Mabinogi has a house system, a marriage system, and the most perfect professions system we have seen in a game. You can take many professions, do you like. The creative part, when you blacksmith or tailoring, for example, in game (Mabinogi Gold). The activity your character does to harvest materials is actually like harvesting those materials and makes sense.
If we seem overly impressed by this, it's because some games (Mabinogi online gold) really do not even try to make it realistic, and others attempt, but miss the mark. This one nailed it. The professions are: Blacksmithing, Refining, Cooking, Tailoring, and Weaving, Playing an Instrument, Composing, Fishing, Handicrafts, Herbalism, and Potion Making. They have given us so much to do with this fantasy life skills; it's easy to spend your game time on these simpler pleasures rather than combat or dungeoning. It's all wide open; you are free to do what you want, when you want.