Funny meeting you here!

[Dannyalcatraz]

Inspired by this thread ( http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=194785&page=1 ), and the possibility of participating in an ENWorld gathering in Dallas, I was wondering:

Have you ever found out that someone you know online is someone you already know in RL?

As yet, I have not, but I know that there are people on this board with whom I have common acquaintences, so there is a possibility that we've met and just don't realize it.

 

[blargney the second]

Yeo, I met Ferrix IRL and we figured out eventually on here who the other was.

 

[BOZ]

Have you ever found out that someone you know online is someone you already know in RL?

never. and probably not even close. and i'm talking over 10 years of internet use.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Can't say its ever happened to me.

 

[Olaf the Stout]

Once. I found out that there was another person on the maxminis (D&D minis) messageboards that was also from Adelaide. When I sent him an e-mail to say hello and arrange to meet up to trade minis he said that he thought he had met me before. It turned out that we had played a session of Paranoia together at VorpalCon (the Adelaide gaming convention) a few months earlier.

Given how small the gaming community is in Adelaide (despite being a city of over 1 million people) I wasn't that surprised that we had met before though. I was just happy to see that there was someone else from Adelaide on the boards. So far I have only come across 1 regular member on EN World (Sound of Azure) that is also from Adelaide and we have yet to actually meet in person.

Olaf the Stout