wingsandsword said:Funny, I always thought that Prestige Classes were blatantly inspired by the AD&D 1e Bard and Thief-Acrobat,
Achan hiArusa said:If you are not including nonD&D books, okay. But Ars Magica had a big influence on 3.0 due to the fact that Johnathan Tweet wrote the PHB (and I know some D&D purists don't like me mentioning that) and he used a very similar task resolution system (similar being that a d20 was used instead of a d10) and the Barbarian's Rage is a take off of the Berserk Virtue in ArM.