RuneScaper

plural RuneScapers

1. A player of the fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game RuneScape.

   Dutch RuneScaper MarioSonic visited the company for this reason in 2019. RuneScape was a place where MarioSonic felt like himself.

   2021, “RuneScape, IRL”, in Ian Tucker, Brett Israel, Sanjay Dharawat, editors, RuneScape: The First 20 Years—An Illustrated History, Dark Horse Books, →ISBN, page 095

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   Providing a time and place can be the first step in building some community with and among your players; if you get all your RuneScapers together in the training center once a week for an hour, it’s going to turn into a genuine event before you know it.

   2007, Eli Neiburger, “The Gaming World, and How It Can Be Appropriately Appropriated into the Library World”, in Gamers … in the Library?!: The Why, What, and How of Videogame Tournaments for All Ages, Chicago, Ill.: American Library Association, →ISBN, page 38

   The interface of creating an account enacts the assemblage; it is the gift that inaugurates the being of a runescaper^([sic]) (or run-e-scapist if you like).

   2010, Joost Van Loon, “Networked Being: Transactions in On-line Gaming Communities”, in Parallax, volume 16, number 1, →DOI, pages 19–27

   Among us are a diverse populous of Beliebers, photographers, flat earthers, snowboarders, National voters, Armenians, coffee drinkers, Runescapers,^([sic]) wheelchair users, Muslims, bloggers and Ultimate players.

   2018 October 8, “Making an ass out of u and me”, in Canta, number 13

   If we talk about OSRS, it became a major hit and you can just see that from the sheer amount of players the game has, which is more than 70% of the whole RuneScape players combined as the RuneScapers just love the old school vibe.

   2021 April 22, “Old School RuneScape vs World of Warcraft Classic”, in Nyasa Times, archived from the original on 14 May 2021