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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5642635" data-attributes="member: 19675">Wikipedia's definition of "art": <a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art" target="_blank">Art</a>Note: the very first sentence includes the concept of intent.Again, the mere intent to evoke an emotional response is insufficient to create art.  Hate speech provides prime examples.  Hitler had some awesome rhetoricians at his disposal and delivered speeches that moved his nation to commit genocide.  Despite the reprehensible nature therof, those speeches could be considered prime examples of the art of rhetoric...albeit applied to hellish ends.OTOH, calling me a N-word- or some of the other, more *ahem* colorful epithets for my race(s) is pretty much just...ignorant.Both will result in emotional reactions, though.My definition of art does not by necessity preclude a session of D&D- and most other human creative processes- from being art, but the definition's inclusion of intent to creat art in particular (as opposed to creating a campaign that is fun & entertaining) keeps the bar set relatively high.And to reiterate: with gaming in particular, despite the creativity I have seen involved on both sides of the screen, I've not personally seen one player express a desire to transcend the boundaries of merely playing a game in the interests of art.  I've heard people express that the RPG hobby is like therapy for them, but- this thread aside- never an expression that the playing the game is art.</blockquote>

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