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Old 04-04-2017, 03:24 PM   #9
Anthony
 
Join Date: Feb 2005
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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 that is far more of a realism problem than defaults.
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Originally Posted by whswhs View Post
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.
Then they didn't have that much IQ, they had something else. The rule of 20 is a patch for attributes being broken.
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