If you play in a low-power campaign, a trait like 'faster than a speeding bullet' rated 16 is just plain silly, since your chance of actually out-speeding a bullet are slim indeed. Thus, i don't allow descriptions like 'faster/stronger than x' since _how_ fast, powerful, leap-able the character is is a matter of rating, not phrasing. If it was a player character, i'd just discard the quantifiers as exaggerations.
(OTOH, if the rating is know beforehand i might allow a reasonably quantified description)
Likewise with 'powers far beyond those of mortal men'; it's a matter of rating whether the powers are beyond those of mortal men or not. Also, i wouldn't normally allow such a general trait as 'powers' (an acceptable trait need to have a description that indicates what manner of actions you can attempt with it). I may or may not accept 'strange visitor from another planet' depending on the setting.
>"Criminals are a cowardly, superstitious lot." Traumatized as a boy from
>witnessing his parents' murder, young Bruce Wayne used his vast fortune
>to hone his physical and mental abilities to the absolute peak of human
>perfection. He is universally acknowledged as the greatest detective to
>have ever lived. Likewise, he is a master of several martial arts and
>weapons, an accomplished scientist in many fields, and sufficiently
>skilled in disguise and acting to pass all but the most diligent of
>expert scrutiny.
I wouldn't allow quantifiers like 'vast', 'universally', 'greatest', 'peak of human perfection', 'master', 'sufficiently skilled... to do x' etc since that is a matter of rating.
>His wealth encompasses multinational corporations and
>has been used to finance the most extensive and complete anti-crime
>laboratory on the planet.
This description contains lots of quantifiers. I'd allow the traits 'wealth' and 'anti-crime laboratory' and discard the rest as hyperbole.
>His equipment includes the Batcar and a wide
>variety of gadgets that he puts to use in the field.
These are very general 'do everything' traits, which i may or may not allow. Potentially campaign-wrecking, but in one-off scenarios such traits can be great fun.
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