Any fictional [[TabletopGames roleplaying game]] can be recognized as such, because it will have a title consisting of two alliterative plural nouns suggestive of its genre separated by an ampersand. A writer in need of a fictitious parallel to ''Vampire: The Masquerade'', for instance, would probably dub it something like "''Cloaks & Coffins''". Bonus points if the two nouns are [[DungeonsAndDragons a place name and a monster name]].

The Magic Ampersand form serves the same instant-identification purpose for ad hoc roleplaying games that the ChestInsignia does for ad hoc superheroes.

Of course, sometimes there is TruthInTelevision: ''Bunnies and Burrows'', ''Castles and Crusades'', ''Mutants and Masterminds'', ''Villains and Vigilantes'', ''Tunnels and Trolls''... all paying homage to the mother of them all, DungeonsAndDragons.

Compare TheNounAndTheNoun.

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Examples:
*Rona Jaffe's ''Mazes & Monsters''.
*The first edition ''[[DungeonsAndDragons Dungeons & Dragons]]'' actually parodied itself, with an insert cartoon showing several fantasy characters playing a "mundane life" RPG titled ''Papers & Paychecks''.
**"We're pretending we are workers and students in an industrialized and technological society."
*A fictional roleplaying game/laser tag hybrid called "Aliens & Asteroids" appeared in an episode of ''[[Series.WarOfTheWorlds War of the Worlds]]''
*''Grottos and Gremlins'' from the video game ''Bully''.
* Literary example: Neal Stephenson's ''The Big U'' explicitly compares the LARP ''Sewers and Serpents'', played by characters in the novel, to ''Dungeons and Dragons''.
*The {{Webcomic}} ''[[DarthsAndDroids Darths & Droids]]''.
**And in the ''Darths & Droids'' universe, the makers (in the [[CelebrityParadox absence of Star Wars]]) are apparently working on a similar comic about an RPG version of ''HarryPotter'': ''[[http://www.darthsanddroids.net/wandsandwarts/episodes/0050.html Wands & Warts]]''.
***Not to mention that in the ''Wands & Warts'' universe, the makers are working on a screencap comic about ''TheSoundOfMusic'': ''[[http://www.darthsanddroids.net/notesandnazis/episodes/0050.html Notes & Nazis]]''
****And then they go one step further with [[http://www.darthsanddroids.net/mutantsandmiscreants/episodes/0050.html Mutants & Miscreants.]] (''{{X-Men}}'') And another with [[http://www.darthsanddroids.net/emsandebes/episodes/0050.html Enlisted Men & Extraterrestrial Biological Entities]] (''Film/{{Alien}}s'').
**** [[http://www.darthsanddroids.net/magiciansandmunchkins/episodes/0050.html Magicians & Munchkins]]? (''TheWizardOfOz'')
***** Man, would it be sweet if they actually started one of these ''for reals'' after the original is done. Or possibly alongside it.
****** It's been strongly hinted that the NoodleIncident filled fantasy campaign between Episodes I and II may have been based on ''ThePrincessBride''. Pirates & Princesses?
**** They add a new one every 50 strips. The latest is [[http://www.darthsanddroids.net/sandalsandspartans/0050.html Sandals & Spartans]] (''[=~300~=]'', for the 300th strip).
* The real-life TabletopGames ''Villains and Vigilantes'', by Fantasy Games Unlimited. They also made ''Starships & Spacemen''.
*''Wizards & Warriors'' in DCComics' ''Robin'' and, if this troper recalls correctly, an episode of ''QuantumLeap''.
*''Wizards & Warriors'' was also the name of a summer replacement TV series in the early 80s. It parodied many themes and tropes from fantasy stories and FRP games. One episode even featured the hero gathering a "Dungeons and Dragons"-style party of specialists to go on a quest.
*There's yet ''another'' ''Wizards & Warriors'' series out there...a trilogy of video games developed by Rareware for the [[NintendoEntertainmentSystem NES]].
* The webcomic ''Dungeon Damage'' had a group of Dragons playing "Humans and Houses".
* The (unnecessarily complex, at least for this first-edition AD&D veteran) [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powers_and_Perils Powers & Perils]] fantasy role-playing game, published by Avalon Hill, if you can believe it.
* The superhero RPG ''MutantsAndMasterminds''.
* An episode of DextersLaboratory, (Itself called ''D & DD'') features the titular character running a game of "Monsters & Mazes". Dee-Dee replaces him as the Game Master, with amusing consequences.
* A sketch in ''TheOnionMovie'' featured the game "Wizards & Warbeasts."
* In ''Spellcasting 101: Sorcerers Get All The Girls'', a group of students at Sorcerer University is always playing "Malls & Muggers".
* From the web series, "Gold": "Goblins & Gold"
* The computer RPG Might & Magic
* ''FoxTrot'' had a series of strips where Jason and Marcus were playing "Houses & Humans", which is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin pretty much what it sounds like]].
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