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<blockquote data-quote="pming" data-source="post: 6980060" data-attributes="member: 45197"><p>Hiya!</p><p> [MENTION=5100]Mercule[/MENTION], I'd say that the last "end part" (of your long-standing game) was still part of the original campaign because you didn't start a new time line in the same world, and your "ending" had all the previous games events taken as fact.</p><p></p><p>I've done a bit more thinking on this thread over the past day or two and have come to the realization that there simply is no definitive "line" where on <em>this </em>side...it's a campaign...but on <em>that</em> side, it's not. Far too much overlap and blurring of the lines, so to speak.</p><p></p><p>An AP isn't a "campaign" when looked at as a single series of adventures that have no connection to any other games the DM has run. But an AP can be part of a campaign if it <em>does</em> have direct connections to previous games, or if, after the AP ends, the DM has more games that has direct connections to what went on in that AP. Similarly, if a DM "ends" a campaign, as you did with yours...but then, for example, decides to go back to that campaign and continue it from when it supposedly ended. Are they then two different campaigns that share a merged end/beginning? Or is it still part of the "original" campaign? If so, did that original campaign 'end' at all...I mean, if the new PC's begin their adventuring careers the day after "Demogorgan's Plan to Rule the World" were thwarted, isn't it the same campaign, but with different PC's?</p><p></p><p>Yeah, as I said...it's getting a bit more fuzzy around the edges. So I guess the only sensible answer to the original thread question is: "A campaign is more than the sum of it's parts...usually. At least from a certain point of view". <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> Or, to put it another way...there's a quote someone said <em>"I can't tell you what porn is, but I'll know it when I see it".</em> Same thing with campaigns I guess! Who knew?</p><p></p><p>^_^</p><p></p><p>Paul L. Ming</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pming, post: 6980060, member: 45197"] Hiya! [MENTION=5100]Mercule[/MENTION], I'd say that the last "end part" (of your long-standing game) was still part of the original campaign because you didn't start a new time line in the same world, and your "ending" had all the previous games events taken as fact. I've done a bit more thinking on this thread over the past day or two and have come to the realization that there simply is no definitive "line" where on [I]this [/I]side...it's a campaign...but on [I]that[/I] side, it's not. Far too much overlap and blurring of the lines, so to speak. An AP isn't a "campaign" when looked at as a single series of adventures that have no connection to any other games the DM has run. But an AP can be part of a campaign if it [I]does[/I] have direct connections to previous games, or if, after the AP ends, the DM has more games that has direct connections to what went on in that AP. Similarly, if a DM "ends" a campaign, as you did with yours...but then, for example, decides to go back to that campaign and continue it from when it supposedly ended. Are they then two different campaigns that share a merged end/beginning? Or is it still part of the "original" campaign? If so, did that original campaign 'end' at all...I mean, if the new PC's begin their adventuring careers the day after "Demogorgan's Plan to Rule the World" were thwarted, isn't it the same campaign, but with different PC's? Yeah, as I said...it's getting a bit more fuzzy around the edges. So I guess the only sensible answer to the original thread question is: "A campaign is more than the sum of it's parts...usually. At least from a certain point of view". ;) Or, to put it another way...there's a quote someone said [I]"I can't tell you what porn is, but I'll know it when I see it".[/I] Same thing with campaigns I guess! Who knew? ^_^ Paul L. Ming [/QUOTE]
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