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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ariosto" data-source="post: 5126457" data-attributes="member: 80487">I can't speak for Melan, but I'm pretty sure we're on the same page here:The world is no narrower for any given inhabitant's choice of location within it.There is No "The" in This Player Driven GameThere is no "the" party; there are only parties.There is no "the" adventure; there are only adventures.There is no "the" campaign; there are only campaigns.All of the above share a world in a game. They begin and end, but the world and the game go on.Really, the term 'campaign' from the start (the foreword to Volume 1) was used in a wargame sense encompassing all adventures, by all parties in Blackmoor or Greyhawk or any other "game-world". However, it may be a helpful reorientation exercise to try using it in a sense more like the military, as referring to a series of operations by a given group of players (or an individual player). It is what those players plan and do, toward the objectives they choose.Read 'adventure' not as "events prepared by a GM" but as "an undertaking of uncertain outcome, a hazardous enterprise" prepared by players.Read 'party' as any association of characters formed for a particular adventure.</blockquote>