Bad street planning. Fallen-over buildings. Signs of fights everywhere, up to and including severed body parts. Enslaved smaller creatures. Severely mistreated enslaved smaller creatures. Corpses, sometimes gnawed on. Public punishments for appreciative crowds. Starvation because raiding is not a good strategy to feed a city. No lighting. Few if any shops and inns.
With an Int penalty of -4? I wouldn't expect ogres to be able to effectively organize and plan well enough to build a city. So they would have likely taken it from someone else or moved into an abandoned one.
So, built for smaller creatures, with modifications for ogres. Mostly ceilings knocked out to provide headroom, things like that. Probably mostly abandoned, with a much smaller population than the original. Falling into disrepair.
As Sissyl suggests, slaves for any real work. Some of whom might, being much smarter than the ogres, actually wind up running the city under the pretext of advising the titular ruler.
Yeah I agree. I don't see ogres, at least in Pathfinder, getting along well enough to create a city, but I could see a clan moving into a ghost town or abandoned fortress.
as for what I would expect to see...lots of desecrated corpses used as decorations, crude idols built of rubbish venerating whatever diety they ogres worship, crude child-like drawings of pretty horrible things done with blood and other unwholesome substances, and just things in general falling apart, and only being held together with the most jury-rigged of repairs
Megalithic structures, menhirs, dolmen, henges, massive hill fort earth works.
What about Ogre Magi? Would they be around truly running an ogre city? Hill Giants?
Perhaps a true power who convinced the ogres to inhabit the city which is hiding a power behind the throne somewhere?
If Ogre Magi are present, I would expect the place in general to be more tidy, and I would also expect perhaps recruitment of other monstrous races, so perhaps a higher population (I expect if Ogres move into a town, it will appear nearly deserted most of the time).
With Hill Giants, I wouldn't expect much different, although the horror show qualities might be toned down a bit (I just don't see Hill Giants as being as brutal as Ogres, even if they are not a whole lot smarter)
