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).
Calling Moby Dick The Whale instead of just a whale makes it seem like a universal type for all whales. But in the American edition and all the editions after, Melville uses the whaleâs name for the title.e wish we could tell you that the White Whaleâs name, Moby-Dick, is a joke, because this novel is so full of phallic puns, but according to the Oxford English Dictionary, dick doesnât start meaning penis until the late nineteenth century, so weâre out of luck on that one.