Hilary155:
My local gaming store has gone to card games, D&D Encounters and Pathfinder. I am sorry but I do not think of these as role playing. Encounters is nothing but combat and pathfinder is a pen and paper version of a MMORPG computer game.
I have run entire Sessions of Pathfinder where the dice were hardly touched.
The most recent time was when the player characters recruited a mentally ill hermit to create potions for them, and then spent the rest of the session asking a kobold chief questions about their culture so they could attempt to create a piece treaty between the black kobolds and the yellow kobolds.
I've done others where the players attended a royal ball, one group convinced an assassin to leave the country instead of go through with his plans, another talked down a PC who had a deep and unrelenting crush on the soon to be betrothed princess, and a third group was plotting with same princess to discredit the duke she was slated to marry so the Queen would call off the wedding.
The game is whatever you make it, limited very much by one's own imagination and personal biases. You only need gobs of crunch for a certain style of combat.