Powerful Build/Half-Orgre Template

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Interesting question has come up and I'm not sure how it should work so any help would be appreciated.
I have a player who is looking at applying the Half-Ogre template (Dragon 313, p 96) to a Goliath.
Since a Goliath is considered a medium creature the template says he grows to large gaining all the benefits and penalties of being large (ie: +4 strength, -1 AC, -1 Attack, -4 Hide, +4 grapple, etc) in addition to the +4 str the template grants.
The question is whether the Powerful Build feature from Goliath would still be effective as a racial trait now that he would be large? Does this mean he can now wield huge weapons as if they were sized for him, and gain a bonus another +4 bonus on abilities like grapple, bullrush, and swallow whole?
 
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I'd say "yes". The text for Powerful Build suggests that it works while under the effects of powers/spells/abilities, so why not for a template?
 


Cool, thanks for the answers guys. It looked like it should work, just wanted to make sure before huge weapons were being tossed around though.
 


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