It sounds like what he's really saying is that high strength characters are game breakingly overpowered and need to be nerfed IMMEDIATELY! Maybe cap Strength at 14 or 15 during character creation.
None of my non-strength based characters have been able to throw people around and usually can't even get a successful "Shove" going. It's just a wasted turn so I don't use Shove. I'll throw grease bottles though.
They could nerf Lae'Zel, too, then. Maybe drop her strength to 15 and bump her Con or Dex. (should probably put it into Charisma to be honest. She could use a boost there)
Just hide and you'll have 100% to shove.
Except they aways see me coming unless they're staring out over the edge thinking wistfully of ... what ever it is they think of.
I'd also like to to see the Owlbear and Bulette being tossed around. Or doesn't it work on them? Because I could certainly believe a Str 17 char could toss a goblin around and probably bugbears and most "normal" size creatures with the proper leverage.
