Advantage and Extra

Advantage

Advantage noun - The more favorable condition or position in a competition.

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Extra and advantage are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Extra" instead a noun "Advantage".

Extra noun - An interchangeable part or piece of equipment that is kept on hand for replacement of an original.

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Advantage and extra are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Advantage" instead a noun "Extra".

special	special advantage	special extra
best	best advantage	best extra
particular	particular advantage	particular extra
small	small advantage	small extra
Other adjectives: big, little, main, new, minor, temporary, added.

In Worlds Apart, one of these turned out to be not a challenge advantage but a Tribal Council advantage, an extra vote to be cast in a future Council.

Source: Series / Survivor
The only real advantage it gives you over your normal, unpowered self is an extra hit point (which any of the other helmets can get you, themselves).

Source: What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?
Violation of Common Sense: While this trope is common to tabletop RPGs in general, GURPS takes the extra step of providing an advantage called Common Sense.

Source: Tabletop Game / GURPS

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