Faolyn
(she/her)
Well, they could. OK, maybe not social encounters, but exploration encounters definitely. Take a look at the exploration challenges for Level Up.Since we are talking about attrition of character’s resources, social and non-combat encounters count only to the extent that they use up character resources to the same extent as a combat.
I do run both fulsome exploration and social encounters but it is rare that an exploration encounter consumes the same amount of resources as a combat and unheard of that a social encounter does so.