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).
You can say that Mafia is a mob. However, you cannot say a mob is Mafia. A mob does not have an organized structure that determines what everyoneâs duty is. To get the title of the leader in a mob, you can kill the leader and get the power. Also, most of the times, mob leaders do not reveal their identity.