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Hi there,
I was wondering whether a bit more granularity could be added to the 12 Strength categories in the core rules? I propose adjusting the ranks to the following levels...

1: Poor : 100 lbs
2: Typical : 200 lbs
3: Good : 600 lbs
4: Great : 1 ton
5: Extraordinary : 5 tons
6: Incredible : 10 tons
7: Amazing : 30 tons
8: Astounding : 70 tons
9: Phenomenal : 100 tons
10: Awesome : 200 tons
11: Godlike : 500 tons
12: Invincible : 1000+ tons

I feel that the original levels of 7: 30 tons and 8: 100 tons leave too big a gap, whereas adding one more rank of 70 tons would, for example, allow Monster Girl (who can lift over 60 tons) to stay at the (now more accurate) rank 8 (still doing slugfest damage of 4) and Invincible to go up to rank 9 (5 damage). This would also make the system more compatible with Marvel heroes and villains (think how many characters lift between 50 and 95 tons).
What do you think?

Richter scaling x10 would be

1: 100 lb
2: 1,000 lb (0.5 t)
3: 10,000 lb (5 t)
4: 100,000 lb (50 t)
5: 1,000,000 lb (500 t)
6: 10,000,000 lb (5,000 t)
7: 100,000,000 lb (50,000 t)
8: 1,000,000,000 lb (500,000 t) [Empire State Building (102 floors) is reported to weigh ~365,000 short tons (ST)]
9: 10,000,000,000 lb (5,000,000 t)
10: 100,000,000,000 lb (50,000,000 t)
11: 1,000,000,000,000 lb (500,000,000 t)
12: 10,000,000,000,000 lb (5,000,000,000 t)

Super-Strength Scale (Logarithmic)
Level Approx. Lift Equivalent Weight / Example Description of Feat
7 ~100 million lb (50,000 tons)** Empire State Building, aircraft carrier, or large mountain chunk Can lift or hurl a skyscraper or carrier; seismic footprint-level strength.
8 ~1 billion lb (500,000 tons)** Small mountain section, an entire city block, or a Nimitz-class supercarrier Can upheave terrain, toss a building cluster, or hurl a battleship.
9 ~10 billion lb (5 million tons)** Manhattan-sized landmass, or Mount Rushmore-scale granite mass Could tear off a hill, stop a falling asteroid fragment, or redirect a glacier.
10 ~100 billion lb (50 million tons)** Mountain-sized mass (e.g., Mount Everest’s peak segment) Can lift tectonic plates, crush mountains, or hold back collapsing ranges.
11 ~1 trillion lb (500 million tons)** Asteroid 100–200 m across Could deflect small asteroids, push large ships into orbit, or alter geography.
12 ~10 trillion lb (5 billion tons)** 1–2 km asteroid or small moon fragment Planet-shaping force: can hurl an asteroid, pull tectonic shifts, or tilt orbit.

How It Scales Narratively
1–3: Human to Olympic lifter → car or small vehicle.
4–6: Superhuman → tank, train car, battleship segment.
7: “City-buster” tier — throwing skyscrapers, moving aircraft carriers.
8–9: “Continental” tier — moving landmasses or small asteroids.
10–12: “Cosmic” tier — mountain, tectonic, or orbital manipulation.