So the most evocative and important species feature is *almost* never going to see use. Every now and then maybe a fighter will Hammering Horns instead of doing a PAM attack, or something, but for the most part, the smart way to play a minotaur is to avoid doing minotaur things. 5/9 - ThreadSky

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somanyrobots.com • 2 days ago

So the most evocative and important species feature is *almost* never going to see use. Every now and then maybe a fighter will Hammering Horns instead of doing a PAM attack, or something, but for the most part, the smart way to play a minotaur is to avoid doing minotaur things.
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somanyrobots.com•2 days ago

Minotaurs are cool, though, so Spellbound Sea includes a new minotaur species. Hammering Horns (and Goring Rush) gets replaced with a new ability, Goring Charge. 1/SR After a Dash, you can make a special attack, which does scaling bonus damage, 15' shove, and knocks prone.
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somanyrobots.com•2 days ago

The bonus damage keeps it competitive with your other actions, especially since it scales. 15' knockback and prone is much more effective control. And, because it's strong, it has a fairly tight usage limit. Now you can open 3 fights each day by absolutely givin' 'em the horns.
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somanyrobots.com•2 days ago

Today's thread isn't just for ragging on WotC, though. Hammering Horns *sounds* good. It might have been good in the version of the game WotC originally envisioned, where bonus actions were rarer and not key for optimization. But put in the game everyone plays, the feature just doesn't work.
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somanyrobots.com•2 days ago

So that's the idea: pay attention to how a feature interacts with *everything*. Different classes, different build paths, different levels of optimization. A cool feature that's not usable isn't a cool feature; and if that happens to a species's key identity feature, it's a big loss.
9/9

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