Quote Originally Posted by Kish View Post
"Adventurer"'s no good--there are a lot of NPC adventurers (including Xykon, Redcloak, the Linear Guild, the Vector Legion, that warlock in the bar...).

There's no inside-the-fourth-wall concept that fits, but "protagonist" does.
i've no idea if it's true or not. but you could theoretically claim that the vector legion and the order of the scribble WERE PC's at one point, as they did have a visible plot and story centered around them (Take over the western continent and seal the rifts respectively) but that story is now finished and in the past, so they are NPC's now.

Linear Guild is a different story, as it both only occours as a foil to the order, and didn't last very long as a whole party.

"PC" could be people who have a story centered around them and a quest to overcome. when that is finished, or if it never began, they are NPC's.