Absurdly high skill levels

[David Johnston2]

[QUOTE=Sijo]

Going back to the original topic: how would you stat Brainiac 5's "12th Level Intellect" super power? Given that normal humans are only supposed to be "6th level" which would mean IQ 10 in GURPS, and assuming a normal scale of progression, he would have IQ 20... very impressive, but STILL not quite superhuman. We could assume that 6th-Level means the full human IQ scale, i.e. up to 20th, which would make his IQ 40- now THAT sounds like a superpower! Though the "Super Attribute" option (from GURPS Supers) would be needed to override the Rule of 20, or he would still not get defaults over 20.

No reason for that. Brainy's really good at sciences and engineering, things he's actually studied, but he isn't that good at social skills and I doubt he'd be a great artist.

Or IS his power a superhigh IQ? One thing about "Brainy" has always been that he's not been terribly smart, committing errors of judgment several times

A high IQ doesn't keep you from making errors of judgement of course. He obviously doesn't have Common Sense.

Even so I'd probably make him IQ 20 and pile on advantages like Lightning Calculator, Gadgeteer, Enhanced Time Sense, Compartmentalised Mind, Absolute Timing, 3D Spatial Sense...