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No hawkeyefan or pemerton in this thread anymore? Yeah, I would say that this conversation has now reached a dead end. Maybe it's just...

Sure, but does anyone of us longtime folks not have a sense of what @Lanefan appreciates in play? Does anyone not understand what he...

Yes, that's true... I don't think anyone would tend to view the use of campaign one way or another as insulting. I think we'd probably...

To be fair, I don't know if anyone sees @Lanefan 's definition of campaign (which he explained has been superceded) would be considered...

Who said I didn’t accept your definition? I understand it and I accept that’s how many people view the concept and use the term. As I...

Well, no, I think intent always matters. And context matters, too. Again… I’m not trying to change anyone else’s use of the word...

I guess we'll see.

I think we have very different social situations around our games. All of my games already have players; we're just rotating DM duties...

Yes, I’ve described active force by the GM as feeling railroady. That’s more in line with the general usage, I believe. But again… any...

I mean… just let the player play a half-orc. It’s not like Krynn is really defined by the absence of orcs. They still had goblins and...

Even if those rails are never tested due to social norms or enforcement from the group rather than the GM?

I think that example has some nuance to it. I generally don't like to run established IP settings (especially ones that have finicky...

Well, I think what Hawkeyefan is aiming for (no pun intended) is that they don't really think "done with the best of intentions" vs "not...

Agreed. I think comparing a concept like Daggerheart's campaign frames to the "atlas and gazetteer" settings predominant in the '80s...

A lot of thinking and discussion about the play of RPGs seems to default to an assumption of map-and-key play. Here is what I mean by...