Paizo has confirmed that the Centaur and Minotaur ancestries in the upcoming Howl of the Wild book will be large size by default, with a heritage each that make them medium.
Now thematically, I think that makes sense, 5e’s ponytaurs always seemed like a cop-out. However mechanically, large size has the benifits that it allows you to reach more squares, even without additional reach, and makes it impossible for small creatures to grapple you. So I’m wondering if that’s powerful enough to require some kind of downside to balance it out.
What do ya’ll think?
I feel like there would be a speed penalty for being large and that possibly they might remove reach as a benefit of Large for those ancestries. But I have no idea how close my thoughts are to what they would do.
I hope it’s not that. Being half horse and going slower would be a hard pill to swallow. I could definitely see that with minotaur though. Bipedal with hooves sounds like a recipe for disaster.
Yeah it would make no sense for either to be slower than a medium creature.
If anything, they should be faster.
But they should also have more hp, be stronger and such.
So I really wonder where the balance negatives would happen.
Maybe maluses to saves (not fortitude) or stats?