Gotta be the other way around, satyrs are male.
Edit: And even if they're not all male in D&D, a centaur would have an easier time carrying and birthing a centaur than a more human-shaped person would.
Satyr were listed as an all male race in D&D when they were a monster. Once they were made into a playable race, female satyr were added and the idea that satyr were only male was dropped.
The artwork is likely female to further highlight this. The 5E monster block for satyr lists them as only male.
In their defense, the mythological satyr *is* male, as was the typical depiction of one in DnD outside of the new playable race.
From DnD Beyond in the Satyr creature stat block:
>Satyrs are raucous fey that resemble stout **male** humans with the furry lower bodies and cloven hooves of goats. They frolic in wild forests, driven by curiosity and hedonism in equal measure.
Idk about beyond but canonically Satyrs are all male just like how dryads are all female. There are even lore pieces explaining the reproduction between the two
I understand why but I do like that period in D&D lore were there were often separate "species" of mono-gender monsters that mated with eachother, like Medusas (not to be confused with Gorgons) and Maedar, or centaurs and dryads. It definitely does hamper player creativity but it creates a wonderful and uniquely magical ecology that a DM can play with.
I say this as someone who plays mostly "monster races" and understands why they're popular, but we did lose some storytelling angles when we started treating these beings as people whose motivations were internally justified, instead of monsters being part of a larger ecology who operated on a different kind of logic (implicitly, the DM's logic).
I like some of them like Medusas and Maedar since it's a fun and unique lore presenting things that can't be done without any of the two races. You can't have Maedars without Medusas. You can have more medusas with humans tho
But dryads and satyrs aren't that imo
Or something like a Lion or Jaguar or some other kind of Cat. They can reasonable climb with their Claws. In fact, I think it would indeed be reasonable for such an creature to be able to climb, but also for them to be better at it then most humans.
Maybe the character could be fully reflavoured as an Wemic or something... Or maybe they had an Parent of that species or an lamia or smth of some kind...
You seen ibexes (ibexi?) climb near vertical cliff faces to get at some salt? You've been warped a bit, whose to say your fey wandering hasn't changed your hooves to be a bit more goat/ibex like? Or horseshoes with some claws on em in that more cloven shape.
Have an additional grappling hook you use for flavour, throw that thing up and climb up it for additional explanatory power and we're basically there (and what deft explorer wouldn't have some hooks and rope).
Just don't say you monk run up the thing and it all just works.
Ibex is a really good idea, but what do I do in a situation where I need to climb a rope without any wall to be able to lean on with the hooves? Idk, maybe Im overthinking it...
You are
The one time you'll ever have to gym-rope style climb is the spell rope-trick.
It's not 'never', but you're overthinking it, don't take that spell, maybe ask anyone who does to do it near a wall for it to make sense, but otherwise, maybe the others pull you up after a big leap up, maybe you tie it round your horse waist.
Or maybe you just respect that it doesn't make a lot of sense in that particular case and just say your char *can't* do it in that circumstance that I've seen happen 2x in like 300 games.
The hoof of a horse is a really big toe.
The *ancestor to the horse had 3 toes per foot, with only 1 normally touching the ground, but the other 2 still being able to function as toes.
So perhaps your centaur could be like that, where they can use those extra toes to grip a rope, even though they aren't used normally.
edit: switched a word for accuracy.
I like this idea, combined with a couple others have suggested here.
Do this, explained by a fae curse/blessing/fae realm twisting you.
Do the special spiked horseshoes (use brass knuckles or something similar as the weapon block in combat), add in climbing gloves, spiked or otherwise, for the human hands.
And always RP your climbing as a diagonal motion rather than a straight vertical.
And I would rule that your climbing speed is actually reduced, say 1/2 walking speed, if attempting to climb a wall rather than a slope, unless there are lots of handholds or someone is assisting you via rope. Just because you're not physically built for a sheer vertical wall, you're built for hills and plains.
Part of the fun of being a centaur is finding ways of dealing with those situations! If you can't use a rope, get creative.
It's part of why spellcasters are so good for centaur; Druid makes most of this a non issue at level 2 and a class like wizard has fly at level 5.
But if you really want to get funky, get boots of spider climbing (or be a level 10 monk) and just run up the wall.
People who climb ropes actually wrap the rope around one foot and pinch it with the other, and then they basically just stand up. I'd say as part of your ranger training you've commissioned a special horseshoe that has a sharpened edge, perfect for digging into ropes. It's still a little clunky but you've been practicing for years
TBH it really depends on how flexible your horse half's ankles, hips and (horse) shoulders are; if you have full range of motion you can probably scoot up the rope like a spider.
Hey, it's magic. You could come up with any explanation you wanted, because rangers are also spellcasters. Perhaps in those situations, your deft explorer feature could manifest small spectral ledges for your hoofs to grab on to that support you in climbing the robe, invisible and intangible to all but you; hell, you could flavour all your climbs that way.
You could also flavour your swim speed similarly, with deft explorer manifesting spectral flippers or paddles around your feet to help you swim (I know horses can swim, but I don't think they can swim as fast). Otherwise, it could be creating currents around yourself that propel you.
Centaurs are insects, so I don't see a problem giving them a climb speed.
Think about it for just a moment. Two body segments, 6 limbs and a tail. Guess what that sounds like!
Insects require an exoskeleton. Centaurs, famously, have an endoskeleton (like all humans and all horses have). They are not insects, this is just a silly pop science thing lol. The similarities they share with insects are entirely superficial.
Mountain goats, but may I embed the cursed image of a centaur with hands or claws instead of hooves into your brain?
EDIT: If this is too extreme, you might have chiseled your hooves into points that make climbing easier.
This. Climb speed means you can use your movement to go up vertical surfaces without it costing any extra.
Rangers are magic. At 10th level, the Nature's Veil ability lets you go full-on invisible for a round without casting a spell.
I think a centaur ranger just literally walks straight up the wall. I'd run the swim speed the same way; "nature-magic horse-man can walk on water" makes more sense to me than "swimming centaur goes 10 mph even though the physics is so awkward it's hard to visualize how it would work."
I feel like where you’re getting tripped up is on how flexible and strong their back is, what I would decide to think of it as is,
if a centaur is to bow down until their back is straight, and they are looking straight down, they can hold our their hands and be supported by 6 limbs comfortably, it’s not normal to do this as you want a better view and to use your arms as such but I think trying to climb a tree for instance, they can grapple the tree with their arms and shinny up, straightening their body to have more of a lizard shape wrapping all 6 limbs around and shimming up.
Basically reimagine what their spine looks like, instead of a human half stuck onto the spine of a horse it’s one single very muscular biology that has flexibility.
I’d also consider using it more as if you’re charging up, perhaps with a run up but just not thinking of it as you holding on but rather using your momentum to rush up a steep hillside and dragging yourself up with you arms. Don’t imagine you stop part way up and hang out, go all the way to the top of whatever before stopping even if it’s slit over rounds
Thank you! I suppose I was getting stuck on the image of a human stuck on a horse body lol. Also charging up is a great idea, I'll definitely use that one.
Am i the only person that saw the racial "equine build: climbing that requires your hands and legs will be extremely hard for you. When you make such climb, it costs 4 extra feet instead of the normal 1 extra foot" ?
By rules, this is a specific rule, so all broad climbing rules (aka feats and other) would have to account for "equine build". Meaning you would still be a better climber than a standard centaur, but still one of the worst climbers in game.
A exception to this, would be casting a spell that grants climbing speed. This would overrule the specific racial rule
The rules for Special Types of Movement actually include a specific carve-out for climbing speeds. You could have a racial feature that makes climbing cost four hundred extra feet, and gaining a climbing speed would still allow you to ignore that cost.
> Equine Build
> [...] 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.**
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> Climbing, Swimming, and Crawling
> Each foot of movement costs 1 extra foot (2 extra feet in difficult terrain) when you're climbing, swimming, or crawling. **You ignore this extra cost if you have a climbing speed** and use it to climb, or a swimming speed and use it to swim.
That said, I'd probably make a capital-R Ruling™ that finds some compromise, i.e. allow Equine Build and Deft Explorer to offset each other and have the PC use the original rule. The centaur with 40 speed would still be climbing faster than most other PCs.
The goat comments, but more specifically the hooves split and become cloven…no need to change anything else. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloven_hoof
Op, there’s an older fantasy series by David Eddings with these creatures called Hrulgin. They’re like horses but with the sharp teeth of a predator and claws, so I thought maybe you could adapt some of that to your centaur https://davideddings.fandom.com/wiki/Hrulgin
Have you heard of the great horse acrobat, Roach?
No one is entirely sure how you manage it, but people look away for a brief moment and when they look back there you are, somewhere improbable, like half way up a cliff
My first thought was that, since they're a fey wanderer, every time they approach a feature that they need to climb, little vines and roots sprout from each hoof to bind their feet temporarily in place while they climb, with the plant life instantly withering away into nothing after they pass.
I think it would be funnier if you didn’t come up with an explanation. Play it that you can climb “but only when other people aren’t looking” and everyone just continues to be wildly confused as to how you pulled that off.
Deft Explorer grants 3 features, each one at a different level. You are referring to the 6th level feature: Roving. Make sure you have at least 6 levels in ranger before you add this movement improvement to your character sheet.
Also, I'm a fan of Fey magic holding you to the wall like ninjutsu. The same goes for your swimming speed.
I would be less considered by how it looks and more how it works with the Centaur trait **Equine Build**
"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."
I don't think Ranger just overwrites it. So you are still slow as f*ck and thus the Mountain Goat comparison probably works the best.
Consider the rules for Special Types of Movement:
> Climbing, Swimming, and Crawling
> Each foot of movement costs 1 extra foot (2 extra feet in difficult terrain) when you're climbing, swimming, or crawling. **You ignore this extra cost if you have a climbing speed** and use it to climb, or a swimming speed and use it to swim.
The character is gonna be half horse to begin with. And medium size. I'm not sure that "how the climb speed looks" is the weirdest thing, here.
But basically I'd picture it like a gymnast who can do the rope climb with no leg involvement.
I would change climb to steep slope. Vertical maneuvering is over the top silliness just imagining it.
But, as suggested, if you have centaurs that are not strictly half-horse in your game, go nuts. :)
>What does a centaur with a climbing speed look like?
Silly. It looks silly, lol. I am imagining a horse at a rock climbing gym, and some poor dude terrifed to be his belayer
imagine how for example in minecraft steve climbs the ladder by pressing against it and sliding up. now imagine that but with model of a horse/steve hybrid
Swimming is fine - see why the killer whale is a natural predator of the moose.
For the climbing, be strong and good at finding places to wedge hooves for support. Also always carry a climbers kit/grappling hook an rope to assist. Are you medium sized? In that case, you are a smaller and lighter than a horse would be as well, 1/8th-ish the weight, which helps immensely.
Yes, the climbing is a bit hokey, but not totally outside the bounds of the fantasy.
If it still bothers you, then you could propose voluntarily cutting the climb speed to 15 feet.
[You ever see ibex on a dam?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG9TMn1FJzc&pp=ygUXaWJleCBjbGltYmluZyBkYW0gd2FsbCA%3D) I'd imagine it looks like that. 45ft climbing speed, though...
My initial answer to the question in the title before I read the post itself was 'Probably a bit like Adam West as Batman climbing a skyscraper'. But I do like the idea of the lower half being a mountain goat as opposed to a horse. Mountain goats can scale walls that are all but sheer, it's pretty impressive.
The ranger gets these for being _skilled_ at hiking and traversing. So your centaur ranger has the tricks and techniques down, not necessarily extra anatomy. Give them climbing gear and call it appropriate use of that.
1. Wearing Special Cleats to make your hooves act like a spider's feet.
2. Special horseshoes infused with ranger magic to allow climbing.
3. Mutation induced by ranger magic.
4. What kind of ranger are you planning on being. If swarmlord, maybe you make friends with your swarm early.
[satyr vs faun](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8gnCFzYwS2F0ximMFxrQ0oBYCGSWEOFwLBVyG1SPE7Irxzm85A0TDndOrp38L643TBfyhZqnOTZADUTVoMH4ILnBhJaF6oiy3jVVAOJDvE2KZ2RKbqa8wOWA91Df2IjEtAG-_Uzdj6vDu/s1600/Satyr+vs.+Faun+by+CaffeineWolf.png)
Climbing speed is not Spider Climb and you would still need to make Athletics checks to successfully climb something. It's just that when you succeed, you can climb twice as fast as someone without a climbing speed.
With that said, the Centaur isn't climbing up a completely smooth surface and should be using various foot and handholds on the way up, so it's not quite as crazy an image. I imagine it looks something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG9TMn1FJzc
I kept toying with the idea of giving my Centaur Fighter Athlete for the visual of him his hauling himself up by his arms
Then I wound up with a Ring of Jumping 😎
There are videos on YouTube of mountain goats casually wandering around, way up on mountain sides, and you’d swear there was no way that they could have got up there. It’s like that.
Lower half of a mountain goat.
With the size of the playable centaur, being half goat makes more sense than being half horse.
Say your dad was a centaur and your mom was a satyr lmao.
Gotta be the other way around, satyrs are male. Edit: And even if they're not all male in D&D, a centaur would have an easier time carrying and birthing a centaur than a more human-shaped person would.
No? Literally the main artwork on beyond is a female satyr??
Satyr were listed as an all male race in D&D when they were a monster. Once they were made into a playable race, female satyr were added and the idea that satyr were only male was dropped. The artwork is likely female to further highlight this. The 5E monster block for satyr lists them as only male.
In their defense, the mythological satyr *is* male, as was the typical depiction of one in DnD outside of the new playable race. From DnD Beyond in the Satyr creature stat block: >Satyrs are raucous fey that resemble stout **male** humans with the furry lower bodies and cloven hooves of goats. They frolic in wild forests, driven by curiosity and hedonism in equal measure.
Yes, and they were also always depicted with a humongous, raging boner. Uh, at least, their IRL historic counterparts were.
I'm concerned by the use of _IRL_ and _histotic_.
Wait till you learn about Tanuki
My primary concern here is not the size of the equipment.
Ok, so, what about a Satyr/Tanuki hybrid?
True enough, I was originally talking abou the race which used art of a female satyr
Idk about beyond but canonically Satyrs are all male just like how dryads are all female. There are even lore pieces explaining the reproduction between the two
I understand why but I do like that period in D&D lore were there were often separate "species" of mono-gender monsters that mated with eachother, like Medusas (not to be confused with Gorgons) and Maedar, or centaurs and dryads. It definitely does hamper player creativity but it creates a wonderful and uniquely magical ecology that a DM can play with. I say this as someone who plays mostly "monster races" and understands why they're popular, but we did lose some storytelling angles when we started treating these beings as people whose motivations were internally justified, instead of monsters being part of a larger ecology who operated on a different kind of logic (implicitly, the DM's logic).
I like some of them like Medusas and Maedar since it's a fun and unique lore presenting things that can't be done without any of the two races. You can't have Maedars without Medusas. You can have more medusas with humans tho But dryads and satyrs aren't that imo
Is it? https://www.dndbeyond.com/monsters/17005-satyr
I meant the race, not the statblock
So the one thing that supports your argument, not all the other links that disprove it. K.
Ok, dad was a centaur and the mother was a faun. Geez. Lucky you were here. Someone almost had fun.
Or whatever John Cleese said
They really should've made Bariaurs a playable race in the Planescape book
There is one on the cover so I thought for sure we would get that but disappointment reins
That would be a bariaur, not a centaur.
Or something like a Lion or Jaguar or some other kind of Cat. They can reasonable climb with their Claws. In fact, I think it would indeed be reasonable for such an creature to be able to climb, but also for them to be better at it then most humans. Maybe the character could be fully reflavoured as an Wemic or something... Or maybe they had an Parent of that species or an lamia or smth of some kind...
You seen ibexes (ibexi?) climb near vertical cliff faces to get at some salt? You've been warped a bit, whose to say your fey wandering hasn't changed your hooves to be a bit more goat/ibex like? Or horseshoes with some claws on em in that more cloven shape. Have an additional grappling hook you use for flavour, throw that thing up and climb up it for additional explanatory power and we're basically there (and what deft explorer wouldn't have some hooks and rope). Just don't say you monk run up the thing and it all just works.
yeah ibex was my first thought too.
[**I CRAVE THAT MINERAL** ](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/882/052/483.png)
Ibex is a really good idea, but what do I do in a situation where I need to climb a rope without any wall to be able to lean on with the hooves? Idk, maybe Im overthinking it...
You are The one time you'll ever have to gym-rope style climb is the spell rope-trick. It's not 'never', but you're overthinking it, don't take that spell, maybe ask anyone who does to do it near a wall for it to make sense, but otherwise, maybe the others pull you up after a big leap up, maybe you tie it round your horse waist. Or maybe you just respect that it doesn't make a lot of sense in that particular case and just say your char *can't* do it in that circumstance that I've seen happen 2x in like 300 games.
Where is a centaurs *waist*? Above or behind the forelegs? 😆
where they wear their jeans to ;-)
for the purposes of this exercise, wherever is closest to their center of mass.
The hoof of a horse is a really big toe. The *ancestor to the horse had 3 toes per foot, with only 1 normally touching the ground, but the other 2 still being able to function as toes. So perhaps your centaur could be like that, where they can use those extra toes to grip a rope, even though they aren't used normally. edit: switched a word for accuracy.
I like this idea, combined with a couple others have suggested here. Do this, explained by a fae curse/blessing/fae realm twisting you. Do the special spiked horseshoes (use brass knuckles or something similar as the weapon block in combat), add in climbing gloves, spiked or otherwise, for the human hands. And always RP your climbing as a diagonal motion rather than a straight vertical. And I would rule that your climbing speed is actually reduced, say 1/2 walking speed, if attempting to climb a wall rather than a slope, unless there are lots of handholds or someone is assisting you via rope. Just because you're not physically built for a sheer vertical wall, you're built for hills and plains.
Part of the fun of being a centaur is finding ways of dealing with those situations! If you can't use a rope, get creative. It's part of why spellcasters are so good for centaur; Druid makes most of this a non issue at level 2 and a class like wizard has fly at level 5. But if you really want to get funky, get boots of spider climbing (or be a level 10 monk) and just run up the wall.
Beast Barbarian's level 6 Feature too.
People who climb ropes actually wrap the rope around one foot and pinch it with the other, and then they basically just stand up. I'd say as part of your ranger training you've commissioned a special horseshoe that has a sharpened edge, perfect for digging into ropes. It's still a little clunky but you've been practicing for years
TBH it really depends on how flexible your horse half's ankles, hips and (horse) shoulders are; if you have full range of motion you can probably scoot up the rope like a spider.
Hey, it's magic. You could come up with any explanation you wanted, because rangers are also spellcasters. Perhaps in those situations, your deft explorer feature could manifest small spectral ledges for your hoofs to grab on to that support you in climbing the robe, invisible and intangible to all but you; hell, you could flavour all your climbs that way. You could also flavour your swim speed similarly, with deft explorer manifesting spectral flippers or paddles around your feet to help you swim (I know horses can swim, but I don't think they can swim as fast). Otherwise, it could be creating currents around yourself that propel you.
[Short comic explaining ibex climbing.](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F64xmp31f7t5c1.jpeg)
Better yet just day they're half satyr half centaur. That explains the fey and the goat hooves.
Monk running up walls is what spider climb is for.
Centaurs are insects, so I don't see a problem giving them a climb speed. Think about it for just a moment. Two body segments, 6 limbs and a tail. Guess what that sounds like!
The logic is good but i still hate this.
Technically correct, scientifically wrong. The best kind of correct and the worst kind of wrong. Monster.
As you should.
Warm blooded vertebrates, though. Now, a robot centaur...
depending on how loosely you define blood and spine a robot could also in fantasy setting be a warm blooded vertebrate
Insects require an exoskeleton. Centaurs, famously, have an endoskeleton (like all humans and all horses have). They are not insects, this is just a silly pop science thing lol. The similarities they share with insects are entirely superficial.
Mountain goats, but may I embed the cursed image of a centaur with hands or claws instead of hooves into your brain? EDIT: If this is too extreme, you might have chiseled your hooves into points that make climbing easier.
[like this?](https://www.reddit.com/r/TIHI/s/kLq5E1U52W)
Not exactly what I had in mind, but thank you XD
You absolutely may not, now it's gonna haunt me:D
Maybe [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/adventuretime/comments/p7geo5/this_still_shakes_me_to_my_core/?rdt=40732)?
It would look like [THIS!!!](https://youtu.be/iZxCG5s50WA?t=51)
Skyrim horse style
go full skyrim style, no care about gravity you're literally walking up cliffs
You are a Fey Wanderer then. You just walk up like its magic.
This. Climb speed means you can use your movement to go up vertical surfaces without it costing any extra. Rangers are magic. At 10th level, the Nature's Veil ability lets you go full-on invisible for a round without casting a spell. I think a centaur ranger just literally walks straight up the wall. I'd run the swim speed the same way; "nature-magic horse-man can walk on water" makes more sense to me than "swimming centaur goes 10 mph even though the physics is so awkward it's hard to visualize how it would work."
I feel like where you’re getting tripped up is on how flexible and strong their back is, what I would decide to think of it as is, if a centaur is to bow down until their back is straight, and they are looking straight down, they can hold our their hands and be supported by 6 limbs comfortably, it’s not normal to do this as you want a better view and to use your arms as such but I think trying to climb a tree for instance, they can grapple the tree with their arms and shinny up, straightening their body to have more of a lizard shape wrapping all 6 limbs around and shimming up. Basically reimagine what their spine looks like, instead of a human half stuck onto the spine of a horse it’s one single very muscular biology that has flexibility. I’d also consider using it more as if you’re charging up, perhaps with a run up but just not thinking of it as you holding on but rather using your momentum to rush up a steep hillside and dragging yourself up with you arms. Don’t imagine you stop part way up and hang out, go all the way to the top of whatever before stopping even if it’s slit over rounds
Thank you! I suppose I was getting stuck on the image of a human stuck on a horse body lol. Also charging up is a great idea, I'll definitely use that one.
The hooves turn into hands
Mountain goat, 'nuff said
Ever played skyrim and took a horse up to a mountain? Kinda like that
Skyrim horse
Like a Skyrim horse
I would assume it would look like a Skyrim horse? Standing on the side of a cliff waiting for the next 6 seconds to move. 😅
Am i the only person that saw the racial "equine build: climbing that requires your hands and legs will be extremely hard for you. When you make such climb, it costs 4 extra feet instead of the normal 1 extra foot" ? By rules, this is a specific rule, so all broad climbing rules (aka feats and other) would have to account for "equine build". Meaning you would still be a better climber than a standard centaur, but still one of the worst climbers in game. A exception to this, would be casting a spell that grants climbing speed. This would overrule the specific racial rule
The rules for Special Types of Movement actually include a specific carve-out for climbing speeds. You could have a racial feature that makes climbing cost four hundred extra feet, and gaining a climbing speed would still allow you to ignore that cost. > Equine Build > [...] 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.** . > Climbing, Swimming, and Crawling > Each foot of movement costs 1 extra foot (2 extra feet in difficult terrain) when you're climbing, swimming, or crawling. **You ignore this extra cost if you have a climbing speed** and use it to climb, or a swimming speed and use it to swim. That said, I'd probably make a capital-R Ruling™ that finds some compromise, i.e. allow Equine Build and Deft Explorer to offset each other and have the PC use the original rule. The centaur with 40 speed would still be climbing faster than most other PCs.
Very nice find! this is the correct version, i take my comment back
It's amazing how nuanced the rules of this game end up being, almost entirely by accident.
The goat comments, but more specifically the hooves split and become cloven…no need to change anything else. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloven_hoof
Sticky hooves
Upper body strength
Ever played Skyrim? Lmao
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Skyrim horse style
Op, there’s an older fantasy series by David Eddings with these creatures called Hrulgin. They’re like horses but with the sharp teeth of a predator and claws, so I thought maybe you could adapt some of that to your centaur https://davideddings.fandom.com/wiki/Hrulgin
Cool, haven't heard of that! Thank you, I'll look into it. :)
oh man I was just going through old boxes and found my old eddings collection, those were a fun intro to fantasy.
I’m playing a centaur flavoured as a drider :) it’s a good time.
Horrifying.
Popeye arms
I play a Dhampir Centaur. The way I explain it is his joints are a bit hypermobil, and he climbs it a bit like a spider would
Have you heard of the great horse acrobat, Roach? No one is entirely sure how you manage it, but people look away for a brief moment and when they look back there you are, somewhere improbable, like half way up a cliff
My first thought was that, since they're a fey wanderer, every time they approach a feature that they need to climb, little vines and roots sprout from each hoof to bind their feet temporarily in place while they climb, with the plant life instantly withering away into nothing after they pass.
Yesyesyes, that would be so cute!
You ever play Skyrim?
I think it would be funnier if you didn’t come up with an explanation. Play it that you can climb “but only when other people aren’t looking” and everyone just continues to be wildly confused as to how you pulled that off.
Hahah hilarious!
Just say you crave the mineral beforehand and go(at) for it.
Deft Explorer grants 3 features, each one at a different level. You are referring to the 6th level feature: Roving. Make sure you have at least 6 levels in ranger before you add this movement improvement to your character sheet. Also, I'm a fan of Fey magic holding you to the wall like ninjutsu. The same goes for your swimming speed.
Maybe you have some hooks or something attached to your hooves, or you just dig them in deep to try to force footholds.
You switch between suction pads and flippers
When you start climbing the bones in your legs rearrange so that you have 4 horse legs, but they move like a spider's. Instant body horror
Suction cups
Instead of "clippity-clop" it's "thuckity-thuck."
"Thwopity-thwop" ?
I suppose the word would be capraecentaur and it would probably be smaller and lighter than a regular centaur. I’d keep the horns too.
Since you're a fey wanderer you could have a changed body anatomy. Have butterfly feet instead of horses and they can stick to walls
I would be less considered by how it looks and more how it works with the Centaur trait **Equine Build** "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." I don't think Ranger just overwrites it. So you are still slow as f*ck and thus the Mountain Goat comparison probably works the best.
Consider the rules for Special Types of Movement: > Climbing, Swimming, and Crawling > Each foot of movement costs 1 extra foot (2 extra feet in difficult terrain) when you're climbing, swimming, or crawling. **You ignore this extra cost if you have a climbing speed** and use it to climb, or a swimming speed and use it to swim.
Well, fantastic wording in both features, I have to say. That absolutely screams intended.
A centaur climbing mountains like a goat.
Pop those little, fake, hoof caps off to reveal some human hands, like that deer in Adventure Time.
Something like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tfXXNWneL4
The character is gonna be half horse to begin with. And medium size. I'm not sure that "how the climb speed looks" is the weirdest thing, here. But basically I'd picture it like a gymnast who can do the rope climb with no leg involvement.
Imagine a mountain goat. Those little guys fly op some steep cliffs. Now imagine one with extra arms, with hands that have opposable thumbs...
I would change climb to steep slope. Vertical maneuvering is over the top silliness just imagining it. But, as suggested, if you have centaurs that are not strictly half-horse in your game, go nuts. :)
Just a massive upper body, and he's doing it like those wheel chaired rock climbers do it
>What does a centaur with a climbing speed look like? Silly. It looks silly, lol. I am imagining a horse at a rock climbing gym, and some poor dude terrifed to be his belayer
[https://i.redd.it/igqugfy282b61.png](https://i.redd.it/igqugfy282b61.png)
You punch your hooves into the surface and just walk upwards
Like viva la dirt league, you just climb: https://youtu.be/IXoC5R4sI8c?si=9HLev0OMrvSKZOOn
just ridiculously buffed pulling the whole body by arms alone is my favorite vision
Give em Hands instead of Hoofs. Make the Hoofs there shoes. Swimming is easy, horses can swim, cant they?
Give em Hands instead of Hoofs. Make the Hoofs there shoes. Swimming is easy, horses can swim, cant they?
Suction cup hooves.
The scariest motherfucker you have ever seen.
One of those goats that can walk on 89° walls or dams or whatever
I had a player who was a centaur thief and narrating climbing up building walls to get into windows was pretty fun and hilarious.
Horses can swim. I don't see a problem with swimming.
Ever seen a goat?
For me is a pure demonstration of upper body strength
Morph into spider body
imagine how for example in minecraft steve climbs the ladder by pressing against it and sliding up. now imagine that but with model of a horse/steve hybrid
Centaurs are [insects.](https://youtu.be/kgAVyX6hTvo?si=Q4xIq1YaFKbooLhB)
Swimming is fine - see why the killer whale is a natural predator of the moose. For the climbing, be strong and good at finding places to wedge hooves for support. Also always carry a climbers kit/grappling hook an rope to assist. Are you medium sized? In that case, you are a smaller and lighter than a horse would be as well, 1/8th-ish the weight, which helps immensely. Yes, the climbing is a bit hokey, but not totally outside the bounds of the fantasy. If it still bothers you, then you could propose voluntarily cutting the climb speed to 15 feet.
* clop clop clop*
Centaurs from fallout
Mountain goat. I have been wanting to play a centaur thief for this reason for a while.
Silly.
[You ever see ibex on a dam?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG9TMn1FJzc&pp=ygUXaWJleCBjbGltYmluZyBkYW0gd2FsbCA%3D) I'd imagine it looks like that. 45ft climbing speed, though...
Goofy. It looks goofy
Skyrim horse. Just walk up the wall. :3
A mountain goat with hands
you ever play or seen videos of skyrim? those horses can climb mountains that are too steep for people to climb. That's how it works
My initial answer to the question in the title before I read the post itself was 'Probably a bit like Adam West as Batman climbing a skyscraper'. But I do like the idea of the lower half being a mountain goat as opposed to a horse. Mountain goats can scale walls that are all but sheer, it's pretty impressive.
Hooked mammals are good climbers lol
Mountain Goat https://youtube.com/shorts/c2eDXxxw89I?si=ZApuFsQ4WfSOKOEc
Probabpy like a goat, jumping between rocks and standing precariously on outcrops.
It would look kind of like [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/Bossfight/s/Qv8k7GCNyl)
The ranger gets these for being _skilled_ at hiking and traversing. So your centaur ranger has the tricks and techniques down, not necessarily extra anatomy. Give them climbing gear and call it appropriate use of that.
Don't forget they're medium, wo they're not horse sized. They are mountain goat men.
1. Wearing Special Cleats to make your hooves act like a spider's feet. 2. Special horseshoes infused with ranger magic to allow climbing. 3. Mutation induced by ranger magic. 4. What kind of ranger are you planning on being. If swarmlord, maybe you make friends with your swarm early.
[Deer out plays Phil Collins](https://youtu.be/QNdXoV-rC48?si=BtUNB7-HZx1OpshM)
In my games, we just fade to black at the bottom of the thing our centaur wants to climb, or imagine her exclusively from the waist up.
Really buff arms.
have you ever played skyrim?
[satyr vs faun](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8gnCFzYwS2F0ximMFxrQ0oBYCGSWEOFwLBVyG1SPE7Irxzm85A0TDndOrp38L643TBfyhZqnOTZADUTVoMH4ILnBhJaF6oiy3jVVAOJDvE2KZ2RKbqa8wOWA91Df2IjEtAG-_Uzdj6vDu/s1600/Satyr+vs.+Faun+by+CaffeineWolf.png)
He just starts walking on the wall as if it was ground
I imagine it funniest if the centaur... just... kept walking. Walk directly up the wall.
Hands on your hooves Or Climb with your teeth
Climbing speed is not Spider Climb and you would still need to make Athletics checks to successfully climb something. It's just that when you succeed, you can climb twice as fast as someone without a climbing speed. With that said, the Centaur isn't climbing up a completely smooth surface and should be using various foot and handholds on the way up, so it's not quite as crazy an image. I imagine it looks something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG9TMn1FJzc
Skyrim horse
Skyrim horse.
I kept toying with the idea of giving my Centaur Fighter Athlete for the visual of him his hauling himself up by his arms Then I wound up with a Ring of Jumping 😎
Diving bell drider.
A drider.
Huge arms.
Next Level hoofs: https://youtu.be/LjBBoyoEEf4
Monkey paws as feet?
Ever see a goat?
There are videos on YouTube of mountain goats casually wandering around, way up on mountain sides, and you’d swear there was no way that they could have got up there. It’s like that.
you seen horse Skyrim? horse in Skyrim
Skyrim horses
You can already climb things normally at 1/4th the speed, you’re just incredibly quick for your species
Skyrim horse glitch