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<blockquote data-quote="Mallus" data-source="post: 4830855" data-attributes="member: 3887">4e has a way of making you tactically inclined... it really is an elegant little combat engine. That's a tricky question. Most powers are explicitly combat powers. My paladin has one purely non-combat power that grants +4 to Diplomacy checks for the duration of an encounter. Outside of combat, characters are meant to interact with the game world using skills (in or out of Skill Challenges), rituals, and pure DM Fiat-adjudicated role playing. Frankly, that's one of my favorite things about 4e. It breaks D&amp;D players of the (usually unstated) idea that role playing outside of combat is something that requires spells to do. There's also the pat answer &quot;any power the DM okay's can be used outside of combat&quot;. Wizards, in particular, have a number of powers that lend themselves to frequent non-combat use. Like their at-will Thunderwave. You can do a lot (of harm to structures) with a concussive wave of force.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mallus, post: 4830855, member: 3887"] 4e has a way of making you tactically inclined... it really is an elegant little combat engine. That's a tricky question. Most powers are explicitly combat powers. My paladin has one purely non-combat power that grants +4 to Diplomacy checks for the duration of an encounter. Outside of combat, characters are meant to interact with the game world using skills (in or out of Skill Challenges), rituals, and pure DM Fiat-adjudicated role playing. Frankly, that's one of my favorite things about 4e. It breaks D&D players of the (usually unstated) idea that role playing outside of combat is something that requires [i]spells[/i] to do. There's also the pat answer "any power the DM okay's can be used outside of combat". Wizards, in particular, have a number of powers that lend themselves to frequent non-combat use. Like their at-will Thunderwave. You can do a lot (of harm to structures) with a concussive wave of force. [/QUOTE]

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