Monstrous Lair #6: Minotaur Den by Creighton Broadhurst is a role playing game supplement published by Raging Swan Press. The supplement is stated to be system neutral, but also compatible with any version of Dungeons & Dragons, and is therefore covered by the Open Game License with some parts considered to be Open Game Content as a result.
The supplement is available for $1.45 from DriveThruRPG but was purchased at a reduced price thanks to a special offer. The supplement comes in two versions, a plaintext file and an eight-page PDF. Two pages of the PDF are the front and rear covers, two pages are ads, about half a page is the front matter and Contents and one page is the Open Game License.
Using this Monstrous Lair is a standard piece of text and explains what the tables are and that the supplement makes two assumptions; the GM has a map of the lair and stats for monsters and details of any treasure.
After some introductory paragraphs on minotaurs, the d10 tables follow.
1: Outside the Lair describes what might be found immediately outside.
2: What’s Going On? has various activities the minotaur might be doing.
3: Major Lair Feature notes a point of interest that is comparatively major.
4: Minor Lair Feature is similar, but the feature is essentially smaller.
5: Minotaur Appearance has options for customising the minotaur.
6: Treasure has some items of, sometimes fairly worthless, treasure.
7: Trinkets & Trash are pieces of generally worthless stuff.
Monstrous Lair #6: Minotaur Den in Review
The PDF is bookmarked, with major and minor sections linked. The Contents is to a similar level of depth and is hyperlinked. Navigation is good. The text maintains a two-column format and appeared to be free of errors. There’s a single stock black and white illustration. Presentation is okay.
This is another in a series of simple supplements; the contents are essentially two pages long, a set of seven d10 tables. For making a minotaur and its lair more interesting, this definitely works. The only question might be, how many minotaur lairs is a GM going to need to individually describe? However, except for the two minotaur-specific tables, the rest of the content can be repurposed to other places, making the supplement more generically useful. That does, though, mean the supplement is less tied to minotaurs and therefore more like a generic supplement, which is a shame. Monstrous Lair #6: Minotaur Den can be found by clicking here.
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