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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jasin" data-source="post: 4756392" data-attributes="member: 7531">A large number of discrete but interacting building blocks allowing the construction of a huge number of different situations?For non-combat encounters to be like combat, on the adventure-building side you should have a large number of small, simple situations and issues that you could pile together to make a problem to be overcome by the PCs, like you do with orcs for combat.Rather than the wilderness trek with a half a dozen skills and DCs in the DMG, you would have:AvalancheSituation * Cold, Surprise, WildernessMake a moderate Athletics, Acrobatics or Endurance check or lose a healing surge until the end of the encounter.WinterTime * Cold+2 to DC of checks to deal with Cold situations.Blizzard (Encounter, recharge 5 6): see Storm situation.Well-TraveledRegion * Social-2 to DC of Wilderness situations. +2 to DC of Stealth checks.Border WatchSituation * Social, SubterfugeEasy Diplomacy to cross legally. Difficult Bluff or moderate Stealth or cross illegally. Failure results in a moderate combat encounter.Furthermore, you'd need powers that interact with these building blocks, beyond just boosts/rerolls/etc. to skills:Winterborn Druid Utility 6Encounter * ColdUse Nature to deal with a Cold situation, instead of the skill normally used.Overall, I'm not sure if this much structure is a workable idea, or even desirable, but I think it's a direction worth exploring.</blockquote>

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