Pick a support role that doesn't rely on dice. Like Bards. Buff and toss in the odd ranged attack. You should be fine.
What about a full caster?
There is the ability of the law domain that might be helpful.
Touch of Law (Sp): You can touch a willing creature as a standard action, infusing it with the power of divine order and allowing it to treat all attack rolls, skill checks, ability checks, and saving throws for 1 round as if the natural d20 roll resulted in an 11. You can use this ability a number of times per day equal to 3 + your Wisdom modifier.
A level 10 rogue can also learn the Rogue Talent "Skill Mastery" which allows him to take 10 on several skills even in battle.
Just go for a wizard.
If you can manage 1 good roll for int , then you will be fine.
Forget all martial classes , you will need the magic to give you the edge here.
I would suggest the witch and, should it be PFS legal the scarred witchdoctor archetype.
You have high fort and will saves and the HP to take some damage without dying, so survival will not be that hard.
For offence you can use hexes and spells that need no rolls on your part.
I used such a build myself.
Half-orc scarred witchdoctor with the alternate racial traits shaman's apprentice, toothy and sacred tattoo for better saves and to always threaten.
For hexes evil eye combined with cackle for autosuccess in debuffing, flight for mobility and healing for out of combat healing.
For spells I specialized in those that have save (partial) to, again, have at least some autosucces.
Rime spell metamagic is strong in that because it gives no save and always works if the target is dealt cold damage. Works well with frost fall and ice storm as both have a save but deal their full damage even on a successful save.
Take one of them with magical lineage (or was it knack? always mix those up)
If you don't want a witch bard, as was already suggested, might be good, too.
Sounds like either a buffer, or a save based caster is your best bet. As people have suggest a witch doesnt roll their own dice 90% of the time. The opponent rolls a save. So its not on you. Otherwise perhaps a bard or other buff focused cleric. Either way, you will roll relatively few d20s.
is this for society play or a home game? i'm not asking for legality sake, but because if you're in a stable group the composition of the party will have a big impact on what's a good option (for example- bards excel when there are a couple of melee/ranged guys to buff, but bring much less to the table in caster-heavy parties).
everything mentioned so far is good. scarred witch doctor really can be built with great DCs and tons of HP (though you have less defensive magic than a wizard). if you're playing in a caster heavy group, a Magician bard has some appropriate buffs and can back up any of them. in a more typical party a standard bard is solid- they can usually handle being in melee for a round or two if necessary, they have a good party buff, some healing, good skill selection (including a lot you can take 10 on), and some utility spells. one build i particularly like is a halfling with the helpful trait (increases aid other bonus to +4), they have good racials for a support bard (plus a +1 to hit and AC), throw on weapon finesse (to hit with aid other) and you're good to go.
if youre fighty, try something with high static modifiers to offset the reliance on dice (such as fighter or barbarian, paladin smiting, etc.), or if youre casty, go for things that dont require or grant a roll.
you could also build towards having lots of re-rolls (theres a few human feats for it, a sorc bloodline iirc, witch's (mis)fortune hexes, and dual-cursed oracle can get a few) to give yourself more chances to not flub the roll.
if your just looking for survivability, make a paladin! halflings are still good for that (if you're not trying to deal damage)- focus on Cha, you can still take helpful and make aid other an important part of your strategy, you can cover the face role by spending your 2 skills on diplomacy and sense motive, and you have some solid buffs (after 4th, but you can pick up wands early). take fey foundling as your first level feat and the best armor and shield you can afford- you'll be tough to hit and at 2nd level have great saves and can heal yourself for 1d6+2 as a free action 5-6 times a day.
LoH on yourself is a swift action, not a free action (small difference, but can mess with action economy).
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I would suggest the witch and, should it be PFS legal the scarred witchdoctor archetype.
The Scarred Witch Doctor is not PFS Legal.
However, Umbranus is right. Witch is a good choice as they make other people roll dice a lot more often than they ever need to. It's also easy to get a massive bonus to Initiative, so even if you roll a 1, you can still go on Initiative Count 16, which ain't at all bad.
A friend's father, who played 1st Ed., ran into the same problem.
He microwaved the worst offenders and forced the other dice to "watch".
Since then, he's had pretty good rolls. (Wish I had done that the one time I played with him, I'll admit.)
spell catser that throws conjuration save or suck spells. They go through SR you make them save.
Rolling is for suckers.
Find an electronic dice roller. There are free ones for iOS, there should be some for other platforms. Also, online random number generators. If you can't get dice to work for you, then don't use them. Building a low-randomization character is going to be much more of a headache than replacing dice.