by Ray Cordova, iltharanos@yahoo.com last updated on July 15, 2015 at 11:07:58 AM

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Ogre Ogres are towering bulky humanoids with a reputation

for brutality and depravity renowned and abhorred by

the civilized races. Despite this fearsome reputation,

there exist some rare ogres that defy these stereotypes.

Ugly and Tough

The average ogre stands between 9 and 10 feet tall. They

have yellowish skin, usually marred by various blotches,

pustules, and other deformities. Sometimes lean,

sometimes fat, ogres are always very strong and very

dense. Their basic toughness makes them very hard to

kill.

Furious and Stupid

Ogres are renowned for their tempers, and even moreso

for their dimwittedness. Unfortunately for others

involved, what ogres don’t understand they tend to get

angry at, and hit.

High Mountains

Ogres are most content in high mountains, luxuriating in

the feeling that they are higher than all others and that

they rule all they can see.

Plunder and Persecution

Many ogres will descend from their lofty mountain

homes to raid the races that dwell below them. Those

ogres with a more neutral outlook tend to be ostracized

by their more malevolent kin, and seek work with the

common races as mercenaries, and rarely as adventurers.

Ogre Names

Female variations of names and words are often followed

by an apostrophe and a vowel. For example, male names

may include Baloth and Grul, while female variations are

Baloth’a and Grul’i. What significance this may have is

largely unknown, as scholars have been unable to get

close enough to an ogre to ask and live to tell about it.

Male Names: Baloth, Bassar, Belgroch, Bolthor,

Dauroth, Donnag, Elrauth, Feriik, Gobasch, Groller,

Grul, Horagh, Hundjal, Kourrul, Kohver, Lubbar, Molok,

Mornag, Olagh, Raungh, Torangh, Ugo, Vis

Female Names: Baloth’a, Grul’I, Naggan, Vis’u

Clan Names: Darghen, Gorge, Grangh, Kern, Klargh,

Kreln, Reckt, Ripper, Stonefist

Ogre Traits:

Your ogre character has an array of abilities proving you

are the toughest of the common races.

Ability Score Increase. Your Strength score increases

by 2, and your Constitution score increases by 1.

Age. Ogres reach maturity in their early twenties, and

typically live for a few decades over a century.

Alignment. Most ogres are chaotic evil, though some

few are neutral in their outlook.

Size. Ogres stand between 9 and 10 feet tall and weigh

close to a thousand pounds. Your size is Large.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 40 feet.

Darkvision. Thanks to your ogre blood, you have

superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see

in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright

light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can’t

discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.

Renowned Stupidity. Ogres lack the robust mental

architecture of the common races. Ogres have

disadvantage on all Intelligence-related checks.

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common

and Giant.

and Giant.

Ogre by Christopher Burdett