The answer only invites more questions, but in the following pages I shall attempt to answer those questions, dispel the odd myth, and provide some examples of it's various elements.
No. Not in my opinion, and not in the opinion of a number of experts [see references], but unfortunately not everyone agrees with me.
Role-playing games into a number of categories, as follows:
The idea is that if you need to check a stat for something while working on a post you just pop over to these pages and then you're away again.
There are a number of steps to creating a character. The steps range from the esoteric: "I want to play a doctor", to the pedantic: "he has two dots (an average skill) in computers, but no dots (no ability at all) in medicine". The steps are:
Merits & Flaws add depth and detail to a character.