My first D&D experience

I've played a bit of dungeons and dragons, but I don't feel that I've had much experience with the type of long-spanning, engrossing games that long time players have. Most of the games have been "one-shot" or the beginnings of a campaign that never reached fruition. It was about the time I was graduating college; Joe and I had been making up our own board games and talking about programming computer games again, when I think I heard about the possibility of having a DM come over and run a session for a couple of my friends.

There were about 8 of us who quickly rolled up characters and played a one-shot session from the D&D 3.5 DMG. We didn't take any of it seriously in the slightest; the person playing the wizard decided that magic missiles would be shot from her breasts. It was a lot of fun, and we talked about playing more, but nothing really came of it. Looking back, I felt bad for the DM. He was just kind of thrown in to the task because he had the knowledge, and I think we was a little adverse to our jabbing that he should start up a campaign for us. I suppose it takes a little more work and ambition to put something like that together, especially for some people you just recently met.