

I think there is some work to do to rebalance any races who would not net 3 total points under the standard system. On the flip side, the variant human now has an extra point on top of the feat, making the non-variant human is even less appealing for play and adding to the variant human's power (which is already a top-tier race and needs no additional boost of this sort).

With this ruleset, these races would become slightly weaker.

Mountain dwarf also comes to mind. A half-elf or mountain dwarf gets 4 total ability score points, whereas most races get 3, and the non-variant human usually gets 6 total points. This is very cool! I do worry it unbalances the half-elf and human, since part of the package there are the extra ability scores.
