Wednesday, February 24, 2021

D6x7 Misanthropic Minotaurs

Don’t have a cow, man:


Table generator here: meanderingbanter.blogspot.com/2018/10/automatic-list-to-html-translator-v2.html

D6This minotaur has the head of
1an auroch. It’s big even for a minotaur (increase HD by 2).
2a highland cow, with shaggy hair obscuring its eyes (takes half damage from cold).
3a zebu, with a dewlap dangling from its neck.
4an Ankhole-Watusi, with ludicrously long horns (increase the damage its horn attack deals by one size up, e.g. from 1d6 to 1d8).
5a wagyu. Its delectable beef could be worth a fortune if you can keep it fresh.
6a buffalo.
D6Its body is marked by
1bulging thews and throbbing veins.
2brands and scourge-scars.
3steel manacles dragging chains.
4sores weeping like mourners.
5soft and mottled skin like fine vellum.
6tattoos of bullfighting scenes.
D6Its origin is
1an agriculturally-inclined wizard’s experiment to create cattle that could herd themselves.
2as the blessed honour guard of a bovine demigod.
3a cruel butcher possessed by the agonized spirits of their abattoir.
4a thief that stole a sacred calf meant to be sacrificed to the gods, and was cursed to take its place.
5that it’s a refugee from an alien labyrinth-moon that passed by the planet.
6a matador who so perfected their art that they merged with the bull they were fighting.
D6It wields
1a labrys.
2a pitchfork.
3nothing but its fists, horns, and hooves.
4the spikes welded to its horns.
5a scythe.
6a threshing flail.
D6Its maze
1is walled with sunbleached coral, floored with brine, left behind by the retreat of a shallow sea.
2is made up of thorny hedges decorated with animal-shaped topiaries.
3occupies a mind-bending rift that warps and wefts through the fourth dimension.
4is a funhouse full of mirrors and optical illusions.
5winds through the pipes and catwalks of an ancient industrial facility with an ambiguous and atrocious purpose.
6mimics the folds of the brain.
D6Its maze also holds
1the treasures and remains of a mystery cult which once used the maze for initiations.
2a bundle of meticulously folded non-Euclidean space that could serve as the seed of a pocket dimension.
3a herd of divine cattle.
4the bones of a slain hero who failed to defeat the minotaur. The collected bones could be used to summon the hero into service.
5an animate ball of threat that can be commanded to rapidly weave itself into various forms.
6a paired white egg and black egg. Whoever shatters the white egg immediately ‘hatches’ from the black egg, and vice-versa.
D6Within its maze this minotaur can
1rearrange the walls.
2detect the exact position of everyone and everything in it.
3respawn itself if killed by anyone who hasn’t solved the maze to the end.
4call up a thick, near-viscous fog.
5alter the direction of gravity to point towards any wall, ceiling, or floor.
6afflict others with hallucinations of itself.

2 comments:

  1. Now this I like. Livestock breeds are a good variation to apply to monsters (Shetland pony centaurs? Manx Loaghtan sheep-folk?)

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