Originally posted by DarthTanyon:

It's so temporary.. I would just skip the leather armor.. go from rag to troll.. soon you will be throwing away dear leather by the bag fulls..

This i second and it's what I do every game nowadays. Trolls seem big and scary, and they do hurt if you get hit, but if you eat 3 meats you can survive a blow, maybe two and they are weak to fire so just running around peppering them with fire arrows when they stop burning makes them pretty easy even near the start so you CAN skip the leather armor. Just avoid the dungeons until you do get your troll armor set up, maybe even upgraded a bit if you are nervous because the trolls and those skeletons are the only significant threats that early on (as long as you dont get ambushed or surprised by a raid).