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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8738397" data-attributes="member: 29398">Not by my definition.If I run two different parties* in the same setting and those parties will 99.9+% likely never meet and interact, be it due to time or distance or whatever, that's two campaigns.If I run two different parties* in the same setting that could and will very likely meet and interact (or, more common IME, who spawned from a single original group), it becomes one campaign the moment that meeting happens and IMO is one campaign even before that.&nbsp; Even more so if the actions of one group can or will somehow influence the lives or actions of another in real time within the fiction.&nbsp; (e.g. party A infiltrates and wipes out the Hobgoblin command center which before long leads to a major Hobgoblin retreat on the war front where party B is active)And by interact I mean more than just happening to be in the same place at the same time; I mean potentially swapping characters or members, merging into a single party, forming a larger adventuring company, or whatever.* - contemporary in real time.&nbsp; If I run one party in a setting and then 20 real-world-years later I run another party in that same setting, that's probably two campaigns even if party B does eventually interact with party A somehow; and would in any case certainly be perceived as two different campaigns by the players.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 8738397, member: 29398"] Not by my definition. If I run two different parties* in the same setting and those parties will 99.9+% likely never meet and interact, be it due to time or distance or whatever, that's two campaigns. If I run two different parties* in the same setting that could and will very likely meet and interact (or, more common IME, who spawned from a single original group), it becomes one campaign the moment that meeting happens and IMO is one campaign even before that. Even more so if the actions of one group can or will somehow influence the lives or actions of another in real time within the fiction. (e.g. party A infiltrates and wipes out the Hobgoblin command center which before long leads to a major Hobgoblin retreat on the war front where party B is active) And by interact I mean more than just happening to be in the same place at the same time; I mean potentially swapping characters or members, merging into a single party, forming a larger adventuring company, or whatever. * - contemporary in real time. If I run one party in a setting and then 20 real-world-years later I run another party in that same setting, that's probably two campaigns even if party B does eventually interact with party A somehow; and would in any case certainly be perceived as two different campaigns by the players. [/QUOTE]

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