Bes: I started playing Tibia in June 2003, my girlfriend (now wife) started about a week after me, even with my week long head start she had managed to leave Rookgaard quite a bit faster than I, this was mostly due to the fact that I was neglecting to search for new armor/weapons, and that I didn't understand about blocking only 2 monsters at a time with my shield. I'd often have to wait ages after killing some rats to be at a reasonable health level. My girlfriend saw I was clumsily blocking the rats, and generally having a difficult time getting through Rookgaard, so one day she suggested to me "why don't you just rope them?", it felt like a light had all of a sudden been turned on - I thought to myself "oh, so that's why this game is so hard, because you need to rope creatures" - with my new found 'knowledge' I surrounded myself with as many rats as I could find, then began to quickly use my rope on each one, expecting them to change to tied up 'roped rats' ready to be squashed with ease by my club, my ensuing death quickly put an end to that misunderstood theory!