Quote Originally Posted by Theodric View Post
Quite a lot of fantasy RPG's do have some form of player housing, though, to be fair. It's pretty much become a staple for me.
Depends which RPGs you've played, then. I'm trying to think of examples and coming up blank besides "secret bases in Pokémon Ruby/Sapphire".

Perhaps it's a matter of single player versus multiplayer – Pokémon being somewhere in the middle with the multiplayer connection aspect being conducted outside of the game itself, but you could import friends' secret bases.