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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dkyle" data-source="post: 5898873" data-attributes="member: 70707">I don't see how that is remotely inevitable.  Producing a game out of logical, ordered game mechanics is just good design.I don't see how that has anything to do with the game design.  Noone is prescripting what the "scenes" in a game session will have.  The pillars are simply points of focus for the game design. Ridiculous straw man.  All options should be balanced.  Whether it's balance among Exploration options, or among all options.  This is nothing new. First, roleplay is really "interaction", as in character interaction; they realized the folly of the term "roleplaying" for a pillar a while back, but sometimes they slip up.So, there's no real "interaction" here.  But I would expect that scenerio to be resolved with both combat and exploration mechanics. Nobody is suggesting that a given situation is only one of the pillars.  Just that those pillars are useful for looking at the aspects of most situations.Again, the pillars have nothing to do with what the encounter is.  Only what the mechanics are geared towards.  So you'd be using interaction mechanics, during the combat.  Nothing wrong with that.Magic Missile would be a combat-focused mechanic, but that doesn't mean that you couldn't use it in an exploration-style manner.  Just as a weapon strike is clearly a combat ability, but could be used to break things, too (exploration). Why are they rhetorical?  They're useful examples for describing what the pillars are meant to be. I think you are misunderstanding the point of them.Encounters are not being shoehorned into one pillar. That is not what they're for.Classes are not being shoehorned into one pillar.  In fact, we've been specifically told that every class will have at least basic abilities towards pillar (and the blog you linked the thread of even suggests equal amounts towards each pillar).Only specific mechanics are being designed with a focus towards the pillars. There has been no talk of forcing mechanics to be used only for the pillar they are designed towards.</blockquote>

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