Has anyone here played fudge? It's basically AD&D only more flexible and there's far less emphasis on stats, levelling up, and buying items. Skills are on a subjective sliding scale using words like "Excpetional" and "Fair". You start off with items based on what you decide would be appropriate for your character to have. Like AD&D, you can give your character various flaws like "bluntess" or "quadrapalegic" in order to up your skills. The point though is that the numbers crap is greatly cut back on.
I bring up Fudge because I find that it gets rid of a lot of the same things which I find distasteful about Planeshift as it exists presently. If there are people here who are familiar with Fudge, then you might know what I'm getting at.