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<blockquote data-quote="Paul Farquhar" data-source="post: 8586280" data-attributes="member: 6906155">I played a a half ogre back in 1st edition days. As pointed out the Tasha's custom lineage rules allow you to create an ogre PC, so long as they are medium (i.e. under 10 feet tall).Mercer takes advantage of Maggie being defined by a stat block rather than a class and level to make her 12 foot tall and large. The drawback of this is called out early on, where there is a place she simply can't go because she is too big. She also uses the &quot;giant sized weapons*&quot; rule, and is only not overpowered because it's not leveraged in the way a PC would be expected to, and she doesn't get a bunch of class abilities (such as action surge) that a PC would have. She also has considerably more hit dice than you would expect a PC of her level to have - 10d10+30 (85 hp) at &quot;level 4&quot;.*Edit: just checked this, and she actually uses the 3rd edition/Pathfinder large weapon scaling rule for her &quot;giant maul&quot;, 2d6 -&gt; 2d8. It should be 4d6 per RAW 5e.I would like to see this weapon scaling restored in &quot;5.5&quot;, it would make large PCs much more reasonable.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Paul Farquhar, post: 8586280, member: 6906155"] I played a a half ogre back in 1st edition days. As pointed out the Tasha's custom lineage rules allow you to create an ogre PC, so long as they are medium (i.e. under 10 feet tall). Mercer takes advantage of Maggie being defined by a stat block rather than a class and level to make her 12 foot tall and large. The drawback of this is called out early on, where there is a place she simply can't go because she is too big. She also uses the "giant sized weapons*" rule, and is only not overpowered because it's not leveraged in the way a PC would be expected to, and she doesn't get a bunch of class abilities (such as action surge) that a PC would have. She also has considerably more hit dice than you would expect a PC of her level to have - 10d10+30 (85 hp) at "level 4". [I]*Edit: just checked this, and she actually uses the 3rd edition/Pathfinder large weapon scaling rule for her "giant maul", 2d6 -> 2d8. It should be 4d6 per RAW 5e. I would like to see this weapon scaling restored in "5.5", it would make large PCs much more reasonable.[/I] [/QUOTE]

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