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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BobTheNob" data-source="post: 5891089" data-attributes="member: 82425">This is bang on. Really. Couldnt be more correct. I myself would say that I more than once guilty of violating this, but I like to try and be conscious of it.I would however add that the system does need to incentivise players to believe that the other pillars can be just as engaging as combat can be. Alot of the time, as DM and adventure designer, I was injecting non-combat scenarios in the vain hope that players would pick up on that and go with it. But lets face it, when players are looking as 4 page characters sheets crammed with combat mechanics and dynamics with a (less than) 1/4 page side-bar for skills to summarise everything the exploration/interaction side of the game has to offer, it was no surprise that players wanted to jump straight back into combat every time.That is not to say my group is a bunch of combat nuts. We have played many games in the past when rules were "combat-light" and their approach was a mix of exploration/combat. Over time games grew by constantly evolving combat mechanics to the point where you pick up a book (as a player) and 90% of what it has to offer you is in the form of cool combat options with a disclaimer at the bottom saying you can opt out of these cool things for a skill bonus. Its no wonder the players want to use combat to resolve everything...that's the best thing the rules are offering.In summary, I completely agree with your point. But the rules need to offer equal enticements in the exploration/interaction pillars to get players believing it would be just as much fun to play the explorer/interactive when putting a character together. If you dont, players will fall back to creating combat titans and the idea of the open adventure, as altruistic as it is, just becomes "lets do combat", because thats what people characters are designed to do.</blockquote>

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