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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GVDammerung" data-source="post: 2614946" data-attributes="member: 33060">No argument that there is a full slate of adventures to go with Shackled City.  I would hold, however, that a full slate of adventures is not a campaign in the truest sense of the term.  I think we have come to use the word "campaign" rather loosely.  That's okay 9 out of 10 times, I'd think, the one exception coming when we start to compare two "campaigns."Freeport (the main book), compared to those portions of Shackled City that describe the city as a locale in which to set adventures, I think, makes the point.  Freeport (the main book) offers far more information.  Cauldron seems to offer much less.  This then is the distinction I would draw between background and backdrop.  Freeport (the main book) takes on a verisimiltude or richness because it is providing background with no other purpose than to allow a DM to create their own adventures set in Freeport (of course the Freeport line also includes a number of premade adventures as well).  Cauldron provides information that is largely incidental, backdrop, to/for the main thrust of the adventure path, which then defines Shackled City in a way that Freeport is not so limited in its definitions.But again, depends on what you are looking for and best suits your needs.IMO.</blockquote>