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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bullgrit" data-source="post: 5262090" data-attributes="member: 31216">I'm not looking to restrict the term at all. I'm just thinking of the best functional use of the term.Does "Gygax's Greyhawk campaign" and "Arneson's Blackmoor campaign" mean "the World of Greyhawk" and "the Land of Blackmoor"? Or does "GGc" and "ABc" refer to the series of adventures Players/characters had in those settings? I always read "Gygax's Greyhawk campaign" to mean the series of adventures Gygax ran the PCs through in his world.All through my D&D career (30 years), I've read and used "campaign" to mean the series of adventures with a set of PCs. The series of adventures does not necessarily have to be any kind of adventure path. Hell, it doesn't even have to have an end.I've run campaigns in my own homebrew world and in the World of Greyhawk. I've had campaigns last dozens of game sessions. I've had campaigns last one game session (not by choice). I've had the list of PCs in a campaign change over the course of the campaign. The direction/flow/plot/story can even change over the course of a campaign. But all of this could take place in one setting/world. I've just never called the setting/world itself a "campaign."Heck, until having these kinds of discussions on ENWorld, I'd never met anyone who insisted that "campaign" meant "world." It just surprises me that someone refuses to use "world" or "setting" when they mean "world" or "setting."I'm willing to accept and use "campaign" for "world" or "setting," (even though I keep thinking, why not just say "world" or "setting"). But what to call the series of adventures with a group of PCs within the "campaign"?If this is not your definition of "campaign," what do you call a series of adventures with a set of PCs? For instance, if you played through the Temple of Elemental Evil, then the Giants, then the Drow with a set of PCs (give or take as death and such happen), and then the PCs retired, what would you call this? I call it a campaign set in the World of Greyhawk. You'd call it a [what] set in the Greyhawk campaign?Bullgrit</blockquote>

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