Aragorn's character sheet.

[Foryn Gilnith]

it forgets how pathetically weak level 1 characters are not just at adventuring, but simply doing their job

Could you elaborate? Because an appropriately twinked character can get pretty high modifiers. Around +20 for Sleight of Hand if flaws are allowed, and around +15 for Craft.

[mootoall]

Could you elaborate? Because an appropriately twinked character can easily get a +15 modifier to any given skill.

Eh, getting +X to a skill isn't hard, but not much is going to overcome a crappy BAB and low HP for a low level fighter.

[awa]

people always forget the part in the guys article where he points out that fiction is not written with dnd stats in mind so you need to go with the bulk of the evidence or we get into the situation where Aragorn must be epic level in order to run for 3 days straight and if he was epic level all those orcs would have needed to be well into their 20s as well so that Aragon didn't just kill them all by himself. the bulk of the stuff Aragorn does, fighting large numbers of orcs, being defeated by a snow storm and so on can be more easily modeled by a low level character than a high one. are their some aspects that don't fit sure but the majorette do. (although personaly i would place Araghorn at a bit higher than level 5 becuase he did prove himself to be better than even the best real world person but certainly lower than level 10

[Tengu_temp]

Could you elaborate? Because an appropriately twinked character can get pretty high modifiers. Around +20 for Sleight of Hand if flaws are allowed, and around +15 for Craft.

Twinked builds mean nothing, most people aren't optimized.