Killing the sacred cow: playing D&D with only 4 abilities instead of 6. And returning to 3 saves instead of 6.

[Horwath]

so how would some other issues work?
point build: 21 or 20 points seem fair?
ability score increases: should this be lowered? I was thinking limiting it to +1 to 2 ability scores instead +2 to one might be more balanced
racial ability scores: should these be lowered?

point buy; I was thinking 18pts. if you spread your 27 points for cheapest stats you get 12,12,12,13,13,13. Remove one 12 and one 13, that is 9pts in point buy.
you can then have balanced 12,12,13,13 or focused 15,15,8,8. Or anything in between.



I would keep it as it is, but maybe would put the "cap" at 18 instead of 20. More room for feats and secondary abilities.

Racials: I would like to keep racial influence in abilities so I would try to balance most races in +2/+1 category.
Maybe +1 to defining stat and +1 to two stats in 3 favored stats by a race.
I.E:
Wood elves would get +1 dex and +1 to two abilities from str,dex,cunn list.