Hello and welcome. To answer your questions...

1) You gain gold and experience by posting.

2) The stats and whatnot "improves" you like any good RPG but...

3) ...The RPG system here is not fully implemented yet, in the sense that as far as I know does nothing for you save for Level which is kind of a reflection on your total amount of posts.

Although you may have a point with the need of a "newbie section". Then again, the philosophy here may be "explore and post reasonably, but have some fun".

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