dri-erase board?
or flash cards?
Like this? Hand Gestures
But yeah, signs, hand gestures, maybe have premade signs for common things. Wait, that's what you do in real life, awe crap I got nothing.
Buy a Psudodragon.
They're intelligent, loyal if you treat them well, and telepathic. They can basically be a "translator".
Base it's personality off of someone suitably funny or annoying and have your game's most charismatic player sit next to your wife. She whispers things in that person's ear (or passes them notes) and then they get to put it in their own words.
Inspiration for personalities to base the Psudodragon's on:
Eric Cartman
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would buying a psudodragon be PFS legal? If so, I think I will put that at the top of the list.
PFS Additional Resources - "a pseudodragon is not legal for purchase unless you're a wizard with the Improved Familiar feat".
Also, as to the Magus idea, it may not work because now that i think about it I'm not sure you can technically cast spells with a vocal component if you're mute.
I think the chalk and board idea might be you're best bet... ):
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I play a deaf Oracle in PFS (who is also mute since she was born deaf and never learned to speak.) I have 1 rank in Linguistics to take Read Lips so I can understand what other people are saying, and I bring a small dry-erase board with me to every game to communicate with (in-game, it is a chalk board with chalk.) It is pretty awesome because it really forces you to role play the character; using things like psudodragons and Ghost Sound are all fine, but don't really immerse you in the character as much since you can still communicate "normally" with those means. To get the party's attention I wave my hand or tap on the table so they know I have something to say, and they wait while I write. It also helps that I play with my husband in most games and his character and my character have known each other a long time, so when he sees me writing, he can tell the group, "Hey guys, the Oracle has something to say."
Also, the chalk and chalkboard has come in handy more than once for other reasons in-game, like when the group needs to communicate with each other silently.
I just imagined the sound Chalk can make when writing at a "wrong" angel... Silent indeed :P
Think twice before you go with this concept. I had a player make a mute ranger once. Over the course of the first session:
•First he did pantomime in character. We all enjoyed this for a few minutes...
•then he took out pen and paper and said "my character writes this on a slate"...
•later he stopped actually writing it and said "My character writes the following," and said it out loud...
•finding even this frustrating, the player said "Everything I say I actually write down."
Next session he played a non-mute character.
I'm not saying it can't be done, but do give it some thought.
