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[briefbestiary]

A beast with a burning dung-based defense system. Its bowel release system is its notable form of self-protection.

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Hydro Yaksha, Bonasus

[thecreaturecodex]

Bonnacon

Image © Connor James Lachmanec, accessed at his deviantArt page here

[The last published Creature Codex was titled “Europe’s Forgotten Foes”, devoted to creatures inspired mostly by medieval bestiaries. What the European bison did to be immortalized as a burning poop monster, I’m not sure. I also included a variant based on Greek myth, the khalkotaur, for DMs who want to have a fiery bull monster without the scatology.]

Bonnacon CR 5 N Magical Beast This great bovine beast has a humped back and a horse-like mane. Its tail is short and curled, as are its two horns.

The gentle herbivorous cattle-like creatures known as bonnacon are rightly feared despite their tranquility, for when riled they have a potent and vile defensive mechanism. Bonnacons are capable of spraying their opponents with red-hot sticky feces over phenomenal distances. Bonnacons are skittish creatures that prefer to flee than fight; they generally use their fecal spray while running away from attackers. Only if cornered or if their young are threatened will a bonnacon use its natural weapons.

Despite their relatively mundane appearances, bonnacons are creatures of elemental fire inside a fleshy shell, and feed continuously to stoke their internal flame. Due to this high need for resources, individual bonnacons maintain wide ranges and rarely interact, except to find and keep mates. The inward curving horns of a bonnacon are not very effective melee weapons, but male bonnacons use them to spar for the attentions of females. A bonnacon stands five feet high at the shoulder and weighs in the neighborhood of 1,000 pounds. Like other bovines, the bulls are larger than the cows.

Khalkotaur Khalkotaurs are great fire-breathing bulls with horns and hooves of bronze. Favored beasts of the gods of artifice, khalkotaurs are viewed as sacred in many cultures. Defeating or taming a khalkotaur is seen as a sign of great skill. A khalkotaur uses the same statistics as a bonnacon with the following modifications:

A khalkotaur has a breath weapon mechanically identical to the fecal blast, but it manifests as a cone of flames from the nose and mouth.

A khalkotaur loses the docile special quality and treats its gore attack as a primary natural weapon

A khalkotaur replaces its Endurance feat with Multiattack

A khalkotaur gains DR 5/magic

A khalkotaur is a CR 6 creature.

Bonnacon             CR 5 XP 1,200 N Large magical beast (fire) Init +0; Senses low-light vision, Perception +13 Defense AC 19, touch 9, flat-footed 19 (-1 size, +10 natural) hp 51 (6d10+18) Fort +8, Ref +5, Will +5 Immune fire; Weakness vulnerable to cold Offense Speed 40 ft. Melee gore +7 (1d8+3), 2 hooves +7 (1d4+3) Space 10 ft.; Reach 5 ft. Special Attacks fecal blast, trample (DC 20, 1d6+10) Statistics Str 25, Dex 10, Con 16, Int 2, Wis 13, Cha 5 Base Attack +6; CMB +14; CMD 24 (28 against trip) Feats Endurance, Iron Will, Skill Focus (Perception) Skills Acrobatics +6 (+10 when jumping), Perception +10 SQ docile Ecology Environment temperate and warm hills Organization solitary or pair Treasure none Special Abilities Docile (Ex) Unless trained for combat, a bonnacon treats all of its natural weapons as secondary weapons. Fecal Blast (Su) Three times per day as a standard action, a bonnacon may expel burning feces in a 60 foot cone, dealing 6d6 points of fire damage to all creatures in the area; a DC 16 Reflex save halves the damage. Creatures that fail the Reflex save are coated in the burning feces and take 3d6 points of fire damage for the next 1d4 rounds unless the fires are doused with at least a gallon of water or the creature succeeds a DC 16 Reflex save made as a full action. Dropping prone and rolling on the ground grants a +4 bonus to this save. A bonnacon can use its fecal blast once every 1d4 rounds. The save DC is Constitution based.

[dwollsadventures]

Summoner Saga - Bonnacon

(Hellenistic Natural Philosophy)

This bovid is perhaps one of the most surprisingly strange creatures of Rhodia. At a glance the bonnacon is an unfortunate animal: stubby legs incapable of running away from predators and two short, inward curving horns ill-equipped for defense. They may have gone the way of the dodo had nature not given them a novel defense: flaming, projectile excreta. In addition to normal defecation, bonnacons can expel their feces at such a high pressure that it can travel many hundreds of feet. Their defensive excreta is covered in a strange substance which bursts into flames when in contact with oxygen. Thankfully their bottoms are covered in thick, fire-proof skin. Bonnacons have few predators willing to hunt them. Drakons, chimeras, and Nemean lions will give herds a wide berth. Even humans and centaurs are unwilling to try. Bonnacon herds are associated with wildfires, which extinguish the flatulent bovids. This is why they typically live in wet, humid plains and forests. Travelers in bonnacon lands tread carefully. The flammable substance which covers their dung eventually dissipates. Sometimes it can survive in the center, making their cowpats land-mines. Rural tribes use these to defend their hill forts. They must collect them from the wild, as keeping bonnacons near wooden structures is to tempt fate. 

-Habitat: The plains and grasslands of Rhodia.

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Bonnacon – mythical creature

Bonnacon – mythical creature

The bonnacon – also known as bonasus; bonacho or vilde kow – is a legendary creature described as a bull with inwardly-curving horns and a horse-like mane.

First described by Pliny the Elder, medieval bestiaries usually depict the bonnacon’s colouring as reddish-brown or black. Due to the fact its ram-like horns were useless for self-defence, the bonnacon was said to expel large amounts of…

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Bonnacon: The Most Ridiculous Medieval Monster • Lazer Horse

Medieval monsters came in all shapes and forms. Here’s one with a relatively normal form but very abnormal bowels. Meet the bonnacon.

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The website of the Aberdeen Bestiary Project, part of the Historic Collections at the University of Aberdeen.

Of the bonnacon in The Aberdeen Bestiary

In Asia an animal is found which men call bonnacon. It has the head of a bull, and thereafter its whole body is of the size of a bull's with the maned neck of a horse. Its horns are convoluted, curling back on themselves in such a way that if anyone comes up against it, he is not harmed. But the protection which its forehead denies this monster is furnished by its bowels. For when it turns to flee, it discharges fumes from the excrement of its belly over a distance of three acres, the heat of which sets fire to anything it touches. In this way, it drives off its pursuers with its harmful excrement.

Image of the Bonnacon in the fifteenth-century English bestiary Copenhagen, GKS 1633 4º, f. 10r