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| If you're looking for the boardgame involving a giant super-tank, check out [[Ogre]].
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| A stable of fantasy settings, the Ogre derives from various European lore relating to giants. Typically, ogres are the smallest, ugliest, dumbest and crudest of the variant giants; this justifies their frequent alliances with [[goblins]] and [[orcs]] due to a similar distaste for making an honest living and love of fighting. Generally, when your party is capable of killing orcs easily, ogres are the next step up.
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| Exactly just how crude they are varies from setting to setting. [[Pathfinder]] infamously made its ogres into inbred, cannibalistic, depraved rapist monsters straight out of some hicksploitation horror film. Picture a cross between The Hills Have Eyes and Deliverance played out by giants and you got the basic idea.
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| [[Dungeons & Dragons]] traditionally has a race called the Ogre Mage, which are smarter, more sophisticated ogres with a natural affinity for spellcasting. Really, these were cribbed from Japan, where its ogre-equivalent, the oni, invariably has magical powers of some kind. Only 4e and Pathfinder outright admitted that the Ogre Mage was just a D&D oni, though.
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