Homebrew Ponytaur Species Details

The clan worked harder than ever that winter, spring was full of threats, big and small, old and new, and that led to some deaths, but more importantly, it led to a lot of passage rites. The vast majority achieved their new adulthood status, they were colts no more and they were anxious to prove their value to the clan, to prove they deserved the new responsibilities.

Everyone had a chance to be an adult no matter the way they choose to earn it. But those who decided to become adults by exploration, bringing knowledge, experience and information from the outside world, won’t earn their new name until they came back to the clan… and many would die before that.

Hulamin knew that and still grabbed her backpack, set a few things, tapped the war pick in her belt and walked away while the village kept going on about their businesses uninterrupted.

Bernal Hodata - ”Forgotten month's diaries”

 

Beyond wide valleys, almost hidden in mountain bases and well located hills, ponytaur society find their homes, where they live and thrive. Training, passing their lore to the calfs, or making art, knitting, smithing, or any form of creating for the sole purpose of creating beauty, ponytaurs are usually rude but peaceful people that share the world with every other race and try no to get overwhelmed by them.

Sturdy Cavalry

Ponytaurs have heavy humanoid torsos, from shoulders to waist, they seem built for war, big and sturdy, the lower part is that of an equine, but smaller and wider than those of a horse, their legs are shorter but more dense and durable, they can weight somewhere between 450 and 550 pounds and can reach up to 4 or 5 feet.
Their thick fur covers all the lower body and a good part of the humanoid, including their pointy, hairy ears, which look almost like smaller horse ears. This fur varies in colour from all the human range and itt matches in both the upper and lower body, they can, and is usually irregular and have some distinctive spots with different colours.Their manes grow from the forehead to the rump.
They have wide noses and round eyes with no eyebrows.

Clans, Rites and Crafts

La sociedad de los ponitauros se cimienta en la existencia de clanes, formados por entre 40 y 100 individuos, que se reparten el territorio manteniendo relaciones comerciales y asistiéndose mutuamente en situaciones de necesidad. Tienen asentamientos en forma de pueblos amurallados y sus territorios se extienden ampliamente por entornos naturales de los que cuidan y a los que protegen ferozmente ante las posibles amenazas.
Son celosos de su privacidad y les cuesta convivir con otras razas, aún así, a veces se relacionan con enanos de poblaciones próximas para hacer intercambio de bienes o conocimientos.
There are no fixed set of laws in ponytaur society, just a small bunch of clan shared rules kept by tradition, they are written, overlooked, and/or enforced by each clan's chief which is elected by all the adults in the clan.
Aunque hacen uso de la escritura, la tradición oral es muy importante. Son excelentes narradores y poseen numerosas leyendas relativas a su origen e historia.
Son buenos artesanos y tienen un gusto particular por decorar los objetos de uso cotidiano; coloridas telas con motivos geométricos, vasijas con dibujos narrativos, utensilios de madera con tallas...

Ponytaur Names

Centaurs’ given names are passed down through family lines. The name bestowed on a new foal is typically the name of the most recently deceased family member of the same gender, keeping alive the memory — and, the centaurs believe, some shard of the spirit — of the departed. Centaurs don’t use family names, but they wear symbols that represent their family membership. These symbols might include graphical representations of plants or animals, printed mottoes, braids and beads worn in the hair and tail, or even specific patterns of woven fabric.

Birth Names: Hulamin, Raggelis, Solmanil, Dearthas, Yesamin, Nebaras, Lorahkdain, Meldan, Bakkulain, Elzeres, Balikaf, Ferrotan, Sohliaka.

Adult Names:

Ponytaur Traits

Your ponytaur character has the following racial traits.

Ability Score Increase

Your Constitution score increases by 2, and your Inteligent score increases by 1.

Age

Ponytaurs mature and age at about the same rate as humans, but they can live up to 140 years.

Alignment

Centaurs are inclined toward neutrality. Those who join the Selesnya are more often neutral good, while those who join the Gruul are typically chaotic neutral.

Size

Ponytaurs stand between 4 and 5 feet tall, with their equine bodies reaching about 2,5 feet at the withers. Your size is Medium.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 35 feet.

Hooves

Your hooves are natural melee weapons, which you can use to make unarmed strikes. If you hit with them, you deal bludgeoning damage equal to 1d4 + your Strength modifier, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike.

Equine Build

You count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity and the weight you can push or drag.

In addition, any climb that requires hands and feet is especially difficult for you because of your equine legs. When you make such a climb, each foot of movement costs you 4 extra feet, instead of the normal 1 extra foot.

Ponytaur Combat Training

You have proficiency with the pike, war pick and warhammer.

Clan Craftsman

You have proficiency in one of the following tool kits of your choice:

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Common, Dwarvish and Sylvan.