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Old 04-04-2017, 03:23 PM   #8
Andreas
 
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Default Re: The Rules of 14, 16, & 20

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Originally Posted by whswhs View Post
GURPS does not define 20 as superhuman; it makes it the upper limit of human. And, well, I've read about human beings who arguably were up there: Goethe, Mill, von Neumann, for example. I wouldn't say any of them had the breadth of competence you're talking about. We need either to have human stats top out at 16, or have IQ more narrowly split up, or have skills redefined so that higher skill levels are standard.
It does however define IQ above 20 as superhuman, which is when the rule of 20 starts to apply (and your post did include an IQ 22 example). Also even if GURPS does not define it as superhuman, IQ 20 is likely more than any real life human has been known to have and it is not very strange if such a person would also have unprecedentedly high defaults.

Why would one argue that those people had such high levels of IQ if they don't have such breadth of competence? More narrow competence is what Talents are for.

Last edited by Andreas; 04-04-2017 at 03:26 PM.
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