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I’ve only ever watched the cartoon series.

The few ‘actual’ RPG-sessions I’ve watched were part of Will Wheaton’s tabletop gaming series.
I think I’ve seen a few bits from Penny Arcade’s life RPG sessions as well.
And like anything it’s done by professional improvisers/actors who are kind of used to this sort of thing (or at least are more skilled at making it fun to watch) it can be entertaining.

Meanwhile the average real RPG session isn’t half as smooth as the ones hosted by the professionals.

oh … I forgot that the OTT crew have done RPG streams as well. Those were fun too.
I think it really depends on the players & DM willingness to do things that are “sub optimal” instead of just treating it like a skirmish game that has to be ‘won’.

Anyways … yeah, the group I did D&D with never did any romance scenes either. It was pure dungeon crawling.
It’s fun, but sometimes I wish I was better at the improvisational/social aspect of RPG’s.  I think the DM we had wasn’t good at that aspect either.

I love collecting the things, but chances of me ever being a DM or playing any of my collection are practically zero.