Hello Rexhasta and welcome to computer forum. I'll answer as many of your questions to the best of my ability but as I'm not dedicating myself to reading all other posts i'm sorry if they repeat others
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1) What is the best overall distribution of Linux (including non-free ones)?
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Not really sure but I have used both Mandrake and Suse and they are both great. I suggest Suse out of the 2 as I had better luck with compatability of hardware (digital camera etc.) right out of the box. Also I think all distros have a free version.
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2) Is Linux a good OS to play games on?
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I would have to answer NO to this question as there are just many games that are never released on Linux. As for the ones that are, I'd imaging they run just as fine as the Windows variants.
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3) Can Linux play games that are meant for PC/Windows?
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I'd imaging that you could run the Odd windows game using somthing like Wine. I've succesfully installed an Older version of Dreamweaver and Macromedia flash that ran and worked. I succesfully installed Quake2 for windows with a couple of free patch files off the net and it worked (this was without Wine or any such program). Just dont count on running too many Windows games succesfully as I dont think many would run.
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4) If you can play games on Linux, can you play mutliplayer with other gamers using Windows?
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Yes i'm pretty sure you can. I've played against Linux users on my Windows PC playing Quake 3. I raelly dont see why you could not with all games. Heck allot of servers hosting these websites are Linux. And Linux can be Networked in a Home Network eviroment fairly easy. No reason that I can think of that would stop you from playing against windows based pcs.
Use Windows If you like to play lots of games. Try linux for awhile on a seperate partition or HD. In time you'll know what you want to stick too.