Encountering game designers in "real life"

[Atlatl Jones]

I've recently been shopping around for some new noise-cancelling earphones. I've been looking at a few on Amazon, and reading the reviews and comments. I just read a review that seemed particularly useful, and opened it up to read the comments. Then I noticed the name of the reviewer: Bruce R. Cordell

Huh.

I wouldn't have been surprised if I'd seen a D&D writer reviewing a fantasy novel or game, but it's a neat coincidence when I see one reviewing headphones.

 

[Nifft]

Interesting, but I'm not sure if I approve of calling the internet "real life".

Cheers, -- N

 

[Edgewood]

Lifts head from DMG and peeks above stacks of role playing hardcovers.

What's real life??

 

[Relique du Madde]

Interesting, but I'm not sure if I approve of calling the internet "real life".

Cheers, -- N

Careful, you might make the internet angry....

 

[Toben the Many]

Just a note - it's pretty easy to meet game designers in real life at conventions. GenCon, for example. Usually, if you go to their company's booth and ask for them by name, someone can point you to them. Most of them are happy to talk and meet with folks that come by.

 

[Logan_Bonner]

Having gone to Bruce's cube to talk to him on several occassions, I can confirm that his headphones cancel noises (such as people saying his name or knocking on his cube wall to get his attention) quite well.

 

[nerfherder]

Just a note - it's pretty easy to meet game designers in real life at conventions. GenCon, for example. Usually, if you go to their company's booth and ask for them by name, someone can point you to them. Most of them are happy to talk and meet with folks that come by.

And sometimes the person in the hotel lobby that asks "Hey, can I share your cab to the airport?" turns out to be a WotC designer and you end up chatting about ENW, CM and Star Wars Saga

 

[OneWinged4ngel]

Careful, you might make the internet angry....

The internet is serious business!

 

[Irda Ranger]

I painted my first mini in Sean K Reynolds' living room. He was very helpful.

I'm not sure painting minis qualifies as real life either though ...

 

[Henry]

A friend of mine, who'd been in the hobby scarcely four or five years, asked me out of the blue: "Who's Jeff Dee?" He saw Jeff Dee on a TV/radio program about religious subjects, where it was mentioned that he'd done work in D&D before, and I had the opportunity to give him some instruction on the history of D&D, and show him some really cool D&D and Champions artwork he'd never seen before.