The tauren race featured below, is inspired by World of Warcraft. The herdfolk subtype chosen for this race, is an attempt to limit the sprawl of having too many humanoid subtypes.
Tauren Racial Traits
+4 Strength, –2 Dexterity, –2 Intelligence: Tauren are exceptionally strong, but lack physical agility and intellectual focus. (2 RP)
Humanoid (Herdfolk): Tauren are humanoids with the herdfolk subtype.
Medium: Tauren are medium creatures and have no bonuses or penalties due to their size.
Normal Speed: Tauren have a base speed of 30 feet.
Low-Light Vision: Tauren can see twice as far as a race with normal vision in conditions of dim light. (1 RP)
Toughness: Tauren gain Toughness as a racial bonus feat. (2 RP)
Typecast Core: The first hour a tauren rests following its last moment of strenuous activity, cannot apply to the cumulative sum of 7 hours it must rest to fully renew its 14 charge capacity for the following trait. (2 RP)
- War Stomp (Su): As a standard action, a tauren can spend 8 charges from its Typecast Core to evoke 5 supernatural thunderstomp effects at once, each as the spell, with no need to target the same creature. The effects of this ability are based on the highest mental ability score of their originator, as if that score were 4 points higher.
Languages: Tauren begin play speaking Herdfolk and Common. Tauren with high Intelligence scores can choose from the following: Draconic, Elven, Giant, Gnoll, Orc, Sylvan, Terran.
Tauren Racial Traits Tauren Racial Traits • +2 Strength, – 2 Agility. Tauren are incredibly powerful, but they lack grace. • Medium: As Medium creatures, Tauren have no special bonuses or penalties due to their size. • Tauren base land speed is 30 feet. •Natural Weapon (Ex): A tauren’s horns are a natural weapon, and all adult tauren are profi cient in their use. Tauren horns deal 1d8 points of damage (plus bonus
ReplyDeletedamage from Strength). Male tauren horns tend to be more prominent than those of females. • Weapon Familiarity: Tauren may treat tauren halberds and totems as martial weapons rather than exotic weapons. • Weapon Profi ciency: Tauren receive the Martial Weapon Profi ciency feats for longspears and shortspears. Tauren are skilled hunters. • +2 racial bonus on Handle Animal and Survival checks. These skills are considered class skills for all tauren characters. • Automatic Languages: Common and Taur-ahe. • Bonus Languages: Goblin, Low Common and Orcish. Tauren tend to learn languages for trade or exchanging ideas.