PLAYERS
Realms of Peril & Glory has an incredible roster of players. From our core cast to our magnificent guest players we have collected some of the greatest TTRPG improvisers out there. Click on their image to expand their profile and see what RPG series they feature in!
Zack FG
Zack is a producer, game master and podcaster with a passion for collaborative storytelling. He began his career in television working for broadcasters like the BBC and Channel Four, all the while being at the forefront of the modern audio drama resurgence with his series The Orphans. Now Zack can be found behind-the-scenes and on-mic for incredible actual play series like Oxventure, Realms of Peril & Glory and many more.
Naomi Clarke
Naomi Clarke is a prolific scriptwriter most well known for her work on The Secret of St Kilda. The audio drama has garnered over 100k listens, 12 AudioVerse awards (including Best Writing), and festival nominations worldwide. With over 100 podcast credits, there’s very little she can’t do. Whether its production, performance or promotion, Naomi always commits to the bit 100%. She has been playing RPG’s for nearly a decade and has spent that time advocating for the use of safety tools and inclusive play with the charity she co-founded, No More Damsels. Naomi’s favourite games have almost no rules and as much capacity for unbridled mischief as is physically possible.
Pip Gladwin
While also being a voice actor Pip's personality is made up of around 85% TTRPGs. He has been his friend group's de-facto GM for years now and during that time has run many campaigns using many different systems, from the crime ridden streets of Blades in the Dark to the vast universe of Stars Without Number. After joining Realms of Peril and Glory's inaugural Vael campaign he has rediscovered the joy of being a player and has appeared in other actual play shows such as Chapter and Multiverse and Twitch Live Streams with Actual Play UK.
Maddy Searle
Maddy has done a bit of everything when it comes to podcasting. They are mainly an audio editor and sound designer but also produces their own podcasts under the banner of Snazzy Tapir Productions. This includes A Game of One's Own, their actual play podcast, which focuses on solo and two-player RPGs. They also have experience as a director, writer and voice actor. Recently they turned their hand to game design, with a hack of Lasers and Feelings called "Vampire Cowboys", and a silly game about animal lawyers called "I'm Not Lion". You can see more of them as a player on the Actual Play UK and Girls Run These Worlds Twitch channels.
James Barbarossa
Frequent player, occasional GM, and semi-professional tune wrangler for Realms of Peril and Glory, James Barbarossa is co-creator and in-house composer for The Light and Tragic Company.
Liz Campbell
Liz Campbell has been playing games for the better part of two decades. It means the world that her friends still want to play with her.
Laura Girling
Laura has been playing games with the Realms of Peril & Glory crew for years, many of them were at her first ever game. Laura is a chaotic player with a penchant for bombastic characters with a lot of heart and a lot of laughs.
Jasper William Cartwright
Jasper William Cartwright is a Game Master, Producer, and Creative Consultant. One-third of Three Black Halflings he’s been lucky enough to interview and GM for some of the biggest names in the TTRPG community, including Matthew Mercer, Brennan Lee Mulligan and Aabria Iyengar. He’s GM'd at D&D In A Castle, featured on Dungeons and Dragons official podcast Dragon Talk, and appeared live on stage for NADDPOD.
Johnny Chiodini
Johnny Chiodini (they/them) is the iconic game master behind one of the UK’s most successful actual plays, Oxventure
Luke Westaway
Luke Westaway is a games journalist and YouTuber best known for his work on Outside Xtra and Oxventure. He can now be found on his very own YouTube channel NormalAdultLuke.
Shamini Bundell
Shamini is a science Film-maker, podcaster and journalist as well as a TTRPG player and performer. She studied Zoology at Cambridge Followed by Science Media Production at Imperial where she did a lot of musicals and met Emily Bates. While working in TV she made art projects For Blue Peter, built mechanical dinosaurs, gave Michael Mosley a tapeworm and investigated the gut microbiome For BBC Horizon. She now makes short Films For Nature and reports on the latest science news For the Nature Podcast. A Few years ago she discovered D&D [while drunk at a bus stop in East London] and is ofFicially obsessed.
Blair Shepperd
Blair is a cast member over on No Rolls Barred, an avid bassoonist, and twitch streamer!
Chris Grace
CHRIS GRACE has performed standup across the country and internationally for over ten years. His brilliant in-the-moment energy combined with sharp observations about race, sexuality, and soup dumplings has earned laughs around the world from a whole bunch of people that aren’t his parents. He has performed in numerous festivals and contests, including winning 1st Place at the Riot Festival National Comedy Contest in his hometown of Houston, Texas. He also won Best of Fest awards at Big Pine, Laugh After Dark , Comedy Chateau, and the Burbank Comedy Festival at Flappers. He recently debuted his solo comedy show CHRIS GRACE: AS SCARLETT JOHANSSON to the Edinburgh Fringe to a sell-out run.
Jeremy Cobb
Jeremy Cobb
Emily Bates
Emily is a science video producer and presenter who, after three years of delving into the complexities of the brain, decided she’d rather share her knowledge than learn anymore. Since then she’s made documentaries on bitcoin, birds, black holes and a bunch of other things that don’t start with a B. She's worked on acclaimed shows such as BBC Springwatch, Panorama and How The Universe Works, along with producing hundreds of hours of content for New Scientist and Nature.
Emily fell in love with TTRPGs after realising she could make all of her characters insanely hot. You can normally find her over on the RPGeeks (of which she is a co-founder), playing Blood on the Clocktower or buying more dice.
Grant Howitt
Grant Howitt has written games such as Goblin Quest, Unbound, One Last Job, Honey Heist, Spire, Heart, Paranoia, Crash Pandas, Jason Statham's Big Vacation, Skyfarer, and more. He is one of the members of the company Rowan, Rook and Decard. His games are, in general: short, punchy, well-written, and exciting.
Ken Cheng
Ken Cheng
Liv Kennedy
Since studying Creative Writing and English Literature at university, Liv has produced written content and copywriting for a wide range of businesses. While working in digital marketing, she has also focused on creative endeavours such as streaming and videography. She is the head of video for 3 Black Halflings, one of the greatest and grandest tabletop podcasts out there, and is a video producer for the incredible Dicebreaker, one of the greatest resources for all things tabletop. She spends her free time waiting for someone - anyone - to suggest playing a hidden role game.
Nathan Blades
They’re the Androgynous Android Game Show Host from the future! Nathan Blades is an independent podcast and livestream producer, focusing on Tabletop RPGs and critical discussion of narrative video games. They also write Tabletop RPG content and voice act – in both their own projects and on commission.
Fiona Howat
Fiona is a London-based voice-over artist, improviser, and game master who decided people need to try out more RPG systems and play more games. So, she decided to start up a podcast based on it! She also co-hosts The DM’s Book Club, a weekly podcast about reading about some Dungeons and Dragons and discuss how it might be included in role-playing campaigns! Fiona has also written about Dungeons & Dragons for Dragon+, the official Wizards of the Coast magazine. In the past, she has played Aubrey & Harriet Amblecrown on the TBA Monday’s YouTube Series ‘Xerieos’, a D&D 5e homebrew campaign.