Quote Originally Posted by Dienekes View Post
The response? Houserule it. So what if technically the weakling has a 30% chance of out arm-wrestling Hercules? Obviously Herc should win, so just houserule that he always will. Or with Fighter's lack of ability to do anything? Houserule that they can. That's not how good games are designed.
Actually, I don't mind the general rule of "only roll when the contest is in doubt" as a way of smoothing out the extremes either way.

"Just add AoOs to the game" bugs me a heck of a lot more. If I want to design my own combat system, I will, and I don't need to pay for that. And it seems highly unlikely that adding something like AoOs won't have unintended consequences.