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: They play a lot of different RPGs, all of which are named like this.
- Downplayed: Sandy and his friends play Servers & Spambots, Shadesprint, and MagicQuest.
- Justified: The (in-universe) creators of the game think "Servers & Spambots" is a good name for the game because the alliteration and short length make it easy to remember, and it still gives a good idea of what the game is about.
- 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 entire game revolves around fighting lizards in basements and nothing else.
- 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: The game is a deliberate Shout-Out to Dungeons & Dragons.
- Lampshaded: "Servers & Spambots? Does everyone follow that stupid naming structure nowadays?"
- Invoked: Bob, wondering why his friend is busy every Tuesday night, checks his room for clues. Notices a book with this kind of title, he deduces that his friend has probably been playing a TTRPG.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- 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.
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