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I second WarpedAcorn's advice about Mar's personality. Personally speaking Mar sounds too confrontational for me to enjoy playing with. I recommend speaking with the rest of the players to get their buy-in for the character before settling on this personality. If the rest of the group likes...

Definitely. I played with a GM who thought he was skilled at improvising, so he would prepare nothing for sessions and try to improv the session instead. This resulted in sessions where all we did was travel and random encounter, four combats in a row that were against one enemy in either...

I did that in the last game I played and came in second. But the winner had a significant lead and the third and fourth place were close on my heels. I want to like this game because I love bluffing games but I just can't figure out how to play it well. I do very well reading people when we...

If a major premise of the campaign revolves around the characters exploring the different worlds and uncovering secrets about the worlds, I think it's okay to keep details of the worlds secret from the players. But I recommend speaking with them about the dimension-hopping concept to make sure...

I love that module! The mutations were awesome. When we played it the cleric grew a vestigial arm, the halfling grew scales on his face and a third eye, the elf grew a puppy dog tail, and the gnome grew glands that could let him spit poison (sometimes intentionally but often it happened...

Similarly mine is when players tell the GM what check they're making rather than describe their action or act it out and let the GM decide what check, if any, is required. "I tell the guard we're ambassadors from the neighboring kingdom and he should let us in. My Diplomacy check is a 19."

There's room for every single GM to improve. Regularly ask for honest session feedback from your players and strive to improve subsequent sessions based on their feedback. Not only does this help you improve your weak spots and illustrate what did not pan out and what your players do not...

What is your goal with this character's deception? Are you more interested in storytelling the character's attempt to strive for the ideals of a paladin and the ramifications of the character's deception, should the other characters discover the deception or seeing how well you can masquerade...

I think that's a fantastic idea. I would especially like to see maneuvers treated more like cantrips or like 4E's at-wills.

I'm one of those in real life!

The Forgotten Realms. I find it to be a good catchall setting for generic high fantasy that is easily manipulated to the GM's purposes. If you want to adventure against orcs in the cold tundra, FR can handle that. If you want a political urban intrigue adventure, FR can handle that. If you...

I'm not convinced an arcane tradition is the best avenue for inserting grafts in the game but I think it'd be swell to have an arcane tradition based on the 3.5 Fleshwarper PrC. It's probably too narrow of a focus to warrant its own arcane tradition. And although wizards are well suited as...

If I play a kenku the litmus test for how much my character can speak will be whether or not a cartoon parrot could say it. I would veer it away from the campiness of an actual cartoon parrot (No Kenku wants a crackers.) but I think that's the intended level of mimicry. I recommend your...

But your words are gooder than mine.

In my experience this is a really difficult nut to crack. Giving everyone their own task helps somewhat but the trick is that their task has to be meaningful. All players had unique roles in our Star Wars Saga Edition game (pilot, gunner, engineer, sensors) but the actions available were too...

Great call on using Firefly as a model--that's exactly how the campaign was sold to us!

Hands down what I love the most are grungs. 2nd Edition had me at grippli. Then Volo comes along and says, "I'll see your grippli and raise you humanoid poison arrow frogs." Bam--you got me! They're certainly worth the price of admission for me. And their variant poisons only make them more...

I understand you're looking for suggestions on a system but my suggestion is about the campaign concept. I suggest you ensure you and your players have a common expectation for what your space-trading campaign will entail. My group played in a campaign set in the Star Wars universe where we...

A number of years ago a comic book/gaming store in Baltimore moved locations and reopened as Spice and Dice--a comic/gaming store and a Thai restaurant combination. Now they separated the two businesses so they're next door to one another but they're separate entities. Maybe the shared...

Here's a homebrew that seemed promising: http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?417626-5e-Vestige-pact-warlock-(a-k-a-binder)