@@killfearGives me the idea of centaur variants where the creature half is NOT a horse... like goat (smaller, slower, ignores rough terrain, normal climb speed), deer (stealthy, powerful jump abilities, relatively weak), ox/buffalo (physically powerful, even more limited movement options due to size)... perhaps camel with some interesting environmental abilities or general endurance traits I dont want to figure out right now.
I hear you buddy. I'm in a Greyhawk campaign where only the standard fantasy races exist (i.e. Only elves, dwarves, humans, haflings, and the various half races).
Does the “move on vertical surfaces” part of monk apply to centaurs, because I believe this could allow it to climb a ladder. Also, if a halfling player was riding the centaur monk, could they ride the centaur monk up vertical surfaces?
Thief Rogue with Second Story work, combined with Gloomstalker Ranger with Rope Trick. A centaur with 70ft of movement sprinting in and out of an extradimensional space while running up a rope dangling up to 60 ft to the ground.
I really want to play a centaur monk that charges up to mage, yells charlie horse, and punches him in the leg so hard he just crumples down into a pile of shame and disappointment.
I love the idea of a centaur warlock that has its magic depicted as a pseduo-shamanistic witchcraft. Use some Native American cultures for inspiration and you could go a lot of ways, maybe going pact of the celestial because of worship to the stars, pact of the fey for a spirit guide, or even pact of the fiend due to some demon who masquerades as an ancient god, like jackal.
Sudden brainwave as I listen: centaur, except goat instead of horse (and possibly halfling instead of human). Would make an excellent rogue, and probably a decent climber as well ;)
I would say that in my games I would have alot of variations based on what lower half you have, which would sub out some traits for others. like you might be slower than a horse centaur as a ram/sheep/goat centaur, but would be a better climber an smaller. Camel might not get thirsty as quickly, an have higher movement thru deserts, but is slower overall than normal centaurs. Higher charge damage as a centaur with the lower body of a bull, but more lumbering.
I feel like they missed out on talking about a centaur Paladin oath of the ancients. This would be great RP of a centaur who's a champion for they Feywild.
15:23 - Most of that 'clippity clop' is the horseshoes. They literally have metal plates attached to the bottom of their feet, designed to improve traction on dirt. However, if I were to allow a player to play a centaur, I would turn around and say that better shoes were invented in the realm.
Agreed - no self-respecting centaur would let someone NAIL a piece of metal to their feet. That being said, for those civilized, or urbanized, centaurs that live in towns and cities, I could see something like the Roman Hipposandal, which functions similar to the modern bell boot, and could be tied to the horse's hoof - with a certain amount of improvements of course, so that they could be easily taken off/put on by the centaur themselves.
I just started a Centaur Forge domain Cleric, Mare'e Ferus is fun, but Baldur's gate might not have been a good place to start... but it is interesting
@@harrywhiteley89 if i were your dm id give you disadvantage to stealth because of your metal hooves lmao but id also encourage you to try anyways because its hilarious
@@ashenwuss1651 I think he wont have an issue at all, we'll just talk about the details. He is pretty open to everything as long as we can justify it lol
The "centaur from the feywild" explains the creature type bein different to other centaurs. It is a corrupting place after all. The proximity to feywild portals turned firbolgs from "gentle giants" into "primal fey-giantkin". So what would happen to a tribe of Centaurs living there for generations?
that's become my job in my school DND group. I'm a circle of the moon druid, I turn cast enhance ability ( strength)on myself the wizard casts enlarge, the gnome gets in a bag that I put in my mouth, and the rest get on my back .
Weird world... I just realized his name sounds like the Italian name for the city of Florence. I must not have played Assassin's Creed 2 before reading Harry Potter.
@@elisa48092 you could be right, though the name also may be different across the different editions/country specific versions of the book. I'll have to double check mine when I get the chance. :)
I'm playing a centaur against type. She's a rogue, lol. Homebrewed her to actual draft horse size so she's closer to 7-8' and the dm gave a choice of "boons" to every character that had drawbacks. Before he even knew I was choosing centaur, he gave the option for wings at the cost of being closer to death (disadvantage on death saves). So I have a centaur pegasus rogue. Who's mortal enemy is water and acts like a drowning eagle even if it's only a few feet deep... She was traumatized in a partially underwater dungeon level, now even puddles scare her.
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I played one campaign back in 3.5 that was a warfare campaign. There were a LOT of open-battles we led and participated in. Typically 50-100 per side. My centaur was a fighter that my DM gave me some freedom to work with. He let me skip the Mounted Combat feat, ruling that it wouldn't apply but also wouldn't need to be a prerequisite for me. I grabbed Trample, Spirited Charge, and Ride-by-Attack by third level. By 7th, I had also picked up Ambidexterity and Two-Weapon Fighting, and since they are large, I dual-wielded greatswords. I also had each hoof equipped with fiery horseshoes that dealt 2d4 extra fire damage. As long as no one could stop me cold (Str of 35 by 10th level), I could kill 20ish low-level enemies in one charge. It was awesome! He didn't really fit any other campaign, though.
I've never played D&D, but I've always wanted to make a drider PC and centaurs are a similar kind of creature. I've fantasized how I could make a plausible backstory for a neutral good one. Maybe she was a powerful sorceress / wizard, but failed her trial to become one of Lolth's priestesses by refusing to kill her kind-hearted but weak brother and was cursed to wonder as a drider in the underdark until she helps out a group of adventurers. Perhaps she makes a silk rope to get them out of a pit or drops from the ceiling onto an enemy that was about to kill someone. She could polymorph herself to enter town without creating a panic or serve as a mount for smaller party members while in the wilderness. I picture her making silk scarves for everyone or patching clothing with her spinnerets. Basically, a very sweet person who was raised in a harsh culture and forced into a monstrous form, but never lost her empathy. Kind of sounds like an interesting backup character after my first character dies while in the underdark.
@@e.s.lavall9219 I'm impressed you found this comment! I'm going to repeat some other ideas I had on the subject from a thread in another video: I've got so many ideas on how to introduce the character. It'd need some help from the DM. She could be casually hanging upside down in a tunnel where her head is at eye level. The ranger or rogue of the party rounds a corner while scouting ahead and almost bumps into her face, yells in surprise (willpower roll not to yell in primal terror), and she screams back. The party runs up and the someone says (or DM through an NPC, if none of the players say it) "what's the problem?!" and she immediately points at the ranger and says "He surprised me! It was *terrifying* !" Then she starts crying into her hair because she's still upside down.
@@e.s.lavall9219 Sunlight sensitivity, size, and interactions with strangers would cause issues if she ever tried to adventure outside the Underdark. Could be homebrewed away, like you mentioned, but could be worked around. Sensitivity affects attacks and perception checks while in daylight, but not spells. Driders would need to be medium or large like they did with centaurs in the video. A bard might suit her better for roleplaying interactions: she'd still have access to the mend cantrip to repair things with silk, but also have illusion magic, performance and deception abilities to better convince others that she was a normal humanoid while disguised. I picture her asleep in the back of a covered wagon during the day with a mask, gloves, and large blanket over her abdomen & legs. She could pretend she's just riding in back with "the stuff." The drider form is a curse, so I guess it'd be up to the DM if polymorph or shapeshifting of any kind would work at all. She could also simply convince people she's not a threat through sheer charisma, but the appearance is a big hurdle to get over. One of the payoffs from saving a village could be that the wary townsfolk finally let their kids play with "the monster" with a silk soccer ball or something.
One thing to think about is the possibility that the Playable version is actually a subrace of the version depicted in the Monster Manual. Explanation - real life horses/ponies come in all sizes, from like 2 feet at the withers (base of neck), on up to 6 feet (if not more). After all, there's many different breeds, ranging from small to large, usually for different purposes. It wouldn't be improbable for an "Urbanized" subrace to be a bit smaller than their more "Nomadic" cousins. After all, if you try taking a large draft horse inside say a house - they might go through the floor, while a smaller pony might be okay where the floor is concerned.
I fell in love with Centaurs with Chiron of Greek Myth and the Centaurs in Piers Anthony's Xanth series. Powerful Archers and intelligence and pride equal to most elf races. I'm looking forward to playing one as a race.
It's funny - you were talking about playing against type. When they announced the centaur race for 5e, I knew immediately that I wanted (at some point) to play a centaur rogue of the thief archetype; the image of this enormous horseperson with the Second Story Work trait has stayed with me ever since. :D
This is a great video on how to play Centaurs. I only played one. He was captured as a baby/colt and raised as a gladiator... so he wasn't very Centaur-like in personality. It was 2nd Ed using the Roman Empire handbook and Humanoids handbook. I know, boring compared to what you presented but I loved playing that gladiator that the party that I joined purchased (freed) as an adventuring companion. I was a shield-rush specialist who favored the cestus as the hand weapons.
Well, horses are actually able to climb stairs, it's not always graceful, but seeing as though centaurs are half human, I would assume they have the ability to take into account of how they step, which in turn, isnt an actual problem for them.
I played a centaur vengeance paladin. All i have to say is.... Hunter's mark then use your charge and use your pike to run through them then trample as you knocked them down is amazing. Big, heavy, battle tank.
The trick to talking about mtg colours is about the enemy colour contrasts. Green is life when contrasted with black as death. Its reality when contrasted with blue as illusion. And white and red contrast one another as order versus chaos. Red is also contrasted with blue as fire versus ice and white with black as day and night. Perhaps the overlapping contrasts are the most important. Selesnya becomes life and light (day), while gruul becomes fire and might (relaity). They contrasted with each other primarily along the order chaos spectrum.
I am really new to DnD, just played 2 OneShots and a Short Starting-Play to see, how I would react and what classes I maybe can play. During that.. I acted twice not like the DM expected. My first character is a HalfOrc-Bard bc I think this was funny. Now I wanted to make an Centaur Warlock... And see, that I will lose a lot of good potential. Arg, ... but I would like a "little" crazy Centaur with a faible for suborn funny chaos. Very interessting video. Thank you!
The one time I played a centaur, she was a gloomstalker ranger archer, high mobility is so nice for staying out of melee range, and centaur with a bow is so iconic. And on more mechanic side, gloomstalker gives you the Darkvision your missing, and not just that, but also makes you invisible in darkness so you want to fight in the dark now.
I once made a Centaur as a home brew race pre-ravnica who was a monk, named “Jah’an Centaur” he loved to grapple, loved poetry, and whenever he’d arrive he’d play the same tune on his pan flute
Centaur Rogue. *clip clop* Villain: turns in a panic. The alleyway behind him is empty. *clip clop clip clop* Villain, certain he heard something, turns back. Empty alley again. He turns back forward just in time to be hoofstruck.
I’ve been playing as a human wizard whose soul was transferred into a centaur body and it’s been interesting. Ended up multiclassing into fighter to take advantage of the charge ability. I also took the fly spell because I thought it would be funny.
Great vid, I love the idea of being a spear weilding centaur running around like a medievil jousting tournament skewering everyone. Any plans to do one for Aarakocra/Minotaurs? I like the Idea of a magpie themed Aarakocra thief that uses flight to help steal things
I've been a fan of centaurs for a long, long time. Currently playing a centaur cleric of Kord of the Tempest domain! He fell behind the herd when injured, was healed and rescued by a human cleric living among dwarves, and found a community. He died protecting his home from gnoll raids and was transported to a demiplane to join a group of others brought after their deaths to finish the job of protecting the realm from some loosed powers running wild. It is a lot of fun so far!
I don't play DnD, nor do I have any of the Player handbooks or stuff about Dnd. I only have what I have seen from other people playing DnD and what I can find on the internet. However, I had a homebrew idea of a Centaur Artificer. The idea is that she can take the artillerist specialisation and mount the Eldritch cannon on a platform on her back, basically become a mobile turret on the battlefield. To take care of the climbing problem, she will also have a carpet of flying wrapped around her horse half so that she can fly around.
I’ve been working on a Divine Soul Sorcerer Centaur who was blessed by a unicorn to play on that smaller deer-like body size and to kind of try playing against type for centaurs
The centaur should absolutely have a companion of some sort. This companion will be in charge of managing the saddle bags and of course the daily grooming.
Centaur Monk, multi-classed with a single level dip into Rogue with the mobile feat and Horseshoes of Speed (which don't require attunement) is the fastest PC ever with 330 feet of movement available to them without touching their Ki points. If you then cast Haste on them you can get them up to 75Mph.
Literally started my rabbit trail because of a rewatch of the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. Such a good movie! My DM gave me permission to use a Lance as if mounted, so one-handed, on a Centaur Barbarian. Now I need to decide if I want to lean into the fey theme, or maybe some inspiration from Berserk's Irvine the Apostle.
We play one campaign where friend plays Centaur Horizon walker, she is from material plane and in first session we fell into fey wild, now she is young chieftain of Feywild Centaur tribe, and she is dispensing justice with greatsword and hooves all over Feywild!
A good homebrew for size issues I've heard of is the mechanics of classing a centaur PC as medium except for some situations is reference to their upper body being normal humanoid scale, while their equine portion is the size of a normal horse below the whithers.
One thing that bears mentioning: Certain kinds of equipment (most obviously boots) don't work with Centaurs unless you modify them, while they can (or at least should be able to) make use of the two or three different kinds of magical horseshoe. I feel it's always important to note whether any particular race has anatomy that might make someone do a double take and ask "Wait, what?" if they're described as using a particular item, though for now that list only has Centaurs, Minotaurs, Merfolk(?) and Naga on it if I remember correctly, and the latter two are in the Planeshift material.
One of the people in my party plays a Centaur. My character, who had only ever seen one other Centaur, always refers to them as a horse and had made it his mission to ride them. I actually accomplished that mission with a nat 20 on persuasion.
If you choose a totem warrior barbarian centaur where you focus solely on the path of the elk but also pick up 3 levels of rogue to gain the thief subclass. Climbing no longer costs extra movement and if your dm agrees that your walking speed is equivalent to your movement speed you have a centaur with a movement speed of 130 feet per second or 88 mph and that’s without counting any feats or magical items
I’m playing a centaur barbarian now. I’m new so I didn’t realize it was a cool combo, I just liked both. Also one of the coolest things about being a centaur is being fey. Last session some harpies tried to charm me and my elf companions, and it didn’t do anything with their high wisdom and the spell not working on me. It works well with being a barbarian so I have a good chance of avoiding a lot of charming stuff which is awesome. Generally our party is pretty good at not being charmed (with a wood elf monk and high elf artificer). The climbing issue does suck, but I find it fun to have a weakness. Also will agree about dungeons being kind of bad for a centaur. Before level 3 we did sunless citadel, and I got to use charge/hooves combo once. Another time I was going to but I one-shot killed the thing I was going to hooves.
My Centaur Cleric also carries the party's mobile home, a wagon with a metric *fuckton* of supplies, he can also act as a floater in combat, zipping in and out of combat while carrying wounded people on his back. He is, the Ambulance Horse
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I'm preparing for a campaign based on the Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica and searched through your channel. Im suprised you havent any video about the other races loxodon, minotaur, simic hybrid, and vedalken.
i got a centaur vengeance paladin, and some how i got him a movement speed of 85 [base movement speed of 40 ft horse shoes of speed +30, mobile feat +10 and the vend rune on his armor +5] i effectively have a character with a run speed of roughly 40 mph
I figure a centaur druid would be the best really, because they move faster, carry more stuff, have natural weapons like their hooves, and can carry off party members if they are sick or dying so they can get away from danger. Any other obstacle like swimming or climbing, which would normally be kind of a pain in the ass for a centaur, would be kind of nullified if you shapeshift into creatures that can swim and fly. So basically you'd have all the strength and speed benefits and the other problems are kind of swept away if you can shapeshift into the creature you want.
Just to clarify, Cavalier Fighter sitting on my centaurs back centaur casts Abjurations, constantly granting temp hp to both of us, especially with the new UA abjurations, granting me advantage in all saves, buffing that temp hp and allowing both myself and the Cavalier to impose some sort of penalty on the enemy for targeting either of us.
As a final note, lets talk about how much I'd love to, as a Centaurian Abjuration Wizard, have a Cavalier Fighter wielding a Lance on my back while I maintain Prismatic Wall as an arena around us and the big bad.
Centaur/Artificer My dm once allowed me to play a LowTech/Cyberpunk centaur in a DND campaign it was one of the most amazing campaigns I ever had. To be fair it was AD&D 2nd edition. But damn we had fun when I found the ring of spider climb.
Heck with all you guys. I'm gonna have a centaur who's a black-sheep exile of a herd of agriculture specialist Clydesdale-styled farmers who grow the best barley and hops and brew the best beer around. (Note, this is not an endorsement of any specific brand of beer that may be associated with Clydesdale horses.)
Some other things to consider when roleplaying a centaur. 1. They are half horse, and horses weigh a flip-ton. Google says roughly 840 - 2,200 lbs. So rickety bridges, thin ice, deep mud, all pretty terrible things to walk on. 2. They probably produce more body heat. This doesn't mean much but wearing heavy armor may be uncomfortable for long periods of time for them, also more reason for group to hug them when it's cold. 3. They are probably not very happy on boats. Their hooves have little traction and it's a small confined area with no space to run around. But hey, it's D&D, if you want a centaur pirate with 4 peg legs, have fun.
Feeling very inspired to design some centaurs based around tribes of the plains and tundra, Scythian, Hun, Mongol, or Turkik peoples. A campaign based around what is essentially a Mongol invasion type scenario would be very interesting - Genhis Khan as centaur would be a very interesting BBEG. Alternatively party could be centaurs or other races recruited into the forces of an expanding or migrating group, sent to explore ahead. They would be the ultimate kite build as horse archers. Personally I think Ranger might also be a very good build for a centaur, the same survival skills that made the mongols such incredibly mobile armies and mechanically they would be better able to take advantage of ranged weapons while still having the flexibility to fight up close - probably with a reach weapon. Theyd be optimised for wide open spaces but with the flexibility to fight up close for a while if needed. Would add a specific move "Partian shot" which allows you to take a reaction to shoot a ranged weapon at a character if they move to pursue you. If you wanted to make the build broken you could give them a disengage as a bonus action. This would set them up to either maintain range for bows or to charge in, attack and disengage before they could be countered. All off the top of my head here of course.
I made NPCs of the Mane Six from MLP to amuse my daughters. Abjuration wizard (Twilight Sparkle), storm herald barbarian (Rainbow Dash), Archfey warlock (Rarity), Wild Magic sorcerer (Pinkie Pie), Circle of the Shepherd druid (Fluttershy), and Cavalier fighter (Apple Jack) plus a wizard apprentice dragonborn. They loved it!
Thanks so much for letting me know about heroforge! I'm but a poor nerd or I would get a dozen color printed minis, but its really helpful to customize and get a visual for my short story characters. Great video, centaurs are my favorite😊
Imagine trying to climb something when you have hooves. Goats spring to mind. But so does the idea of a knotted rope. So the sub text of requiring hands and feet is it important thing for DM’s to consider.
"Imagine a centaur running straight up a wall" May I introduce to you, SPIDER CLIMB It's a spell you can get with land druids that lets you do EXACTLY THAT, regardless of race You can abslutely do it, it can happen
How about a Centaur Rogue Scout? Maybe relying less on stealth for sneak attack, but trying to gain advantage in other ways, or by riding other players into battle to get them close to enemies. I just love the idea of this high speed character being able to use Cunning Action.
I'm super happy you mentioned Tempest Cleric as that's my top interest for a Centaur character. I'm totally going after the look of a video game character. Specifically the 1st Boss of Act Raiser. His personal theme song is Thunderstuck by ACDC. Now I just have to figure out the best way to get him Booming Blade.
I'm so tempted to roll up a Centaur Ranger. The, homebrewed?, trait of needing more food for their size just has me gigging at the idea of a ranger raising her animal companions. Of introducing their boar as ER the Third. And when the party finally asks about the name? "Emergency Rations."
What about using a lance and shield, for the purposes of being mounted? I really like the idea of a centaur that can charge with the Lance and send off attacks with a shield as well.
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“Centaurs are terrible at climbing”
“Imagine a centaur running up a wall”
Have you played Skyrim?????
Take nine levels in monk, problem solved.
@@GuardianTactician Or take the Athlete feat at level 4
GOATS CLIMB TREES
@@killfearGives me the idea of centaur variants where the creature half is NOT a horse... like goat (smaller, slower, ignores rough terrain, normal climb speed), deer (stealthy, powerful jump abilities, relatively weak), ox/buffalo (physically powerful, even more limited movement options due to size)... perhaps camel with some interesting environmental abilities or general endurance traits I dont want to figure out right now.
Or druid of circle of land (forest) -> Spider climb spell
One important thing centaurs are incapable of is getting off their high horse.
Okay you get a thumbs up that made me chuckle
theyre only medium, so their horses arent all that high
And don't overdo the running or risk a Charlie horse.
Make sure to scream the entire campaign. That way you'll be horse.
I like to play my centaurs as tanks so that I can be the centaur of attention
Bravo sir, new favorite comment
Shouldn't you be a centaur bard then?
Lol
*Slow Clap*
... oh, I'm definitely using this.
I wanna see a Centaur Bard with horseshoe tap shoes each tuned to different notes
Please, please, make him do hillbilly foot dancing. His foottaps can be clunky like normal horseshoes, but even catchier
One-horse riverdance performance.
Please check out TFS at the table on the Team Four Star channel for a D&D game with an awesome centaur bard hillbilly. Eloy is awesome.
I want to play DND with u lol
I hear you buddy. I'm in a Greyhawk campaign where only the standard fantasy races exist (i.e. Only elves, dwarves, humans, haflings, and the various half races).
They're only medium sized? Now I want to play a centaur named Lil' Sebastian.
😂
With a custom attack called 5000 Candles in the Wind
Imagine a centaur monk who is training to achieve his/her loftiest dream. To use a ladder.
Does the “move on vertical surfaces” part of monk apply to centaurs, because I believe this could allow it to climb a ladder. Also, if a halfling player was riding the centaur monk, could they ride the centaur monk up vertical surfaces?
@@lukekalisz1817 if you're at my table I would say yes. In fact I'd give you friggin inspiration
Rogue centaur with spider climb.
"Clop clop clop"
"What the deuce"
I'm going to play my centaur like an amish on their rumspringer.
Rogue or Warlock, haha
Athlete feat cancels the "climbing cost 4ft" problem.
Amish on rumspringer. You win the internet
Thief Rogue with Second Story work, combined with Gloomstalker Ranger with Rope Trick. A centaur with 70ft of movement sprinting in and out of an extradimensional space while running up a rope dangling up to 60 ft to the ground.
@@lincalmighty by the Nine, that is brutally awesome!🤯
One class you didn't mention: I think a centaur paladin would be really cool, just to really fit the archetype of the charging knight.
That would be awesome!!
Specifically, an Oath of the Ancients Paladin Centaur would be amazing
@@BlacklistRitualz Only thing is, being a fae, going by RAW their Turn The Faithless ability would affect themselves.
There a Dragon Magazine cover with a Centaur in plate that I always thought was a Paladin.
Cavalier subclass for fighter centaur? Or perhaps a samurai centaur for the fun of it
Be a half man half horse cleric. Then you can be the centaur for disease control.
I’ll show myself out now
We make this joke in the episode lol
And a bard would quickly become the centaur of attention.
Nice one lol.
Stop horsing around!
That was beautifully done. Strong work.
I really want to play a centaur monk that charges up to mage, yells charlie horse, and punches him in the leg so hard he just crumples down into a pile of shame and disappointment.
I could see a centaur warlock if its pact of the Fey
Making a pact with a unicorn
I love the idea of a centaur warlock that has its magic depicted as a pseduo-shamanistic witchcraft. Use some Native American cultures for inspiration and you could go a lot of ways, maybe going pact of the celestial because of worship to the stars, pact of the fey for a spirit guide, or even pact of the fiend due to some demon who masquerades as an ancient god, like jackal.
Sudden brainwave as I listen: centaur, except goat instead of horse (and possibly halfling instead of human). Would make an excellent rogue, and probably a decent climber as well ;)
Andreas Persson Half centaur, half Satyr? I’d allow it!
Head has horns and is used as an improvised weapon that the creature is proficient in.
I would say that in my games I would have alot of variations based on what lower half you have, which would sub out some traits for others. like you might be slower than a horse centaur as a ram/sheep/goat centaur, but would be a better climber an smaller. Camel might not get thirsty as quickly, an have higher movement thru deserts, but is slower overall than normal centaurs. Higher charge damage as a centaur with the lower body of a bull, but more lumbering.
@@elricengquist9989 Lower body of a bull... So a reverse Minotaur?
I'm so stealing this but I'm modifying it with the idea@@alanschaub147 proposed; my version will be half Halfing, half Satyr :D
Would love to see an episode on Minotaurs. I’m about to play a Minotaur Barbarian and I’m really excited about it.
Currently using a Minotaur fighter(brute) and loving it!
make sure to watch Narnia prince Caspian for inspiration
I read the Minotaur wars from dragonlance. Just a suggestion 😉
I have a player using a Minotaur Paladin right now. Uses a pike as his main weapon.
Greyhawk setting (D&D 3ed) had Minotaur player race
24:05 I think you meant "this is front and Centaur"
"Centaur for disease control" - No, you're fired.
I feel like they missed out on talking about a centaur Paladin oath of the ancients. This would be great RP of a centaur who's a champion for they Feywild.
Now I want to figure out a build for a mountain druid centaur
Part mountain goat instead of a horse.
halfling/goat centaur subrace
15:23 - Most of that 'clippity clop' is the horseshoes. They literally have metal plates attached to the bottom of their feet, designed to improve traction on dirt. However, if I were to allow a player to play a centaur, I would turn around and say that better shoes were invented in the realm.
Agreed - no self-respecting centaur would let someone NAIL a piece of metal to their feet. That being said, for those civilized, or urbanized, centaurs that live in towns and cities, I could see something like the Roman Hipposandal, which functions similar to the modern bell boot, and could be tied to the horse's hoof - with a certain amount of improvements of course, so that they could be easily taken off/put on by the centaur themselves.
centaur ranger with sub class : Horizon Walker
Daniel Jewell Horizon Clopper
@@thegreatone4948 haha nice
I actually have a horizon walker ranger centaur right now.
I just started a Centaur Forge domain Cleric, Mare'e Ferus is fun, but Baldur's gate might not have been a good place to start... but it is interesting
I may have also played a Rogue Centaur in order to abuse the 40ft movement speed with cunning action
@@harrywhiteley89 if i were your dm id give you disadvantage to stealth because of your metal hooves lmao
but id also encourage you to try anyways because its hilarious
@@jevry4307 The DM never called stealth checks tbh not much point with other members of the party :(
jevry You don't need to have horseshoes.
Dragons are centaur wyverns. So, centaur humanoids are human, but better.
Maybe.
my brain needed to reboot after reading this
I nominate Spirit, the horse, to be a monk. That spiderman moment he had in the film is what I thought of when this was mentioned 16:33.
I think I might ask my DM if he would allow me to use a centaur as a backup character because of this, thank you dungeon dudes.
Perhaps present a Feywild based background or origin to help persuade your DM! Lolol
@@ashenwuss1651 I think he wont have an issue at all, we'll just talk about the details. He is pretty open to everything as long as we can justify it lol
Best way to really get into being a centaur is to bring along some coconuts for sound effects.
"In Mercia? Coconuts are tropical!"
My next campaign I'm going as dragonic sorcerer centaur just to eventually get wings and be a Pegasus
you could also go divine soul with a Pegasus grandparent and still get wings.
or a vengeance paladin, they get wings
The "centaur from the feywild" explains the creature type bein different to other centaurs.
It is a corrupting place after all.
The proximity to feywild portals turned firbolgs from "gentle giants" into "primal fey-giantkin". So what would happen to a tribe of Centaurs living there for generations?
Wow I just got turned in to a Centaur yesterday and today you guy's release this video.
I love the idea that another pc can ride on your back.
that's become my job in my school DND group. I'm a circle of the moon druid, I turn cast enhance ability ( strength)on myself the wizard casts enlarge, the gnome gets in a bag that I put in my mouth, and the rest get on my back .
Actually, see Shadiversity's "Best Weapon for a Centaur" - you'll get a chuckle at the end, (if reading the comments doesn't spoil it).
Wouldn't that only work if they were a small character (if you don't homebrew it)?
I will throw out Firenze from the Harry Potter books as inspiration for a divination wizard centaur.
Weird world... I just realized his name sounds like the Italian name for the city of Florence.
I must not have played Assassin's Creed 2 before reading Harry Potter.
Chiron from Greek mythology is a wizard teacher, also.
I think the name was Fiorenzo o3o
@@elisa48092 you could be right, though the name also may be different across the different editions/country specific versions of the book. I'll have to double check mine when I get the chance. :)
I'm playing a centaur against type. She's a rogue, lol. Homebrewed her to actual draft horse size so she's closer to 7-8' and the dm gave a choice of "boons" to every character that had drawbacks. Before he even knew I was choosing centaur, he gave the option for wings at the cost of being closer to death (disadvantage on death saves). So I have a centaur pegasus rogue. Who's mortal enemy is water and acts like a drowning eagle even if it's only a few feet deep...
She was traumatized in a partially underwater dungeon level, now even puddles scare her.
I personally ordered a miniature from Hero Forge and the quality is fantastic! They are always expanding their options as well so check back from time to time as well.
I played one campaign back in 3.5 that was a warfare campaign. There were a LOT of open-battles we led and participated in. Typically 50-100 per side.
My centaur was a fighter that my DM gave me some freedom to work with. He let me skip the Mounted Combat feat, ruling that it wouldn't apply but also wouldn't need to be a prerequisite for me. I grabbed Trample, Spirited Charge, and Ride-by-Attack by third level. By 7th, I had also picked up Ambidexterity and Two-Weapon Fighting, and since they are large, I dual-wielded greatswords. I also had each hoof equipped with fiery horseshoes that dealt 2d4 extra fire damage.
As long as no one could stop me cold (Str of 35 by 10th level), I could kill 20ish low-level enemies in one charge. It was awesome! He didn't really fit any other campaign, though.
unearthed arcane Roving ability with Ranger... swim and climb speed equal to your land speed... problem of centaur climbing solved
Winged boo-- I mean Winged Hooves!
@@ashenwuss1651 horseshoes of the zephyr or horseshoes of speed for the win!
@@jeffhall2411 Yes! Find Steed just for that seamless tapdancing synergy
Maybe a half-human half-mountain-goat?
Would that be more of a goat-centaur then? Since these are deemed a medium sized creature that could be another way to spin it.
I had created a Centaur Paladin with the Oath of the Ancients. I felt like it just fit extremely well.
I've never played D&D, but I've always wanted to make a drider PC and centaurs are a similar kind of creature. I've fantasized how I could make a plausible backstory for a neutral good one. Maybe she was a powerful sorceress / wizard, but failed her trial to become one of Lolth's priestesses by refusing to kill her kind-hearted but weak brother and was cursed to wonder as a drider in the underdark until she helps out a group of adventurers. Perhaps she makes a silk rope to get them out of a pit or drops from the ceiling onto an enemy that was about to kill someone. She could polymorph herself to enter town without creating a panic or serve as a mount for smaller party members while in the wilderness. I picture her making silk scarves for everyone or patching clothing with her spinnerets. Basically, a very sweet person who was raised in a harsh culture and forced into a monstrous form, but never lost her empathy. Kind of sounds like an interesting backup character after my first character dies while in the underdark.
She sounds adorable and I love her! Someone made an "Arachsi" homebrew race that's basically a Drider, so you might want to hunt that down.
@@e.s.lavall9219 I'm impressed you found this comment! I'm going to repeat some other ideas I had on the subject from a thread in another video:
I've got so many ideas on how to introduce the character. It'd need some help from the DM. She could be casually hanging upside down in a tunnel where her head is at eye level. The ranger or rogue of the party rounds a corner while scouting ahead and almost bumps into her face, yells in surprise (willpower roll not to yell in primal terror), and she screams back. The party runs up and the someone says (or DM through an NPC, if none of the players say it) "what's the problem?!" and she immediately points at the ranger and says "He surprised me! It was *terrifying* !" Then she starts crying into her hair because she's still upside down.
@@e.s.lavall9219 Sunlight sensitivity, size, and interactions with strangers would cause issues if she ever tried to adventure outside the Underdark. Could be homebrewed away, like you mentioned, but could be worked around. Sensitivity affects attacks and perception checks while in daylight, but not spells. Driders would need to be medium or large like they did with centaurs in the video. A bard might suit her better for roleplaying interactions: she'd still have access to the mend cantrip to repair things with silk, but also have illusion magic, performance and deception abilities to better convince others that she was a normal humanoid while disguised.
I picture her asleep in the back of a covered wagon during the day with a mask, gloves, and large blanket over her abdomen & legs. She could pretend she's just riding in back with "the stuff." The drider form is a curse, so I guess it'd be up to the DM if polymorph or shapeshifting of any kind would work at all.
She could also simply convince people she's not a threat through sheer charisma, but the appearance is a big hurdle to get over. One of the payoffs from saving a village could be that the wary townsfolk finally let their kids play with "the monster" with a silk soccer ball or something.
One thing to think about is the possibility that the Playable version is actually a subrace of the version depicted in the Monster Manual. Explanation - real life horses/ponies come in all sizes, from like 2 feet at the withers (base of neck), on up to 6 feet (if not more). After all, there's many different breeds, ranging from small to large, usually for different purposes. It wouldn't be improbable for an "Urbanized" subrace to be a bit smaller than their more "Nomadic" cousins. After all, if you try taking a large draft horse inside say a house - they might go through the floor, while a smaller pony might be okay where the floor is concerned.
I fell in love with Centaurs with Chiron of Greek Myth and the Centaurs in Piers Anthony's Xanth series. Powerful Archers and intelligence and pride equal to most elf races.
I'm looking forward to playing one as a race.
Looking at a Rune Fighter Centaur. Go big or go home, the size boost damage increase plays out well, and now any party member can ride with you.
It's funny - you were talking about playing against type. When they announced the centaur race for 5e, I knew immediately that I wanted (at some point) to play a centaur rogue of the thief archetype; the image of this enormous horseperson with the Second Story Work trait has stayed with me ever since. :D
Nice video guys but my Forge Cleric minotaur depends equal monster ravnica race time for the best hoofed race! ;)
Centaur for Disease Control is the dad joke of the decade: Change my mind.
The UA Path of the Wild Soul Barbarian Centaur sounds kind of fun and Xanth-y to me.
This is a great video on how to play Centaurs. I only played one. He was captured as a baby/colt and raised as a gladiator... so he wasn't very Centaur-like in personality. It was 2nd Ed using the Roman Empire handbook and Humanoids handbook. I know, boring compared to what you presented but I loved playing that gladiator that the party that I joined purchased (freed) as an adventuring companion. I was a shield-rush specialist who favored the cestus as the hand weapons.
So the thing that always get brought up when we discuss centaurs is, Stairs. And how are you going to go into buildings with the party?
Slowly and carefully with party members helping...currently playing a centaur and yeah, not crazy about stairs.
Well, horses are actually able to climb stairs, it's not always graceful, but seeing as though centaurs are half human, I would assume they have the ability to take into account of how they step, which in turn, isnt an actual problem for them.
I played a centaur vengeance paladin. All i have to say is.... Hunter's mark then use your charge and use your pike to run through them then trample as you knocked them down is amazing. Big, heavy, battle tank.
The trick to talking about mtg colours is about the enemy colour contrasts. Green is life when contrasted with black as death. Its reality when contrasted with blue as illusion.
And white and red contrast one another as order versus chaos. Red is also contrasted with blue as fire versus ice and white with black as day and night.
Perhaps the overlapping contrasts are the most important.
Selesnya becomes life and light (day), while gruul becomes fire and might (relaity). They contrasted with each other primarily along the order chaos spectrum.
I am really new to DnD, just played 2 OneShots and a Short Starting-Play to see, how I would react and what classes I maybe can play.
During that.. I acted twice not like the DM expected.
My first character is a HalfOrc-Bard bc I think this was funny.
Now I wanted to make an Centaur Warlock... And see, that I will lose a lot of good potential.
Arg, ... but I would like a "little" crazy Centaur with a faible for suborn funny chaos.
Very interessting video. Thank you!
The one time I played a centaur, she was a gloomstalker ranger archer, high mobility is so nice for staying out of melee range, and centaur with a bow is so iconic. And on more mechanic side, gloomstalker gives you the Darkvision your missing, and not just that, but also makes you invisible in darkness so you want to fight in the dark now.
I once made a Centaur as a home brew race pre-ravnica who was a monk, named “Jah’an Centaur” he loved to grapple, loved poetry, and whenever he’d arrive he’d play the same tune on his pan flute
Centaur Rogue.
*clip clop*
Villain: turns in a panic. The alleyway behind him is empty.
*clip clop clip clop*
Villain, certain he heard something, turns back. Empty alley again. He turns back forward just in time to be hoofstruck.
I’ve been playing as a human wizard whose soul was transferred into a centaur body and it’s been interesting. Ended up multiclassing into fighter to take advantage of the charge ability. I also took the fly spell because I thought it would be funny.
Great vid, I love the idea of being a spear weilding centaur running around like a medievil jousting tournament skewering everyone.
Any plans to do one for Aarakocra/Minotaurs? I like the Idea of a magpie themed Aarakocra thief that uses flight to help steal things
Centaur Monk adding hoof damage to a Flurry of Blows
5:20 Selesnya has centaur knights. Damn I want to play a game in Ravnica now.
Oh centaur Paladin!
I've been a fan of centaurs for a long, long time. Currently playing a centaur cleric of Kord of the Tempest domain! He fell behind the herd when injured, was healed and rescued by a human cleric living among dwarves, and found a community. He died protecting his home from gnoll raids and was transported to a demiplane to join a group of others brought after their deaths to finish the job of protecting the realm from some loosed powers running wild. It is a lot of fun so far!
One of my top player races and a reference to my favorite video game. I'm so glad I'm subbed to these dudes
I like how their creature type is fey, meaning a lot of spells and other abilities won’t work on them.
Life Domain Centaur. You guys are a riot. Truly busted out laughing at that one.
I'm starting a new campaign tomorrow, and my character is a Paladin Centaur who took the Oath of Mercy. I'm very excited about this!
I don't play DnD, nor do I have any of the Player handbooks or stuff about Dnd. I only have what I have seen from other people playing DnD and what I can find on the internet. However, I had a homebrew idea of a Centaur Artificer. The idea is that she can take the artillerist specialisation and mount the Eldritch cannon on a platform on her back, basically become a mobile turret on the battlefield. To take care of the climbing problem, she will also have a carpet of flying wrapped around her horse half so that she can fly around.
I’ve been working on a Divine Soul Sorcerer Centaur who was blessed by a unicorn to play on that smaller deer-like body size and to kind of try playing against type for centaurs
The centaur should absolutely have a companion of some sort. This companion will be in charge of managing the saddle bags and of course the daily grooming.
I mean I can see feywild warlock, getting their powers from a glaive enchanted by the summer court, multiclassed with a barbarian of coarse
Centaur Monk, multi-classed with a single level dip into Rogue with the mobile feat and Horseshoes of Speed (which don't require attunement) is the fastest PC ever with 330 feet of movement available to them without touching their Ki points.
If you then cast Haste on them you can get them up to 75Mph.
2 level dip. Cunning action is a level 2 thing.
@@Oznerock oh shit, you're absolutely right.
@@zenclubber Yeah, made a rogue just the other day, so rules are fresh in my mind
Literally started my rabbit trail because of a rewatch of the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. Such a good movie!
My DM gave me permission to use a Lance as if mounted, so one-handed, on a Centaur Barbarian. Now I need to decide if I want to lean into the fey theme, or maybe some inspiration from Berserk's Irvine the Apostle.
I'm thinking of going for a Centaur Paladin. I wonder how much mischief I can get myself into with Find Steed.
We play one campaign where friend plays Centaur Horizon walker, she is from material plane and in first session we fell into fey wild, now she is young chieftain of Feywild Centaur tribe, and she is dispensing justice with greatsword and hooves all over Feywild!
A good homebrew for size issues I've heard of is the mechanics of classing a centaur PC as medium except for some situations is reference to their upper body being normal humanoid scale, while their equine portion is the size of a normal horse below the whithers.
I am imagining a centaur bard that tapdances.
One thing that bears mentioning: Certain kinds of equipment (most obviously boots) don't work with Centaurs unless you modify them, while they can (or at least should be able to) make use of the two or three different kinds of magical horseshoe.
I feel it's always important to note whether any particular race has anatomy that might make someone do a double take and ask "Wait, what?" if they're described as using a particular item, though for now that list only has Centaurs, Minotaurs, Merfolk(?) and Naga on it if I remember correctly, and the latter two are in the Planeshift material.
One of the people in my party plays a Centaur. My character, who had only ever seen one other Centaur, always refers to them as a horse and had made it his mission to ride them. I actually accomplished that mission with a nat 20 on persuasion.
I play a strength based Centaur Monk named Joh... It's the best thing ever at the table lol
If you choose a totem warrior barbarian centaur where you focus solely on the path of the elk but also pick up 3 levels of rogue to gain the thief subclass. Climbing no longer costs extra movement and if your dm agrees that your walking speed is equivalent to your movement speed you have a centaur with a movement speed of 130 feet per second or 88 mph and that’s without counting any feats or magical items
I’m playing a centaur barbarian now. I’m new so I didn’t realize it was a cool combo, I just liked both. Also one of the coolest things about being a centaur is being fey. Last session some harpies tried to charm me and my elf companions, and it didn’t do anything with their high wisdom and the spell not working on me. It works well with being a barbarian so I have a good chance of avoiding a lot of charming stuff which is awesome. Generally our party is pretty good at not being charmed (with a wood elf monk and high elf artificer).
The climbing issue does suck, but I find it fun to have a weakness.
Also will agree about dungeons being kind of bad for a centaur. Before level 3 we did sunless citadel, and I got to use charge/hooves combo once. Another time I was going to but I one-shot killed the thing I was going to hooves.
My Centaur Cleric also carries the party's mobile home, a wagon with a metric *fuckton* of supplies, he can also act as a floater in combat, zipping in and out of combat while carrying wounded people on his back. He is, the Ambulance Horse
I absolutely love hero forge. I make all my PCs there. Great quality. Not a paid ad but they are that awesome. Thanks for the vids guys. Always amazing
RAW I think the centaur's medium size prevents medium party members from using them as mounts, as mounts need to be 1 larger than their rider.
I don't know how I missed this, but thank you for making this video for me 😍😂
Currently playing a "scholarly centaur with a back full of books" wizard, who's also able to "walk straight up a wall" using Spider Climb. Fun times!
I'm preparing for a campaign based on the Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica and searched through your channel. Im suprised you havent any video about the other races loxodon, minotaur, simic hybrid, and vedalken.
Centaur Cleric, Nature Domain. Heavy armor, shield, a big beefy mace. Take the mobility feat too.
i got a centaur vengeance paladin, and some how i got him a movement speed of 85 [base movement speed of 40 ft horse shoes of speed +30, mobile feat +10 and the vend rune on his armor +5] i effectively have a character with a run speed of roughly 40 mph
I figure a centaur druid would be the best really, because they move faster, carry more stuff, have natural weapons like their hooves, and can carry off party members if they are sick or dying so they can get away from danger. Any other obstacle like swimming or climbing, which would normally be kind of a pain in the ass for a centaur, would be kind of nullified if you shapeshift into creatures that can swim and fly. So basically you'd have all the strength and speed benefits and the other problems are kind of swept away if you can shapeshift into the creature you want.
I still want to do a campaign with a cavalier where I play a Centaur Abjuration Wizard.
Just to clarify, Cavalier Fighter sitting on my centaurs back centaur casts Abjurations, constantly granting temp hp to both of us, especially with the new UA abjurations, granting me advantage in all saves, buffing that temp hp and allowing both myself and the Cavalier to impose some sort of penalty on the enemy for targeting either of us.
As a final note, lets talk about how much I'd love to, as a Centaurian Abjuration Wizard, have a Cavalier Fighter wielding a Lance on my back while I maintain Prismatic Wall as an arena around us and the big bad.
"Centaur for Disease Control" completely broke me
Centaur/Artificer
My dm once allowed me to play a LowTech/Cyberpunk centaur in a DND campaign it was one of the most amazing campaigns I ever had.
To be fair it was AD&D 2nd edition. But damn we had fun when I found the ring of spider climb.
Heck with all you guys. I'm gonna have a centaur who's a black-sheep exile of a herd of agriculture specialist Clydesdale-styled farmers who grow the best barley and hops and brew the best beer around. (Note, this is not an endorsement of any specific brand of beer that may be associated with Clydesdale horses.)
If you make the centaurs a large race replace equine build with “humanoid upper body: you count as one size smaller for grappling”
Some other things to consider when roleplaying a centaur.
1. They are half horse, and horses weigh a flip-ton. Google says roughly 840 - 2,200 lbs. So rickety bridges, thin ice, deep mud, all pretty terrible things to walk on.
2. They probably produce more body heat. This doesn't mean much but wearing heavy armor may be uncomfortable for long periods of time for them, also more reason for group to hug them when it's cold.
3. They are probably not very happy on boats. Their hooves have little traction and it's a small confined area with no space to run around. But hey, it's D&D, if you want a centaur pirate with 4 peg legs, have fun.
Just started playing a Centaur Barbarian Gronk the Stomp, absolutely lovin' it.
Feeling very inspired to design some centaurs based around tribes of the plains and tundra, Scythian, Hun, Mongol, or Turkik peoples.
A campaign based around what is essentially a Mongol invasion type scenario would be very interesting - Genhis Khan as centaur would be a very interesting BBEG. Alternatively party could be centaurs or other races recruited into the forces of an expanding or migrating group, sent to explore ahead. They would be the ultimate kite build as horse archers.
Personally I think Ranger might also be a very good build for a centaur, the same survival skills that made the mongols such incredibly mobile armies and mechanically they would be better able to take advantage of ranged weapons while still having the flexibility to fight up close - probably with a reach weapon. Theyd be optimised for wide open spaces but with the flexibility to fight up close for a while if needed.
Would add a specific move "Partian shot" which allows you to take a reaction to shoot a ranged weapon at a character if they move to pursue you.
If you wanted to make the build broken you could give them a disengage as a bonus action. This would set them up to either maintain range for bows or to charge in, attack and disengage before they could be countered. All off the top of my head here of course.
I made NPCs of the Mane Six from MLP to amuse my daughters. Abjuration wizard (Twilight Sparkle), storm herald barbarian (Rainbow Dash), Archfey warlock (Rarity), Wild Magic sorcerer (Pinkie Pie), Circle of the Shepherd druid (Fluttershy), and Cavalier fighter (Apple Jack) plus a wizard apprentice dragonborn. They loved it!
Thanks so much for letting me know about heroforge! I'm but a poor nerd or I would get a dozen color printed minis, but its really helpful to customize and get a visual for my short story characters. Great video, centaurs are my favorite😊
Imagine trying to climb something when you have hooves. Goats spring to mind. But so does the idea of a knotted rope. So the sub text of requiring hands and feet is it important thing for DM’s to consider.
"Imagine a centaur running straight up a wall"
May I introduce to you, SPIDER CLIMB
It's a spell you can get with land druids that lets you do EXACTLY THAT, regardless of race
You can abslutely do it, it can happen
How about a Centaur Rogue Scout? Maybe relying less on stealth for sneak attack, but trying to gain advantage in other ways, or by riding other players into battle to get them close to enemies. I just love the idea of this high speed character being able to use Cunning Action.
I was wondering if you guys could do more from the Guide of Ravnica? Like the Vedalken and other races as well?
I'm super happy you mentioned Tempest Cleric as that's my top interest for a Centaur character. I'm totally going after the look of a video game character. Specifically the 1st Boss of Act Raiser. His personal theme song is Thunderstuck by ACDC.
Now I just have to figure out the best way to get him Booming Blade.
I'm so tempted to roll up a Centaur Ranger.
The, homebrewed?, trait of needing more food for their size just has me gigging at the idea of a ranger raising her animal companions. Of introducing their boar as ER the Third. And when the party finally asks about the name?
"Emergency Rations."
What about using a lance and shield, for the purposes of being mounted? I really like the idea of a centaur that can charge with the Lance and send off attacks with a shield as well.