Homebrew Ogre Species Details

Ogres are hulking giants notorious for their quick tempers. When its rage is incited, an ogre lashes out in a frustrated tantrum until it runs out of objects or creatures to smash.

Furious Tempers

Ogres are notorious for their quick tempers, which flare at the smallest perceived offense. Insults and name-calling can rouse an ogre’s wrath in an instant — as can stealing from it, bumping, jabbing, or prodding it, laughing, making faces, or simply looking at it the wrong way. When its rage is incited, an ogre lashes out in a frustrated tantrum until it runs out of objects or creatures to smash.

Gruesome Gluttons

Ogres eat almost anything, but they especially enjoy the taste of dwarves, halflings, and elves. When they can, they combine dinner with pleasure, chasing scurrying victims around before eating them raw. If enough of its victim remains after the ogre has gorged itself, it might make a loincloth from its quarry’s skin and a necklace from its leftover bones. This macabre crafting is the height of ogre culture.

Greedy Collectors

An ogre’s eyes glitter with avarice when it sees the possessions of others. Ogres carry rough sacks on their raids, which they fill with fabulous “treasure” taken from their victims. This might include a collection of battered helmets, a moldy wheel of cheese, a rough patch of animal fur fastened like a cloak, or a squealing, mud-spattered pig. Ogres also delight in the gleam of gold and silver, and they will fight one another over small handfuls of coins. Smarter creatures can earn an ogre’s trust by offering it gold or a weapon forged for a creature of its size.

Ogre Traits

Your ogre character has the following racial traits.

Ability Score Increase

Your Strength score increases by 2, and your Constitution score increases by 1.

Age

Ogres undergo rapid physical development, which is a necessity as few ogres live to even thirty years of age. Since ogres almost always meet a violent end, their natural lifespan is unknown.

Alignment

Ogres are gluttonous savages notorious for their quick tempers. Ogres are usually chaotic evil.

Size

The average adult ogre stands between 9 and 10 feet tall and weighs close to a thousand pounds. Your size is Large

Speed

Your base walking speed is 40 feet.

Darkvision

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.

Menacing

You gain proficiency in the Intimidation skill.

Giant Build

Due to your hulking physical build, you only require one free hand to wield a two-handed weapon, and you can wield a versatile weapon with one free hand while gaining the benefit of holding it with two hands.

You also require any non-magical armor to be tailor made for you, as most armors are made for Medium sized creatures.

Ogre Toughness

Your hit point maximum increases by 1, and it increases by 1 every time you gain a level.

Languages

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