That is the end of the campaign indeed, what you saw was Book 1 of the Campaign (which was more of a glorified tutorial honestly)

There will be future books release, and I presume for Free with patches that finish that story.

The campaign is more of a TUTORIAL!

Play the sanbox/Continuos mode its where the meat and potatos of this game is at.

WAY better then the campaign, I havnt touched the campaign/tutorial after doing the sandbox mode, lasts WAY longer.

For a game like Civ 4 or that series, a campaign isn't really that important to me, and in a sense would kind of be out of place since the game spans thousands of years and takes place in a historical setting.  You don't really need that much context to understand what's going on.

But in a game like this with a fantasy setting, I'm more inclined to want a campaign so that I can better immerse myself in the lore of the game and get some more context about the whole thing.  There is more room for s story in a setting like this, and I'm one that likes to be told a story in an interactive medium, especially in a fantasy setting.  Also, you actually have a character to role play in a game like this unlike something like Civ, and so a campaign can help with that.

Now, yes you can role play your character in the sandbox as well, and that's great too, and in fact, I'll be spending by far most of my time in the sandbox game.  But if there could be a good campaign as well to help drive the story behind the world of elemental, I'm all for it and don't think it should be ignored.

Just my thoughts on the matter.

There are more missions coming, also if you buy that elemental book you get another mission line from that book.

Actually you do get DLC for getting the book, I am going to get the book solely for that reason. Another SP campaign would be awesome!

They should just call it a tutorial. Im ALOT more interested in Stardock creating tools for modders to play with and make better sandboxes than them wasting dev time with creating starcraft-like campains.

If that's what they are treating it as [tutorial], then I think so to... Frankly, I don't think it should be a tutorial... it should be a full blown campaign.  I'd like to see more and more tools (I don't think you can create a quest or campaign at this point, even though you can upload them?).  I personally would love to see a real full blown campaign... and I thought I was going to get one. 

I gathered that too and have the same impression with regards to the initial campaign... BUT - perhaps I'm blind, but can you tell me where exactly in the released mod tools I need to go to create either a campaign or a quest?  I don't see it and I looked... perhaps I'm missing something?  Impulse:reactor has a separate tab for quest and campaign downloads... but i don't see any way to actually create them.  Hopefully I'm missing something...

Cool - I didn't catch that.  Thanks for the heads up. 

well, one of the advertised features is:

* Rich, story-driven campaign 

I don't know how anyone can refer to the campaign as a tutorial. It did not teach anything. I could almost forgive it if it was.

This is without a doubt the most barebones campaign I have ever seen in a game. A single map, completely liner, zero challenge, short, and a story that arguably could not be more unoriginal.

Piff, book 1 indeed. More like page 1.

I suspect that is how all campaigns for Elemental will be: one (big) map.

Though that is not really a problem as you can put lots on a single map; however, for this campaign they did not.

Settle down, Mathis.  You're not the only one disappointed about the initial release of the game; I was, too, feeling ripped off about it, but now it's starting to feel much more playable with these new patches.  I trust Stardock to get the job done because they really seem to care; sure, they made a mistake by releasing the game much too early, but they are working around the clock to fix and patch the game and bring us Fallen Enchantress.  IMO, it wasn't a waste of money, just something you should shelve for a while until the game is fully ready to be played.  You may feel ripped off now, but I have a feeling you'll change your tune.  If you really want a rich single-player campaign with many hours of gameplay, play Age of Wonders; that game has a campaign nothing short of amazing.  You might also check out Master of Magic, the game that inspired Elemental.  Just some stuff to help wait for the complete Elemental experience.