Oh, man, ogres are the worst. They'll tear out your spleen! Eat your liver! Squeeze the jelly from your eyes! Actually, it's quite good on toast.

An Ogre Lich, it's all ogre now

To be fair to the Ogres, most things are less intelligent than a Chimpanzee....including some humans...

Oh boi. Time for me to play an Ogre paladin of the crown:"Legal text says your wagon is one foot to broad. Now pay fine or get club."

I used the ogre bolt launcher in my game, a ogre runt stole a ballista from a castle cause he thought it was cool. The party found him in the wilderness and since they were the first people to ever treat him nice he thought they were his friends, so he helped protect them through the wilderness... Honestly, i was expecting a quick fight and be done with it as a random encounter i rolled before the session, but they loved him, and took him in as one of their own... poor ogre never stood a chance against the aberrations they would find on their journey. Though he did manage the killing blow on a dragon before then... so at least he had a bit of glory.

1:57 I would disagree, Trolls and Ogres can get along just fine. My first Roommate and I did. I called him an Ogre, he called me a Troll. Living in a basement apartment just confirmed the optics, we were a brutish pair of friends living in our own filth for 3 years.

"They sometimes breed with humans, or should i say humans will breed with just about everything" Those kinky humans. The mount everything they can find. XD

"I'm on the brute squad." "_On the brute squad? You_ are _the brute squad_"

DMed a session last weekend, where train robbers had ogres that wielded small cannons. Pretty lethal, but the ogre needed a bandit to load their cannons, since they are dummies. They are pretty straight forward monsters, but I think it isn't that hard to spice them up somewhat.

Guard: How did you big dumb brutes escape from your cells, the metal on those bars are indestructible to all but magic. Ogre: Well, you see, metal no birack because as you said, it magic, so we smashed stone walls instead because stones not magic. Mastermind Rouge: Hummm, a very clever plan for a person who can't count to twenty without taking off his shoes.

Lame people: Ogres are just simple slightly smaller hill Giants. There is nothing going on with them lore wise. Loremaster Aj Puckett: *Makes a 26 minute video about them detailing everything he could*

"Humans will breed with just about anything." The most realistic thing said about d&d lmao

Humans will breed with just about anything.....Even in DnD we can't escape our heresy.

You come around the tree to investigate the guttural moans and high pitched screams "GET THE BAD STUFF OUT! you hear splitting the night sky..... to an ogre having a violent and pitched.... yet losing battle with diarrhea. Roll initiative.

A kraken mind-controlling an entire clan of ogres too rapidly breed with themselves and humans, so the kraken could have a really big army, pretty fast

They dislike things smaller and smarter than them, huh? Does that make gnomes the race they hate the most?

I have a bit of a soft spot for big, dopey brutes... Shoot... Come to think of it: some of my finest friends could be described as such.

"Ogres don't get happily ever afters"

I don't play D&D but still love your videos. They make my job a bit more bearable. Thank you.

SomeBODY ONCE TOLD ME

I feel like a human or similar sized creature should do more damage than a medium sized rock when thrown. 1d4+4 is not enough damage for having a 100-250 lb meat puppet that is potentially wearing metal armor and weighed down by adventuring gear and loot from adventuring thrown at you from at least 10 feet in the air. A Gnome with a Strength of 18 can do the same damage with a club. This is where I feel the PHB falls a little short on covering this type of stuff, especially since it happens surprisingly often whenever Large Humanoids are involved. I should not be able to do the same damage to an Ogre by swinging a table leg as it does to me by swinging a Half-Orc.

20:45 Amazing Half-Ogre artwork.

Your channel has helped me more then I could ever say in a comment. This is my number 1 D&D KZfaq channel. I've been creating a huge sprawling campaign and your help has been essential. Keep up the amazing work and thanks.

Two headed orger im ready master. other head: im not ready!

It's all Ogre now. I think Ogres aren't ever horrifying enough. They should be both shock horror and capable and willing to do the worst things imaginable. I've made my own Ogre lore in which people tend to avoid hunting them despite the reward due to what could happen if they fail in killing the thing.

If they hate humans for being better at them at knuckle bones they must really hate halflings.

Verbeeg & Ogres seem way to light especially because they are also bulky creatures. verbeeg= 274cm & 204kg Ogres = 310cm & 268kg When a massive human like Hafþór Björnsson is 206cm & 205kg.

Fun fact: ogre turns up in folklore, both British and French, meaning something like “man-eater” and they don’t necessarily have to be particularly large, though they often are. The ogre mage, contrary to internet wisdom wasn’t originally based on the oni, instead being based on the Blue Ogre from Lang’s Fairy Books (I forget which colour), who had all of the listed powers from the star block. Some tended towards something akin to wendigo, with humans becoming one after eating enough human meat.

I feel like with all of the comments I leave I don’t say this enough but thank you for making awesome videos that are both informative and entertaining, as well as taking the time to actually respond to fan questions and random jokes. Keep up the great work AJ. 👍

I have a soft spot for ogres. They sit in a really interesting place where they could be a pretty much mindless monster, that no guilt over killing such a horrid beast. But under the right circumstances could act as an NPC, where the stupidity is not their fault and could have reasonable grievances over being badly treated. Possibly a bodyguard pet with a careful balance of not insulting, but also not getting it cocky. I especially like Oni. Just recently did some homebrew creation of a player race half-oni, I called it an Oni-Kin. Kind of funny timing. Gave me some ideas to create other Japanese myths inspired races, currently putting together a tengu as maybe related to Kenku.

The 3.5 ogres are my favorite visual interpretation as their lanky bodies and long heads make them look more animal like and distinct from giants.

Reminds of the Princess Bride....Half-Ogres aren't on the brute squad...they are brute squad.

Ogre magi vs. Common Human. Imagine it, visualize it. *SPLAT*

These fantasy monster weights are way, way too low! Not the first time I've thought this, but Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson (The Mountain) is 6 foot 8 inches and 386 pounds. (206cm and 175kg)

The walls meant to go around my swamp, not right through it!

I do not play D&D anymore, but enjoy your videos very much. Thank you for making them.

"Ogres don't eat vegetables unless they feel sick." Well now I just feel called out.

I'm an ogre, RAWR!

Man the weights of d&d monsters are so off, I don’t mean to call out d&d, but the way ogres are built, along with being around 10 feet tall? They should be around a ton, but their official weights is like a quarter of that

What a layered analysis

13:41 Between this video and Total Recall, I've learned there's a right way and a wrong way to give a creature three boobs...

Great video Kiwi,Ogres are an excellent low level high strength baddie to use for just about ANY occassion. I personally like using them in my bad guys campaign as training tools for my newest PCs to work with!

Ogre mage is one of my favorites.

Ogre, half giant, half tardigrade on a bad day.

In my campaigns, I created High Ogres (not the same as High Ogres of other campaigns). They pretty much Ogres in physical stats but are twice as tall as humans, 10x as massive, and look like large-jawed prominent-brow-ridge versions of humans. Their alignment and culture are very similar to Dwarves but are more on the outside of mountains than within, favoring employing shorter races for the actual mining. They are not stupid at all and often rival giants and ally themselves with Dwarves, usually, the anti-giant alliance brokers a peace and friendship between the two races during the alliance. During the alliances they see that they are kindred spirits with Dwarves in many ways, especially their Lawful social structures, artistic tastes (not jewelry, High Ogres care not for jewels nor gems aside from using gems as money), shared rivals, metalworking, and daur pragmatism. Their metabolism is very efficient, making them need only 2x the consumption of a human of half its height. They are basically giant humans that follow an almost Dwarfen society with a better Ogre biology. I allow them as player characters only in advanced campaigns. Half High-Ogres (human) are like the 2nd Ed Complete Humanoids' Handbook version but look very much like larger normal humans and have different stat modifiers and racial restrictions. One, they can be anything unrestricted like a Human. Two, Bonus to STR and CON and sacrifice DEX... STR and CON minimums make them better there. Three, females are equal to males in all ways (attractive to those with high-ogre blood, more attractive if the female is seen as a physical superior). Four, any magical device that is not specifically designed to the Half High-Ogres's class has a chance to not work (Gnome Magic Item Failure roll, multi-classing reduces this effect at the cost of being a multi-classed character). Five, powerful leap and strike (bare hands are considered clubs, leaping distance is doubled, and charging an enemy with a weapon is considered as advantaged as if doing it from horseback). Six, even though barely size L, a Half High-Ogre can use a size L weapon like a size M user uses a size M weapon. Seven, Big Uncouth and Scary, a Half High-Ogre is innately more direct and apparently more threatening so there is a -3 reaction roll to encounter reaction rolls, even to animals unless the class is a Ranger or other animal-friendly class. Eight, the Half High-Ogre inherited the High-Ogres super-efficient metabolism and consumes the same food and drink of an average player character.

Ogre... the meat shield and walking battering ram of the Orc army

Thinking of playing an Ogre Cleric of Stronmaus who gained his power and good nature after being struck in the forehead by lightening and having "visions" of his god. He is left with lighting scars that cover his entire body that start right between his eyes.

Just saw Goblin Slayer give one a beatdown . He didn't care what the hell it was, the Ogre was just in his way of killing more goblins . Wondered if they were the same here .

Apparently they are not like onions.

What is a mythical creature that fails at their job considered? Medi-ogre!

I always mix this with warhammer ogres for fluff

Dude that’s crazy - working in an adventure module starring ogres so this was perfect timing! :0

Lol. They won't mate with dwarves, but they will with goblins. Poor goblins 😂

Ogres from the Adventures of the Gummi Bears where hilarious.

Ogres are and always were my favorite stock crude crushers, the bad guy Incredible Hulks (stock, not super-powered) antagonists. They are amoral to the max, not only violent but mixing their blood via behind the scenes actions as well as using hostages for cruel forms of entertainment otherwise before eating them. They are the hammer icon of evil. I added a twist. High Ogres. After I created the race in the 80s and implemented them, a friend told me of High Ogres in the 90s. My home-brew was different. My High Ogres were evolved Ogres. Ogres were always of strife and conflict, even internally. High Ogres came from one continent (evolution and history relative to the planet in Loom). They evolved to be akin to Star Trek's Klingons (pre-Discovery). They are Lawful Neutral and looking very much like 12' tall hulking humans. Their culture fused with Mountain Dwarfs after they battled out their differences and found out they had more in common than opposed. That was when the Underdark invaded and they discovered they were more allies than enemies before the accord. I also love keep popping Ogres up all over the place. They are chaotic enough to not need a reason for it. Because of the stigma and horror of Ogres, I always allow Ogre as a Player Character race. I only allow High Ogres if the race is already involved in my campaigns... they are elsewise too human and too advantaged to just allow. They are almost like big superhumans.

Ogres have always been some of my favorite monsters in dnd, wow, and others. Love them.

These poor creatures suffer from palumboism.

feel like ogres view the smaller peoples like humans, dwarves, and elves might negatively view tricksy little faeries

What are you doing in my swamp!?

in my homebrew setting ogres are more intelligent, but they have a long standing racial blood fued with trolls. Why? they don't remember.

In my own fantasy universe, Ogres are my version of orcs.

Need a cult of Everlasting Frost Giants. They're busying fighting Red Dracoliches in the campaign where the heroes have one hell of a problem on their hands. I dunno? If things go south, I'd be fine with the heroes ending the threat at the expense of either causing a calamity to consume both cults and the civilians or to get the Terrasque to swallow up the area and stop the threat. But either way, I want a cult of Everlasting Frost Giants now.

Could you imagine a Dwarf, Gnome, or Halfling trying to bang an Ogre? One way around, you might as well be throwing a hotdog down a hallway. The other way, it’s basically like trying to stick a Gnome in another Gnome like some type of nesting doll.

Here wuz Seamus!

Every time I hear the word "ogre" I think about Baldurs Gate.

0.) Is it just me or are these lazy orks that cannot propperly loot things? 1.) Is that transformation specific to frost giants (or giants in general)? 2.) How did the relationship between Othea and Annam factor into the dawn war? 3.) Will they accept a challenge from a non-oger to a game of knucklebones? 4.) Do orcs work with ogers, or just respect them?

I swear you said, "Big, British, and Stupid"

Hey AJ, great video! Always love the pictures you chose. There's one with an ogre holding a warhammer, then I realized its an Anvil on a long handle. Man, its been a long time since you did the Ogre Magi. I seen a homebrew that is out of this world and has a good back story, the Ogre Slug. Thanks AJ & have a great day.

AJ! How could you leave out the Goblin Hucker? In Storm Kong’s Thunder. An Ogre with a mounted Catapult on its shoulders to launch Goblins with.

So they basically just named them "we're biiiig!" noice

Just typed in Ogre stuff. I don't know what I was doing.

Huh, if they like collecting shiny things then it shouldn't be too much of a hassle to have a dragon convince ogres to collect gold from them for the dragon time sleep on. After all, its not going anywhere, is it?

For your information, there's a lot more to ogres than people think.

Thanks AJ. I always enjoy your videos. Hey, do you have any suggestions for someone at college looking to start and/or join a gaming group?

Have you heard of the ogre kingdoms in warhammer fantasy? They are awesome Also When you say hobbits, you mean halfling right

Love how you throw warhammer Ogres in those pics lol

It's never ogre.

What bout a vid on ravenloft or strahd the vamp

Did I hear that right? Ogres will breed with goblins? I hope that was supposed to be hobgoblins and bugbears.

Good I have too many unused Ogre minis. Froghemoth on a sixth level party...too much?

Now this is a video i needed. Know anymore lore on how ogers repoduce/breed in d&d? Litter size? Maturity rates? That kind of thing, so i can moddify them to be even most PTSD inducing for world building reasons. (converting evil & potentially green skinned stuff in warhammer ork repoductive biology.)

I’m an Ogre mercenary.

Remember, Ogres have layers.

Thanks for another great video AJ! As always I learned a great deal.

Dungeons and Dragons Lore: Ogre Crossbreeding(fixed title for ya, to warn people)

Ogres are like onions

Thank You AJ!!!!

"Its like eating Styrofoam theyre so thick" XD you got me in stitches

Average hit points for a common human is typically three.

Please keep making videos. At least do it as a hobby. Your passion and narration is so good. It really sounds like you should keep it up. 10/10 lore video

In my campaign, I have a plethora of playable ogre race . Most have regular intelligence I made storm ogres really intelligent and civilized. Green ogres where pretty much the hulk ..but not as strong 😂 Black ogres where kinda drow like. But around 12' tall Grey ogres 8' to 10' but body built like a elf

A high ranking gruul clan member of ravinca can have two ogres as npc teamates

Thanks AJ! Appreciate all the work

3:58 that’s from the cyoa books “endless journey the wizard” her name is chief guu or ghuu. XD

They're really close to Hill Giants

Iconic

An Ogre Werewolf, now that's a scary concept

I know Stone, Fire, Frost, and Hill giants occasionally raid Goliath tribes for slaves, do Ogres do the same? Or are they not quite organized enough to do so?

Yoooooo so happy you did this

But do they have layers?????