Re: What's with the modesty about stats?
Leonardo da Vinci was a genius in painting as in engineering and science. Perhaps the most poyhedric genius we can think of. Pico della Mirandola could remeber for his entire life any book he readed, word by word. John Von Neumann, at six years of ages, could read a random numbers page for few minutes and after this repeat it wothout an error.
Einstein studied in old school universities, where a bit of every science was teached to students. Yet, when Einstein spoke about biology, he used to tell oddities. He simply didn't know that issue. And I think Einstein hasn't Machinist skill 15, Acting, Streetwise, Fast-talk, Merchant and Paking at level 15 (that is, a super-professionist), Physician at level 13, Strategy at level 14, Forgery 14 and First Aid 16. So, Einstein hasn't that attribute of GURPS that is IQ 20.
IQ 20 definitely is an over-the-top score even in a cinematic game. Nor da Vinci, della Mirandola, Einstein or Von Neumann are correctly simulated by IQ 20.
The same goes for DX.
High HT is good for gamistic concerns, but it's totally unrealistic. Even a score of 13 produces odd results in a large set of situations and hazards.
ST 20 lifting are on the top of today's human performances. Athletes showing this level of performance aren't humans, because their body is definitely super-human due to pharmacy. So ST 20 already is a non-human score.
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