Menton/Mental Powers

[aylwin]

I am running a Mentalist and was looking at Menton for some ideas. Something that confuses me about Menton is the fact that he has Mind Scan, and also a Sense minds power that is targeting, Discriminatory telescopic, etc.

This seems to me to be a little redundant. Can anyone tell me what the difference between the two are?

Aylwin

[Hermit]

Well, unless the Sense mind power is NRay, wouldn't it be blocked by barriers?

[RDU Neil]

Originally posted by aylwin
I am running a Mentalist and was looking at Menton for some ideas. Something that confuses me about Menton is the fact that he has Mind Scan, and also a Sense minds power that is targeting, Discriminatory telescopic, etc.

This seems to me to be a little redundant. Can anyone tell me what the difference between the two are?

Aylwin

This is only an assumption, but I would buy powers like this so that Menton could "know" you were around, even without taking an action to Mind Scan. Kind of like he just "hears" your mental activity. I'd allow it through barriers in the same context I'd allow somone to hear sounds on the other side of a wall. Minuses the farther away... that's all.

[pinecone]

Well for me sense minds is Passive and Mind scan is active...ie; Mind scan means my menally aware MA master knows whats up,but sense minds is stealthy...just me though...plus sense minds could be a special sense so it would work to target TK after I cut loose with a Flash vs mental sense for 15+D6......