i'm DMing my party took out 2 ogres

So many Shrek jokes

You know there always been one things I have wondered when looking at this state block....

Why don't Ogres...Speak Ogre! It a language option for PC's and yet, ogres don't even speak it! At least according to this statblock

Where? Where does it say that PCs can speak Ogre?

Quote from Green_Legion >>

Do you know what an interesting thought which came to my mind was? What if there was an enemy which was an intelligent Ogre? Think about it. This individual would somehow (leave it to anyone who cares enough to use this to figure out a reason) have intelligence which it could use to properly use tactics and trick people/adventurers. Especially if it pretended to be stupid so it could cause itself to be underestimated a bit. Just thought it was an interesting concept which I wanted to share.

 That's sort of the niche verbeeg are meant to fill. They share an ogre's half-giant ancestry, so, although they're clever tacticians, they often play dumb to inspire false confidence in adventurers who may think they're just dealing with a skinnier ogre

There’s a story about a ogre that tricks his enemies in Warhammer 40k. He lets himself be captured and locked away, then at the right moment smashes out of the cage, throws himself down the stairs (crushing people on the way) and opens the gates for his tribe to arrive. These are different to DND ones obviously but in 40K they’re chased by an “Everwinter”, so they bring a frost storm with them and they’re cursed with eternal hunger. Somehow this one managed to feel starving long enough to pull of the trap. 

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this be like for weak guys ok now you die

I see nothing wrong with giving them reach weapons and armor . 

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Dog 1 22

Dog 2 20

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#shrek

OMG, I never even thought of that XD
I was trying to come up with some fun random encounters.
I might have to steal that from you XD

Ogres, my lord!

THIS GUY NEW ABOUT THE GUY FROM BG3 BEFORE IT CAME OUT

white shrek

OH HELLO THERE - shrek 

Quote from Shadracht >>

Does anyone know what the driving force behind making large humanoids only have 5 ft reach?  It feels like a significant downgrade in their threat. 

 i dont know

That is hilarious! Im going to steal that for my campaign!

Literally had a player take one down alone at level 1. It was hecking NUTS. He was a half orc monk and he was know for the most absurd crits ever. Seriously his dice luck was freaking unreal. But I saw him roll them both digitally and with different dice.

So he fights this ogre  alone, the rest of the players busy, crits him 2 or 3 times the ogre only hits him once and gets unlucky with the damage and BAMM falls,  still stands as the unquestioned how the hell did that just happen in the campaign.

But yes, usually ogres are very dangerous.

This particular player has a lot of these moments but it never seizes to amaze me. He also saved the party from 2 tpks with a crit and a 19 respectively so yeah. Madlad.