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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 6984826" data-attributes="member: 37579">I had an okay encounter with a couple ogres in my game. I gave them names, and had them talking to each other, as they searched for food. The players tried to negotiate, but ogres be greedy and betrayed the party. The encounter wasn't amazing for the simple reason my party encountered them at a distance and had a couple rounds of archery before they closed the gap. And a couple rounds in 5e is most of the combat. But no number of interesting attack options would have changed that. I also spent 10 seconds altering the statblock of one to include a large battle axe, which I described as a log with several wood axe blades nailed to it. The other retained the great club but had inserted nails into it in the hopes of having a spiked club. However, as the nails were too short to jut out, it was just a club with nail heads in the wood.Which helped make them stand out. Ogres are a little weak for CR2. Most monsters in the MM are over-CRed based on the guidelines in the DMG. Almost as if those rules were written months after the Monster Manual..</blockquote>