I am heathen, infidel, and blasphemer. Just doing time in this life waiting for the next.
I cut my teeth on D&D (colored boxes) and AD&D, back in the day (Monster Manual, Fiend Folio... etc), enjoyed it but didn't fully embrace it... but shortly after that I discovered Warhammer Fantasy First Edition and just fell in love with role-playing at that point, it was more grittier and I found I didn't like high fantasy but a more "realistic" role-playing experience.
That evolved into running Cyberpunk 2020... playing Star Frontiers, Boot Hill, Gamma World, etc. Then I went off to the Marines in 1990 and played Marine for eight years until 2000. Got out and went into something safer, like police work, so again wasn't in the RPG realm.
Then got into board games in 2015ish, played almost every Saturday for about three years. Just got back into RPGs a few years ago; Warhammer Fantasy 4th Edition to begin... ten found Free League and the Year Zero Engine, huge fan now.
Want to run a game but so far in two years I have started and failed at running three or four games so going to stick to playing for a little bit. I like the game play to be challenging where the players choices matter, at least to the group. Where certainty is never a certainty. ;) Death is possible, especially if you make poor choices.
I feel it is about the players journey that matters, the experiences of the group... not how grand or great or profitable the journey is.