Centaur

C forest centaur
Difficulty	8
Attacks	Projectile as weapon or melee weapon for 1d8, Kick: 1d6

C forest centaur
Difficulty	8
Attacks	Projectile as weapon or melee weapon for 1d8, Kick: 1d6
Base level	5
Base experience	66
Speed	18
Base AC	3
Base MR	10
Alignment	-1 (chaotic)
Frequency (by normal means)	Very rare
Genocidable	Yes
Weight	2550
Nutritional value	600
Size	large
Resistances	None
Resistances conveyed	None
humanoid omnivore

C mountain centaur
Difficulty	9
Attacks	Projectile as weapon or melee weapon for 1d10, Kick: 1d6, Kick: 1d6

C mountain centaur
Difficulty	9
Attacks	Projectile as weapon or melee weapon for 1d10, Kick: 1d6, Kick: 1d6
Base level	6
Base experience	84
Speed	20
Base AC	2
Base MR	10
Alignment	-3 (chaotic)
Frequency (by normal means)	Very rare
Genocidable	Yes
Weight	2550
Nutritional value	500
Size	large
Resistances	None
Resistances conveyed	None
humanoid omnivore

C plains centaur
Difficulty	6
Attacks	Projectile as weapon or melee weapon for 1d6, Kick: 1d6

C plains centaur
Difficulty	6
Attacks	Projectile as weapon or melee weapon for 1d6, Kick: 1d6
Base level	4
Base experience	51
Speed	18
Base AC	4
Base MR	0
Alignment	0 (neutral)
Frequency (by normal means)	Very rare
Genocidable	Yes
Weight	2500
Nutritional value	500
Size	large
Resistances	None
Resistances conveyed	None
humanoid omnivore

Centaurs in NetHack come in three varieties:

• Forest Centaurs
• Mountain Centaurs
• Plains Centaurs

Of all the monsters put together by the Greek imagination the Centaurs (Kentauroi) constituted a class in themselves. Despite a strong streak of sensuality, in their make-up, their normal behavior was moral, and they took a kindly thought of man's welfare. The attempted outrage of Nessos on Deianeira, and that of the whole tribe of Centaurs on the Lapith women, are more than offset by the hospitality of Pholos and by the wisdom of Cheiron, physician, prophet, lyrist, and the instructor of Achilles. Further, the Centaurs were peculiar in that their nature, which united the body of a horse with the trunk and head of a man, involved an unthinkable duplication of vital organs and important members. So grotesque a combination seems almost un-Greek. These strange creatures were said to live in the caves and clefts of the mountains, myths associating them especially with the hills of Thessaly and the range of Erymanthos.

Mythology of All Races, Vol. 1, pp. 270-271

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