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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
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