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Message: <blockquote data-quote="NotActuallyTim" data-source="post: 6775814" data-attributes="member: 6804638">Of course...if that person hasn't also been training.And that is actually simplifying it. Even running can vary in kind. Do you mean a sprint? A marathon? On average across different length races and terrains? With shoes on or not?Training matters more because techniques can be improved, refined and varied. Experimented on. By direct contrast, even if there are are people who have a better body for some task, there's still only going to be one Usain Bolt. Believing that the form matters more than training implies the difference between a schmuck and an Olympian. And being an Olympian doesn't guarantee better performance at many somewhat related tasks-only having an advantage on some specific event.Being Usain Bolt might help in a race, but using the stats to model him is silly, because those are going to assume a broader range of competence that he might possess. If his stats matter more than the Prof bonus, then they're going to also put capabilities into him that he doesn't have, like sword fighting, or hot-dog eating or rock skipping.Handling the kind of advantage Bolt has over other runners is better represented with some specific and special bonus to that sort of task, beyond either the stats or the Prof bonus. Not necessarily the feat system. Maybe just a straight bonus that no one else can have.</blockquote>