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- ItemOpen AccessChaotic/Neutral: Comparing the Social Worlds and Psychological Utility of Fantasy Role-playing and Religion(2017) Hearty, Brandon Daniel; Furr, Robin Stuart; Cahill, Susan; Leblanc, Jean-RenéChaotic/Neutral: Comparing the Social Worlds of and Psychological Utility of Fantasy Role-Playing and Religion provides a description of the conception and creation of artwork that proposes connections between the sociality of tabletop role-playing games and religious organizations as the subject of an autoethnographic approach to creative research. Evaluating the similarities between the subcultural groups of gaming and religion, I extract the strategies that result in their psychological utility. These methods are then inserted into a futurist narrative that addresses the shifting sociological landscape of the increasingly tech-oriented 21st century.