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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7188404" data-attributes="member: 29398">The characters tend to last longer, but - at my best estimate - a large amount (maybe the majority?) of play these days is based around published adventure paths, and most published adventure paths I've seen just want you to go from one thing to the next (i.e. dungeon after dungeon) with little downtime or RP opportunity.&nbsp; Throw in the gamist-first crowd as well and I think it safe to say that yeah, there ain't much RP.The intent has always idealistically been what you're suggesting.&nbsp; The result over the editions has been more or less wide of the mark.At least on the D&amp;D side, there's certainly been some moments of sterility and that pre-packaged feeling; and they're getting more frequent as time goes on.If you're my clone - that I created! - and you're in stasis I still a) know you exist, and b) know you are alive [the whole point of stasis is it doesn't kill you]...so before long I'll either destroy you or end up a basket case.Now if someone else had somehow created a clone of me without my knowledge and then put the clone in stasis, that's a different question entirely.Or have a friendly wish-granting creature e.g. a genie on speed dial...&nbsp;Unless the wish is cast by someone else.That said, until-unless a PC gets to high enough level to hard-cast them* wishes should be a rare and unpredictable thing.&nbsp; This comes up in my game now and then - someone will pick up a hidden wish from a luck blade or a wild magic surge, and the next time they happen to start a sentence with &quot;I wish...&quot; their wish goes off; sometimes with strange and unforeseen (and hilarious!) consequences and sometimes to great usefulness.* - not something I expect to see in my lifetime in any of my games, but you never know...Lan-&quot;I wish I had a beer...drat, didn't work&quot;-efan</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 7188404, member: 29398"] The characters tend to last longer, but - at my best estimate - a large amount (maybe the majority?) of play these days is based around published adventure paths, and most published adventure paths I've seen just want you to go from one thing to the next (i.e. dungeon after dungeon) with little downtime or RP opportunity. Throw in the gamist-first crowd as well and I think it safe to say that yeah, there ain't much RP. The intent has always idealistically been what you're suggesting. The result over the editions has been more or less wide of the mark. At least on the D&D side, there's certainly been some moments of sterility and that pre-packaged feeling; and they're getting more frequent as time goes on. If you're my clone - that I created! - and you're in stasis I still a) know you exist, and b) know you are alive [the whole point of stasis is it doesn't kill you]...so before long I'll either destroy you or end up a basket case. Now if someone else had somehow created a clone of me without my knowledge and then put the clone in stasis, that's a different question entirely. Or have a friendly wish-granting creature e.g. a genie on speed dial... Unless the wish is cast by someone else. That said, until-unless a PC gets to high enough level to hard-cast them* wishes should be a rare and unpredictable thing. This comes up in my game now and then - someone will pick up a hidden wish from a luck blade or a wild magic surge, and the next time they happen to start a sentence with "I wish..." their wish goes off; sometimes with strange and unforeseen (and hilarious!) consequences and sometimes to great usefulness. * - not something I expect to see in my lifetime in any of my games, but you never know... Lan-"I wish I had a beer...drat, didn't work"-efan [/QUOTE]

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