Fiona K.T. Howat

She/Her. Feminist. Improviser. Host/GM of 'What Am I Rolling?' Podcast & co-host of 'The DM's Book Club'. 📸 by Mimi van Amerongen

🗳️ Vote Fiona for Best Podcast Host in the Crit Awards 2024 🗳️

This award is to be given to a podcast host(s) that is judged to be the best based on their creativity, inclusivity, and overall performance.

✨ Recent Highlights ✨

The Lore Mistress | Tales From The Loop: They Grow Up So Fast

A Tales From The Loop sponsored Actual Play using the UK campaign supplement: 'They Grow Up So Fast'. Everything changed on that fateful day. Looking back, I know that whatever we did changed our lives forever.

Fueled By Chaos | Adventures in Mordheim | Warhammer Fantasy Ro…

A Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay Actual Play set in Mordheim!

Science & Sorcery's 'Playing For Palestine' Fundraiser

Science & Sorcery are hosting two weekends of fundraising and call to action streams for the Palestine Children's Relief Fund across 11-13 April and 2-4 May, with 8 TTRPG one-shots and guest GMs and players from the UK, Ireland and across the world. Please donate whatever you can, and follow along with all of the games at twitch.tv/scienceandsorcery

Total Scenework Intensive with Vinny Francois - Mar 23-24 LDN

The DM's Travel Book Club: A Guide To The Inner Planes

We'll explore the Inner Planes of Existence as outlined in the Great Wheel cosmology in the roleplaying game, Dungeons & Dragons.

✨ Main Info ✨

Galaxicle Implosions

The Documentary Format @ Improv College (Oct - Dec 2023)

A 10-week online course focusing on The Documentary format: An improv format devised by Billy Merrit that builds upon the audience's suggestion of a made-up place or event!

Dragonmeet 2023: The Indie Tabletop Event Of The Year!

FREE theatre tickets for The Galaxicle Implosions!

In person tickets for The Galaxicle Implosions: An animated comedy sci-fi show co-created by you!

Casting Call for Girls Run These Worlds' ALIEN RPG Stream

Fiona Definitely Has Friends at Hoopla (Tues 21st Feb)

House of Masks!

House of Masks is a supernatural show animated live using VR and motion capture technology in front of a theatre audience.

Improv/Actor CV (2024)

🎲 The Between oneshot with guest GM Jason Cordova 🎲

Streaming a 2 parter oneshot of The Between over on the WAIR twitch on Mon 23rd & Tues 24th Jan at 7:30pm GMT!

🎭 PodcastZone 2023 Show Schedule

🎙️PodcastZone 2023 Attendees

📝 PodcastZone 2023 Linktree

Voice Reel - Commerical

Voice Reel - Audiobook

Voice Reel - Corporate

What Am I Rolling?

Podcast & social media links for the WAIR podcast!

The DM's Book Club

Podcast & social media links for DMBC!

💻Join the WAIR & DMBC Podcast Discord Server! 💻

Check out the official discord for 'What Am I Rolling?' and The DM's Book Club 🎲 🎙️ 🎧

TL:DR TTRPGs Playlist

Host and regular GM Fiona reads through a wide variety of TTRPGs to learn the systems and how to best run them!

RPG Wishlist on DriveThruRPG.com

Vote for GRTWs ALIEN in Best Storyline for CRIT AWARDs!

✨ Current Projects/Workshops ✨

Go, Go, Go! The Gauntlet Workshop (July 2023)

Take this online workshop to challenge yourself with the character creation gauntlet! Perfect for improvisers, role players & game masters!

Improbotics @ Greater Manchester Fringe (22nd/23rd July)

Come see us perform at International Anthony Burgess Foundation!

Playing With Initiative Workshop (21st May)

In this workshop, we will focus on improv skills and techniques which will enhance your abilities as a player in any RPG setting: developing extraordinary characters, making creative choices in scenes, and collaborating on engaging storytelling with your players.

World Building for Improvisers Workshop (July 2023)

An Online Workshop exploring world building for improv & role playing with Fiona Howat!

World Building for Game Masters Workshop (Aug 2023)

An Online Workshop exploring world building for improv and role playing game masters with Fiona Howat!

The Documentary Format (2 Workshops) (August 2023)

Take this 2 parter online workshop exploring the improv format - The Documentary! Created by Billy Merritt for UCB back in 2002, this format builds upon the audience's suggestion of a made-up place or event.

Dragons Duel: A LIVE Game Show @ MCM London 2023 (Fri 27th Oct)

Fancy yourself a D&D Genius? Then lend your intelligence scores to our players as they bring back the Dragons Duel TTRPG Game Show from MCM London Comic-Con 2022, and battle it out through multiple rounds of ridiculous improv & trivia challenges!

Improbotics @ Bristol Improv Theatre (13th Oct)

Since 2016, award-winning Improbotics has brought robots to stages worldwide! They are now back from Edinburgh Fringe 2023 at the Gilded Balloon. In this brand new science comedy show, improvisers must keep up as state-of-the-art artificial intelligence takes over! Improvisers are controlled by AI chatbots: the result is an unpredictable work of human-machine hilarity.

🎭 Upcoming Workshops 🎭

DIY Podcasting @ MCM London (Sat 28th Oct)

Ever wanted to make your own podcast but didn?t know where to start? Join the pros and figure out how! Learn some tips and tricks for editing your tracks, and leave ready to make your mark on the audio world. Topics may include strategies for remote teams, editing workflows, workarounds, lessons learned, and how to select a podcast host.

The Queen's Dead

One year before the Dawn prophesied to end the reign of death, the Lich Queen’s dread courtiers make plans to prevent it – even though it might mean working together.

A Party to Die For - A Rendezvous With Destiny

Join us, as we attend a party, in the middle of a war, in the universe of The Dresden Files. Meet Irvine, Arty, Caolan and Amaia - four (almost) strangers. As they explore a world of magic and mayhem, they encounter a mystery that could shake any remaining peace in their society.

A Mörk Borg Demon Slayer Tale LIVE! @ MCM London (Sat 28th Oct)

Watch a Demon Slayer Tale unfold in front of your eyes in the form of a LIVE Role Playing Game using the horror system MÖRK BORG by the team behind Theatre Macabre. Enter the Infinity Castle and seek your destiny!

CAUTION! Character Development ahead @ MCM London (Sat 28th Oct)

Join TTRPG podcasters from all over Europe to hear about the different ways that people build and grow their characters. Learn about the ways that play style can affect character creation, and how they keep their characters fresh over years and years of play! Come ready to tell us about your own OCs!

UK TTRPG's Rising Stars @ MCM London 2023 (Sat 28th Oct)

Following Dicebreaker's show with the biggest stars of UK TTRPG, we want to present the rising stars of UK TTRPG. These people are talents you're going to want to keep an eye on, we know they're going to do great things and we wanted to help you get to know them a bit better.

ESN LIVE at Hoopla Pre Party! (09/10/2021)

Vote For DMBC For Morrus's Fav TTRPG Podcasts of 2022 (TALK)

Roll Initiative! Roleplay for Improv! IMPRO Amsterdam (Feb 2024)

Grab your dice and character sheets and dive into the amazing world of roleplaying games (RPGs), where players take on dynamic characters in fictional settings and tell collaborative stories about said characters and worlds under the guidance of a facilitator or Game Master (GM)!

The Galaxicle Implosions Series 2!

The sci-fi comedy that is animated live in VR and co-created with both its audiences; performed by humans in front of a London theatre audience and simultaneously streamed to YouTube.

Fiasco! RPG with Fiona K.T. Howat — RHIF (Sept 2023)

Inspired by cinematic tales of small-time capers gone disastrously wrong (e.g. Blood Simple, Fargo, Burn After Reading), Fiasco is a GM-less no prep roleplaying game of powerful ambition and poor impulse control. This RPG session will be held at the Nonsuch Studios (Studio 6) on Saturday 9th September as part of the RHIF 2023.

💻INSPIRISLES on Girls Run These Worlds - Tues at 7pm BST💻

Watch Galaxicle Implosions online!

Good Society RPG One-Shot - Part 2: Old Friends, New Deals, an…

The second part of our Valentines day special one-shot game of the Jane Austen inspired TTRPG Good Society. Our characters are here, the stage is set, drama ...

Brindlewood Bay! RPG with Fiona K.T. Howat — RHIF (Sept 2023)

Directly inspired by the television show Murder, She Wrote, Brindlewood Bay is a roleplaying game about a group of elderly women—members of the local Murder Mavens mystery book club—who frequently find themselves investigating (and solving!) real-life murder mysteries. This RPG session will take place at Nonsuch Studios (Studio 6) on Sunday 10th September as part of the RHIF 2023.

The DM's Book Club on the Dragon's Duel Twitch

Interactive Soup @ Theatre Deli Leadenhall 12th Sept 2023

Interactive Soup is a social event, dinner, and miniature funding platform all-in-one, where those in interactive performance get to meet, talk, eat, and support each other!

Good Society RPG One-Shot - Part 3: Bouts, Betrayals, and Be…

The third and final part of our Valentines day special one-shot game of the Jane Austen inspired TTRPG Good Society. Will Westley and Fabian settle their dif...

📖Check out INSPIRISLES on Hatchlings Games website📖

INSPIRISLES is a groundbreaking tabletop RPG that teaches sign language as you play!

Casting Call for Girls Run These Worlds' ALIEN RPG Stream

Making the Game :: Fiona Howat :: What Am I Rolling?

Join us for a lovely interview with Fiona Howat of What am I Rolling? This is Making The Game, Realms of Peril & Glory's interview series that sees us sitting down and chatting with some great folks from around the tabletop community. Zachary Fortais-Gomm and Fiona Howat have lots to say about everything from D&D, the joy of GM'ing and the joys of solo RPGs.

PodcastZone 2022 at Dragonmeet

Roll Initiative! Roleplay for Improv: Player Edition (23rd Apr)

In this workshop, we will focus on improv skills and techniques which will enhance your abilities as a player in any RPG: developing extraordinary characters, making creative choices in scenes, and collaborating on engaging storytelling with your players.

Roll Initiative! Roleplay for Improv: GM Edition (30th Apr)

In this workshop, we will focus on improv skills and techniques which will enhance your abilities as a game master or facilitator in any RPG, specifically looking at worldbuilding and scene painting, creating supporting characters, and collaborating on engaging storytelling with your players!

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✨ 2024 RPG Highlights ✨

The Bad Spot | Trophy Dark: The Flocculent Cathedral

The Bad Spot's play through of Trophy Dark by Jesse Ross, running the Incursion The Flocculent Cathedral by Jim Crocker.

Science & Sorcery | World Wide Wrestling

As part of the Science & Sorcery's Playing for Palestine fundraiser!

RPGeeks | Orbital Blues: Blackstar

When an item of great value is brought aboard the heaving spaceport of Hajime Station, five unlikely strangers will find themselves drawn into a dark conspiracy...

Realms | YASP :: La Danse Chouette

You are cordially invited to the newly revived Royal Owl World Ballroom dance competition! Dancers will perform for their lives in the hopes of taking home the grand prize of a lifetime supply of mice!

🎲 2023 Actual Plays 🎲

Hoard of Tales | Tropes! Tropes! Tropes! Panel!

This panel explores how our understanding of "tropes" and "genres" shape TTRPG storytelling, especially in Actual Plays.

Hoard of Tales | Vaesen "The Hampstead Group"

This March is Women in Gaming Month 2024! We're uplifting and celebrating TTRPG streams with exclusive women & femme casts.

✨ 2023 RPG Highlights ✨

Actual Play UK | 13th Age - VAEL - Reunion

Join us as we journey into Realms of Peril and Glory's VAEL setting. A reunion for the school means a lot of catching up for the old Duelerball team. Perhaps...

RPGeeks | KULT: Divinity Lost - The Atrocity Exhibition

A sponsored KULT: Divinity Lost stream for RPGeeks. Sponsored by Helmgast.

Dicebreaker | The Rising Stars of TTRPG - MCM London 2023

Liv has brought together some of the most amazing talent in the UK TTRPG scene and you may not have heard of them yet!

Girls Run These Worlds | Orbital Blues

They Laurel the Graves of the Dead - A Girls Run These Worlds' stream sponsored by Soul Muppet Publishing

Merely Roleplayers | The Queen's Dead

One year before the Dawn prophesied to end the reign of death, the Lich Queen’s dread courtiers make plans to prevent it – even though it might mean working together.

Actual Play UK | Solemn Vale

BBC children's TV crew drive into the sleepy village of Solemn Vale, looking for the child that wrote them a letter.

Fiasco: Where No One Has Gone Before (26th Aug)

A charity stream of Fiasco raising money for the Entertainment Community Fund

Girls Run These Worlds | Alien - Destroyer of Worlds

A Girls Run These Worlds' stream sponsored by Free League

Actual Play UK | Liminal: Press Phantasmic

A prequel of Realms or Peril and Glory's LIMINAL LONDON story arc. A strange and arcane rune causes some concern for Isolde, Jocasta and Eugene... Enough for them to seek the help of an old friend.

Girls Run These Worlds | Inspirisles

INSPIRISLES is a completely original all ages Tabletop RPG promoting storytelling, empathy and Deaf awareness with an emphasis on cooperation.

Kristian's Brain | Good Society

Fiona ran Good Society one-shot as part of a Valentine's Day special for the YouTube channel, 'Kristian's Brain!'.

Girls Run These Worlds | Alien - Chariot of the Gods

A Girls Run These Worlds' stream sponsored by Free League

Free Yorkshire Radio | Ep. 32 - Trains, Pains & Automatons

In this episode there's a special report from celebrity chef, Trudy Pringle, as she travels on the inaugural journey of the re-introduced Yorkshire Coastal Express. There's also a dumpster fire.

The DM's Travel Book Club Playlist

The hosts of The DM's Book Club proudly bring you a new series, The DM's Travel Bookclub: A Guide to The Planes!

Behind The Scenes | An Improvised Fil Podcast

Welcome to Behind the Scenes, the podcast where your favourite directors talk about their most popular movies. Except the directors aren't real people and the movies have never existed.

The Reviews – Keys from the Golden Vault

Today Michael, Tom, and guest co-host Fiona ( @WAIR_Podcast ) Take a look at the newest WotC D&D hardback heist adventure anthology book – Keys from the Golden Vault

Behind The Scenes • A podcast on Anchor

Welcome to Behind the Scenes, the podcast where your favourite directors talk about their most popular movies. Except the directors aren't real people and the movies have never existed.

✨ 2022 RPG Highlights ✨

Kristian's Brain - Good Society RPG One-Shot (Playlist)

It's our Valentine's day special and you are invited to our one-shot game of the Jane Austen-inspired TTRPG Good Society.

My First Day At Wizard School - Just a Minotaur S01E04

Just a Minute is a BBC Radio 4 radio comedy panel game that has been popular in the UK for over 50 years. In the game, contestants have to talk about a certa...

Free Yorkshire Radio - Ep 31: Water, Wine & Blood

The Glorious Free Republic of Yorkshire is the mightiest new nation state that emerged a few decades ago from the troubled era that was early 21st century Britain. In this episode we preview tonight's semi-final of the Steiggat World Cup and drop in at the Skelmanthorpe Nettle Wine Festival.

Elf Propaganda - Just a Minotaur S01E01

Just a Minute is a BBC Radio 4 radio comedy panel game that has been popular in the UK for over 50 years. In the game, contestants have to talk about a certa...

'Nice Marines' one-shot for Kristain's Brain RPG channel

'Nice Marines' - a one page one shot RPG by Grant Howitt and run by Fiona Howat from the What Am I Rolling podcast for the TTRPG channel - Kristain's Brain.

MCM Comic Con | A Behind the Screens Look: GM's panel!

Join Game Masters Travis Vengroff, Richard Kimber-Bell, and Fiona K.T. Howat for an unmissable peek behind the screens at their creative process.

Rooster Teeth's The Most | Jason Statham's Big Vacation!

In this very special episode, we have our friend and game master Fiona Howat from What Am I Rolling to run a Jason Statham themed RPG

💬 Personal Social Media 💬

Personal Instagram

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💬 WAIR & DMBC Socials 💬

🐉 Dragon+ Writing 🐉

Dragon+ Column - Best of the DM Guild (March 2022)

Dragon+ Column - Best of the DM Guild (Nov 2021)

Dragon+ Article - Interview with Trish Yochum

Dragon+ Column - Best of the DM Guild (Sept 2021)

Dragon+ Article - DnDLive 2021 Coverage

🎭 Improv & RPG Interviews 🎭

Keen Gamer | Making It In The World Of TTRPG Podcasting

Fiona K T Howat is the producer of tabletop podcasts, 'What Am I Rolling?' and the DMs Book Club. Both are highly successful podcasts that provide great resources for TTRPG players as well as providing great entertainment value. I interview Fiona to talk all about the shows and how thrive in the world of tabletop podcasts.

Books to Last | In Mordenkainen's Magnificent Mansion

If you love stories with accessible and fascinating characters, embarking on physical and introspective journeys, you will love this list from gamemaster, Fiona host of the What Am I Rolling podcast and co-host of The DM's Book Club.

Effekt Podcast | Alien MU/TH/UR

We talk to Fiona Howat, MU/TH/UR of the Alien competition at UK Games Expo, and learn her shocking dark secret!

Wyrd Science | Vol. 1 / Issue 4 feat. WAIR Podcast

Wyrd Science returns for another exploration of the strange worlds and new horizons of tabletop games...

Making the Game | Fiona Howat - What Am I Rolling?

This is Making The Game, Realms of Peril & Glory's interview series that sees us sitting down and chatting with some great folks from around the tabletop community.

Yes But Why Podcast | Ep. 321 - Interview with Fiona

Fiona Howat is a podcaster who loves improv, storytelling and roleplaying games. As well as doing as much improv as possible (both online and in person), she runs two RPG-related podcasts, 'What I am Rolling?' and 'The DM's Bookclub'!

Phoneix Remix Interview | Don't Mess!

Don’t Mess is a global all women and non-binary improv team and their shows explore the world of zoom meetings because who knew there could be so much fun that could be created from this world!

The Improv Boost | Performer Interview!

Fiona Howat is an immense creative force. She is not only an entertaining improv performer, she hosts two RPG-related podcasts: What Am I Rolling? (WAIR) & The DM’s Bookclub!