OK, when I made the last change to weapon handling, there was an unintended
change as well. Ther was a rule buried in the wield code that said "even if
forcewielded, you cannot wield a weapon larger than you by more than this
much". HOwever, due to a typo in the code (it wasn't mine, I swear) that rule
was never enforced or even visible. So players could wield just about anything
they wanted. Some of this was pretty silly.

-- a human 1h-ing a full shield I can accept.
-- a cromagnon 1h-ing a halberd I can live with.
-- a hobbit 1h-ing a full shield doesn't make sense.
-- and a thrike 1h-ing a lance is just stupid.

When I corrected the typo, a lot of people found out they couldn't use the
weapons/shields they had counted on for so long. Now, in the most extreme
cases, you should have seen this coming long ago. But not every case is that
extreme. I put in a patch to allow the "borderline" cases for now. At reboot,
however, I'm modifying the system to take strength and weapon weight into
account a lot more. Stronger players will be able to wield larger weapons (but
only up to a point), and exceptionally light/heavy weapons will be
easier/harder to wield properly. Again, extreme cases will be blocked
entirely.

For the record, an "extreme" case is defined as "the overwield penalty is so
big, even a full set of +hit eq would not counteract it".

As a secondary change, I'm allowing small characters using shields larger than
they are to profit from the bonus -- unless they are overwielding the shield
to a huge extent. That means, while a dwarf might not be able to 1h a full
shield anymore, they should get almost as good of a bonus from a large shield,
or they can ++boost their strength and try for that full shield. In any event,
you cannot _lose_ shield bonus from this. Large tank races are unaffected
because they are larger than all currently existing types of shields.

Changes take place at reboot. Most of you will find this to be an uptune over
what exists today, and those of you who were in the "extreme" cases will find
this to be a downtune from what existed yesterday. But, come on, a
thrike 1h-ing a lance? That's just wrong.

Shinarae Lluminus