Combat Pools:, Easy to re-add if you want. Options

[Erebus]

I've read alot of posts about folks being upset that the various dice pools are gone in SR4, and what I don't hear those same people saying is that they are fairly easy to re-add.

If you *MUST* have pools in your games, just re-add them. Figure out what determines the pools you want back in, and have characters just use the dice to add to their actions when they want.

For Example, Since most of combat is Opposed Rolls, you can always choose to add your dice from the combat pool to either your Attacks/ Actions, or your Defense Rolls for the turn. Since both sides would have pools, it shouldn't change the probabilities too far out of the original design. This would work for Astral as well as Matrix combat as well.

I'm at work currently... so I'll have to put some more thought into figuring out a working system.

Any one else have similar ideas on this or how to go about it?