Greetings and salutations, good people of ENWorld.
I'm relatively new to RPGs - started playing somewhere around the time 3.5 came out (although my first rulebook was plain ol' 3E). That's what? 5 years of gameplay. Yeah, sounds 'bout right.
The first RPG game I played, before ever touching D&D, was Call of Cthulhu (the d20 one, although I've also played the Great Old One). A friend of mine and I wanted to see what the fuss was about and so decided to examine an RPG game via something we already know and love, the Cthulhu Mythos. The encounter was crushing. I've never fully recovered.
I prefer DMing to playing. The last campaign I led was a two-year Eberron Extravaganza, which has already been praised on ENWorld as having a cute DM, although the poster that praised it didn't get the gender quite right. I blame my elfish good looks.
I hope your walls have less rats than mine.