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).
The American Mafia, also referred to as the Italian Mafia (commonly shortened to the Mafia or Mob) or the Italian-American Mafia, is a highly organized Italian-American criminal society. The organization is often referred to by members as Cosa Nostra (Italian pronunciation: [ËkÉsa ËnÉstra], our thing) or La Cosa Nostra (LCN).