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Skinny guy with a rapier that recites poetry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFiLIsMieiQ

My martial arts bard mentioned above in action: http://matsohrman.deviantart.com/art/Pirate-Toss-440280010

Yep, what I do with my bards too - especially love the bard/monk hybrid my GM has written and even gotten published. Imagine combining Perform Dance, Acrobatic jumps and tumbles, Unarmed Combat and Combat Maneuvers into a whole smooth, powerful combo. Think "Avatar: The Last Airbender" combat...

Adventures with multiple-NPC social encounters at mid-level and higher; parties, balls, auctions, interdimensional trade meets, etc. Unfortunately that kind of stuff seems frequent at low level, and then dries out as various APs progress.

Persuade your DM to allow the 3.5E version of "consecrate spell"? ( http://www.realmshelps.net/charbuild/feat/Consecrate_Spell ) The Pathfinder feat with the same name unfortunately does something completely different. That's what I used in a similar situation in a 3.5E campaign.

And we had great fun doing it too; This is the campaign that we, the players, asked for halved XP rewards so that our characters would last longer... We played 8-10 h/week during those three years. And since we liked it so much, nobody tried to break the system or break the campaign - and thus...

Sounds like: http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/ or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_of_Shadows

Well, you could see Dex as the skill to use your muscles, while Str is brute capacity. But yes, that dodging is separate from the skill system bugs me, as well as movement speed; with movement on the battle grid only dependent on race (+feats) and not skill you get pretty uninteresting foot...

It was in the main Saturday campaign, so we played weekly, 2PM to 10PM, so the year mentioned means about 150 hours, but as Starfox mentions, we played in his homebrew, so level-speed comparisons do not apply. However, when we played Savage Tide in 3.5E with the same group, we, the players...

My theory is that they did go to Hasbro and ask for a big chunk of marketing money. That was what that big 4E presentation to Hasbro (that has been the subject of many of posts here) was all about. You know, the dream that the big 4E redesign would bring about popular computer games, and then...

Back in the old 1E days, the group I played with simply rolled a die whenever an eyeball measure was unclear - a miniature was partially under a spell templage, a distance a few millimeters off, etc. On a high roll the miniature counted as under the template, as within range, an so on. We also...

See: http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/128600/Prestige-Archetype-The-Arcane-Archer done by Starfox, in an exhaustive series of such prestige class to archetype rewrites: http://shop.d20pfsrd.com/collections/purple-duck-games/products/prestige-archetype-subscription

I've played a lot of Starfox homebrew (and love it to bits!) - it has been used in our main 8h/week campaign for the past three-four years. We've played Pathfinder AP adventures, Pathfinder Society adventures, lots of old D&D adventures from Starfox extensive archive of Dungeon Magazine, from...

Some examples: Character Sheets. I prefer using spreedsheets programs to build custom character sheets for each character; currently I use Numbers on my Ipad. In those, I hyperlink each skill, spell, feat and magic item - official versions link to the SRD, house ruled versions link to the house...

This is where the die roll comes in - it shows whether there really was an opening or not. As you'r skill, strength or agility does not vary over time, the die roll is there to simulate all the factors you do not have control over - is the arms, legs, etc in the right place, is the target...

We evolved weaker muscles in order for our brains to get enough energy. Brain power proved to be more useful for survival than Brawn power... http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/05/140527-brain-muscle-metabolism-genes-apes-science/ One can imagine this as a basis for different fantasy...

Barrels. Put important personages in armored barrels, each tight enough that a second Eladrin cannot blink into it. Barrels on wheels.

In my early RPG years I played in an AD&D campaign that had an XP penalty for dying to "make death matter". That is, if your character died, your next character started with quite a lot less XP than your previous character died with. Quite predictably, that lead to several quite nasty "death...

The PCs are hired to transport a cake to the paladin HQ on the other side of the bustling city. Unknown to them, the cake is really a flumph in disguise, and a gang of doppelgangers are out to get it. As the PCs progress through the busy city streets, these doppelgangers stage various scenes...

Especially the monsters on the DMG and the PH remind me of the grey 3D renderings that are common in Kickstarters for miniatures, for some reason...