User:Hreodbeorht

Rob Makinson, who usually works online under the username hreodbeorht, is the gamemaster for all campaigns set within the Eternal Depths world of the Eberron Campaign Setting. He has more than three years experience writing and moderating weekly roleplaying campaigns, plus extensive knowledge of computer-based Dungeons and Dragons video games and fantasy storytelling. His gamemastering style leans heavily towards roleplaying over traditional dungeon crawls: he often goes to extreme lengths to ensure that his campaigns are complex and rewarding while remaining  internally consistent. Rob also  encourages creativity among his players, and is usually willing to accommodate his players through homebrew and other innovative additions to the standard ruleset.

His interests generally fall within the usual limits of geekdom: his Twitter account names him a self-professed hardcore geek, and his near-encyclopedic knowledge of certain realms of information—particularly Tolkien's fantasy universe—has made him somewhat notorious for trivia. He regularly reads speculative fiction, often using common generic tropes within his own writing and roleplaying campaigns, though he has also been known to make somewhat transparent references to common geek knowledge within his stories to inject them with some humour. His other interests include Canadian and American politics, deconstructing geek culture on his blog, professional tennis, and cooking.

Rob currently lives in Vancouver, Canada, while he completes the second year of a two-year program in library science at the University of British Columbia at the School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies. His previous education includes an honours degree in English Literature and History from Trent University, with emphases in Medieval and Renaissance Studies and Linguistics, and a masters degree in Medieval Studies from the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto. He has just completed a two-term research assistantship within his program, and looks forward to a successful career in information science, hoping to merge his passion for education and literacy with his obsession for all things medieval as an embedded subject librarian. These passions also influence his writing style as a gamemaster, adding the classical perspective and much-needed depth that roleplaying campaigns so often lack.