IMO, I think you should wait with undertaking a huge project such as an RPG.
They are a lot of work. heh, I should know
To draw a sprite on a background, and then be able to move the sprite without erasing the BG, would in require using an offscreenbuffer, holding the background, which you would just put on screen, and hen the charater.
You still need to redraw everything, but using a buffer it's fast.
But like I said, try something simpler first, play around, make a hangman game, some gfx demo, whatever. But an RPG is hard, not many have started and finished making an RPG, and very few finished RPG's are actually good.
Game graphics, if you are looking for sprites and such, you could always ask under the Arts section, sadly, finding good game graphics is hard, especially finding the ones you want.
Games, the most important thing is story/gameplay, but still it should not look butt ugly, if it has a awesome story/gameplay you can afford to drop in gfx quality, if it has awesome gfx you can afford to drop some in story/gameplay.
One example is Quake 3, GFX looks good, but there's no story to speak of, but gameplay is also good. So the lack of story is outweghted by the gfx and gameplay (just an example)
Another could be a text RPG, people find them very amusing, and spend hours playing them, no grahpics, all gameplay/story.
