Changing your looks

Skin colour and gender: If you are looking to change your skin colour or your gender, it's the Make Over Mage (MOM for short) you will need to give a visit. He is located south-west of Falador. He will charge you 3,000 coins to change your appearance.
Hair and beard: If you want a new fancy haircut, a nice smooth shave (he can make your beard grow as well!), or a new hair colour, you will need to jump by the Hairdresser in his shop in north-west Falador. He will charge you 2,000 coins to change your appearance.
Clothes: If you want some different clothes, you need to drop by Thessalia in Varrock (her store is in the south-west corner of the market place.) She will charge you 500 coins to change your top and another 500 to get your legwear changed. To change your boots visit the Fremennik taylor Yrsa on the west side of Relleka for 500 coins(members only).
Getting started with your skills
Here you will find a few tips on how to start the different skills. If you want more information, click the name of the skill, and you will be transferred to the Tip.It guide about that skill.

Free Version (F2P) Skills:

Combat: (Attack, strength, defence and hits): What can I say...? Just fight low levelled monsters and you will get better in the different skills depending on your fighting mode. There are many good places to begin training around Lumbridge - chicken farms, cow fields and forests full of level 2 and 5 goblins.
Ranged: To begin ranging, you'll need a bow and some arrows. Unfortunately, these can be costly. When you get yourself some money, go have a chat with Lowe in the Varrock Ranged store. Buy what you need and find some monsters to range at. We recommend that you start your ranging in Lumbridge against goblins or chickens.
Prayer: There's not much to say about this skill, just pick up all the bones you see on the ground, and choose 'bury' when you have them in your inventory. Prayer will help protect you when you're fighting.
Magic: To start with you will need some runes (again, costly, but there are various spawn points around RuneScape where you can get them for free.) Once you have the runes to cast some of the lower level spells, go to the magic part of your control panel and choose the spell you want to cast, after that just click on a monster.
Runecrafting: To start this skill you need to do the Rune Mysteries Quest. After that you just mine some rune essences and make air runes.
Crafting: To begin in this skill, you should make pottery. If you have completed the Prince Ali Rescue Quest then it makes it much cheaper to make leather in Lumbridge and Al-Kharid.
Mining / Smithing: Not much to say here. You can mine tin and copper in the South-East Varrock mine, deposit them in your bank in Varrock. When you decide you have enough ores, go to Al-Kharid and smelt them into bars, once you've got that done, head back to Varrock and get metal-bashing! For a complete list of all RuneScape Mining sites, visit our Mining Sites page.
Fishing / Cooking: To begin fishing, you'll need a net, and then just go to a sea and start clicking. It's useful if there's a tree nearby, because if you take your axe and tinderbox then you can raise your cooking at the same time. If you just want to raise your cooking, then go to a chicken farm and train combat, prayer and cooking at the same time!
Firemaking / Woodcutting: To start these skills, simply go to the forest between Lumbridge and Draynor. Get yourself an axe (you can buy this in south Lumbridge from Bob), and a tinderbox (general store). Chop down some trees, and choose 'Light log' when you have the log from the tree in your inventory.
Member Only (P2P) Skills:

Agility: Agility is a members only skill that allows you to swing across rope swings, scramble over rock slides, squeeze through pipes and more. Using agility you can access secret areas or make use of shortcuts. To train this skill there are many different obstacle courses where you repeat laps around the course to gain agility xp. Each individual obstacle gives a certain amount of xp, and by going through the obstacles in the correct order you gain a bonus amount of xp.
Farming: Erm, kind of self-explanatory, this one. Use your farming skill to grow your own food, flowers, trees and more.
Slayer: Slayer is requesting and receiving an assignment to kill a certain number of a specific kind of monster from a Slayer Master. The assignments can vary from 10 spiders to 200 iron dragons, and will depend on which Slayer Master you choose to work for.
Thieving: Tired of trying to make enough money to get the items you want? Well, there is another way...thieving. Yes, if you put your morals aside, you can pick pockets and pick locks to get your hands on the loot you crave. Simple. Just be careful that you don't get caught! If you do, you'll be hit on the the head by the person you're trying to steal from!