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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 5704384" data-attributes="member: 996">Try 4e.  Those old non-combat spells that you couldn't afford to fill slots with in the past are now 'rituals,' that don't count against your powers, at all.  You can have several infrequently-useful rituals without giving up /any/ attack or utility spells, at all.Utility powers are one area where 4e PCs can choose non-combat vs combat aplications... sorta.  There are very often combat aplications for ostensibly non-combat utilities, and vice-versa.  And, utilities are a fairly small slice of the PCs combat power.  Attack powers, class features, and basics (attack/defense/hps/etc) cover the lion's share of combat power.  If you want to use mostly non-combat-emphasizing utilities, you'll hardly suffer much loss of combat effectiveness - and, potentially non-combat utilities are there for every class, in the form of skill powers, if nothing else.Anyway, getting back to the subject of non-combat roles...  Things  rituals and utilities, as well as skills, would be prime places for non-combat functionality.  But should they encompass role support?  I'm thinking maybe not.  The Wizard (controllers in general) push a lot of their combat role support onto their powers, and the result is less than elegant.  Perhaps classes should have additional ('siloed') non-combat features that support their non-combat roles?</blockquote>