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<blockquote data-quote="Emerikol" data-source="post: 9506077" data-attributes="member: 6698278">I think his original description is more accurate.&nbsp; It's even in our vernacular.&nbsp; How often have you heard &quot;I'm playing in Joe's campaign on Thursdays and Bob's on Saturday's&quot;.&nbsp;&nbsp; Even with Ptolus, the players referred to it as Monte Cooke's Ptolus campaign.&nbsp; I suppose if a DM really cared they could try to copyright their contribution and ask for a release for the players but I think that would be ridiculous. Suppose those playing in Gygax's game decided to strike off on their own and start up another campaign but they wanted to use Greyhawk for whatever reason. Let's also assume at the time Greyhawk is not available as a commercially published setting. I would posit that they left Gary's campaign and went to whoever the new DM is even in that situation.&nbsp; Now let's suppose some new people come into Gary's original campaign.&nbsp; I'd argue they are playing the same campaign that the others had previously played in.&nbsp; People come and go in campaigns all the time.&nbsp; The campaign remains.&nbsp; Even if it were taken offline for a while it would just be in hibernation waiting on the next group.&nbsp; I don't though think a campaign is a metagame entity or a network of connections between DM and players.&nbsp; I think it is the established fiction of that campaign which includes everything publicly known DM and players and everything known only to the DM.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Emerikol, post: 9506077, member: 6698278"] I think his original description is more accurate. It's even in our vernacular. How often have you heard "I'm playing in Joe's campaign on Thursdays and Bob's on Saturday's". Even with Ptolus, the players referred to it as Monte Cooke's Ptolus campaign. I suppose if a DM really cared they could try to copyright their contribution and ask for a release for the players but I think that would be ridiculous. Suppose those playing in Gygax's game decided to strike off on their own and start up another campaign but they wanted to use Greyhawk for whatever reason. Let's also assume at the time Greyhawk is not available as a commercially published setting. I would posit that they left Gary's campaign and went to whoever the new DM is even in that situation. Now let's suppose some new people come into Gary's original campaign. I'd argue they are playing the same campaign that the others had previously played in. People come and go in campaigns all the time. The campaign remains. Even if it were taken offline for a while it would just be in hibernation waiting on the next group. I don't though think a campaign is a metagame entity or a network of connections between DM and players. I think it is the established fiction of that campaign which includes everything publicly known DM and players and everything known only to the DM. [/QUOTE]

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