Homebrew Half Ogre Half Bugbear Species Details

Ogres are a very simple creatures. They’re almost identical to hill giants, but lack the ability to throw boulders. Ogres are giants, costing 0.5 BP but offering no specific traits. The ogre’s only good abilities are Strength and Constitution, so we’ll grant +2 to each for 4 BP. From the stat block, we get medium size (down from large), 30 ft. walking speed, Darkvision for 2 BP, and racial languages plus Common. We’ll add Powerful Build for 0.25 BP as we have for other giants. That brings us to 6.75 BP, and leaves us with a strictly worse version of the hill giant. We need to find something else to add to the ogre to distinguish them. There isn’t anything else in their stat block to draw on, but if we look at their flavor we can come up with some ideas. Ogres get angry, and they’re good at smashing things. Siege Monster is a good start, but at only 0.5 BP it’s not enough. I want to emphasize their tantrums, but I also don’t want to steal from the barbarian. Some bonus damage or something would be a great option, and I want to motivate the ogre to continue attacking the target of their anger. Bonus damage against a previously specified target is done very well by the hunter’s mark, so we can steal from the spell’s effect. We’ll drop the Perception and Survival components of the spell and allow it to target objects, but otherwise leave it unchanged. If we allow the ogre to use this effect once per short rest, we can call it 2.5 BP.

Half Ogre Half Bugbear Traits

Ogres share the following racial traits.

Creature Type

Giant

Age

Ogres mature a little faster than humans, reaching adulthood around age 14. They age noticeably faster and rarely live longer than 75 years.

Ability Score Increase

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

Alignment

Vicious, greedy, and easily angered, most ogres are chaotic evil.

Size

Your size is medium.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Darkvision

Thanks to your orc 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.

Furious Temper

If you are insulted, confused, mocked, robber, inconvenienced, or otherwise bothered by a creature or object, you can fly into a violent tantrum. As a bonus action, choose a creature or object that you can see within 90 feet to be the subject of your tantrum. Until your tantrum ends, you deal an extra 1d6 damage to the target whenever you hit it with a weapon attack. If the target drops to 0 hit points before the end of this effect, you can use a bonus action on a subsequent turn of yours to turn your tantrum on a new creature or object.

Your tantrum lasts for 1 hour. You must maintain concentration during that time as if you were casting a spell.
After you use this ability, you can't use it again until you complete a short or long rest.

Powerful Build

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

Half Bugbear

Half-ogres have the same traits as ogres, except as noted below.

Bugbear. Half-ogres with bugbear parents lose the Siege Monster trait and gain the Stealthy trait.

Languages

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