01-18-2021, 10:24 AM | #41 |
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Re: Meaning of stats compared to real world
I don't think it could be really. A default is passing knowledge and experience. I don't think a few books or TV programs about a subject could result in a professional plus degree of competency regardless of intelligence.
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01-18-2021, 11:35 AM | #42 | |
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Re: Meaning of stats compared to real world
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Though there is also Delusion (I have an incredibly high IQ and am a polymath). Or perhaps Delusion (I am Clark Savage, Jr.).
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01-18-2021, 09:04 PM | #43 | |
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Re: Meaning of stats compared to real world
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Kromm's take here is a bit different from mine, because he is an extrovert and not neurodivergent in the same way I am, but its worth reading. Edit: Hergé's Professor Calculus might not have a remarkable IQ in GURPS (just Science! skill and a talent), but other cinematic inventors would. The aspect of a person which says "give this character a very high IQ in GURPS" (versus a talent or a bang skill) is "high level of skill and quick learning in many unrelated areas represented by IQ-based skills in GURPS" not "really intellectual"
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01-20-2021, 06:31 AM | #44 |
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Re: Meaning of stats compared to real world
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I have removed a tangent about real world education. This has very little to do with GURPS, please do not return to that tangent. Thank you. </Moderator>
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