The first important lesson that should be learned by participants in our games is the difference between roll-playing and roleplaying. It's a fairly common misconception, perpetuated by computer games like Baldur's Gate and Fallout, that roleplaying is just a matter of picking how your character looks, giving the character a selection of skills, and then roaming a virtual world solving quests, exploring and killing monsters to gain experience and cool new weapons and armor. Roll-players are often accustomed to: