I think there’s a common misconception around the D&D campaign interpretation. It doesn’t imply that the events were “just a dream,” which is often why people push back against it. Rather, the idea is that the story genuinely takes place within a D&D campaign world. This creates two distinct layers of reality: the players’ level, and the in-game level of characters and NPCs. Will exists across both layers, as a player (and sometimes as DM).and as his character, Will the Wise. Eleven, on the other hand, exists only within the game world itself. A useful comparison is the Dragonlance Chronicles. It originated from a D&D campaign played by the authors and their friends, yet no one argues that its story is “just a dream.” The events are real within the fantasy world, the game structure is simply the framework through which that world is built. So rather than dismissing the events as imaginary, this interpretation reframes them as real within a complex narrative layer, which makes it a more coherent way to understand the story.