BGer

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noun

A player of the Baldur’s Gate series of role-playing video games.

Scrabble 7

Meanings

nounBGer (plural BGers)

plural BGers

  1. rareA player of the Baldur’s Gate series of role-playing video games.

    BGers: Is it possible to get Shar Teel to join an all-female party?

    1999 June 5, Enfilade, “Should I call Bella Abzug?”, in alt.games.baldurs-gate (Usenet)
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    Hello fellow BGers, I read in the manual that Thalantyr (Mage at High Hedge) wielded a Staff of Power.

    1999 January 14, Brad Freels, “Thalantyr and Staff of Power?”, in alt.games.baldurs-gate (Usenet)

    Hi BGers, A friend and I are attempting to play BG via TCP/IP, and have had very little success.

    1999 June 15, Enfilade, “Lag in 2-player TCP/IP game”, in alt.games.baldurs-gate (Usenet)

    As an AD&D pencil & paper player as well as avid BGer I find the spell graphics very interesting. It gives a new element to spells' Area of Effect as well as visualising what they might actually look like 'in the field' as it were.

    1999 October 30, Fred, “Favourite Spell Effect - what[']s yours?”, in alt.games.baldurs-gate (Usenet)

    Dear All fleoowe BGers, I am about to add a new hard drive to my computer which will shift the CD-ROM drive letter from D: to E:

    1999 November 14, Platypus, “ How do I change the CD-ROM drive letter for BG”, in alt.games.baldurs-gate (Usenet)

    Even Ultima IX, which is generally regarded as a slowpokey shoggoth in performance, doesn't take as long to reload savegames, especially when you factor in the fact that, if as recommended by many BGers, you play BG in one-user multiplayer mode, you have to go through the character approval screen on every reload...

    2000 March 9, Amarande, “Why Baldur's Gate is no fun”, in alt.games.baldurs-gate (Usenet)

Origin

From BG (“Baldur’s Gate”) + -er.

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