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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 5263051" data-attributes="member: 177">I would base it there, simply due to history.  For our purposes, the term came to us from that military use, into wargames, and then into D&D.  We don't have to keep the definition exactly at the base, but it is a useful reference point.In very broad general terms - a campaign is "a systematic course of aggressive activities for some specific purpose" (this works for the military, political, sales, and other uses).The campaign is the set of activities, not the place in which the activities are undertaken - so, it isn't the world setting.  We could quibble on how much we want to hold to the "some specific purpose", or we could say that's the player's purpose of having entertainment, and everyone might be satisfied.</blockquote>