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 an Actual Play producer that works across podcasting and YouTube. Zack started in gaming with 13th Age, and incredible take on the d20 fantasy genre of games. He fell so in love with the system that he built the entire first campaign of RPG around that system. Since discovering TTRPGs Zack has explored the plethora of incredible collaborative games that are out there and found a passion for game mastering. Zack has helmed many of RPGs series and looks forward to doing even more as the series continues.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
David Amber Devereux
David Devereux is a freelance audio producer based in Glasgow, Scotland who primarily makes audio fiction podcasts as Tin Can Audio. They also write stories, make music for films and edit podcasts. A talented music producer, Dev also streams music production on Twitch.
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.
John Sebastian LaValle
John Sebastian La Valle is an award nominated film maker whose podcast work includes The Nerdy Show Network & Omniverse Media with multiple projects both behind the scenes and as a talent on audio dramas, live programming, and other content.
Declan Galpin
Declan (He/Him) is a voice actor best known for his role as William in The Orphans podcast.