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Re: Minotaur

Posted by Billiam Babble on Jun 06, 2010; 5:53pm
URL: http://the-lost-and-the-damned.71.s1.nabble.com/Minotaur-tp5122341p5146098.html

Very nicely done!

I'm always interested to see what colour skin or hide minotaurs are given.  I like the idea that the skin is part of the "human" aspect of the minotaur.  The hair is more barbaric that beastial.

Ace work with the base.  A nice homage to WHQ.

A friend insisted on painting most of my WHQ figures, including the minotaurs because he didn't feel that my skills were up to the job.

One afternoon I left him painting some figures in his own special way and had to explain to my other friends that he'd be late because he was still "buffing his minotaur".  :D

You mention that you'd prefer hooves to feet, I think in Warlock of Firetop Mountain, Russ Nicholson depicts the minotaur with hooves.  That picture represents to the my first major "boss monster" encounter in a fantasy gaming.  In Basic D&D, a single minotaur can be significant, semi-intelligent and brutish adversary which can hold its own with a first level party.  So as a beginning player, the Minotaur, along with its mythological links and natural associations with mazes meant that it was the perfect dungeon monster archetype (along with the fact that they weren't very magical and I used to stumble with magic rules!).

Ace.