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Message: <blockquote data-quote="theNater" data-source="post: 4353774" data-attributes="member: 62560">Well, we've got two options:1)Accept that the attack type targeting rules work for things that are not attacks.2)Accept that every power is an attack.  Note that every power includes one of the five attack types detailed under "Attack Type and Range", beginning on page 56.Take your pick.If some things that use the area attack type are not attacks, it is reasonable to say that Wall of Fog is being given as an example of something with the area attack type.  It is under the area attack type description and given as "another example", rather than "another such attack" or similar wording.Then there's the technically correct argument that I'm too ashamed to make in public, so it's inside the spoiler block.  Feel free to ignore it, but I feel it should be present for the sake of completeness.[sblock]Throughout the PHB, whenever a power name appears in normal text, it is italicized.  The phrase wall of fog on page 271 is not italicized, so even if you insist that the phrase indicates the relevant wall of fog is an attack, it does not necessarily mean the wizard power Wall of Fog is an attack.[/sblock]</blockquote>