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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Meatboy" data-source="post: 5966738" data-attributes="member: 40857">Ok sorry about the delay but let's get back into it. So, if art is a dialogue between artist and viewer whereby the artist presents a particular world view, consciously or not, then I would like to propose that the original Dungeons and Dragons by Gygax and Arneson is art. Firstly DnD was new when it was created there was nothing else like it. It created the context that all subsequent dialogue/art/rpgs stem from. With out the creativity that went into this game we wouldn't be having this discussion at all. Also I think DnD can best illustrate the views of its artist if only for the reason that not many people were involved. As you throw more people into the creative process  you end up with world views that become so diluted that they are not even noticeable. Art, I think, is not something that can be created by committee. Like a knife, which can be both a useful tool as well as a beautiful piece in and of itself, DnD also has a nice esthetic too it. Everything from the prose that they chose to art does a job of drawing you into their idea and gives you a very good sense of what the game is and the feeling they want to create. I find the art in particular espouses these ideas. With pictures that are inspiring, tense and oftentimes humorous or even ridiculous and if those don't spell out what DnD is for most of us I don't know what does.I'm unsure of what else needs to be said about ODnD as art. Like most art it engages me both emotionally and intellectually. It makes me want to share and experience Gygax's and Arneson's vision. That is what I think makes it art.</blockquote>

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