"She was the grand-daughter of an ogre...."

[Zzyzx]

My wife was telling me about a book she was reading and one line struck me. "She was the grand-daughter of an ogre," she said, and I missed the rest of the conversation as I thought about what someone like that would look like, how she would be treated, what kind of story-lines I might be able to weave around an "ugly duckling" like that.

Does this kind of thing happen to you? (Besides spacing out when your wife starts to talk. I assume that is regular husbandly behavior.)

 

[Klaus]

Quite often, really.

 

[Heathansson]

Hells yeh.
A big one for me was Sleepy Hollow, when it was giving the Headless Horseman's backstory and it said he didn't fight for a cause or money, but "for the love of carnage."
Watta goombah!

 

[Drawmack]

I missed the entire second half of the headless horseman thinking about how I could build a character like Johnny Depp's Icabod Crane.

 

[Thurbane]

"She was the grand-daughter of an ogre,"

Ogre Bloodline from UA?

 

[Aeolius]

My wife was telling me about a book she was reading and one line struck me. "She was the grand-daughter of an ogre," she said, and I missed the rest of the conversation as I thought about what someone like that would look like, how she would be treated, what kind of story-lines I might be able to weave around an "ugly duckling" like that.

According to "Ecology of the Greenhag" in DRAGON #125, the offspring of a greenhag and ogre is an annis, while the offspring of an annis and ogre is typically a blue-skinned female ogre. So, a blue-skinned ogress, being the granddaughter of an ogre, was the first thing that came to mind.

 

[Aus_Snow]

Ogre Bloodline from UA?

Is it just me, or do all of the bloodlines in UA seem rather overcosted?

 

[Arrgh! Mark!]

All I'm thinking of is poor grandma.

 

[Templetroll]

What book was that?

 

[Mystery Man]

All I'm thinking of is poor grandma.

She was a sturdy woman.