Ogres are also every DMs' friend due to their inherent flexibility, as they are able to serve as lone cave-dwellers, or as hired muscle and encountered with groups of orcs and the like. As a player, I always considered ogres a 'coming of age' challenge for PCs: These brutes were killers of low-level characters due to their high strength and damage potential, but once able to defeat an ogre your character had accomplished a great feat and had graduated from mere dungeon-fodder.
Owlbears can be PC killers due to their deadly 'hug' (2-16 points of damage that round and every melee round thereafter until the owlbear is killed for the unfortunate character drawn in to its embrace).ĩ. they are ravenous eaters, aggressive hunters, and evil tempered at all times,' according to the Monster Manual. I've always been horrified at the thought of running into a hungry grizzly bear in the wild imagine encountering of these creatures, 8' or more feet tall and 1,500 pounds of owl-headed malice: 'The horrible owlbear is probably the result of genetic experimentation by some insane wizard. These ferocious beasts are one of those species of monster that, along with beholders and gelantinous cubes, just scream D&D to me.
