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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 5261103" data-attributes="member: 2067">The difference obvious to a gearhead is not obvious or even important to a casual player.Let's tell a parable.A woman is shopping for a shade of nail polish. She can choose between "pleasantly pink" and "bubblegum." The salesperson and her both recognize there is a big difference between the two colors, and talk about details like shine and shimmer and eggshell texture and youthful glow and dignified impressions, but when she asks her loutish husband for advice, he says "They're both friggin' pink." The loutish husband, later that night, is trying to figure out what TV show to watch. He's really interested in two shows, one called "Street Justice" and one called "Vigilante Squad." They're on opposite each other, and he, being a lout, hasn't figured out how to work his TiVo. He debates the two options in his head, and the ads try to sell it to him using words like "gritty" or "real" or "thrilling" or "suspenseful" and gunshot noises and pictures of tense-looking people staring at each other in poor lighting in cement buildings. When he asks his wife which one he should watch, she says, "I thought they were the same show."The difference between a shift and a teleport is the difference between Pleasantly Pink and Bubblegum, or the difference between Street Justice and Vigilante Squad. A gearhead knows them, thinks they're obvious, is flummoxed by anybody who doesn't get it. But your casual participant has no idea, and, what's more, doesn't think it's worth it to get an idea, since it doesn't frikkin' matter. They're both pink. They're both shows about cops. They're both "I get to move." All the differences are situational blahbittyblah.Who asked to?I'm asking for significant mechanical differences. Looks like Essentials is delivering. I now get to watch cop dramas, AND sitcoms. I now get to pick pink nail polish, AND red nail polish. I actually think it was one of the better ones, since it clearly illustrates that there's a vast gulf between what you think of as different, and what I think of as different (and what many people looking at D&D for the first time will see as different is probably even a few pegs up from what I do, since I'm kind of a gearhead about this game).</blockquote>

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