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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 1660654" data-attributes="member: 18280">You've received a number of interesting and worthwhile answers here, so you should be in pretty good shape.  There are some books that make non-combat interactions as interesting as combat (largley by modifying combat-type rules into skill-use type rules).  Among these, either Empire or Dynasties & Demogogues is a must for social/political interaction, and The Medieval Player's Handbook is a must for scholarly/craftsperson interaction.  Your player is going to seek out these opportunities, so you should be ready for them.On the other hand (again, as others have pointed out) our desires do not always change the nature of the world.  Will orcs and other goblinoids disappear just because we don't wish to fight?  Perhaps your player will prefer a city-based campaign where standard monsters are far less common.  She may still have to contend with lycanthropes, human enemies, thieves, rats, and all sorts of other "normal" D&D problems.Sherlock Holmes bloodied his knuckles from time to time.  Your player, though, might be encouraged to choose a character build where that won't be necessary very often:  a high charisma and a few charm spells can go a long way, after all.  Violent situations may be avoidable, but situations to which a violent response is common may still exist with the same frequency as in a normal game.I would be quite clear here:  "I am setting up the world and its challenges.  In some cases violence might be an appropriate response from PCs.  I am not going to dictate how PCs react to these problems, however, and a nonviolent solution will gain as many XP as a violent one.  I will make sure to include lots of things that can challenge you apart from combat, but just as I am not dictating PC responses, I won't allow players to dictate NPC responses.  Like the real world, there are some very reasonable people (of every alignment), and a great many who react in a more passionate manner, for good or ill."Hope that helps.RC</blockquote>

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