User:Eagle of Fire

Description and provenance
Eagle of Fire is the current DM of several D&D 3.5 games based on the continent of Kohomas. He have a loyal player base who play all his games and some players who simply hop on once in a while to fill up the rest.

Bio of the DM
Eagle of Fire's games are always heavily centered on RP and forged with coherent reality ACSD (As Common Sense Dictate) first and foremost. Nobody can hop in expecting to play without filling up a decent background and building up his character without accepting a quite strict set of house rules designed to reflect the political and geographical situation of the continent of Kohomas. For example, Elves and Dwarves abound in this plane while chaotic and uneducated civilizations are all but almost nonexistent. As such, some classes and some normally openly accessible races are forbidden in this setting (example: barbarians and half-orcs are off limit and most "exotic" classes and races require a solid background to be accepted) while the three "main" races of D&D3.5 (Humans, Dwarves and Elves) are largely encouraged.

In return, this DM give some leeway to his players in the form of a easier stat rolling process turning the PCs stronger overall and some freebies when starting out level one. Those leeways usually manifest themselves as some political or economical advantage in play and a random lesser wondrous item. While some players whine and find the first session of any game to longer endlessly, they largely tend to agree that it is an acceptable trade off in the long run.

This GM believe in the "equal rights" principle of play, meaning that all the monsters encountered in game can have the exact same advantages as the players and vice-versa. As such and because most of his players have little to no D&D experience, he currently restrict his players to the core books for equipment and abilities. Exceptions can be made at the discretion of the DM but are extremely rare and require both a good reason and a RP explanation in game as well as the expectation to see monsters using up those same until then restricted abilities.

World creation and tools of the trade
This DM do not use pre-built material of his games and every location and every characters of Kohomas are unique and original, created directly from Eagle of Fire's imagination. Similarities with existing names or location from other games or medias abound but are purely coincidental.

The most obvious example of this is the metropolis city of Alderaan, fortified capital city of The Province of Alder. While a planet in the Star Wars universe sport the same name, solid RP reasons led to this name and the similitude was not originally planned at creation.

At some rare moments, some locations or characters have direct links to already existing material from Real Life events, objects or work. D&D being mainly a world created by the DM for the players to evolve in, the influence of the players or the necessity of a comic relief cameo beg for the inclusion of some material they are both familiar with and can identify to. The best example of this would be Scaramouche the potion master of the Alderaan Great Pelor Temple who like to spend the majority of his time trying to build a musical comedy from the ground instead of completing the PCs requests. (Cookies for you if you get the reference. Hehehe.)

This DM use a custom dry pencil battle board mat specially ordered at a local shop. This DM love this map and think it has been the best investment in regard to DMing D&D he ever did. Thanks goes to RonhDog1 for this incredibly brilliant idea.

In Game
Expanding The Province of Alder as a whole. Trying to build up and refine encounter tables and conciliate the PCs danger level with the monsters danger level.

In this Wiki
Starting project. Everything is to be done. I guess priority should be given to red links on this page first.