I'd like to play a bog standard, sword and shield, backpack and cloak-wearing adventurer adventuring through the wilderness. Scaling obstacles, using rope, sticking my sword in the throat of giant lizards.

But it'll never happen. My role playing group has convinced themselves that they're tired of the classic tropes of fantasy adventures, despite the fact that I know none of them have [i]ever[/i] played in a game where those tropes were meaningfully present.