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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nivenus" data-source="post: 4718267" data-attributes="member: 71756">It's difficult to sort some of these characters, particularly Odysseus and Merlin since the two have seen so many interpretations. However, I'll try my best here with 4e rules (since I feel 4e is better suited to emulating myth than 3e).AragornFighter/Warlord multiclass. Which is dominant would depend upon which you think is more important - Aragorn as a leader or Aragorn as a warrior. I'm going to lean here towards Warlord, simply because he is, after all, the One True King(R).As a 3e character he'd probably be a pure fighter, maybe with a little bit of scout on the side. But though he's called a Ranger he really just doesn't fit into the 3e or 4e interpretations of the class (or even the 2e one, from what I know). Maybe with archery as his focus over two-blade, but really, the LotR organization and the D&D class have been pretty divorced for a while now. They ain't talking.Legolas, on the other hand, would make a spectacular ranger.OdysseusThis depends partially upon which version of the Odyssey is being told. Primarily, Odysseus' defining traits are his intelligence, his charisma (just look at how many women he beds!), and his skill with a bow. Intelligence is the key attribute of only a handful of classes in 4e, being by far most important for wizards. However, Odysseus is very clearly not a wizard.The closest I can think of is a warlord, once again. After all, intelligence is a key attribute for one warlord build, and charisma is the key attribute for the other. And given that Odysseus is renowned as a tactician and general, it kind of fits. Perhaps, given his trickster ways, he'd have the Sneak of Shadows or another rogue multiclass feat.In 3e, since warlords don't exist, he'd probably function best as a dual fighter/rogue mix.MaximusAgain, warlord (I think I'm beginning to see a pattern here...). He's explicitly a leader of men and a general. Of course he's a warlord! However, he probably wouldn't be pure as such, since he's clearly capable of holding his own in a fight. So multiclassing as a fighter would probably be a good option to have.In 3e, I'd probably put him down as a straight-up fighter.MerlinI was going to say wizard, but I think I agree with what others have said about him having strong druidic overtones. While it's not explicit in many of the classic versions of Arthurian legend, Merlin seems to draw heavily on the memories of the Celtic druids and bards. So a druid, multiclassing as a bard in either edition, is a strong candidate for Merlin.In 3e, he might also dabble in wizardry but I think that in 4e, he wouldn't find it necessary and he'd just be a straight up druid with bardic stuff on the side.</blockquote>

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