All are welcome here, and at tables everywhere. Hell, my wife has been playing for about 5 months, and has become one of the best players at the table.
It's been 15 years since I first played D&D, it was a dragonlance game. None of the players had ever played D&D before and we were fumbling our way through Lord Soth's keep.
20+ years of gaming. Started back with 1E and played an assassin in a city homebrew game for 3 months. Started co-DMing with my DM because he ideas were great but his characterizations sucked. I ran the game and played the NPC's, and we worked out the adventures togather. That lasted about 2 months, then I kicked him to the player side of the table and never looked back.
Been a player a few times here and there but it is hard to find good DM's where I've been the last 17 years of gaming, so I've been the DM. Although I am training my wife to be a DM; it is all a matter of time. She's been gaming now for 5 years, started after we got together.