Commonality & Power Levels

I give you two guesses where I found this. But you will only need one.

Commonality

Percentage chances on Cd100 based on how common something is.

Commonness	%age
Always	100
Frequent	90
Prevalent	80
Common	70
Typical	60

Usual	50
Ocassional	40
Unique	35

Uncommon	30
Peculiar	25
Unusual	20
Unlikely	15
Rare	10

Seldom	8
Sporadic	6
Scarce	5

Irregular	4
Infrequent	3
Exceptional	2
Extraordinary	1
Never	0

Power Levels

Another guess where this came from. From one notebook dated 1956, and another 1957. Guess he forgot about writing it down.

Power Levels for RPGs.

Mundane (none)
Trivial
Common
Uncommon
Rare
Unique
Epic
Legend
Mythical
Supreme
Provident
Divine
Beyonder (nigh-unlimited)

For Power Levels, no numbers or mechanics were written down. Maybe somewhere in other notebooks. Still searching…

My poor attempt at quantification.

Level	Percentage	Char Points
Mundane	90	0
Trivial	5	10
Common	2	20
Uncommon	1	30
Rare	0.75	40
Unique	0.5	50
Epic	0.25	60
Legend	0.1	80
Mythical	0.01	100
Supreme	0.001	150
Provident	0.00001	200
Divine	0.0000001	300
Beyonder	0.[nigh-∞ 0s]1	nigh-∞

And why is this within the Science section? Well… the commonality thing gives a list of probabilities. Science. Although he never finished, Power Levels are also science. How much power can your body handle? Also this falls under Medical Science. I know, stretching a gnat’s arse…

The Percentage is just a very rough estimation of the percentage of the population in that Power level. The numbers do not add to 100% due to estimation and rounding errors. Additionally, the percentage is far from accurate. Still refining.

— The Unknown Atheist

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