Homebrew Half-Ogre Species Details

Half-ogres are the offspring and result of an ogre mating with a human, orc, hobgoblin, or bugbear. Typically, the father is the ogre and the mother human, resulting in the death of the half-ogre's mother upon delivery of her child. Half-ogres, or Ogrillion, are usually raised in cruel environments within a herd or tribe. Half-ogres are stronger than most orcs due to their ogre lineage, leading them to be champions or high ranking warriors. However, their human heritage can result in a soft heart, leading to the banishment of some half-ogres from their tribes. Otherwise, half-ogres are fierce and brutal humanoids with short tempers and somewhat simple minds. Do not test a half-ogres strength or temper for that matter, for it will your final thought before they tear you apart.

Furious Tempers. Similar to their ogre parent, half-ogres posses short tempers. They will become increasingly angry when insulted or severely wounded in the heat of battle, making them a force to be reckoned with if such a person should insult one.

Single Parents. Half-ogre's usually have ogre fathers. As a result, the mother, in delivering the half-ogre, dies because the child she bears is so massive in size. This leaves most half-ogres with their brutish and stupid fathers, being raised in that similar way within a tribe or herd.

Heart Over Body. Despite being raised to plunder and kill, half-ogres with human mothers have soft hearts due to their human heritage. This leads to the half-ogre either being killed, banished from his tribe, or abandoned by his father due to his tenderness. Any other racial lineage, hobgoblin, orc, or bugbear, rather makes the half-ogre even more brutal than his father.

Lonesome Living. The half-ogres with human mothers who do manage to survive the cruelty of their tribe or fathers rejection then must face a similar life in the open world. Not being fully accepted into human society, half-ogres wander a lonesome life, searching for friends or a challenge to accept making them rare but great adventurers.

Half-Ogre Traits

Your half-ogre character has certain traits deriving form your ogre ancestry.

Ability Score Improvement

Your Strength and Constitution scores increase by 2 while your Intelligence score decreases by 1.

Age

Half-ogres have lifespans comparable to humans and ogres. They enter adulthood in their late teens and usually live less than a century.

Alignment

Half-ogres, due to their brutish society and short tempers, tend to have a extremely chaotic bent. Although, those with human lineage lean towards good alignments due to humans softer hearts while half-ogres with other racial mothers lean toward evil alignments.

Size

Half-ogres are between 7 and 8 feet tall and weigh 280 to 400 pounds depending on how much of your ogre heritage shows. Your size is Medium.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Darkvision

Inherited form your ogre lineage, your eyes are naturally adapted to seeing in the darkness of caverns and caves. You can see in dim light withing 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 grey.

Menacing

You have proficiency in the Intimidation skill.

Tantrum

Your short temper and sensitive ego make you a force to be reckoned with when insulted or injured. When you are under you hit point maximum or insulted by another creature/humanoid (DM's disgression) your critical hit range increases to 19-20.

Powerful Build

You count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity and the weight you can push, drag, or lift.

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Common and Giant.