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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5641418" data-attributes="member: 19675">I actually answered that upthread somewhat, but to repeat and elaborate: even in performance art- whether it is theater or busking as a mime on the streetcorner or what have you- there is the conscious and specific effort to create art.D&D is a game: a highly-structured, rules-defined game of pretend.For a session of D&D to become performance art, the participants must transcend the rules of the game in a conscious effort to deliver an artistic statement.   This is different from merely pretending to do something.In light of what I just wrote above, I can't agree.  In 34 years of gaming, I've never seen a group sit down and say, "Let us create a work of art using the rules of D&D and this adventure."The intent is simply to play the game, and play it well.  Maybe make your interpretation of an Elven Bard simply awesome.  There is some acting involved, and an abundance of creativity, to be sure, but the actual intent to create art in particular has never been present IME.I certainly won't say it of even my own best efforts as a role-player, take from that what you will.  To me, I was simply playing a game.If Joe is performing on stage, he is probably intending to deliver an artistic performance.If you look on some of his earliest recordings, you'll find he frequently used simple arpeggios as the backbones of many of his solos...the same arpeggios he probably practiced hundreds of thousands of times before, both for his benefit and the benefits to his students.  But in mere practice, those arpeggios are not art.  They are lessons.  When transformed into a guitar solo, they become art.</blockquote>

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