Welcome and you are right: The perks in the SPECIAL system and, the feats in D&D 3.X, added spice to the sheer number crunshing affair character sheets and levelling-up otherwise is. Not to mention it allowed further customisation.

The introduction of something equivalent in DD2 would be nice.

"Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think." T P