Problems with Trolls in SR Options

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Trolls... Trolls on paper can appeal to most gamers for a number of reasons. They get nice stat bonuses for the powergamers. They can also be intimidating. And they also make a unique role-playing challenge to those players whose GMs are good at portraying racial hatred in the SR world. But my question goes more to functionality then anything else.

Now I want to clarify that I do not own any SR4 stuff, yet so I don't know if Trolls have changed from SR3... But here is my query to all you other SR GMs out there. What have you done to solve your Troll problems? By that I mean just having Trolls in your world.

Recently my group and I decided to play SR as close to reality as possible. Yes we still have magic and what not, but we did other things like, keeping track of eqiupment (You will find this makes a BIG difference when done right.), playing racial bias up, and other things of that nature.

The Troll problem started when a player with a Troll character innocently said to a human Sammie in the group "Hey I'll ride with you."

Me: But he drives a Jackrabbit. (Don't ask ;) )

Troll Player: So?

Me: So how is a 8 foot Troll's that's about 4 feet wide, 450+ lbs going to ride in a Jackrabbit?

Troll Player: Uhhh. On top?

Me: Nice Try.

That got me to thinking. How the hell do Trolls actually function in a city? Everything they buy would have to be specially made for them. I mean everything. A Troll can't just buy a normal car, hell a big Troll couldn't buy a big truck or SUV without some major modification. Living in a normal apartment would suck. Even if you look at some of the pictures of Trolls they couldn't use normal firearms with those huge hands. I mean we are talking about a race that makes Shaq look like an average member, well Shaq with horns growing out of his head.

Basically after looking at all the shit they couldn't do we decided just to drop it. But it's almost like we opened a Pandora's box. I've thought about taking Trolls out of the game altogether or just making them like 1st Edition Trolls. Just wondering if any of you other GMs encountered anything like this and what you tried to do about it if anything.

Thanks in advance

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