Sure, they're stronger than your average human, and that's useful if you like to grind through adversaries, screaming oaths to Gruumsh and hacking off extremities, but a penalty to Intelligence AND Charisma seem to limit the variety of personalities you can successfully play.
And for "Half-Porkers" (Crickets, for a lack of better slang, someone such as myself, who is attracted to half-orcs: much like a "Chubby-Chaser" or a "Chicken-Hawk") who find many Half-orcs to be quite desirable (the strong jaws! The hairy backs!) the Charisma penalty does not make sense.
I mean, take a look:
Handsome and pensive!
How about him:
Sensitive and charming!
Or this guy:
Okay, he looks like he likes killing things.
But in an earnest and primal way, right?
I wish I had shoehorn hands!
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