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I find Rule of Cool facilitates and smooths out gameplay far more than it hinders it. There are outlier situations like always, such as a DM favoring one player over another consistently, but those are an issue of DM experience and shouldn't be used to condemn a flexible and useful DM tool like...

Individual obsessions has been one of the best ways I've seen to use gnomes. IE, any given gnome finds something to obsess over, though they can change obsessions if necessary. It fills a decent niche for them, and can include concepts like Golarion gnomes, Krynn gnomes, and gnomes dedicated to...

Lowkey13 senses a disturbance in the force.

Do any of the characters have a personality trait that might make them unwilling to work together with any of the others? Is the Life Cleric specifically worshipping an undead hating god?

An Eloquence Bard that just screams at you to do better, be better, and stop slacking.

They have an ongoing deal where Tam continues to bring Larloch magic items in return for Larloch teaching Tam ancient spells. It's coincidentally part of Larloch's deal with Mystra to retain his ancient spells as long as he agrees to share his arcane knowledge now and then.

Szass Tam is literally an apprentice of Larloch, but I can see your point. Tam is highly visible like Vecna and would win a popularity context, while still being a known mastermind.

Larloch should probably get honorable mention as the Mastermind style Lich. Vecna is more like Skeletor, showing up and being incredibly memorable with fairly straightforward plans that would have succeeded if it weren't for you meddling kids. Larloch would never win a popularity contest against...

Realistically, you're going to spend a year or two filtering through bad and mediocre players before you get a healthy stable of solid players. One of the most common things is being ghosted - players will show up for a few sessions and then simply never show up again with zero notice. Others...

Me? Yes, as long as you're not going bonkers like an exiled warlord with an army waiting for you to resume command when you get back home.

Certainly a glare that could kill Smaug.

Is it fair to say having those personal ties in a story reduces your enjoyment, instead of increases your enjoyment? Like it breaks your immersion?

I used to write backstories, but once I was inside the character it often feels wrong or not like the character at all. Worse, I sometimes tried to force the character to adhere to the backstory even though they were turning out to be someone completely different than what I imagined at the...

Rogue has top priority, unless the DM does not like Ready Action sneak attacking. Battlemaster has second priority, and might need the mobility in wide open fights.

I see a fair amount of Moon > Wildfire > Stars in that order of frequency. I've never seen anyone play Land, Dreams, Shepherd, or Spores.

A cadre of abishai discreetly hire a pack of neutral mercenaries to execute a heist from the Palace of Bahamut. You are either the mercenaries themselves, faced with the moral quandary as you discover your heist is not all it's cracked up to be, or a group who stumbles upon hints of the heist...

I want to give some love to Bytopia. You can set your entire adventure in this plane and it would still be familiar AND wonderous at the same time. You just look up and the entire sky is filled not with stars, but the campfires and glittering lights of the other side. You can climb a mountain...

Set phasers to "wide beam."

Bad Pun-Puns?

DM starts Session 1. Tells you to go adventure by yourself and be back by dinner, tosses you some dice, then heads off to work. You finish your adventure two hours late, dinner is in the fridge and the DM is watching TV. You heat it up and take it to your room. The End. At least you got to play...