Ogres/Giants and twohanded weapons

**Schwartz** · August 8th, 2008

Eathor: Ogres
Sun Jul 27 12:50:11 2008
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Perhaps Ogres should be able to use big twohanded weapons regardless of their strength.
OK, maybe Ogres and Giants....

Eathor

**Belsambar** · August 9th, 2008

Does make sense as a giant race...

...also maybe brings to mind that very high level ogres and giants should possibly gain the ability to wear a TH weapon 1handed...

...but there should be associative penalties too. HR penalty for lack of balance in weapon perhaps

**Kethran** · August 9th, 2008

He might be a shaman, but he's still a GIANT shaman. *chuckle* Makes sense.

**boromir** · October 13th, 2008

Hi,

I like the idea of Giants and Ogres being able to wield std two-handed weapons with one hand. I disagree with the penalty of being off-balance. These two races are huge compared to lesser beings and a two-handed weapon might mean using 3 fingers and a thumb to hold it rather than two fingers and a thumb.

The one condition I would have is that the two-handed weapon be one that can be wielded by a huge hand. I.e. anything that requires two hands to use .. like bows or crossbows... still require two hands. Anything else is fair game .. as it were.

An additional option is to have two-handed weapons that are giant/ogre specific since only they would have the strength and ability to wield them. The only real drawback here would be the coding involved in creating a race / races specific item. A condition would be that these weapons would be only found in a giant or ogre hometown.

Enchantable? Yes, its a weapon.
Higher top end and low end values? (like 8-13 or 9-14) Yes, Larger weapon being swung by Larger race.
Limited Item? very possible.

Your considered opinions!

**Ylang** · October 14th, 2008

I wonder if the benefit of distinguishing between types of TH weapons is worth it. You'd have to reclassify all TH weapons into "requires two hands" and "is just terribly large and heavy". Yes, there's a realism issue here, but I'm not sure it's worth solving in order to give big races the ability to wield TH weapons one-handed.

(Expect an explosion of Ogr/Gia characters, if they get to wield av12 enchantables in one hand, though. I'm no expert on the subject, but this would probably require some thought by the mandarins of game balance.)