D&D 5E Larger Weapons

[GravyFingerz]

Why do WoW players insist on referring to one monster as a "mob"? Do they not know what the word means?

It's short for mobile, which means any element that was self mobile. It comes from mud terminology. According to wikipedia, anyway.

 

[jadrax]

Why do WoW players insist on referring to one monster as a "mob"? Do they not know what the word means?

It's short for mobile object.

 

[Savage Wombat]

It's short for mobile, which means any element that was self mobile. It comes from mud terminology. According to wikipedia, anyway.

Sounds like a post-hoc definition to me.

 

[evileeyore]

Sounds like a post-hoc definition to me.

No it was a slang term that arose in the Grand Old Days of the MUD. I remember using back in Gemstone (I think it was Gemstone III).

 

[doctorhook]

We also used to call 'em mobs in Realms of Despair (another MUD) about 15 years ago. I don't think the word hit mainstream till WoW though.

 

[Agamon]

Awesome. I'm really looking forward to the Avatar's Handbook, the Moderator's Guide and the Mob Manual.

 

[evileeyore]

Awesome. I'm really looking forward to the Avatar's Handbook, the Moderator's Guide and the Mob Manual.

Minion: "They camped outside Two-Life Tony's cave and just waited for him to respawn."

Dragon: "You take a train over there and you make them an aggro they can't refuse!"

Minion: "Yes, Boss Monster."





Excerpt from The Order of the Stick webcomic.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

No it was a slang term that arose in the Grand Old Days of the MUD. I remember using back in Gemstone (I think it was Gemstone III).

Yep. It sounds like a post-hoc thing, but it really isn't, it's ancient as you say, and as the internet existed at the time, it really seems to have come from "mobile object".

I read a hilarious thread on a Guild Wars 2 forum where people, all of them apparently either relatively new to MMOs or really young, were trying to determine where "toon" for "character" came from. The true explanation, that being that it came from the fact that The Realm Online (which was one of the first big graphical MUDs, pre-dating even Meridian 59 in it's semi-open beta), where your PC was literally a cartoon, was ignored in favour of various bizarre revisionist theories (none of which accounted for the fact that "toon" was well-established as a term for "character" by the time EQ was out).

As for larger weapons, hmmm, not sure about that rule - I'd have doubled the dice, myself, if going for simplicity. It's begging for a return to combat-Enlarging and Large PC races and so on, though. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but it is a thing.

 

[Chris_Nightwing]

In general, I don't like to explain my jokes...

Thaumaturge.

You should explain it to him in Private. Ahem.

 

[GravyFingerz]

I read a hilarious thread on a Guild Wars 2 forum where people, all of them apparently either relatively new to MMOs or really young, were trying to determine where "toon" for "character" came from. The true explanation, that being that it came from the fact that The Realm Online (which was one of the first big graphical MUDs, pre-dating even Meridian 59 in it's semi-open beta), where your PC was literally a cartoon, was ignored in favour of various bizarre revisionist theories (none of which accounted for the fact that "toon" was well-established as a term for "character" by the time EQ was out).

Oh my god that really takes me back. I remember beta testing The Realm and the upheaval of moving out of beta. Good times.