Playing Centaurs in Dungeons and Dragons 5e 

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

Bravo sir, new favorite comment

Shouldn't you be a centaur bard then?

Lol

*Slow Clap*

... oh, I'm definitely using this.

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.

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).

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.

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

😂

With a custom attack called 5000 Candles in the Wind

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

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!🤯

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.

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

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

Daniel Jewell Horizon Clopper

@@thegreatone4948 haha nice

I actually have a horizon walker ranger centaur right now.

Part mountain goat instead of a horse.

halfling/goat centaur subrace

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.

"In Mercia? Coconuts are tropical!"

you could also go divine soul with a Pegasus grandparent and still get wings.

or a vengeance paladin, they get wings

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.

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

my brain needed to reboot after reading this

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)?

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. :)

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.

Stay tuned!

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.