If you could rebuild RPGs from the ground up...Follow

What would you do?

I'd probably get rid of progression, leveling, and grinding and focus on gameplay as being the main draw.

No it wouldn't be an action game. I actually like turn based games and tactical games. But unless growing in power was key to the story, I don't think I'd have anything like leveling. Even if growing in power was a key to the story, I'd have character grow based on what they've done in the story and not how many monsters they've killed.