Best NPC class for a PC.

[Paganboy28]

If you were to play in a campaign where players started off as the NPC basic classes (warrior, adept, expert, etc) what would you be and why?

[Gamerlord]

Warrior, at least I have SOME combat ability.

[Morty]

In a low-level game, I'd play a Warrior. In a high-level one, an Adept.

[Roam7]

Commoner, all the way.

[deuxhero]

If I could stack blessed beast and wild cohort, Gleaner. Otherwise adept.

[Gorgondantess]

Expert is nice: at low levels you can do handle animal cheese (spend all your money on riding dogs) and then as you progress you can grab full ranks in UMD, to become a wizard in a box.
Otherwise, adept works: you get polymorph, eventually. That alone makes you more powerful than many low tier PC classes of your level.
Pity the fools who choose warrior or aristocrat.

[Optimystik]

Aristocrat, and use all your wealth to hire mercenaries with PC classes.

Seems to work for the kings/lords who hire us.

[Eloel]

At L1? Aristocrat
At L2-4? Toss between Expert & Warrior
At L5+? Adept


At L1 Aristocrat dominates - he has more gold than the Warrior has ever seen.

[oxybe]

Expert (it's called that for a reason).

largest skill pool, ok BAB, good will save. bad fort/ref. HP is mostly on par with rogues, so you're still kinda squishy. can use simple weapons (hang back and crossbow) + some armor.

biggest bonus : can pick any 10 skills to be class skills.
-all 5 important monster knowledges(arcana, religion, planes, dungeoneering, nature)
-spot + listen (nice skills to have overall)
-diplomacy (because you'll probably need to convince people)
-gather info/Sense motive (i'm leaning towards SM to notice if people are lying to you, but GI can be underlooked at times as it can get you contacts to which use your diplomacy on. it's a tossup really and depends on the group)
-UMD (it's the god skill that lets you be the group's problem solver)

[deuxhero]

^No, you take Ijutsomething or other focus, pull out a gnome quick razor and go to town.

[oxybe]

^No, you take Ijutsomething or other focus, pull out a gnome quick razor and go to town.

no clue what skill you're talking about. probably from a book i don't own.

[Draz74]

Iaijutsu Focus, from Oriental Adventures.

[oxybe]

Iaijutsu Focus, from Oriental Adventures.

so a book i don't own. i'm guessing it's a skill with the [shenanigans] subtype?

[Thurbane]

I'm quite partial to the Aristocrat - good armor & weapon selection, decent skills, 4 skill points/level...

[Draz74]

so a book i don't own. i'm guessing it's a skill with the [shenanigans] subtype?

In my opinion, yes.

Well, in its intended incarnation, it wasn't all that uber. However, people have come up with a lot of ways to break it (i.e. to get around the restriction that it was only a class skill for very specific classes, and to get around the 1/encounter use restriction). So yeah.

[Evard]

Lol i was thinking of getting some people to play in a game like this where everyone is one of the NPC classes :3 Sadly i don't know anyone who is interested in being the DM or playing in it.

It would depend on my mood that day.. warrior or adept