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 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.

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Maddy Searle

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.

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James Barbarossa

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.

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Laura Girling

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.

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Shamini Bundell

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.

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Fiona Howat

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.

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Tay Garcia van Biljon
Guest Player, YASP Zachary Fortais-Gomm Guest Player, YASP Zachary Fortais-Gomm

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.

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Rhys Lawton
Guest Player, YASP Zachary Fortais-Gomm Guest Player, YASP Zachary Fortais-Gomm

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.

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Ella Watts
Guest Player, Agon, Spooky Sword Lesbians, Nibiru, Nibiru Coldbreach, YASP Zachary Fortais-Gomm Guest Player, Agon, Spooky Sword Lesbians, Nibiru, Nibiru Coldbreach, YASP Zachary Fortais-Gomm

Ella Watts

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.

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Dan Matthews
Guest Player, YASP Zachary Fortais-Gomm Guest Player, YASP Zachary Fortais-Gomm

Dan Matthews

Deep in the subterranean hedonist utopia of Berlin is where Dan commits 89% of his sins. He is a concept artist for film and video games, a workhorse sound designer, and the Bastard behind the indomitable Doctor Ze. Some people think the coolest things he makes are Marvel films or Isometric maps, but really it’s the ENNIE nominated Backwater Bastards podcast. You can find him on twitter @deadtoothbrush, or streamin' on twitch at @Dead_Toothbrush.

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Cat Blackard
Guest Player, YASP, Cinabar Zachary Fortais-Gomm Guest Player, YASP, Cinabar Zachary Fortais-Gomm

Cat Blackard

Catherine Blackard is a multidisciplinary artist, specializing in storytelling via writing, illustration, and podcasting. Founder of Omniverse and The Nerdy Show Network, longtime force at Consequence of Sound, pioneer of the RPG audio drama genre, co-creator of animated series, Lightning Dogs.

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