Mind Scan vs Detect:Minds?

[white peregrine]

so I am looking at Detect:Minds and Mind Scan
assuming they both have discrim and analyze what would be the differences in information recieved...assuming you are using Mind Scan for number of minds in the area? Would the information gained be the same from both? How much detail would the mentalist recv about the said minds detected in the two different methods?

If Mind Scan is similar to Detect Minds with greater range and versatility could the mentalist turn on Scan for a general area and keep track of the people moving around in the area?

trying to decide whether I should keep Detect:Minds or ditch it completely since he has Mind Scan, especially if Mind Scan is duplicating the effect of Detect:Minds..
..thoughts?

[Maccabe]

Detect Minds with Analyze and Discriminate would probably allow you to, on a perception roll; pick up a mind (Detect),
know how powerful the mind was [almost like it's INT](Discriminatory) , and maybe how active the mind is [day-dreaming, heavy meditation etc] (Analyze)
The difference , as I see it (beyond the fact that one power is not suppose to 'mimic' another), Detect ;is no Range,
requires a perception roll (range modifiers) , can't penetrate solid objects (Mind Scan does not need line of sight).
Also Mind Scan could allow you to use other mental powers after contact, Detect can't do that. Mind Scan will also give you distance,location etc. Detect just 'knows it's there'.
Read up on Mind Scan for other differences, P. 134.

[white peregrine]

oh I have read up on mind scan. I also realize that the detect is "perception" range. I was just wondering why one would take detect and scan? I am assuming there is some difference that I am missing...in this case I am speaking about Menton. he has both, why?

if they directly overlap why take them both? this is especially true if scan is superior to Detect even used at "no range" but the mentalists immediate area.

I am thinking that there is something going on with this that I am not aware of....or it could all just be in my head. heh

would applying discrim and analyze on scan be the same as detect then....especially when used to detect the number of minds...I would assume so.

hmmm..maybe detect is just a 0 end no range general scan...as far as perception range...why couldn't it go through walls? seems to me that it would.

[pawsplay]

I'd take only one or the other, depending on style. Mind Scan is better for "zeroing in" on somebody, Detect Minds works better for a preternaturally aware telepath who can't be surprised.