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!
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.
Ben Burns
BOTC Guest PlayBen is the community manager for Blood On The Clocktower at The Pandemonium Institute as well as a freelance games journalist who has written for Eurogamer, Dicebreaker and GamesIndustry.
Tay Garcia van Biljon
Taylor Garcia van Biljon (Tay): (she/her/they) Whatever you’ve heard about Tay is probably true. She is a UX Designer and improv enthusiast located in Iceland where she inhabits an ancient portal to hell and collects lava right from the source. She is the Bastard behind human-bear Cleo de Cap on ENNIE nominated podcast Backwater Bastards, (The GREATEST best friend story in the universe!) and a cast member on multiple shows hosted by TheRoleplayFactory, ActualPlayUK, Theatre Macabre, Nat1Fun, Valore Studios and The4thCulture Dragon Studios. The largest thing she’s ever broken is an airplane. Your game is next.
Mara Joy Loves
Mara Joy is a gay trans woman from Edinburgh, Scotland. She spends most of my time performing or teaching improv comedy with The Spontaneous Players and TBC Improv. She also love Dungeons & Dragons, TV, movies, board games, music, comics and pop culture in general.
Lou Fryer
Lou is the resident grammar geek of Nord Games; almost all titles come through her as an editor, but she is also the co-writer of the Ultimate NPCs and Ultimate Bestiary series, and freelances for other TTRPG projects.
Lou is a permanent cast member on the actual play podcast 'Of Dice and Them', who play games using multiple systems, with different characters, but all set in the same game world.
Jamie ‘Jams’ Mercado
Jams is the social media manager for Blood on the Clocktower and avid hunter of demons!
Beth Eyre
Beth Eyre is a multi-award winning actor for stage, screen and audio, based in London. Beth has worked extensively in audio drama and narration, and is keenly celebrated as the voice of Antigone Funn in the smash hit indie podcast sitcom Wooden Overcoats.
Rhys Lawton
Rhys Lawton is an award winning performer, writer and director based in London. With over a decade of performance experience, and skills that include puppeteering, improvisational role play, interactive performance, and voice acting (home studio), Rhys can bring any character to life. For contact details, please see the bottom of the page.