Racial De-culturing

So: races w/ cultural attributes help continue myths of inherent racial superiorities / etc; bad things.

Not sure I 100% agree, but if it puts off some players and it's easily sidestepped (or better, adds new & interesting things to char creation), I'm down with divorcing race from cultural traits.

Same essentially goes for stat-changing traits; why not a buffed out, dumb-as-a-rock elf, and a master of magic and lore orc who's weak in stature?

So: current system:

a) roll stats in order. Swap 2 if desired.

b) select a stat-change package (positive or negative) or two (one positive, one negative), if desired.

c) select an edu-stat change (just one, positive or negative), if desired.

d) apply to stats. Figure out the modifier for each stat, positive or negative. Total them all together. This are your 'trait points' (which may be negative or positive. Gotta get it down to 0 by the end.)

e) pick a race if desired, or a hybrid. Select racial traits, randomly, from the positive and negative trait tables for that race (or races, for a hybrid). Each trait either subtracts from your point total (a negative trait) or adds to it (positive traits). You cannot have more positive traits than negative traits. Duplicates are re-rolled until a non-duplicate is rolled. Some traits for a race will automatically confer if not a hybrid.

f) if training-based traits are desired, roll randomly on the positive or negative training traits tables; you can have a maximum of 2 positive training-based traits. Re-roll duplicates.

g) if cultural traits are desired, roll randomly on the positive or negative cultural trait tables. You can have a maximum of 2 positive cultural traits, and having two positives requires at least one negative trait.

h) if the current total is positive, each point positive is subtracted (1 for 1) from 32, or added to 32 if negative. The result is the age at which aging effects begin. This age cannot be below 16; if the result would be below 18, roll on the negative cultural trait table until the result would be 18 or above.