What is scarier a gang of bandits or an ogre?

A gang of ogre bandits.

>>95932226 (OP)
Depends entirely on the setting.

>>95932226 (OP)
Gang. A single ogre can’t surround you and attack from multiple sides.

Ogres?!
I've got an ogre-slaying knife!
It's got a +9 against ogres!

What if the gang of bandits disguised themselves as an ogre? Or if the ogre disguised itself as a gang of bandits?

>>95932365
>one thing
>disguise as multiple thing

???
makes no sense

>>95932432
The ogre could use an intricate network of puppets and mannequins to give the illusion that the you're surrounded by bandits but it's all a ruse to funnel you into traps or scare you away from whatever dastardly plans it's got going on.
Does that count as a disguise of sorts?

>>95932470
...I like it. It counts.

>>95932274
fpbp

>>95932470
>The ogre could use an intricate network of puppets and mannequins
I'm not saying this isn't something an Ogre could do. But it'd be a weirdly smart one.

In my setting ogres are giants/demons of hell, swallowing humans whole. Whoever they swallow suffers a slow and agonizing digestion, length varying based on the persons sins. The (their stomach) ogre is literally a ‘pit’ of hell on legs.

>>95932836
Grim.

>>95932226 (OP)
Tell us the mechanics of each from the game you're asking about, and we can help you.

>>95932936
Freeform rp

>>95932793
do you even ogre mage, friend?

>>95932310
You're not there! You're getting drunk!

>>95932365
That's a good point, anon. They'd be double the threat.

>>95932226 (OP)
Depends on the game you are talking about.

>>95932226 (OP)
That depends on the context—but here’s a breakdown to help you decide what’s scarier:
>Gang of Bandits
• Intelligence & Strategy: Bandits often think like humans. They can ambush, set traps, and negotiate.
• Numbers: A gang implies multiple attackers. Even if weak individually, they can overwhelm you.
• Motivation: They usually want something—money, supplies, revenge. This means they might spare you… or not.
• Unpredictability: Human cruelty, betrayal, and desperation can make bandits terrifying.
Scariest in: Realistic, grounded settings (e.g., medieval or post-apocalyptic worlds).

>Ogre
• Raw Power: Typically huge, insanely strong, capable of smashing walls—or people—with ease.
• Inhuman: Harder to reason with. It might see you as food.
• Resilience: Tough to kill or injure. Often impervious to regular weapons.
• Mythic Fear: A symbol of monstrous, primal fear. Ogres are the stuff of nightmares.
Scariest in: Fantasy or mythical settings, especially when magic or legends are involved.

Verdict:
• Scarier in terms of psychological fear and unpredictability: Bandits.
• Scarier in terms of sheer threat and monstrous presence: Ogre.
Want to set this in a specific game, story, or world? That might tip the scales.

>>95933343
Thank you chat

>>95932310
>>95933140
>Okay, but if there are any GIRLS there I wanna DO them!

Ah the classics never die

>>95933343
heckin based chatgpt

>>95932226 (OP)
It depends on how many bandits are in the gang.
If it's less than 10, then Ogre wins.

>>95933343
Thank you, ChatGPT-sama.

>>95933343
>—

>>95932432
You lack imagination.

The Ogre steals a sturdy section of fencing.
Impales scarecrows on each fencepost.
Except the middle most fencepost.
That one goes up the Ogre's ass.
Bam! Instant posse.
Gain +5 bonus to Intimidation. Suffer -3 to dexterity.

>>95933343
If I were a woman
>Bandits
>They’d rape me


If I’m a man
>Ogre
>They’d crush my bones and eat me alive

>>95932226 (OP)
Depends, which one is better at raping

>>95936251
nice strawman, bro

>>95932226 (OP)
In WFRP2e, which I'm going with because that's a Warhammer ogre, the bandits will be worse because a single ogre is going to be outnumbered and its low WS + comparatively limited Wound pool means a group can down it swiftly. If they have a wizard, they could also hit it with something funny like Limbwither.

>>95933066
Not a game.

>>95932793
It's called theater you plebeian

>>95932226 (OP)

I think the bandits, because humans can do everything an ogre do. Eat people? yes. Rape? yes. Kill? yes. Steal things? yes.
And how many bandits? 6? 10? 15? An ogre is much more stronger than a bandit, but he is less intelligent and only 1.

>>95933066
Not traditional games.

>>95941676
You post this a lot, but never expand to explain how Op should have posted the question. Should they always name (advertise) a brand everytime they start a thread? Why can't they pose theoretical questions that can be applied to many traditional games and formats? Lots of traditional games have ogres in them, so in many peoples eyes, this is on topic (traditional games).

Or is posting "Not traditional games" in every thread a game in itself? You have been posting this for a few years now, so it is a game that has become a tradition by itself. This means that posting that phrase makes any thread you
post it in part of a traditonal game itself and cancels out your objection as soon as you do it.

What about an Ogre leading a band of bandits

>>95932226 (OP)
Depends. Is it a quantum ogre?

>>95932226 (OP)
Probably an ogre.
A fight against a group of bandits is, essentially, a fair fight. There is nothing that the bandits can do that you cannot also do. They probably have the element of surprise and may have superior numbers, and as such there is a good chance you will lose, but you CAN beat the bandits in a fight if you have the numbers or skill to do fight back.

An ogre is a complete wildcard. There may only be the one of it, but its safe to assume that it is MUCH stronger than you are, and has a much longer reach due to its size. Even a skilled swordsman might not be able to get close enough to fight back before getting splatted. With its longer stride, it can probably run faster than you can if you are not on horseback. Short of being a party of heroes, an ogre is a fight that is going to kill a LOT of people even if you have the advantage of numbers, and you still might not be able to kill it depend on how tough it is. When you can hit it in the chest with a crossbow and still not strike deep enough to reach any vital organs, you know you are fucked.

>>95934764
>be me, in the publishing business for 8 years
>use - – — properly because alt-codes are really easy to remember
>AI slop cometh and now everyone is triggered by proper punctuation because our future AI overlords are using it
I'm not mad, just sad.

>>95938152
What makes you think that 99% of women would rather be eaten alive than raped?

>>95942934
Actually documented woman fact. It isn't anything as hyperbolic as 99%, but there is a common hypothetical polled to people of "You are walking alone in the woods, what would you rather cross paths with: a man or a bear?"
Men will almost always pick man, because they see the bear as a dangerous threat. The man is probably not a threat to them, and even if it is it is a lesser physical threat than the bear.
Women will, the vast majority of the time, pick the bear. Because from their perspective the bear likely won't care about them at all, and if it does it will just maul them. But being alone in the woods with a strange man is automatically a threat, and one that they expect to turn into a rape.
So yes, most women WOULD rather just be killed and eaten than raped.

>>95942966
While the data may be concrete, the conclusion you have drawn is based on a faulty premise.

>>95932310
You should work on it.

>>95941821
Would having two quantum ogres allow for FTL communication?

>>95938372
CARLOS

>>95947306
No, that would require there to only be one quantum ogre that exists in more than one place at a time in a state of superposition.

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>>95932226 (OP)
Irrelevant. I dislike human enemies. People being cruel to other people isn't "fun" for me. Monsters eating people is. I use the monsters that eat people.

>>95932226 (OP)
As a woman, I love bandits fr

Could he take an ogre?

>>95932836
Hot.

>>95932836
Why not make it so that the Ogres stomach is a literal portal to hell. That way once someone is swallowed these is no hope of saving them even is you kill the ogre fast and cut open its belly. And the ogre would be eternally cursed to an endless hunger that no matter how much it eats its hunger is never sated. You can literally call it a Hell Pit ogre as it has a pit to hell inside of its body that you can even see glowing from its stomach from the hellfire and all of the souls of the damned trying to claw there way out of the ogres stretched and torn skin.

You can even give it a final ability it can use both when it is about to die from battle or its life cycle ends and it inevitable dies from starvation. Have it so that once the ogre has eaten enough innocent souls its hell portal gains full power. And the portal grows and grows inside the dying ogres body even as its screams for a mercy that will never come. Until inevitably its body explodes from the growing hell portal and a small army of devils come storming out of it ready for war and conquest.

>>95938152
Well the sad thing is you are not thinking dark enough. And i will admit these scenarios are less likely but not impossible.

>Cannibal bandits
>They shatter your bones with weapons to make you helpless then they eat you alive with knives even as you beg them to spare your life.

>Rapist ogre
>Its hunger and greed has been replaced by an endless animal lust that it can never fulfill no matter how many women it rapes to death.

>>95941819
I can see a ogre subjugating and band of bandits it found in the woods and forcing them to be its minions or food if it gets hungry. Same thing happens to goblins all the time. But an ogre properly leading a band of bandits is a harder sell for me is all i am saying.

>>95942720
How tough is ogre skin in fiction typically? Boiled leather or elephant hide tough?

>>95932226 (OP)
Me.
>Bandits or Ogre
Doesn't matter. They are gonna get raped.
>They are male
A hole is a hole

>>95954299
God no! That poor fucker is dead the moment the ogre first swings its club. Poor dumb bastard never had a chance.

>>95954698
You do know if those bandits are horny they will be thinking the exact same way as you and they outnumber you. Where do you think the term Gang Bang came from?

>>95932226 (OP)
Depends on the setting.
>>95933066
We talking about games not theater kids playing make believe