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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FrozenNorth" data-source="post: 8380813" data-attributes="member: 7020832">I completely agree with this and have been thinking along the same lines.  The pillars don’t seem to be named in a thematic way, and I think that is causing some of the disagreement on this thread.  It seems weird to me that finding out information about the Sultan before our diplomatic meeting would be considered an exploration activity rather than part of the social pillar.In this vein, while the social pillar and the combat pillar tend to regroup elements that are pretty similar between them, the exploration pillar (as defined in the DMG) seems to include wildly disparate elements whose only commonality is “not being part of the other two pillars”.  For example, travel montages, puzzle encounters, world-building, downtime activities, and non-combat wilderness encounters.As [USER=5142]@Aldarc[/USER] notes, this obscures the fact that many of the best encounters contain elements from more than one pillar, such as a combat encounter with an environment you can affect or lower level monsters you can intimidate.</blockquote>