MNblockhead
A Title Much Cooler Than Anything on the Old Site
Okay, yes. There is a lot of story/lore/flavor. But it is more like a setting guide. It is not like most adventures by WotC where you you have pretty clear objectives and story beats.See, this is where I have something of a problem with the idea that there is no pre-authored story in your campaign. If the timeline is pages long, there are entire stories going on in your game. Have to be. Without any sort of story, you can't have a pages long timeline. Now, these aren't complete stories, obviously, but, they are stories, IMO.
But, I do think that where these conversations go off the rails (heh) is that people have different definitions of "story". Which makes the conversations somewhat difficult.
So, yes, it isn't like Caves of Chaos where you simply have a keyed map with a few lines of what monsters, treasures, and traps are there and rules for determining how the situation changes through time as different factions fight each other.