Shouldn't Kaz the Betrayer have more actions?

[Wolfspider]

Solo mob?

That seems like an oxymoron to me.

Can anyone explain this terminology?

 

[Jack99]

Solo mob?

That seems like an oxymoron to me.

Can anyone explain this terminology?

Mob = short for Mobile Object, a term used in especially MMORPGs for what we would call an NPC in a D&D game. Basically anything run by the AI.

 

[Wolfspider]

Mob = short for Mobile Object, a term used in especially MMORPGs for what we would call an NPC in a D&D game. Basically anything run by the AI.

Hmm. I may have found my new "gish."

 

[Plane Sailing]

Mob = short for Mobile Object, a term used in especially MMORPGs for what we would call an NPC in a D&D game. Basically anything run by the AI.

It seems to be a pretty pointless addition to the FRP vernacular unless someone is trying to be funny and making a "D&D is so video-gamey" point, but hopefully any snide comments like that are dying out a bit now.

Which again makes me wonder what point there is in using such a term.

 

[CapnZapp]

On the other hand, it's perfectly possible not to get offended by simply reminding yourself a lot of tabletop rpg players have crpg/mmo experience nowadays.

MOB is simply meant as another word for NPC. Often a "hostile monster". A "red ring" if you've played Baldur's Gate

I know there is a subtle difference, and you know it, and most of us who started out with pen and paper do too. That doesn't mean people who use these words interchangably necessarily do so with an agenda.

 

[SlyFlourish]

No, I wasn't trying to be funny and had no intent of poking at the "D&D is too MMO like" wound.

I've been playing MMOs for ten years and sometimes it just slips out to call NPCs and monsters "mobs". While I started with pen-and-paper like most of you, my 400 played days in Everquest has a tendency to stick a lot of words in my head that come out at the wrong time.

Please move on, nothing to see here.

 

[eudemonist]

Mob is more a MUD/MUSH/MOO term than an MMO term. Get off my lawn.

 

[coyote6]

Lawn? (Thread) Necromancers don't have lawns! They have crypts! Graveyards! Ossuaries!

 

[interwyrm]

Mob is more a MUD/MUSH/MOO term than an MMO term. Get off my lawn.

I am so glad someone else said this.

Down with GUIs!

 

[pawsplay]

The GUI attacks!
You have been struck for 25 damage! You are BLEEDING from your eyes!
>kill mob
You can't do that! Your CPU is paralyzed! You are BLEEDING from your eyes!
The GUI casts a spell!
Your graphics card begins to gasp from breath! You are BLEEDING from your eyes!
> kill mob
The GUI attacks!
You have been struck for 37 damage! You are mortally wounded and may soon die!
A runaway process has entered the room.
The runaway process attacks!
You have been struck for 1 damage! You are mortally wounded and my soon die!
> kill process
Warning: Killing this process may adversely affect the performance of your computer. Are you sure?
The runaway process attacks!
You have been struck for 1 damage! You are mortally wounded and my soon die!
>kill process
Please wait...
The runaway process attacks!
You have been struck for 1 damage! You are mortally wounded and my soon die!
The runaway process attacks!
You have been struck for 1 damage! You are mortally wounded and my soon die!
The GUI attacks!
You have been struck for 25 damage!
You have been KILLED!!!