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).
Scope of project. This project seeks to identify American gangsters during the Prohibition era of the 1920s and 1930s. A gangster is a criminal who is a member of a gang; some gangs are considered to be part of organized crime. Gangsters are also called âmobsters,â a term is derived from mob and the suffix -ster..