D&Der

plural D&Ders

1. A player of the fantasy tabletop role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons.

   René, an aficionado himself, never missed an opportunity to find fellow D&Ders.

   2018, Cara Black, Murder on the Left Bank, Soho Crime, →ISBN, page 17

   2 more examples

   Being geeky has always been about making and doing things. That’s nothing new—kids who went to Space Camp constructed and launched their own model rockets, and D&Ders painstakingly hand-drew maps, or painted their own pewter figures.

   2011, Susan Beal, “Introduction”, in World of Geekcraft: Step-by-Step Instructions for 25 Super-Cool Craft Projects, Chronicle Books, →ISBN, page 6

   Regardless of how you do or don’t play games—whether you are an MMORPGer, a console gamer, a D&Der, a Settlers of Catan enthusiast, or someone who has never gamed before but who is perhaps curious about gaming or instructional design—I hope that in reading this book you will find a lens that will be useful to you in your own life, whether for teaching, writing, learnining, training, game development, or simply the enjoyment of games.

   2018, Carly Finseth, Teach Like a Gamer: Adapting the Instructional Design of Digital Role-Playing Games (Studies in Gaming), Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 12

   Synonyms: Dungeons & Dragoner