Английская Википедия:Aabria Iyengar

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Aabria Iyengar is an American web series actress known primarily for tabletop role-playing game anthologies, streams and podcasts. She was the Dungeon Master (DM) for the first season of Exandria Unlimited. Iyengar has been both a player and a Game Master for multiple seasons of Dimension 20 and a guest DM on The Adventure Zone.

Career

Iyengar is the Chief Marketing Officer for the dice-maker Dice Envy.

Actual play

Iyengar was originally a guest player, acting as Laura Bennett, in the actual play web series Kollok: 1991 on the Hyper RPG Twitch channel before joining the main cast in the second season in 2019. In 2022, Iyengar reprised her role in the sequel set 30 years after the first show – Kollok was broadcast on AMC Networks' FearHQ Twitch channel. Iyengar has been part of the main cast, playing as Koseh, for Into the Mother Lands since 2020.

In 2021, Iyengar was the Dungeon Master (DM) for two actual play anthology web series – Misfits and Magic, the tenth season of Dimension 20, and the first season of Exandria Unlimited, a Critical Role spin-off. She was the first Critical Role DM after Matthew Mercer. Chase Carter, for Dicebreaker, stated that "both appearances were hits within their respective fandoms, leading many to clamor for more Iyengar". Iyengar also performed as a guest DM on The Adventure Zone, with the McElroy Brothers as players, in 2021. Christian Hoffer of ComicBook.com highlighted that "Iyengar has quickly built a reputation and fanbase due to her fantastic storytelling and rapport with players". Carter commented that "Iyengar is quickly becoming a household name in the realm of tabletop actual play. [...] Her fame has been a welcome change for many who are glad to see a Black woman garnering so much respect and excitement in what has been a predominantly white endeavor within a historically white hobby". Iyengar gave the Storytime keynote at the 2021 PAX Unplugged.

In August 2022, Iyengar appeared as gamemaster on Dimension 20: A Court of Fey & Flowers, a combination of Dungeons & Dragons and the Jane Austen-inspired game Good Society. She also joined the cast of the Vampire: The Masquerade web series NY by Night, playing as Margot "Fuego" Walker. Em Friedman, for Polygon in 2022, commented that Iyengar's actual play credits now "span nearly the entire industry" with her By Night debut.

In January 2023, it was announced that Iyengar, alongside Erika Ishii, Lou Wilson, and Brennan Lee Mulligan, would star in the creator-owned actual play podcast Worlds Beyond Number; the show premiered in March 2023 and ranked in Patreon's top twenty accounts within a month. Also in March 2023, Iyengar joined the third campaign of Critical Role as a guest star playing as gnome cleric Deanna. In April 2023, WizKids announced a new miniature boxed set of Exandria Unlimited characters including a figurine of Iyengar. In November 2023, Iyengar joined Candela Obscura as the third chapter's game master.

Personal life

Iyengar attended the University of Iowa where she was a member of the volleyball team.

Iyengar first played Dungeons & Dragons in 2015 or 2016 when she was invited to her now husband's board game group and was given a cleric character sheet to play. Wired highlighted that "Iyengar was often the only woman or person of color at the table, and she faced a lot of other players questioning her knowledge of the game, as well as more overt harassment. As a GM, she now works to ensure her players don’t have to face those same challenges. [...] With the increased visibility of actual play games, [...] Iyengar has increasingly been able to tailor her playing experience to what she wanted it to be for both herself and her audience".

Filmography

Web series

Year	Title		Role	Notes	Шаблон:Abbr
2018–2020	Happy Jacks RPG	Revelations	Thaïs Guillory	Main role; 10 episodes
		The Autumn People	Khairyn Antwi	Main role; 14 episodes
		Monsoon	The Arcane / Science Pantheon / Child of A.I.	Main role; 9 episodes
		Idolon Academy	Tendai Collier aka "Eye"	Main role; 16 episodes
2019–2022	Kollok	1991	Laura Bennett	Guest role in season 1; main cast in season 2
				Main cast Sequel set 30 years after Kollok: 1991; sometimes billed as season 3
2019–2020	Saving Throw	Urban Shadows RPG	Game master	One-shot
		Frozen & Dragons	Elsa	One-shot
		Mysterium: Hidden Signs	Esme	Limited series; 3 episodes
		Ghosts of Saltmarsh	Dungeon Master	Limited series; 3 episode prequel to Pirates of Salt Bay
		Pirates of Salt Bay	Dungeon Master	Main cast; 40 episodes
	RPG Exploration Society		Amaka, Sonny	Episode: "Shadow of the Demon Lord", Episode: "Alien RPG"
2019	Wildcards	East Texas University	Renee Billings	Episode: "The Seekers of Danger"
2020–2021	New Pantheon	Demigods	Megan, Demigod of Ares	Main cast; 19 episodes
		Academia	Helen Silva, Divinity Thoth	Episode: "S1E6"
	Tales from Salt Bay	Engine Heart	Ticky-Nicky Prizebot	Limited series; 2 episodes
		Good Society	Rosaline Wildingham	Limited series; 4 episodes
		Monsterhearts 2	Hester Blake	Limited series; 2 episodes
	Roll20 Presents	Lost Mine of Phandelver	Witkha	Main cast; 14 episodes Sponsored by Wizards of the Coast to promote the Starter Set on Roll20
		Rime of the Frostmaiden	Bursa	Main cast; 13 episodes Sponsored by Wizards of the Coast to promote the Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden module on Roll20
2020–2022	Into the Mother Lands		Koseh	Main cast
2020–2023	Dimension 20	Pirates of Leviathan	Myrtle	Main cast; 6 episodes
		Misfits and Magic	Game Master	Main cast; 4 episodes Also appeared in the Misfits & Magic Holiday Special
		The Seven	Antiope Jones	Main cast; 10 episodes
		A Court of Fey and Flowers	Game Master	Main cast; 10 episodes
		The Ravening War	Karna Solara	Main cast; 6 episodes
		Burrow's End	Game Master	Main cast; 10 episodes
	Failed Save	Campaign 1	Fess / Zhirryn	Guest role in season 1; main cast in seasons 2-3; 31 episodes
		Campaign 2	Chi	Main cast; 30 episodes Also appeared in vignette mini-episodes and spin-off one-shots
		Fantasy TGIFridays	Chi	Limited series; 3 episodes
2021–2022	Exandria Unlimited		Dungeon Master	Main cast; 8 episodes
		Kymal	Dungeon Master	Main cast; 2 episodes Continuation of the first season
		Calamity	Laerryn Coramar-Seelie	Main cast; 4 episodes
2021	The Adventure Zone	The Zone of Adventure: Imbalance	Dungeon Master	Limited series; 3 episodes
	Gods of Metal: Ragnarock		Val Cano	One-shot
	Total Puppet Khaos		Neve	Season 2 main cast; 3 episodes
	A Very Pet Adventure		Hygge	Main cast; 13 episodes
2022	NY by Night		Margot "Fuego" Walker	Main cast; 8 episodes
	The Borros Saga: Banesbreak		Prythiv	Main cast; 12 episodes
	Dark Souls: The Roleplaying Game		Maerwyn	One-shot
	Crypteens: A Cryptid Demigods Adventure		Game Master	One-shot
	Ten Candles: Devil in the Details		Blythe Freeman	One-shot
	Ms. Pixel's Fantastical Circus: Call of Cthulhu		Lenore Reilly	One-shot
	D&D Chaos		Dungeon Master	Main cast; 3 episodes Roll20 series using the Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos module
2023	Worlds Beyond Number	The Children's Adventure	The Wizard	Main cast Patreon exclusive prequel podcast for The Wizard, the Witch, and the Wild One
		The Wizard, the Witch, and the Wild One		Main cast
	Critical Role	Campaign Three	Deanna Leimert	Guest role; 8 episodes
	Salt & Serpent		Dis	Main cast; 4 episodes
	Pixel Circus Pride One-Shot		Tricia	One-shot
	Barbies For Better Pay		1996 Happy Holidays Barbie	One-shot
	Candela Obscura	Chapter 3: "The Circle of Tide & Bone"	Game Master	Main cast; 3 episodes