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[Old-Man-Gator]

I'm going to run a community err.. well not a fortress and not a town.. Basically a bunch of ogres take over a cave, assuming that whatever is living there isn't a family of dragons.

Ogres are dumb and don't read or write so well, so rather than write long winded posts in halfwit speak, I'll set the narrative from the perspective of a (very sneaky) human explorer or something.

Anyway.. we have approximately 380 points to spread between 7 carnivorous lummoxes.

The ogres are a hunter/gathered culture with an emphasis on eating, strength and being big.

[Akigagak]

I'll take one.

Are you giving them simple names like Dave, Bob, Jim etc?

[Old-Man-Gator]

Primitive civs use the same gibberish as kobolds.

So you'll probably end up having a name like Fleedus or something.

Until I can come up with a reasonably gutteral language for ogres anyway.

Keeping in mind they are a hunter/gatherer culture, what skills and possessions did you want for your fine ogre/ss?

You will have only a few points for gear and skills, when I tend to embark with ogres I have heavy on the skills side and some weapons for hunters/diggers/choppers and that is about it.

[corvvs]

Please tell me the human explorer will talk in an outrageous Australian accent and say things like "oh now, isn't that one a beaut'?" and "Crikey, would ya look a' the size of that one!"

[RavingManiac]

Then have him killed by a stingray 

[Solifuge]

It's a Community Lair!

I'd like an Ogre, preferably a mace-wielding trapper (and animal trainer?), who thinks they're the sneakiest and craftiest thing ever, but are in fact a big ham-handed idiot. Name: Cudgel, Cudge for short.

Also, I second the motion to make this like a nature documentary.

P.S. What all are the jobs available to Ogres?

[Boksi]

Make the explorer already dead due to stingrays and be a ghost.

[Akigagak]

If it's from the explorers point of view, wouldn't he give them names' like that?

[Old-Man-Gator]

As in nick names?

That big bugger with the great club? He's Cudgel!

Yes..

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Gear

   ADZE (wood handled flat pick)
   CHOPPER (primitive axe)
             CRUDE SPEAR
   CLUB (uses mace skill)
             HUGE CLUB (uses hammer skill)
   ATLATL (will keep these for the duration of the game.. phase out)

   TOGA (better quality furs)
   CRUDE LEATHER (poorly tanned skins)
   CRUDE CUIRASS (poorly tanned skins with harder bits)

   LOINCLOTH

   DRUM

Jobs

MINER
CARPENTER
WOODCUTTER
ENGRAVER
MASON
HUNTER
FURNACE_OPERATOR
WEAPONSMITH
ARMORER
GEM_SETTER
WOODCRAFTER
STONECRAFTER
LEATHERWORKER
BONE_CARVER
WEAVER
CLOTHIER
FISHERMAN
FISH_CLEANER
COOK
BUTCHER
TANNER
BREWER
HERBALIST
WOOD_BURNER
TRADER
ARCHITECT

So we have:

Solifuge AKA "Cudgel"
Copper club

Akigagak AKA "Hacker"
Copper Chopper
Copper Cuirass

Woodcutter
Axeman

bamorrow AKA "Drunkard"
Brewer
Herbalist
Trader

Smallcutepuppy AKA "Gronk"

Miner/Mason/Architect
Copper Adze.

I think I'll go ahead and start with what we have. Any gender specifics?

Bear in mind it's now around 2am and I need to sleep.

[Akigagak]

Name: Hacka. 

Copper Chopper (heh)
Woodcutting
Carpentry
Axeogre
Cuirass

[bamorrow]

I would like for to have a brewer/herbalist named ...

Drunka

with a couple points in trader if that's called for.

Thanks!

[smallcutepuppy]

Name: Gronk
Skill: Miner/Mason/Architect
Gear: Adze

He can be the "smart" one who designs fancy high-tech stuff like, you know, doors.

[Old-Man-Gator]

Bear in mind, it will be a human naming these ogres with their nicknames

I'll try to post up their actual names in gibberish on the first post.

[Mephansteras]

I'll take one. Make him/her a butcher/tanner. Male: Rawhide. Female: Wolfpelt.

[LumenPlacidum]

Ooh, if there's one yet unclaimed, I'll take him/her.  Name: 'Shovel'  Occupation: Cook.

So named because of his/her ONLY cooking implement... stick a shovel in them to hold them over the fire; beat it with a shovel to make it stop moving enough to shove it in the fire, sip broth from a shovel, etc.