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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mmu1" data-source="post: 1646390" data-attributes="member: 319">*Sigh* To pick a supplement at random: GURPS WWII. They have the average paratrooper, combat engineer, recon soldier, resistance fighter, and sailor with an IQ of 12.I don't have most of my books with me, but I've seen similar stats across the board, in different GURPS publications. The sample PCs in the Basic Set - physical characters, not scholars, every one of them - have IQs of 13, 12, 12, and 11. Clearly, the people who write GURPS material have a different idea of what constitutes exceptional IQ than you do.The 3rd edition book gives the following ratings for IQ:12: Bright average13: Bright14: Very Bright15: Genius-minus...19: Nobel prizeWhereas the 4th edition simply has (for attributes in general)11-12: Above average, but within the human norm13-14: Exceptional15 or more: AmazingThe 4th edition ratings might be a bit more generous than those in the 3rd (since they're a lot less specific - but this is the Lite set), but there's nothing there to support your argument that 12 is 90th percentile and 15 is Nobel-prize level. (Or, for that matter, that ST and IQ are measured on different scales.) In fact, you're actually basing your claims about the real-world meaning of game values on the learning times you had to have gotten from the Third Edition, since 4th edition GURPS Lite has nothing on this subject - which means the same text you're using to support your point of view actually directly contradicts you, black on white.  :\ If there's anything that GURPS stattistics have corresponded to in the past (in terms of rarity and cost) it's the  same 3d6 3-18 curve that skill and attribute checks are based on, which puts 14, not 12, at the 90th percentile.</blockquote>

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