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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5643939" data-attributes="member: 19675">The fiction as in the fluff?  Sure, one could consider some of it akin to short stories.The fiction as in the playing of the game?  Not to me, not absent the intent to create art, which is above and beyond the mere intent to play the game.Look, I've provided a Wiki link with a serviceable definition that will probably do a good job of resolving most "Is it art?" questions.  Read it or don't, but I'm saying that for all the delineation it provides, their definition will still be insufficient.  It breaks down at its edges.If it helps, think of it- and pretty much any definition of art you can find on the web- as the "Newtonian" understanding of art, and we're not yet to the point of uncovering the "Quantum" theory of art, and unknowably distant from finding art's "Grand Unified Theory."However, one thing that pops up repeatedly in definitions of art is the concept that it requires intent.  Another thing that pops up repeatedly is that art is inherently subjective.  If you polled the world, you'd find someone out there who didn't think the works of Warhol, Duchamp, Mapplethorpe, Pollock or any other artist you can name qualified as art.The intent to play a game of pretend- of which D&D is a codified version- is not the same as the intent to create art.  If both exist contemporaneously, however, you can create art by playing D&D.Or, to put it differently: the conscious intent to play a game- even one of cooperative fiction- is not generally recognized as intrinsically artistic, but under the right circumstances (IOW, in conjunction with the intent to make an artistic statement), D&D is a perfectly fine artistic medium.</blockquote>

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