Norm the yellow minotaur first showed up in a Pathfinder game run by my friend Chris. Norm was a minotaur monster we were supposed to fight, but instead my half-orc bard Zinnia charmed him, convinced him we were his best friends, and got him to fight along with us. He confided in her that his favorite color was yellow, so Zinnia on the spot gave him her hat of disguise, allowing Norm to choose to forever look yellow!

Now, Norm has become the cleric/sacred fist character of my friend Jody in our round robin level 20 D&D 3.5 game. He follows the teachings of Charlie, and this mini is Jody's Christmas present this year! Norm is a Reaper Bones minotaur miniature with his weapons (and one hand) replaced by bitz from the ever popular bitz box of Warhammer leftovers! This includes a great maul weapon from the Giant, and a punching dagger from the Ogre Kingdoms. Norm's tattoos are a heart that says "Mom," an anchor, and the Greek for "Charlie" across his back. (At least, according to the internet, that's what it says.) Like my paint job on Charlie, this one cracked for some reason. Charlie and Norm are my first tries at painting Bones miniatures, so maybe it's just that my old, cheap acrylics (replacing them soon, I swear!) don't work well on flexible plastic minis. I don't know. Since I've got 100+ Bones minis coming to me in March, I'll have plenty of time to figure it out, I guess.

I'm delighted to say that Jody, like everyone else who got minis from me this year, loved his present.