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Originally Posted by Infornific
For stats other than ST, I'd go with 15 or so as a cap. Beyond that gives pretty odd results. Note that Michael Jordan who probably has pretty near peak human DX was still unable to play baseball at a major league level. For ST, I'd allow it to go much higher but link it to the character's size. The problem is GURPS ST covers a wide range of abilities:
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Most sports stars, while they do probably have up to 15-16 dex and 20+ str, depending on the sport, have much more of their ability in the skill, considering the ammount of time they put into it.
Likewise most geniuses probably have IQ 14-16 with several levels of talent in their field of mastery. Of course the problem with one IQ stat is that in the real world, there are so many types of intelligence, and people can be brilliant at say, problem solving and have a horrible memory (and even memory can be subdivided into different parts that don't necessary correlate with each other).