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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jacob Lewis" data-source="post: 7540569" data-attributes="member: 6667921">Social encounters don't kill characters. Poorly optimized characters and bad dice rolls kill characters. But here's the thing: D&D is heavily focused on combat. There are more rules and options for players dealing with combat than anything else. So why should you expect focus elsewhere? Combat options are usually much more interesting than the non-combat ones. If your games are going to focus differently, then players need to be aware of this. Then when they still optimize their characters for battles that seldom occur and have few opportunities to be useful in the game, they have no one to blame but themselves. Consequently, they may also start looking for another group more in line with their preferred style of play.</blockquote>