[Ulzgoroth]

Originally Posted by malloyd

That's another thing. Most likely none of those guys were amazingly skilled in reality. Pretty good sure, but not hundreds of points of skills good. Maybe not even that - I suspect the main thing Hippocrates and Galen have going for them compared to equally or more skilled contemporary unknowns is Writing skill - or possibly an admiring acquaintance with Writing skill - and the contacts (or good luck) to have a bunch of copies made at some point before their manuscript was lost.

If you want to design a "realistic" famous person, don't put lots points into skills or attributes to make them the best who ever lived. Give them enough to put them in the upper few percent of their contemporaries in the same profession and sink the rest of the points into Reputation and other social advantages.

And perhaps Luck and/or Serendipity.