Potestas: a D&D3E supplement

Chapter Two: Races

Centaurs (mortal humanoids)

Half-human, half-horse, the origins of the centaurs are lost in the past. Most live out on the steppes and plains of central Arda, but centaurs are common enough throughout the settled temperate lands of Selentia and Khitai. They live short lives of around fifty years, and are proverbially tempestuous and hotheaded.

Centaurs tend to follow the dominant human religion in the kingdom where they live. They can breed with centaurs and horses, and the form of the female in the coupling determines the form of any offspring.

Racial Traits

• Large Size: centaurs receive a -1 size penalty to AC, -1 size penalty to attack rolls, -4 size penalty on Hide checks, and a +4 bonus when resisting grapple checks. Their innate hoof strike damage is 1d4, but their human half may not use larger weapons and does not gain any bonus when initiating grapple checks. The lifting and carrying limits of their horse half are twice that of Medium creatures, but the limits for their human half are unchanged. They have 5 feet reach. A centaur employing a lance deals double damage when it charges, just as a rider on a mount does.
• Characteristic Modifiers: +2 Dex, +4 Constitution, -2 Intelligence, +2 Wisdom. Centaurs are fit and tough. While they tend to be slow learners, they are canny and perceptive. In addition, the horse half of a centaur has +4 Strength, which increases carrying load and damage when using hoof strikes.
• Base Speed: 50 feet.
• Low-Light Vision: centaurs can see twice as far as humans, kattar and davinans in starlight, moonlight, torchlight, and similar conditions of poor illumination, and can distinguish colours without difficulty.
• Natural Armour: centaurs have base +2 natural armour.
• Natural Weapon Proficiency: centaurs are proficient with their hoof attacks, and are considered to be armed when attacking with their hooves.
• Horsecunning: centaurs gain a +2 racial bonus to all Diplomacy and Handle Animal checks when interacting with horses, and may use the Handle Animal skill on horses even if the character is untrained.
• Automatic Languages: all centaurs automatically speak the local language and the language of horses.
• Favoured Class: Hunter.
• Racial Hit Dice: centaurs begin with two levels of animal, which provide 2d8 hit dice (12 hit points), +1 base attack bonus, +3 base Fortitude save, +3 base Reflex save, one feat, and skill points equal to 5 x (2 + Int modifier, minimum 1). Class skills for these levels are Craft (Int), Handle Animal (Cha), Hide (Dex), Jump (Str), Listen (Wis), Move Silently (Dex), Profession (Wis), Spot (Wis), and Survival (Wis). Centaurs do not double the hit points for their first level in a character class.
• Level Adjustment: +1.
• Racial Levels: centaurs can take up to two additional levels of animal, to a maximum of four levels. Each level of animal provides 1d8 hit points, average base attack bonus progression, good Fortitude and Reflex save progression, poor Will save progression, and (2 + Int modifier) skill points. The Class skills for these levels are listed above. In addition, each level provides +1 Strength, +1 Constitution, and +1 Natural Armour. The Strength bonus applies to both the human and the horse halves of the centaur.

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