If not, do female minotaurs have horns?
Female cows can have horns; it depends on the variety. Minotaurs would likely be closest to aurochs if anything, and female aurochs had very large horns.
If not, do female minotaurs have horns?
Female bovines have horns. I don't see any reason why minotaurs would be different.
This one looks female.
well, with the boob plate cuirass, I"d be most surprised if that was a male.
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Minotaur have been made available as a player character race in some D&D settings (never in a main book, always a specific setting). At those times stats were offered for females (the usual height/weight difference).
define main bookn please? Minotaurs were made a playable race in the 3rd PHB for D&D4, which I regard as a core book as opposed to the various expansion splatbooks . Sure, they were more associated with the Dark Sun setting, or so I understand, but the PHB3 was a setting free core book, not part of the Dark Sun splatbooks.
I mean, of domesticated (dairy and beef) cattle breeds, cows can have horns, it's just that "has horns" is a recessive trait which has been selectively bred out of many breeds. But in these cases the bulls are just as liable to be polled (no horns) as the cows. If you've been told "it has horns" is a reliable way to tell a cow from a bull or steer, you've been misled (the reliable way is to look between the hind legs- it ain't subtle.)
Since Minotaurs would likely have no selective pressure to not have horns (probably the opposite, any minotaur born polled might be shunned, for example) I imagine the lady minotaurs are just as likely to have horns as the dude minotaurs.
This one looks female.well, with the boob plate cuirass, I"d be most surprised if that was a male.
You have to wonder if there's a four-udder variant floating around on DeviantArt.
deviant art? I'd expect that to get to 4chan more like...
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Listen, we all know that the Minotaur was adapted from a singular mythological being, male. When reimagined as a mostly natural race, it implied the existance of females of the species. I suppose if this doesn't suit you you could reimagine them in the old Harpy mold or the Gloranthan Broo mold, but then you have to deal with the serious Ick factors involved, and Paizo is going for a more family friendly mode.
Dragonlance has a kingdom ran by minotaur and this species has both male and female, but then this was also not the MM version of the species either as it was off in its own splatbook.
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at least DL's taur had a storyhook for it to be both.
...and, for what it's worth, I think a female appeared in the novel Kaz the Minotaur by Richard A. Knaak.
(I never read Land of the Minotaurs. Perhaps that book had some females as well?)
I could have sworn there was a female minotaur towards the end of Shackled City AP.
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Listen, we all know that the Minotaur was adapted from a singular mythological being, male. When reimagined as a mostly natural race, it implied the existance of females of the species.And remember that even when the Chimera was a a singular mythological being from the same myth it was female and had a mane.
Santa's reindeer are always depicted with antlers in December, and use masculine pronouns but male caribou shed their antlers in the winter while female caribou do not.
So we can choose between biological pedantry or "a wizard did it."
PC, for those of us out in the highway of ideas, what route do you not find objectionable?
So far I have put out a standard sexual model, the alternating (harpy) model, and the DNA parasite (Broo) model. 2H appears to espouse a more " it's magic" approach. Do you have another idea, or do you just not want it discussed.
"Santa's reindeer are always depicted with antlers in December, and use masculine pronouns but male caribou shed their antlers in the winter while female caribou do not."
Masculine pronouns are still the common default, by name females are presumed, unless you know of any males called Vixen. You come off dismissive, while at the same time being both non-sequitur and just wrong. Since you are historically better than that, sorry for whatever threw you off your game.
Listen, we all know that the Minotaur was adapted from a singular mythological being, male. When reimagined as a mostly natural race, it implied the existance of females of the species. I suppose if this doesn't suit you you could reimagine them in the old Harpy mold or the Gloranthan Broo mold, but then you have to deal with the serious Ick factors involved, and Paizo is going for a more family friendly mode.
Paizo is not entirely family friendly... minotaurs are firmly in the 'Lamasthu' faction, which tends towards serious Ick.
The problem with ick style reproductive strategies is that it requires rather aggressive behavior if you want to get more than a small handful of creatures of the blood line. But that amount of attention is an easy way to get adventurers on your trail. So that kind of creature would be relatively rare. It is the same problem that comes up with other creatures that convert other races, such as vampires.
However, for minotaurs, Paizo chose a setting model that allowed them to be more plentiful. In this setting, they are a race with tribes and a firm place within the monstrous social circles as cunning mercenaries or guards. So overall- they are a somewhat strong race that can be inserted by the GM at random. This kind of setting makes them plentiful enough to use regularly. Maybe one? Maybe a dozen? It isn't hard to imagine that a powerful big bad just found a tribe or two and managed to just hire them out.
I think this is very simple. Female Minotaurs of course exist. The product of a human male and female cow. It has the body of a cow with the head of a woman. They just get less publicity, because they’re so much more horrific to look at. When male and female Minotaurs have children together, it’s a toss up as to whether you get a human with cow-like intelligence or a cow with human intelligence.
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FWIW, Classic Monsters Revisited says that Golarion minotaurs either come from 2 minotaur parents, or two human parents who were suitably cursed. Presumably Lamashtua is the one who sends these curses as the first minotaurs were created by Lamashtu as she was mad that people killed her "gift" of a two-headed calf, so she made all their kids turn out to be minotaurs.
So presumably children who are born minotaurs because of a curse would have whatever sexual phenotype they would have had if they weren't cursed, and minotaurs who have minotaur parents would have an even chance of being either sex. Ironfang Invasion Book 3 indicates that female minotaurs *can* have horns, but presumably they needn't. Polled minotaurs of either sex can exist if you want, as the population breeds naturally they will have occasional genetic mutations, and those minotaurs who worship Lamashtu probably aren't going to judge the kid for coming out different.
I think this is very simple. Female Minotaurs of course exist. The product of a human male and female cow. It has the body of a cow with the head of a woman. They just get less publicity, because they’re so much more horrific to look at. When male and female Minotaurs have children together, it’s a toss up as to whether you get a human with cow-like intelligence or a cow with human intelligence.
♪ 'Cause her hair was green as seaweed
Her skin was blue and paleHer face it was a work of art
I love that girl with all my heart
But I only like the upper part
I did not like the tail ♪
As per Paizo lore, they can be male or female. In book 3 of Ironfang Invasion AP, there specifically is a female Minotaur character.