Ogre

Ogres were a race of giant-kin.

Description
Ogres appeared as giant humanoids with very muscular bodies and large heads. They stood between 9 and 10 feet tall and could weigh 600 to 650 lbs.

Personality
Ogres were a lazy, brutish, avaricious race with notoriously quick tempers. Their avaricious nature would often lead them distrust one another and incite squabbling over treasure.

Combat
Ogres generally preferred to rely on ambushing their foes and overwhelming them through sheer numbers.

In terms of weapons, ogres were typically seen to use uprooted trees and stone-tipped javelins.

Society
Much like hill giants, ogres were gluttonous creatures willing to eat almost anything. They enjoyed the taste of raw dwarf flesh, but would also eat halfling or elf flesh when they could get it. They would often use the skin and bones of their prey to fashion crude loincloths and necklaces.

Ogres were known to typically associate with goblinoids, orcs, and their fellow giant-kin trolls. In the social structure of the giants, the Ordning, ogres were considered the lowest ranked of all giant-kin. Because of this, they were typically found to be willing servants of giants. The giant races they were most often seen working alongside were hill giants and verbeeg, even engaging in trade with the former.

Many ogres worked as mercenaries, hoping for easy plunder, and in that line of work they were often seen alongside verbeeg. Lone hags as well as covens were known to employ ogres as guards, while others polymorphed ogres and sent them out to work as spies.

Language
Ogres spoke Jogishk, a patois of the Giant or Jotun tongue.

Religion
Ogres typically worshiped Vaprak the Destroyer as their patron god. Though many also practically worshiped the true giants.

Subraces

 * Half-ogre: Half-ogres were a crossbreed of ogre that were somewhat smarter and weaker than the standard ogre race. They could sometimes pass as unusually large, albeit ugly, humans.
 * Merrow: Merrows were ogres adapted to the water.
 * Ice Spire ogre: An ogre subrace found in the Ice Spires region.
 * Ogrillon: The result of ogre-orc crossbreeding.
 * Zakharan ogre: Civilized ogres common in the southern continent of Zakhara.

History
According to legend, the ogre race was formed when Othea, wife of the titan Annam All-Father, had an affair with Vaprak.

In 1357 DR, a small army of ogres served the monstrous extraplanar being Imgig Zu. He gathered them in the caverns beneath his tower to witness the Great Awakening of his people from Selûne's Eye, and to provide defense during the deed. The heroes Priam Agrivar, Vajra Valmeyjar, Timoth Eyesbright, and Onyx the Invincible fought through the ogres to confront Imgig and free Cybriana. Though the ogres clubbed them down and caught them, the roof of the cavern miraculously tore open and the brilliant light of the full moon shone through, blinding the ogres long enough for Priam to slay Imgig. As the ritual was undone, the surviving ogres fled.

Appearances

 * Organized Play & Licensed Adventures
 * Assault on Maerimydra • Blades for Daggerdale • City of the Spider Queen • Confrontation at Candlekeep • Doom of Daggerdale • Hoard of the Dragon Queen • It's All in the Blood • Nymph's Reward • Shadowdale: The Scouring of the Land • Storm King's Thunder • The Accursed Tower • The Dragon's Gift • The Dungeon of Death • The Pipes of Doom • The Rise of Tiamat • The Rose Of Jumlat • The Secret of Spiderhaunt • The Sword of the Dales


 * Card Games
 * AD&D Trading Cards


 * Comic Books
 * Frost Giant's Fury 1 • Frost Giant's Fury 2 • Frost Giant's Fury 3 • The Secret of Selûne's Eye


 * Novels
 * Baldur's Gate • Condemnation • Dissolution • Forsaken House • In Sylvan Shadows • Realms of Valor • Storm of the Dead • Swordmage • The Crystal Shard • The Fallen Fortress • The Lone Drow • The Ogre's Pact • The Sea of Swords • The Spine of the World • The Thousand Orcs • The Titan of Twilight • The Two Swords • Vengeance of the Iron Dwarf


 * Video Games
 * Al-Qadim: The Genie's Curse • Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear • Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition • Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn • Curse of the Azure Bonds • Descent to Undermountain • Dungeon Hack • Eye of the Beholder III: Assault on Myth Drannor • Gateway to the Savage Frontier • Icewind Dale • Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition • Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms • Neverwinter • Neverwinter Nights • Neverwinter Nights: Hordes of the Underdark • Neverwinter Nights: Wyvern Crown of Cormyr • Neverwinter Nights 2 • Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer • Neverwinter Nights 2: Mysteries of Westgate • Pool of Radiance • Pools of Darkness • Secret of the Silver Blades • Spelljammer: Pirates of Realmspace • Sword Coast Legends • Treasures of the Savage Frontier