Building a Better D&D?

I don't know how many of us in the OSR/RPG blogosphere have seen it, but there is an ongoing(?) examination of the D&D game rules going on at Building a Better D&D.  I stumbled across this site months ago but lost track of it until recently.  I am sure many of you will find something of use in many of the 54 entries.  Thoughts? 

Perilous Journeys Character Creation Reference

Just a little document I whipped up for Perilous Journeys that collects various bits of character creation information in one spot. The information presented below is also available as a downloadable document at this location here.

Character Creation Reference

Standard Method

Race	Points	Health	Agility	Mind	Speed
Human	185	40-90	20-60	35-60	35-55
Dryad	200	45-90	25-60	45-65	40-55
Dwarf	190	50-95	25-60	35-55	30-50
Elf	200	40-80	35-65	45-65	40-60
Fomorian	185	50-90	30-60	35-55	30-45
Gnome	190	40-90	30-60	35-60	35-50
Lurikeen	200	40-75	40-65	40-65	45-70
Wild Elves	195	40-80	40-70	35-60	40-65

   

Optional Method

Race	Points	Health	Agility	Mind	Speed
Human	160	1d20	1d10	1d10	1d12
Dryad	160	2d12	1d10+4	1d10	1d10+2
Dwarf	160	3d6+6	1d10	1d8	1d8
Elf	160	2d12+2	1d10+4	1d12	2d6
Fomorian	160	3d6+2	2d8	2d6	1d10
Gnome	160	2d8	3d6	2d6	1d12
Lurikeen	160	2d6+2	1d12+2	1d10+4	1d12+2
Wild Elves	160	1d12	2d10+2	1d8	1d6+1

Abilities

Race	Excluded	Restricted
Human	None	None
Dryad	Psionics, Theurgy	Commerce, Games, Marining, Metallurgy, & Streetwise
Dwarf	Chivalry, Psionics	Ranging, Survivalist, & Marining
Elf	None	Commerce, Evaluation, Mechanics, Metallurgy, Planning, & Streetwise
Fomorian	Psionics, Theurgy	Commerce, Necromancy, Scholarship, & Sorcery
Gnome	Chivalry, Psionics	Marining, Minstrelsy, Ranging, Survivalist, & Improvised Fighting
Lurikeen	Chivalry, Psionics	Commerce, Mechanics, Metallurgy, Planning, Pastoral, & Marining
Wild Elves	None	Arcanum, Chivalry, Commerce, Marining, Mechanics, Metallurgy, & Streetwise

FedEx Came By Yesterday...

I had the pdf copy for quite some time but I finally got a printed book!

I am off to do some reading...