[3.5] Can't find class for conman concept

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I'd go with Bard and just ignore the music aspect, sticking to Oratory to persuade others to do your bidding.

I loathe music-Bards, and either go for noblemen, who inspire 'the troops' with a combination of leaderly exortation and applied tactics from their studies at the war college, or religious charismatics who raise the morale of their allies by quoting from their prayerbook giving blood-stirring sermons and dispensing timely homilies.

None of them call themselves Bards (or Minstrels or Troubadours or Skalds or Dirges), but either Nobleman or Priest.

The focus on Bards with sonic spells and music-related abilities is just annoying, and I avoid it.