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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tallifer" data-source="post: 5645428" data-attributes="member: 84661">Most definitely D&D is a game. A game is organized play. Winning and losing are often less important than playing in many fun activities. Did hockey stop being a game when my friends and I played it for fun on the local pond: stones for nets, no equipment beyond sticks and an old puck, a random number of players on each team?D&D has rules like any other game; it has players; it has opponents to beat or be beaten by(the monsters et alia). It even has levels and points for scoring (treasure and epic battles survived).Now on the other hand, I can see many aspects of art and literature in it. The stories, characters, worlds and legendary artifacts and monsters are the literary aspect: just like the oral sagas of Homer. The maps, character sketches and monster illustrations and often miniatures and modeled areas are the art.</blockquote>