Pen & Paper RPG 101 - part 1

I'm pretty sure hardly anyone on my flist has already had experience with pen and paper rpg and the poll I did a while ago showed that there are at least a few people interested in a little 101. :)
I'm going to start out with a little bit of facts and history, because a) I think it's interesting and b) because I've had this part written out for quite a while. I'll get to the actual gameplay later, but as I don't have much time lately, I figured I should at least post what I already have. These are only a few words on RPG and by no means very complete, so if you're interested to learn more about this, feel free to ask sites like Wikipedia and the likes. (Or me, I'll try to answer the best way I can.^^)

 

( A definition and a little bit of history )

 

Coming up next: character creation.