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Characters can be protected from Angry Mob, but I can't remember if they just aren't viable targets (don't count them in possible random targets) or if they are just not discarded if they are randomly targeted.

Protection stops a card from being targeted.  This card is a discard targeting them.  Characters protected from discard cannot be targeted, so it is a random selection of non-protected characters.

How you decide randomly is up to you, as long as it is actually random (I like picking up and shuffling if no counters or placed cards, and die rolls otherwise), but you cannot include among those options characters that are protected from discard.

This is one point where I see Protection different from Immune. Immune characters could be shuffled, and if targeted not effected, because of Immunity, but protected could not be shuffled.

Am I right with my interpretation?

Protection stops a card from being targeted.  This card is a discard targeting them.  Characters protected from discard cannot be targeted, so it is a random selection of non-protected characters.

How you decide randomly is up to you, as long as it is actually random (I like picking up and shuffling if no counters or placed cards, and die rolls otherwise), but you cannot include among those options characters that are protected from discard.

Sorry for dredging this up, but I have been catching up on a lot of threads here recently, and I don't agree with this ruling. I would interpret AM's ability as follows: Select a random character from each territory. Discard those characters. "Select" is not an ability to be protected from, so my interpretation would be that once the character (any character) is selected, then it is determined whether that character is eligible for discard. If so, great, if not, the mob failed to make a hit in that territory.

I didn't see any discussion on this on the other side of the boards, but if any other Elders disagree with my logic, or if there was a thread, then let me know.

I didn't see any discussion on this on the other side of the boards, but if any other Elders disagree with my logic, or if there was a thread, then let me know.

I agree with Dayne that protect limits targets and selecting a card to discard is targeting it. That's why there was no dissent or discussion prior to your arrival.

I certainly don't want to muddy the waters, so if you both agree that it is correct as in the original ruling, then I will support it. I would say that perhaps I didn't lay out my argument clearly. I am not trying to add an ability, but stating that a card has a random target inherently adds another step in completing the process of the ability, that is, determining the potential target. Rephrasing the ability as I did was only meant to explain what random means. My contention is that characters cannot be protected from dice/eeny-meenie/whatever other method used to randomly select a character. At no point during the random determination is Angry Mob targeting the character, it only begins the process of determining the only character that could be the potential target. Once the potential target is selected at random, then it is determined whether Angry Mob can target the card, and if it can, it does.

Like I said, I just wanted to clarify my position rather than make this a big issue. So, for ruling purposes, please use the ruling by Redoubter, supported by Gabe. This argument will just remain here as a reference, if it is ever brought up again and deemed worthy to revisit.