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The larger species and fragility
Anyway, as most of you know, this comes from the fact that Ogres/Trolls can't wear any metal armour, which makes them frustratingly fragile until they get their beloved GDA or other dragon armour. That also means the skill remains untrained for a huge part of the game. Also, they miss two slots (gloves/boots) that could offer them extra AC and the tiny extra AC of a normal helm versus the caps that they can wear. The last three, while not very noticeable become quite obvious later on at higher armour skill levels so, the high HP Ogre wounds up a very "non-tanky" species. However I'm not gonna waste your time and mine asking for gloves and boots or helms for Ogres and Trolls or metal armour that can be worn by them because I wouldn't like that.
What I'm wandering is if it has been considered before that weapons get bumped down one size category for these two species. Great swords/triple swords/great maces/exec axes which are two handed, would become 1+1/2 handed. That way you could maintain using a shield for the entire game if you'd like to be more defensive while still using a weapon of very respectable base damage, which would overall be a nice boost to Ogres defensively. Still GCs and GSCs would remain two handed, but other weapon options could be available (no doubt, the apts for other weapon types may be a bit too low but still).
While Troolls probably won't appreciate these changes since they enjoy killing things unarmed better than anything, it's a well-deserved alternative to ogres, I believe. Seeing just two backgrounds as recommended for Ogres is quite sad.
Similarly, while in no way as fragile as Ogres, Centaurs and Nagas could get the lower tier 2-handed weapons become 1+1/2 for them, like Halberds, greatswords and the two handed flail that has 130% delay and I can't remember whether it's a dire flail or a spiked flail. Anyway.
Of course in the end it boils down to whether you want the extra 2 base damage of the GSC or the (limited but not non-existant) protection a shield will offer you at the extended endgame + an exec axe or blessed triple sword or whathaveyou.
Am I the only crazy person that thinks this would be a cool change?