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<blockquote data-quote="JackSmithIV" data-source="post: 4669842" data-attributes="member: 74901">What a game &quot;is&quot; is completely subjective. Game can be chess, or checkers, or board games, or sports, and fit conventional definitions... or not. It does not necessarily include a competitor, because there are games you can play alone (solitaire, etc). Also, anything can be a game to someone, such as a small child who sits and invents a game with no rules around an inane task we might not think as &quot;entertainment&quot; or &quot;competition&quot;. But to him, that's a game. His game. And to some people, World of Warcraft, which is clearly a game by definition, is much more of a job. If you want your Dungeons &amp; Dragons to be called an &quot;interactive experience&quot;, that's fine. D&amp;D is indeed an interactive experience by nature, and I believe that D&amp;D is so much more than &quot;just a game&quot;. But a &quot;game&quot; it is.This thread kind of reminds me of when that phone, the <a href="http://www.helio.com/#/home/" target="_blank">helio</a> came out and had a campaign whose slogan was something like &quot;Don't call it a phone.&quot; But it is a phone. I don't care if your phone has GPS, email, and a coffee maker built in... if it's primary function is to make calls, I'm gonna be refering to it as my phone.And as long as D&amp;D continues to be my way of getting together with my friends, rolling dice, fighting bad guys, exploring the most fantastic worlds imaginable, and having a great time, you're gonna hear me calling it a game.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="JackSmithIV, post: 4669842, member: 74901"] What a game "is" is [B]completely[/B] subjective. Game can be chess, or checkers, or board games, or sports, and fit conventional definitions... or not. It does not necessarily include a competitor, because there are games you can play alone (solitaire, etc). Also, anything can be a game to someone, such as a small child who sits and invents a game with no rules around an inane task we might not think as "entertainment" or "competition". But to him, that's a game. [I]His[/I] game. And to some people, World of Warcraft, which is clearly a game by definition, is much more of a [I]job[/I]. If you want your Dungeons & Dragons to be called an "interactive experience", that's fine. D&D is indeed an interactive experience by nature, and I believe that D&D is [B]so[/B] much more than "just a game". But a "game" it is. This thread kind of reminds me of when that phone, the [URL="http://www.helio.com/#/home/"]helio[/URL] came out and had a campaign whose slogan was something like "Don't call it a phone." But it [I]is[/I] a phone. I don't care if your phone has GPS, email, and a coffee maker built in... if it's primary function is to [I]make calls[/I], I'm gonna be refering to it as my phone. And as long as D&D continues to be my way of getting together with my friends, rolling dice, fighting bad guys, exploring the most fantastic worlds imaginable, and having a great time, you're gonna hear me calling it a game. [/QUOTE]

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