I've Been Thinking About Starting Things: Lessons in starting open world campaigns from Skyrim

How many campaigns have you started that you've never finished? If you're anything like me, your answer to this question is probably "most of them." While I have started more games than I care to count, I can say with certainty how many have ended with a satisfying resolution. But when I specifically think about how many old school open world games have had satisfying tidy endings, that number…