"Mook" origin -- Re: Mythic Russia: call for opinions

From: Henk Langeveld <hlangeveld_at_...>
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 22:48:22 +0200

Thanks to Ben and Mark for confirming my suspicion -- I also found an online reference to Feng Shui for "Mook" as cannon fodder indeed.

Henk

S.Ben Melhuish wrote:
> I'm sure the term is older than this, but I first saw it in the Feng
> Shui RPG, referring to a nameless, faceless member of an enemy horde --
> e.g., all the ninjas who attack Our Hero, and get dispatched in a
> variety of spectacular manners, are mooks. Trollkin would probably be
> mooks in most Gloranthan circumstances.

Mark Rowe wrote:

 > In our games
 >
 > MOOK = CANNON FODDER
 >
 > he he