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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Felon" data-source="post: 4445352" data-attributes="member: 8158">You appear to be working under the premise that representing a character with an NPC class is tatamount to a demotion or dismissal of worth. In actuality, it's just that PC classes are all designed to be heavily-oriented towards combat, so designing a character that excels at overcoming problems with guile and resourcefulness instead of DPS often leads people to look at the expert or aristocrat. As denotations of character significance, the terms "PC" or "NPC" cannot be applied to literary characters with validity. A character can be a main character in a vignette while falling into the role of supporting character in the story as a whole. This happens to both Xander and Odysseus throughout the course of their respective canons. Indeed, it's already been pointed out a couple of times that every example you've provided to demonstrate Odysseus's significance has a parallel with Xander.In trying to represent literary characters with a D&D class, it's going to be a ham-fisted affair at best since D&D long ago de-prioritized the importance of making classes suitably broad in scop that literary figures can be easily transalted (there have certainly been enough pointless threads about what Gandalf's class is here at ENWorld). Then again, Odysseus had been cited as the quintessential bard archetype in official D&D sourcebooks, so that's what I'd go with.</blockquote>