Distance two is significantly different from diagonal adjacency.

Sure, it’s different, but is there any reason not to prefer this new effect, which is also just “simpler” in terms of which definitions are required to define it?

I know its different. But we wanted to move away from using multiple forms of adjacency, so should need to replace the effect. “Distance 2” is the closest way to do that

I think the grinding stone probably needed the boost anyway, and something to get us moving along the moasic a bit quicker seems like a good idea.

I still just don’t understand why all of this is necessary

The terms adjacent, orthogonal and diagonal cover the necessary concepts

The distance stuff is handy I guess?

I feel like we’re getting bogged down on this rather than developing actual gameplay and it’s very confusing to me

[Josh] With no ruleset agreement on what it means, “adjacent” is ambiguous: one player would score a Flower with five tiles, another player would be annoyed because they were playing under the assumption it needed nine tiles. We need to all jump one way or the other on it.