Absurdly high skill levels

[DouglasCole]

Originally Posted by Witchking

<shakes head sadly>

I hope Ed the Coastie's daughter doesn't catch you at that...

Eh? Has he even posted in this thread? I'm afraid I don't understand the joke.

[Ze'Manel Cunha]

Originally Posted by DouglasCole

Eh? Has he even posted in this thread? I'm afraid I don't understand the joke.

It's a reference to a thread in Chatter:
http://forums.sjgames.com/showthread.php?t=37029

[sjmdw45]

Originally Posted by Ze'Manel Cunha

It's a reference to a thread in Chatter:
http://forums.sjgames.com/showthread.php?t=37029

I read the thread and still don't get it. I was expecting a reference to Ed the Coastie's daughter beating up boys who kiss girls, or something.

-Max

[sir_pudding]

Originally Posted by sjmdw45

I read the thread and still don't get it. I was expecting a reference to Ed the Coastie's daughter beating up boys who kiss girls, or something.

I think we are supposed to be on our best behavior, now that there is teenager on the premises. Why this didn't apply in the past, since there were (likely) always teenagers here, I couldn't tell you.

[Ze'Manel Cunha]

Originally Posted by sjmdw45

I read the thread and still don't get it. I was expecting a reference to Ed the Coastie's daughter beating up boys who kiss girls, or something.

In general, many people wouldn't want to be caught in the act of "advanced nookie-fu" by a snooping teenager.

The comment is actually funny on its base, no other context is needed.

[Not another shrubbery]

Originally Posted by sir_pudding

I think we are supposed to be on our best behavior, now that there is teenager on the premises. Why this didn't apply in the past, since there were (likely) always teenagers here, I couldn't tell you.

It applied then, too :|

[Witchking]

Originally Posted by Ze'Manel Cunha

In general, many people wouldn't want to be caught in the act of "advanced nookie-fu" by a snooping teenager.

The comment is actually funny on its base, no other context is needed.

Thanks Z I would have explained myself but I was off grocery shopping (pesky eating). That was more or less the joke in a nutshell.

[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.

Of course, the scale might be logarithmic or something else, in which case I can't begin to think what his IQ score would be...

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 (Overconfidence disadvantage?) Perhaps it would be better to give him mental advantages like Gadgeteering instead... though he DID once resist Universo's mind control power (which affected even Superboy!) That could've been a IQ-based will roll, or then again, Mental Strenght skill.

[Not another shrubbery]

Originally Posted by Sijo

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 (Overconfidence disadvantage?) Perhaps it would be better to give him mental advantages like Gadgeteering instead...

High IQ is definitely one of his powers... Gadgeteer belongs also, Eidetic Memory... maybe more computer-like ads... not sure.

...though he DID once resist Universo's mind control power (which affected even Superboy!) That could've been a IQ-based will roll, or then again, Mental Strenght skill.

Yeah... Universo's first appearance in Adventure, I think. AIR, Braniac was able to avoid succumbing to the super-hypnosis by retreating through successive levels of his intellect... which always made me think of levels of Compartmentalized Mind.

[Phantasm]

Originally Posted by 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.

Of course, the scale might be logarithmic or something else, in which case I can't begin to think what his IQ score would be...

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 (Overconfidence disadvantage?) Perhaps it would be better to give him mental advantages like Gadgeteering instead... though he DID once resist Universo's mind control power (which affected even Superboy!) That could've been a IQ-based will roll, or then again, Mental Strenght skill.

I'm most familiar with the post-Zero Hour Reboot Brainiac 5, so that's the one I'm referencing.

Brainy in that incarnation of the Legion had a genius-level IQ, somewhere I'd place in the 16-20 range, but his real "power" in that incarnation was his Compartmentalized Mind, implied to be 12 "compartments". When a criminal telepath entered his mind, his subconscious was calmer than his conscious trains of thought. He could literally think about 12 projects at once.

Before his "upgrade", he also had an Odious Personal Habit of arrogance regarding his own intellect, bordering on Megalomania, feeling superior to all the other Legionnaires, particularly his scientific rival, Lyle Norg/Invisible Kid.