Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition]] they enjoy puzzles and feel at home in twisting, turning passages. Whenever minotaurs build towns or cities, the roads are always arranged in the most confusing way possible. To the locals, this makes perfect sense. To adventurers, it's a fucking pain. To [[GM]]s, it's an easy way to take up an hour or two of the party's time after they breeze through your perfectly designed challenge in 5 minutes and you have nothing left this session.

An interesting way to play with this trope might be to have a Minotaur philosopher character, who [[Tzeentch|makes heavy use of labyrinthian logic full of twists and turns and who jumps through many a hoop to reach his conclusion. One could also have a minotaur character be the center of such a labyrinthian ''plot'' ]].

==Dungeons & Dragons==
Minotaurs in [[Dungeons & Dragons]] traditionally worship [[Baphomet]], Demon Prince of Beasts, which makes them bitter enemies of the [[Gnoll]] race, due to the rivalry between Baphomet and [[Yeenoghu]].

4e was also the first edition to make minotaurs a mainstream playable race, rather than monsters - they had first been given a playable write up in [[Dragonlance]]. In [[Points of Light]], Minotaurs were originally ruled over by Baphomet, the Horned King. After the Dawn War ended, he was cast into the Abyss and [[Erathis]], the goddess of civilisation, called dibs on the minotaurs. This went well for a short while, until [[Cultist-Chan|cultists]] of Baphomet corrupted the city, and [[Melora]] had to kill them with fire. Individual minotaurs struggle with the insane beasts that rages in the maze within their heads. If they succumb to this madness, they often fall into thralldom to Baphomet. If they were to overcome this insanity, or keep it at bay their entire lives, minotaurs can be civilised creatures, though often preferring to live on the edge of society.

In [[Dragonlance]], it's noted that minotaurs actually have two-toed but otherwise human-like feet, with hooves being restricted to corrupted throwback-mutants. They're also famous for being even more Greco-Roman inspired than minotaurs usually are, having a highly disciplined, warlike culture based on a strong army and martial honor, gladiatorial games being super-important (even how they select their emperors!), and being expert sailors. So much so that 5e made minotaurs playable by using the Krynn variant as inspiration and releasing it in the Waterborne Adventures web-enhancement [http://media.wizards.com/2015/downloads/dnd/UA_Waterborne_v3.pdf here]

===D&D Racial Stats===
Playable minotaurs have never received a lot of attention, but they have appeared here and there throughout the editions.

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====AD&D====
Playable minotaurs appeared twice in [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]]. The first time, for AD&D 1e, was in [[Dragon Magazine]] #116. They were then present in the 2nd edition sourcebook [[The Complete Book of]] Humanoids. The Savage Coast of [[Mystara]] sourcebooks for 2e also provided stats for the [[Enduk]], a race of winged minotaurs native to that gonzo-fantasy world.

====Dragonlance====
Minotaurs have ''long'' had a prominent place in [[Dragonlance]]. In fact, if you don't count [[Tinker Gnome]]s and [[Kender]] (which most people prefer not to, seeing as how they're more annoying setting-specific versions of [[gnome]]s and [[halfling]]s), minotaurs were one of the two ''new'' PC races introduced in "Dragonlance Adventures", the first ever sourcebook for the setting in [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]] 1st edition. This is a position they share with the [[Irda]].

Minotaurs in this setting are basically Greco-Klingons, combining a brutal warrior culture with codes of honor and scholarship. Their society is built on Three Virtues, Strength, Cunning, and Learning, and they're famed navigators and pirates. They tend towards Lawful Evil rather than chaos.

In the 3.5 Sourcebook "Races of Ansalon", Minotaurs got a chapter all to themselves. Their stats are as follows:

:: +4 Strength, –2 Dexterity, –2 Intelligence, –2 Charisma. Minotaurs are large and powerful, but not very agile. From youth, minotaurs focus on developing their muscle over their minds. Minotaur arrogance can be offensive to other races.
:: Medium: As Medium creatures, minotaurs have no special bonuses or penalties.
:: A minotaur’s base land speed is 30 feet.
:: +2 natural armor bonus.
:: Gore: A minotaur may use his horns as natural weapons to make a gore attack, dealing 1d6 points of damage plus the minotaur’s Strength modifier. If the minotaur charges, his gore attack deals 2d6 points of damage, plus 1 ½ times his Strength modifier. A minotaur can attack with a weapon at his normal attack bonus and make a gore attack as a secondary attack (–5 penalty on the attack roll and half Strength bonus on the damage roll).
:: +2 racial bonus on Intimidate, Swim, and Use Rope checks. Minotaurs are familiar with the sea and naturally adept at skills useful among seafarers.
:: Minotaurs may take the scent special quality as a feat. (See the Monster Manual.)
:: Automatic Languages: Common, Kothian. Bonus Languages: Kalinese, Nordmaarian, Ogre, Saifhum.
:: [[Favored Class]]: [[Fighter]].

====3e====
3rd Edition featured two extremely different versions of playable minotaurs. The first version, appearing in the [[Monster Manual]], was quite a beast, with 6 hit dice and a +2 level adjustment, meaning that minotaur player characters had to start at ECL 9. The full statblock, as printed in the 3.5e Monster Manual, is as follows:

:: +8 Strength, +4 Constitution, –4 Intelligence, –2 Charisma.
:: Large size.
:: Space/Reach: 10 feet/10 feet.
:: A minotaur’s base land speed is 30 feet.
:: Darkvision out to 60 feet.
:: Racial Hit Dice: A minotaur begins with six levels of monstrous humanoid, which provide 6d8 Hit Dice, a base attack bonus of +6, and base saving throw bonuses of Fort +2, Ref +5, and Will +5.
:: Racial Skills: A minotaur’s monstrous humanoid levels give it skill points equal to 9 × (2 + Int modifier, minimum 1). Its class skills are Intimidate, Jump, Listen, Search, and Spot. Minotaurs have a +4 racial bonus on Search, Spot, and Listen checks.
:: Weapon Proficiency: A minotaur is proficient with the greataxe and all simple weapons.
:: +5 natural armor bonus.
:: Natural Weapons: Gore (1d8).
:: Special Attacks: Powerful charge.
:: Special Qualities): Natural cunning, scent.
:: Automatic Languages: Common, Giant. Bonus Languages: Orc, Goblin, Terran.
:: Favored Class: Barbarian.
:: Level adjustment +2.

A few months after the launch of 3.5e, the Draglonlance Campaign Setting was updated for Third Edition rules, and it featured a severely nerfed form of Minotaur that players could play at level one. Its full stat block is as follows:

:: +4 strength, -2 dexterity, -2 intelligence, -2 charisma
:: Medium size
:: Base land speed 30 feet
:: Natural armor +2
:: a gore attack for 1d6 + str modifier
:: a charge + gore attack for damage equal to 2d6 plus 1.5x str
:: +2 to intimidate, Swim, and Use Rope checks
:: can take Scent as a feat
:: Automatic languages: Common and Kothian. Bonus languages: Kalinese, Nordmaarian, Ogre, and Saifhum
:: Favored class: Fighter

====Pathfinder====
Like most OGL monsters from 3E, Minotaur's only changes in [[Pathfinder]] are system wide (which means no LA so they can't be playable). In [[Golarion]] minotaurs are, in addition to a true breeding race, a result of a curse on human parents by [[Lamashtu]]. This means any organization in or near human lands could have a Minotaur around as some muscle.

Dreamscarred Press, in love with [[Psionics|old]] [[Incarnum|often weird]] [[Book of Nine Swords|subsystems]] (they even toyed around with making [[Truenamer]] not shit!), created their own version of the Monster Classes introduced in Savage Species (and used by the World of Warcraft RPG mentioned above). Naturally one of the monster classes they made was the Minotaur. Minotaur is one of the simplest monster classes, having all the abilities of the "real" minotaur at the same strength across the same number of hit die and just being a grandular progression from level 1. They are great melee brutes, but with one obvious flaw: They aren't proficient with armor. They either need to dip into some class or stick to 0 ACP armor like (masterwork studded) leather. They do however get the ability to pick an awesome minotaur only feat at 15th level called Labyrinth Lord: It's simultaneously a maze SLA, a way to force enemies into one on one combat, an infinite size portable hole and a Mordenkainen’s Magnificent Mansion.

====World of Warcraft: The Roleplaying Game====
Tauren, the aforementioned Good Guy Minotaurs, appeared in the original [[Warcraft]] D20 RPG, but were re-written with a much better format (including dumping the racial level adjustment) in the [[World of Warcraft]] re-release. They were there from the corebook, and they had these stats:
:: +2 Strength, -2 Agility (Dexterity)
:: Medium
:: Base land speed 30 feet
:: Natural Weapon (Ex): Taurens have a set of horns that function as a natural weapon that deals 1D8+ Str bonus damage. Tauren are automatically proficient in the use of their horns.
:: Weapon Familiarity: Tauren Halberds and Tauren Totems are Martial weapons rather than Exotic for Tauren.
:: Weapon Proficiency: Longspear and Shortspear
:: +2 Racial bonus on Handle Animal and Survival checks. Handle Animal and Survival are always class skills for Tauren.
:: Racial Class: Tauren
:: Favored Class: Warrior

Tauren Racial Class
:: Hit Die: D10
:: Skill Points (1st level): (2 + Int modifier) x 4
:: Skill Points (else): 2 + Int modifier
:: "Class" Skills: Climb, Concentration, Handle Animal, Listen, Sense Motive, Spellcraft, Spot, Survival.
:: Weapon & Armor Proficiency: Simple Weapons, exluding Crossbows, and Light Armor
:: Level 1: BAB +0, Fort Save +2, Ref Save +0, Will Save +2,+1 Strength, Tauren Charge (when charging, a tauren may use their horns instead of a melee weapon; this lets the tauren inflict a Gore attack that does horn damage + 1 1/2 times the tauren's Strength modifier in addition to the normal benefits)
:: Level 2: BAB +1, Fort Save +2, Ref Save +0, Will Save +2, +2 Spirit (Wisdom), +4 racial bonus on saves vs. fear, Tauren Weapon Proficiency (gain proficiency in either Tauren Halberd or Tauren Totem)
:: Level 3: BAB +2, Fort Save +3, Ref Save +1, Will Save +3,+1 Strength, Improved Tauren Charge (tauren is considered Large size for charging and bull rushing, +4 racial bonus on Strength checks for bull rush effects), Tauren Weapon Proficiency (gain proficiency in either Tauren Halberd or Tauren Totem)

====D&D 4e====
The sad proof that, for all 4e's efforts at trying to undo the pigeonholing effect of race from editions past, it hadn't quite gotten past it yet. Not a mechanically ''bad'' race, few 4e races were, but so heavily optimised for close-quarter combat that there was little encouragement besides fluff to be anything other than a melee brute.

:: Ability Scores: +2 Strength, +2 Constitution OR +2 Wisdom
:: Size: Medium
:: Speed: 6 squares
:: Vision: Normal
:: Skill Bonuses: +2 Nature, +2 Perception
:: Vitality: +1 healing surge
:: Ferocity: When you drop to zero hit points or fewer, you can make a melee basic attack as an immediate interrupt.
:: Heedless Charge: You have a +2 racial bonus to AC against attacks of opportunity you provoke during a charge.
:: Goring Charge: You have the Goring Charge racial power.

Goring Charge
Minotaur Racial Encounter Power
''You charge the enemy and gore it with your horns.''
:: Standard Action
:: Melee 1
:: Effect: You charge and make the following attack in place of a melee basic attack:
:: Target: One Creature
:: Attack: Strength, Constitution or Dexterity +4 (6 at 11th level and 8 at 21st level) vs. AC
:: Hit: 1D6 + Strength, Constitution or Dexterity modifier damage, and you knock the target prone.
* Level 11: 2D6 + Strength, Constitution or Dexterity modifier damage, and you knock the target prone.
* Level 21: 3D6 + Strength, Constitution or Dexterity modifier damage, and you knock the target prone.

====D&D 5e====
The first playable version of a Minotaur in 5e appeared in [[Unearthed Arcana]] for May, 2015. This version was explicitly modeled after the Krynnish version, since WoTC this time realised that with the [[half-orc]], [[warforged]], and [[goliath]] already done, the "big tough bruiser" racial niche is already pretty overcrowded. The 1d10 natural weapon is powerful at low level, but it loses out to magic weapons & feat boosts later on.

Krynnish/Nautical Minotaur:
:: Ability Score Increase. Your Strength score increases by 1.
:: Conqueror’s Virtue. From a young age, you focused on one of the three virtues of strength, cunning, or intellect. Your choice of your Strength, Intelligence, or Wisdom score increases by 1.
:: Age. Minotaurs enter adulthood at around the age of 17 and can live up to 150 years.
:: Alignment. Minotaurs believe in a strict code of honor, and thus tend toward law. They are loyal to the death and make implacable enemies, even as their brutal culture and disdain for weakness push them toward evil.
:: Size. Minotaurs typically stand well over 6 feet tall and weigh an average of 300 pounds. Your size is Medium.
:: Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
:: Horns. You are never unarmed. You are proficient with your horns, which are a melee weapon that deals 1d10 piercing damage. Your horns grant you advantage on all checks made to shove a creature, but not to avoid being shoved yourself.
:: Goring Rush. When you use the Dash action during your turn, you can make a melee attack with your horns as a bonus action.
:: Hammering Horns. When you use the Attack action during your turn to make a melee attack, you can attempt to shove a creature with your horns as a bonus action. You cannot use this shove attempt to knock a creature prone.
:: Labyrinthine Recall. You can perfectly recall any path you have travelled.
:: Sea Reaver. You gain proficiency with navigator’s tools and vehicles (water).
:: Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common.

An alternative ovine-featured minotaur appeared in "Plane Shift: [[Amonkhet]]", but they're only reskinned [[half-orc]]s with a Natural Weapon instead of Darkvision. Not overpowered by any means, and certainly competing for mechanical space with the half-orcs.

Amonkhetian/Sheep-Headed Minotaur:
:: +2 Strength, +1 Constitution
:: Medium
:: Base speed 30 feet
:: Natural Weapon - Horns: You can use your Horns as a natural weapon to make an unarmed strike. A Horn Attack inflicts 1d6 + Str modifier Bludgeoning damage.
:: Menacing: You have Proficiency in Intimidation.
:: Relentless Endurance: When you would be reduced to 0 hit points, but not killed outright, you can choose to be reduced to 1 hit point instead. Once you have used this trait, you must complete a Long Rest before you can use it again.
:: Savage Attacks: When you inflict a Critical Hit with a melee weapon, increase the damage inflicted by a further +1 weapon damage dice result.

And a third 5e Minotaur appeared in May 2018, three years after the original debuted. This one was closer to the "generic" minotaur in concept. It also loses out on the awesome and flavorful Labrynthine Recall in favor of being the "big tough bruiser" the previous UA minotaur was trying not to be, and represents the persistent overvaluation of natural weapons by the design team this edition. Whelp.

Standard Minotaur:
::Ability Score Modifiers: +2 Strength, +1 Constitution
::Size: Medium
::Speed: 30 feet
::Vision: Normal
::Horns: You possess horns, which are a natural weapon that you have proficiency with. When you hit with a horn attack, you inflict 1d6 + Strength modifier Piercing damage.
::Goring Rush: Immediately after you use the Dash action on your turn and move at least as far as your speed, you can make one melee attack with your horns as a bonus action.
::Hammering Horns: Immediately after you hit a creature with a melee attack as part of the Attack action on your turn, you can use your reaction to make a shove attack against that creature. You can only make this shove attack on a creature that is no more than one size larger than you and which is within 5 feet of you. The creature must succeed on a Strength saving throw (DC 8 + your Proficiency bonus + your Strength modifier) or be pushed up to 5 feet away from you.
::Menacing: You have Proficiency in the Intimidation skill.
::Hybrid Nature: You count as being both a Humanoid and a Monstrosity in terms of Creature Type, and thus can be affected by any game effect that specifically targets either of your types.

Finally, the "Official Minotaur" debuted in the Guildmaster's Guide to [[Ravnica]] in November 2018; this is the exact same stats as the UA "Standard Minotaur", but dropping Hybrid Nature and trading Menacing for Imposing Presence (free proficiency in either Intimidation or Persuasion).

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== In Magic: The Gathering ==
Minotaurs are amongst the many, many races of creatures that appear throughout the [[plane]]s of [[Magic: The Gathering]], being native to [[Alara]], [[Amonkhet]], [[Dominaria]], [[Theros]], [[Ravnica]], [[Ulgrotha]], and [[Zendikar]]. Some planes actually have multiple distinct forms or cultures of minotaur, and the race includes ram- and antelope-headed versions as well as the classic bull-headed version.

Amokhet's minotaurs are ovine-featured instead of bovine-featured, and are notorious for being rowdy, boisterous and direct. If one takes "Plane Shift: Amonkhet" as canon, they're actally incredibly short-lived, even given that they live in a world where everybody considers the point of life to be achieving a glorious death and become an undead slave to the God-Pharoah - according to this document, they don't fully mature until the age of 20, but don't live much longer than age 40, which is why they're so driven to squeeze the most out of life. Although they prefer close combat, they're also capable of producing talented spellcasters, favoring fiery magic and buffs, and those few who take up long-ranged weaponry are devastating with their heavy bows and javelins.

In Dominaria, minotaur variants include the spiritual yet warlike clans of the Hurloon Mountains, famous for their practice of singing hymns to honor the fallen on both sides after a battle, the rare (possibly extinct) and super-shaggy minotaurs that roamed the Karplusan Mountains during the Ice Age, the eleven minotaur clans of Mirtiin, the radical and xenophobic minotaurs of Stahaan, who have been known to launch crusades against other races, and the vain, hairless, xenophobic, crystal sword-wielding minotaurs of the Talruum mountains, who are skilled [[wizard|illusionists]] and regard their kinsfolk as very ugly.

Therosian minotaurs are primal, carnivorous savages, little more than beasts stalking the night in search of blood. While they have existed for a while, this is when they started to get a lot of support like tribal effects.

In Ravnica, minotaurs are mostly native to Ordruun, where they serve the Boros Legion and the Wojeks, but they also have been seen fighting for the Izzet Legion.

Ulgrotha is home to both the Anaba, a shamanistic tribe of minotaur mystics, and to the Labyrinth Minotaurs, immortal guardians possibly created by magic.

Finally, Zendikar houses many different tribes of minotaurs, ranging from feral beasts to aggressive and impulsive, yet honorable, civilized tribes, who often practice earth-manipulating magic.

Minotaurs have earned some memetic laughs for the frequency with which they are the targets of various nasty effects in card art:
* [http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/arcana/217 Sympathy for the Minotaur, Part 1]
* [http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/arcana/436 Sympathy for the Minotaur, Part 2]
* [http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/arcana/1274 Sympathy for the Minotaur, Part 3]

This probably started for the same reason [[Star Trek|Worf]] gets beat up all the time: They're big, tough and easy to recognize as big and tough so whatever beats them up must be ''really'' strong. It continues mostly as a tradition.

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== In Warhammer ==
The Minotaurs of [[Warhammer Fantasy]] were a bovine form of beastman, not to be confused with older lore stating that [[Slaanesh|Slaangors]] often mutated to look more bovine. Mindless, bloodthirsty carnivors, a minotaur on the tabletop was a fucking rape train, half-bull half-man killing machine employed by the [[beastmen|chaos furries]]. Their generic characters the Doombull and Grebull are Minotaur characters that is able to do just as fucking rapetastic shit.

Taurox was a named Minotaur character who was favored by [[Khorne]], despite being a beastman, aka the unwanted bastard children of the dark gods, meaning he was epic as shit to be noticed by the higher up. Sadly, he got shot down by Markus Wulfhart.

In AoS, they're back under the [[Games Workshop|more copyrightable name]] "Bullgors". Not much has changed, only instead of them pissing and shitting everywhere in forests in the Old World, it's forests across the realms.

== Other /tg/ Appearances ==
[[Warcraft]] was one of the first settings to give good minotaurs a look, in the form of the tauren, which are basically minotaurs done by way of the "noble savage Native American" stereotype. They eventually gave them an arctic EVIL equivalent as well.

In [[White Wolf]]'s [[Scion]] setting, minotaurs are a race of Demigod-tier mooks spawned when the aforementioned White Bull of Crete emerged from the sea, raped Pasiphae, and then began rampaging all over Crete raping every woman it encountered until Hercules came along and caught the fucking thing - King Minos couldn't stop it because it would have pissed off Poseidon, who sent it to do this pretty much for shits and giggles. All-male themselves, minotaurs have to keep raping human women to keep their numbers up.

In [[Monster Hunter International]] they, or at least one Texas based tribe of them, prefer to be called Bullmen. They are among the few monsters that are both friendly to humans and PUFF exempt thanks to one of their own serving in the Vietnam war. They hold loyalty high enough one volunteers to have his hide made into a leather jacket to continue protecting the person he died protecting. Said jacket is tough enough that it is both bulletproof (though this hasn't been seriously tested) and can survive the wearer turning into a werewolf.

==Monstergirls==
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Alongside [[centaurs]] (their fellow Greeks), minotaurs share the dubious honor of being a race that is alternatively embraced and shunned by fans of both [[monstergirls]] and [[furry]] - though their native form leans much closer to the furry side, monstergirl minotaurs are basically [[musclegirl]]s with huge tits and at least one of several potential minor bovine features - long horns are near-universal, but they may also possess any or all of cow-like ears, a cow-like tail, digitigrade legs, hooves instead of feet, or unusual breasts/nipples (multiple boobs, oversized/multiple nipples, etc). You know, around the 10% mark on the furry meter, a bovine analogue to [[faun]]s. As for why minotaur monstergirls are so common, it's probably because of the connotation between "cow monstergirl" and "fucking huge tits" oppai Oppai OPPAI.

In fact, the presence of Minotaurs in the monstergirl fandom is a little contentious; "[[cowgirl]]s", bovine-featured girls who tend to be hugely busty, often pleasingly curvy or soft in build, and very shy and gentle, are about as prolific in the MG fandom as the [[catgirl]], and considered similarly "entry tier". Many argue that a cowgirl isn't a "real" minotaur MG unless she's also an [[amazon]], or at least a [[musclegirl]], and even then there's arguments about whether she has to have a brazen and forceful personality, matching the traditional violent/warlike depiction of the minotaur-as-monster, or if she can still be (at least in the right circumstances) as sweet and gentle as ordinary cowgirls. So in short, the difference between a cowgirl and a minotaur girl is the same as the difference between a domestic farm cow and an undomesticated aurox.

This divide is referenced in [[Life With Monstergirls]]: whilst their Minotaur "Liminal Race" is supposedly divided into the aggressive "Bullfighting" Minotaur and the more gentle and docile "Milking" Minotaur, the sample minotaur character Cathyl is a Milking type with an extremely aggressive nature who is quick to revert to violence. All minotaur females look like horned women with digitigrade, furry, cow-hooved legs, furry elf-like ears, and a cow's tail. Milking Types have huge tits which steadily swell bigger as they produce the day's milk, growing to painfully swollen and tender proportions far larger than a human head - Cathyl's breasts are bigger than even those of Tio, the [[ogre]] monstergirl who had previously been the must buxom member of the cast. Minotaur men are bull-headed muscular brutes with cow tails and legs, in a standard Japanese "men are more bestial than women" art style. It's unclear if both types of minotaur women are [[musclegirl]]s; Cathyl is a Milking type who is visibly ripped, but she's also a farm-girl who spends a lot of time doing heavy labor. Of course, the same would probably be true of the average Milking type.

===MGE===
[[File:MGE Minotaur.jpg|300px|thumb|right|The MGE's Minotaur stands out from the [[cowgirl]] herd in a few ways.]]
The [[Monster Girl Encyclopedia]] actively embraces the minotaur/cowgirl divide by making them into two separate species; the ox/bull-based minotaur, and the cow-based holstaur. Minotaurs tend to be brazen, crass, forceful and violent in everything they do. If they see a potential partner they like they won't think twice about forcing themselves onto them. Extremely lazy by nature, they are hedonists who are driven by their emotions and live to eat, sleep and have sex. When not doing any of those things, they are usually working off some pent-up fury, which is one of the reasons why they are so ripped. The other reason is probably their love of rough sex, making every one of their constant bouts of lovemaking into a real workout.

Minotaur mamono are notorious for their peculiar trait of flying into a lustful frenzy if exposed to the color red.

Some translations of the name call them the Minotaurus race instead.

For details on their more "dainty" cousins, the Holstaur and the Hakutaku, see the [[Cowgirl]] page.

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File:Buff Minotaur.jpg|Delicious beef.
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Sergal

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{{Topquote|How to draw a Sergal: Step 1: Draw a wedge of cheese. Step 2: Add details.|[[Meme]]}}
For the Vilous Wiki, the entire Wiki about Sergals and the world setting they come from, see the link at the bottom of the page. Strangely enough for a wiki about all things /tg/, this article is mostly about sergals on /tg/.

Sergals are a very strange species made by a very strange Japanese furry named Trancy Mick (or "Mick39" these days). She gave them a number of nonstandard biological features, including huge ripping "molars" like shark teeth, a pointed, angled snout, breastless females, a raptor-like posture.

Sergals enjoy murder, violence, cannibalism, invoking fear in their enemies. The most popular Sergal is General Rain Silves, recognized by her yellow eyes marked with streaks of blood. She eats babies. More recent art of Rain has showed a spiraling descent into madness, drunk with her increasingly powerful and extreme [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(film) shape-shifting abilities.]At this rate, she'll ascend into godhood, like the Lovecraft version of Hercules.

Sergals are a contentious subject, with the furry crowd clamoring for them and the majority of /tg/ doing their utmost to flame them away.

Most of the 'legitimate' Sergal-statting threads have been made and have discussed everything there is to discuss, and the same few anons that made their stats and pages are now working on a [[The Unified Setting for /tg/|Unified Setting]] for /tg/ that is basically a fantasy setting containing a lot of /tg/'s original content as well as helping other races get statted and/or helping fledgeling projects and otherwise [[/tg/ gets shit done|getting shit done]] for /tg/.

Sergals have been statted for D&D 4e, D&D 3.5e, ''GURPS'', and ''Dark Heresy''. Sort-of-recent examples of some of these can be found on this page somewhere maybe. A [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=97516.0 mod] created for [[Dwarf Fortress|Dorf Fort]] has been made available that includes them into the game.

The most well-known Sergal on /tg/ apart from Rain is John, the female sergal from [[Joan's Not Entirely Ideal Life|Joanquest]].

<s>TL;DR: the only furry creature that doesn't suck furred nuts.</s> {{BLAM}} {{BLAM|Heresy! Do not suffer the furry to live even if they don't suck my furred sergal nuts!}}

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Image:MUCKING_ABOUT.png|John is MUCKING ABOUT!
Image:Sergal_Commissar_(1).jpg|The Irony...
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Image:Sergal_(23).jpg|My halfplate brings all the smiths to the yard.
Image:Sergal_(2).png|Nothing like a nice, refreshing bloodbath.
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Image:Rain hat.jpg|My hat is an Arwing. Your argument is invalid.
Image:Sergal_Commissar_(2).jpg|Sup /tg/
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Image:Sergal_(14).jpg|Rain used to just change size before changing shape.
Image:Sergal_(16).jpg|Say what you like, but their armor is bitchin'
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===See Also===
[[Setting:Unified_Setting/Sergal|Sergals in the Unified Setting]]

==External Links==
*[http://pastebin.com/f41f31d35 Recent version of the creator's story of Vilous.]
*[http://goldring.wikia.com/wiki/Vilous_Wiki The entire Wiki based on Sergals and their world setting, straight from the mouth of their creator.]

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