Magic Ampersand/Playing With

Basic Trope: A fictional tabletop RPG with a "These & Those" name structure.

• Straight: Sandy and his friends get together to play Servers & Spambots, a version of D&D set in cyberspace.
• Exaggerated: The game is titled "Caves & Serpents".
• Justified: The game is a deliberate Shout-Out to Dungeons & Dragons.
• Inverted: The game is called "Neither Dungeons nor Dragons".
• Subverted: "What's the game called, Servers & Spambots?" "No, don't be silly..."
• Double Subverted: "...we played that last week. This week's Caverns & Crabs week!"
• Parodied: The tabletop game is called Basements & Lizards, and the first game we see the characters play actually features those things.
• Deconstructed: New player Mark is repulsed by the downturn in creativity tabletop games have taken, and leaves the group the same day he joins.
• Reconstructed: ...But he rejoins immediately when he realizes that it doesn't matter how creative a game is, as long as it's fun. And it is.
• Zig Zagged: The tabletop game is called Servers and Spambots, but the system is very different from D&D. However, Bob tries to play like a Lawful Stupid D&D character anyway. But he gets killed by a Killer Game Master.
• Averted: The tabletop game has an original title.
• Enforced: ???
• Lampshaded: "Servers & Spambots? Does everyone follow that stupid naming structure nowadays?"
• Invoked: ???
• Defied: ???
• Discussed: ???
• Conversed: ???

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