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Old 12-09-2022, 02:33 PM   #253
David Johnston2
 
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Default Re: GURPS Powers: Enhanced Senses

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Originally Posted by awesomenessofme1 View Post
That makes sense in a vacuum, but then why do some (most) versions of Detect in this book that use one of them use Sense-Based?

Detect+Hypersensory: Diagnostic Scan
Detect+Sense-Based, Reversed: Laser Microphone, Laser Spectrometry, Cutaneous Chemical Sense, Blood Taste, Immune Spectrum Detection
Sense-based reversed on detect means that it only works on something that is currently being detected by the relevant mundane sense just as sense-based reversed on an attack means you must be sensing your victim with the relevant sense to hit them. Hypersensory is first of all, not limited to a specific sense, and it specifically makes the detect pseudo-mundane. You are Sherlocking your conclusions.
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