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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zarithar" data-source="post: 4012016" data-attributes="member: 59488">Ok first off you said fantasy fans of today and used gnomes as an example. Think what you will of it, but WoW is the biggest fantasy themed game on the market at present (10 million active accounts and climbing) and archetypical gnomes are one of the playable races. Many players enjoy playing them.As to hobbits, another very popular MMO, Lord of the Rings Online (voted best new MMO of 2007) features... hobbits as one of the 4 playable races. Many people play them in that game, which has close to a million subscribers. Although well passed its glory days now, Everquest also featured halflings (very Tolkienesque halflings mind you) as a playable race. No, these are not Dungeons and Dragons, but ARE of the fantasy genre... and I would be willing to bet that far more people play MMORPGs than are currently playing traditional pen and paper RPGs.</blockquote>