GMforPowergamers
Legend
I've played with hundreds of people for nearly that long as well and I have never seen:
1) A PC marriage in a campaign.
2) Two PCs or a PC and NPC fall in love.
3) A PC ever respect a rival. Rivals = enemies.
I have never ever ever seen the level of roleplaying the hopes and desires of a PC that people sometime claim happens in their games. I have never seen it on any of the videos on YouTube. I have never seen it at a gaming store where people come in and play. I have never seen significant immersion in character beyond the adventuring goals du jour.
Ever.
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E. YMMV.
well I have seen al three of those things. I have seen PCs marry eachother, I have seen PCs merry (mostly to NPC) and I have not only seen rivals respected, but I have seen PCs go to one villian and make a deal to fight a bigger threat. Heck I saw a PC go to the vampire (BBEG of the campaign) and yell at his tower "DO you want to rule a dead world" to get him to help stop the tarrasque...