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Originally Posted by Gollum
Is Hafthor Bjornsson a ST 20 character in GURPS terms? ST 20 = BL 80 = can lift 640 lbs over his head dozens of times without the least hour of training and without the least extra effort.
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Originally Posted by Gollum
Nope. That gives him ST well over 20 only if he can do that without any training, without extra effort, every time he wants to ... Which is very far to be true.
It is a world record, which requires a lot of training (he probably has lifting skill above 15), a lot of extra effort and, in GURPS terms, some luck to the success roll ...
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Without any training? Do you think he popped out of his mother's womb with that ST score? Aged 18 he looked like
this. Training (And in his case, steroids) is what gets you such an absurdly high ST score. Nobody starts out like that.