Traditional narrative terms -- such as plot, theme, and story -- are often used to describe role-playing game (RPG) play. However, RPGs are also fundamentally different from narrative forms like books and film. The result is that trying to discuss story in RPGs leads to a quagmire of jumbled assumptions.
Word Origin & History. mob 1680s, disorderly part of the population, rabble, slang shortening of mobile, mobility common people, populace, rabble (1670s), from L. mobile vulgus fickle common people (c.1600 in English), from mobile, neut. of mobilis fickle, movable, mobile, from movere to move (see move).
Re: It's Short For Eobard - The Eddie Thawn Thread. I really do hope that Eddie IS short for Eobard. Eobard is just a cooler name for a bad guy, so changing it is kind of lame. It's like when Nolan changed Daggett's name from Roland to John. Roland is a much cooler bad guy name.