New to Roleplaying

Looking for some information that might explain what is going on? How you can get involved? How to play?

Here is the place. Below are some links that might be able to help you..

The ones with * are most important for you. (The more stars, the more useful). These links were all active at of 08/01/04 and most have been around for quite a while.

If you are an old hand, add appropriate links as scroll posts below.

First and Foremost for you:
*****Uncle Figgy's ******
http://members.aol.com/dwcope/start.html
Has some excellent guides. Read the Players Guide for you.

Some others that may or may not be good for you...
* http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=welcome/rpgswhatis
* http://rpg.searchking.com/index/Newbie/
* http://www.angelfire.com/tx/afira/r...dbook/main.html Afira's rpg books
http://www.geocities.com/blackhatmatt/ Black Hat Mat
http://www.io.com/~sjohn/blue.htm Blue Room
http://www.geocities.com/dr_games/ Dr Staat
http://chrysanthemumroad.tripod.com/ Writings
http://www.skotos.net/articles/
http://www.martiandreams.com/ Wordsmyth games- Mudd Info
http://www.geocities.com/daveshwz/
http://members.aol.com/essuncius/intro3.html

And some good sites about general roleplaying information and communities to help...

http://www.rpghost.com, click forums
http://www.rpggateway.com/ Always good to poke around in
** http://www.rpg.net Forums and Articles
*** http://www.strolen.com/
http://www.burningvoid.com/ Burning Void
http://www.roleplayingtips.com Four's Site
http://www.fantasylibrary.com/foyer.htm
http://www.atfantasy.com/ Articles/ Stories
http://www.fathomgate.com/
http://www.ptgptb.org/ Places to Go, People to Be eZine