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* Maps in ''ComicBook/GothamAcademy'' sometimes dragoons her friends into playing ''Serpents & Spells''.
* ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDW'' has teenage Shining Armor and his friends play the role-playing game ''Oubliettes & Ogres''.

* In ''Ultimate Hangout'' and ''Lucy Rolls the Dice'' from ''ComicBook/TheLoudHouse'', Lynn Sr., Flip, Mr. Grouse, Kotaro, and the [=McBride=] fathers all play a game called ''Orcs, Horks, Wizards, and Porks'', which has elements of both tabletop roleplaying and [=LARPing=].

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Hilda}}'' episode [[Recap/HildaS3E7 "Strange Frequencies"]], in the [[PocketDimension nowhere space]] connected to Frida's room, among the items her [[HouseFey Nisse]] "burrowed" from her includes a game box labeled as "Courage & Contracts" with [[ObstructiveBureaucrat elves]] and a [[Recap/HildaS1E7 lindworm]] on the cover.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Hilda}}'' episode [[Recap/HildaS3E7 "Strange Frequencies"]], in the [[PocketDimension nowhere space]] connected to Frida's room, among the items her [[HouseFey Nisse]] "burrowed" from her includes a board game labeled as "Courage & Contracts" with [[ObstructiveBureaucrat elves]] and a [[Recap/HildaS1E7 lindworm]] on the cover.

* In ''Ultimate Hangout'' and ''Lucy Rolls the Dice'', two licensed comics based on ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'', Lynn Sr., Flip, Mr. Grouse, Kotaro, and the [=McBride=] fathers all play a game called ''Orcs, Horks, Wizards, and Porks'', which has elements of both tabletop roleplaying and [=LARPing=].

* ''WebAnimation/SolarBalls'': The dwarf planets, Pluto, Haumea, [=MakeMake=], and Eris, along with Charon, one of Pluto’s moons, play “Dungeons and Dwarf Planets”.

* Notably averted in ''VisualNovel/BeingADIK'', where Magnar and Sally invite the MC, Maya, Josy, and Jill to play "Dungeons & Gremlins".

* The ''ComicBook/Champions2016'' Weirdworld storyline ends with Ms Marvel suggesting they play ''Mansions & Manticores'' as a team-building exercise.

* ''Webcomic/DarthsAndDroids'' is named as a ShoutOut to ''D&D'' and rewrites the ''Franchise/StarWars'' films as a series of campaigns in a d20-based game system, though if the system has an actual InUniverse name, it's never been stated.

* ''TabletopGame/AdvancedDungeonsAndDragonsFirstEdition'': ''Papers & Paychecks'' was a one off cartoon in the original ''Dungeon Masters Guide'' showing a typical adventuring party playing a new fantasy RPG where they played "workers and students in an industrialized and technological society." It was then {{Defictionalised}} [[https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/227291/Papers--Paychecks thirty years later]].

* In ''Fanfic/RoommatesMemoirsOfTheHairlessApe'', there's a ''D&D'' pastiche called ''Sapiens & Strongholds'', which ties into this setting being a WorldOfFunnyAnimals where humans are completely fictitious. Naturally, the local UsefulNotes/FurryFandom equivalent character is a big fan, and another character actively games-masters for it.

* In ''Fanfic/RoommatesMemoirsOfTheHairlessApe'', there's a ''D&D'' pastiche called ''Sapiens & Strongholds'', which ties into this setting being a WorldOfFunnyAnimals where humans are completely fictitious. Naturally, the local UsefulNotes/FurryFandom equivalent character is a big fan, and another character actively games-masters for it.

* Creator/EstherFriesner's fantasy novel ''Literature/MajykByHookOrCrook'' has a brief mention of a game called ''Palaces & Puppies''.

* The ''Comicbook/Champions2016'' Weirdworld storyline ends with Ms Marvel suggesting they play ''Mansions & Manticores'' as a team-building exercise.

* Maps in ''Comicbook/GothamAcademy'' sometimes dragoons her friends into playing ''Serpents & Spells''.

* ''Comicbook/{{Robin|Series}}'': ''Wizards & Warriors'' is a fictional tabletop RPG.

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* ''Wizards & Warriors'' is a fictional tabletop RPG in Creator/DCComics' ''Comicbook/{{Robin|Series}}''.
* ''ComicBook/{{Smax}}'': In a Tolkien/''D&D''-esque StandardFantasySetting, part of the adventuring party is waiting outside the cave for Smax and Robyn to return, and to pass the time they play [[FantasticFantasyIsMundane a game set in mundane reality]] called ''Malls & Muggers''.
* ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDW'' has teenage Shining Armor and his friends play the role-playing game ''Oubliettes & Ogres''.
* Maps in ''Comicbook/GothamAcademy'' sometimes dragoons her friends into playing ''Serpents & Spells''.

* The 1st Edition ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons Dungeon Masters Guide'' had a one-panel cartoon showing the adventurers playing ''Papers and Paychecks''. Yes, the TropeMaker was even the TropeMaker for the "mundane-life-RPG" FantasticFantasyIsMundane gag.

* Anne, Sasha and Marcy in ''Fanfic/TheOwlAndTheFrog'' regularly play a game called "Creatures and Caverns." While Sasha complains about playing it, she's actually very good at it.

* ''Creating Adventure Games for Your Computer'', a guide from the 1980s on how to design and code TextAdventure games in BASIC, named its first example program "Werewolves and Wanderer". Ironically, it's not an RPG at all, nor does the genre get any real coverage aside from the last two examples incorporating TheSixStats in a very convoluted way.
* The ''Literature/GamearthTrilogy'' is about four teens playing the titular homemade game for years. Then TheGameComeToLife...

* In the ''Series/QuantumLeap'' episode "Another Mother", the teenage son of the woman Sam's leaped into is, in Al's words, "A ''Demon & Dragon'' freak".

* An early issue of ''Magazine/{{Dragon}}'' (the official ''[[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons Dungeons & Dragons]]'' magazine) actually parodied itself, with an insert cartoon showing several fantasy characters playing a "[[FantasticFantasyIsMundane mundane life]]" RPG titled ''Papers & Paychecks''.

* ''Podcast/HelloFromTheMagicTavern'': Beings from the magical land of Foon play ''Offices & Bosses''.
* ''Radio/AdventuresInOdyssey'': A notorious VerySpecialEpisode about roleplaying games featured a fictional game called ''Castles & Cauldrons'', in which the participants literally become their characters and perform witchcraft. It serves mostly to show what you might get if the [[MoralGuardians late 1980s Satanic Panic]] version of [=RPGs=] [[CluelessAesop had any basis in reality]].

* ''Papers & Paychecks'' was a one off cartoon in the original ''Dungeon Masters Guide'' from ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' showing a typical adventuring party playing a new fantasy RPG where they played "workers and students in an industrialized and technological society." It was then {{Defictionalised}} [[https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/227291/Papers--Paychecks thirty years later]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Grounded}}'' has a game of ''Minotaurs & Myrmidons'' set up on the picnic table. The gameboard has a maze on it, which the {{Lilliputian|s}} players must navigate to find the Minotaur Chest.
* ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'' has the FantasticFantasyIsMundane, "Cubicles and Conference Calls".
* ''[[VideoGame/SimonTheSorcerer Simon the Sorcerer II]]'' features a group of characters interested in a game called "''Apartments and Accountants''". Since ''Simon the Sorcerer'' is a fantasy series, A&A simulates real life.
* In ''[[VideoGame/TheSpellcastingSeries Spellcasting 101: Sorcerers Get All the Girls]]'', a group of students at Sorcerer University is always playing "''Malls & Muggers''". And they're still playing -- with no evidence of having stopped at any point in the year between games -- in the next game. One of the tasks that your would-be fratmates have to accomplish in order to get through hazing week (which you can watch) is to make them stop.

* ''Webcomic/DarthsAndDroids'' is named as a ShoutOut to ''D&D'' and rewrites the ''Franchise/StarWars'' films as a series of campaigns in a homebrewed d20-based game system, though if the system has an actual InUniverse name, it's never been stated.

* In ''Webcomic/FullFrontalNerdity'', Frank is designing a big-business-simulation tabletop game with the WorkingTitle of ''[[http://ffn.nodwick.com/?p=2457 Money & Megacorps]]''.

* In ''Fanfic/RoommatesMemoirsOfTheHairlessApe'', there's a ''D&D'' pastiche called ''Sapiens & Strongholds'', which ties into this setting being a WorldOfFunnyAnimals where humans are completely fictitious. Naturally, the local UsefulNotes/FurryFandom equivalent character is a big fan, and another character actively games-masters for it.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TrollsTheBeatGoesOn!'' episode "Troll Playing Game", Branch invents a D&D clone known as "Cupcakes and Caverns", which he plays with Poppy, Biggie, Smidge and Dennis.

* Two unrelated video games titled ''Swords & Serpents'': one by Imagic for the UsefulNotes/{{Intellivision}}, another by Interplay for the UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem.

* ''VideoGame/{{Spiritfarer}}'': According to the archive files, Buck, who loves tabletop [=RPGs=], thinks that ''Demons and Ghouls 2nd Edition'' is better than the first.

* ''Franchise/TheGamers'':
** In ''WebVideo/TheGamersNaturalOne'', the usual cast plays a session of ''Cyberrun'' -- an UrbanFantasy-slash-{{Cyberpunk}} TabletopRPG that is [[YouWannaGetSued most definitely unrelated]] to either ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' or ''TabletopGame/{{Cyberpunk}}''.
** ''WebVideo/TheGamersHumansAndHouseholds'' has a bunch of HeroicFantasy archetypes play a session of the eponymous ''Humans & Households'' -- a TabletopRPG of [[RealLife personal powerlessness and existential dread]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheStrangeChores'': The episode "Put the Barbarian Back In The Box" has the gang play what appears to be an [=RPG=] game called "Goblin Quest", with the major gimmick being that the figures are alive. Chaos ensues when the barbarian figure escapes the box, necessitating a search to put him back.

Subtrope of BlandNameProduct. Compare TheNounAndTheNoun and TheTitling. Don't confuse with CapitalLettersAreMagic, where the letters are used ''in-universe''. Also see AdjectiveAnimalAlehouse for common theme naming of ad hoc places of ebriety, where many such adventures [[YouAllMeetInAnInn begin.]]

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* ''Manga/YuGiOh'': Ryou Bakura's favourite game is a tabletop RPG called Monster World which is played on a giant specialized table, with custom scenes and figurines, and twelve-sided dice. It's basically a fancier version of ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''. Notably, both times this game appears in the story, [[spoiler:Thief King Bakura tries to trap Yugi and his friends within it.]]
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* ''ComicBook/{{Smax}}'': In a Tolkien/''D&D''-esque StandardFantasySetting, part of the adventuring party is waiting outside the cave for Smax and Robyn to return, and to pass the time they play a game set in mundane reality called ''Malls & Muggers''.