Aabria Iyengar

Aabria Iyengar (/əˈbriːə ˈaɪ.ɛŋˌɡɑːr/ ə-BREE-ə EYE-en-gar) is an American web series actress known primarily for tabletop role-playing game anthologies, streams and podcasts.

[1][2][3] Iyengar appeared as both a player and as the Dungeon Master (DM) in multiple actual play podcasts between 2018 and 2020 on the Happy Jack's RPG Network.

[4][5][6][7][8][9] 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.

[19] 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.

[21] 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.

[30] Duncan Butcher for Polygon opined that "particular credit needs to go" to Iyengar as "her use of props, projections, and battle maps across her Dimension 20 seasons has consistently pushed what the medium is capable of".

[40] 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.