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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr. Strangemonkey" data-source="post: 657877" data-attributes="member: 6533">I'll probably have other answers later, but the one's that spring to my mind right now are:-Jessica Atriedes from Dune, strictly as an NPC of course-Odysseus:  not strictly from a novel, but that particular epic is pretty similar.  I think good old adaptable, cunning, hedonistic, and weirdly conservatice Odysseus would be the ultimate role-playing challenge.-Tyrion or Littlefinger would be nice except I don't know that I'd want to play characters I like that much.To play as a PC I'd have to find a character that I intrigued me a great deal, had at least a bit of the cunning fool about him, but was lacking in some big way.  To really play the character for a while I'd need room to play or tinker.  Complete and great characters wouldn't be worth it.Odysseus is great pick, though from the other direction, because he is such an expansive and mutable character that you can always add or subtract specific qualties from him.  No single literary work could contain him, so why should I have to.</blockquote>