Question about Ogres

[jeff]

I was just wondering. What critical hit chart do Ogres use, giant or humanoid?

[thogard]

I was just wondering. What critical hit chart do Ogres use, giant or humanoid?

It appears to me that the ogre is the low end of the giant category; his 4 HD coincide with the start of the giant critical table. The combat tactics feel giantish also.

[Karaptis]

I was just wondering. What critical hit chart do Ogres use, giant or humanoid?

It appears to me that the ogre is the low end of the giant category; his 4 HD coincide with the start of the giant critical table. The combat tactics feel giantish also.

+1 on giant

[finarvyn]

I use the Giant table because of their size. I assume that Humanoids have to be roughly man-sized. (I remember the Cave Trolls from the LotR movie and they seemed pretty big, and I equate Ogres with Trolls size-wise. That's how my brain works. You can ignore the thought process if you like.)

The key here is that you can "fake it" by just making a quick ruling and moving on. If your Ogres are big humans use the humanoid table, but if they are small Giants use the Giant table.

[GnomeBoy]

Some use humanoid and some use giant. They cheat like that...

[Ravenheart87]

It depends... The striped cycloptic hairy ones from the Baal-Gurgoloth mountains count as giants, and the green skinned slim ones from the Forest of Maneterr count as humanoids - those silly villagers think it's dryads that lure their men into the woods, but instead, ogres to have more food.

[TheNobleDrake]

Here's the answer from my home game: um... what's an ogre?

I love DCC... especially fond of monsters not having names until the players give them one... thus far the only thing they called an Ogre was a 9' tall deep red skinned humanoid with gorilla-like build and a boar's head.