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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pawsplay" data-source="post: 4939028" data-attributes="member: 15538">Sort of. I did think of the bard, but that character was defined as a special class variant. Although it was technically possible, you didn't just become a bard, you decided to play a bard and had to go through a specific path to fet there. It was, for instance, possible to take too much fighter.By contrast, the Companion set paladin, avenger, knight, and druid were optional variations on the base class adopted at higher level and involved a specific in-game event. While pretige classes did kill kits and take their stuff, they are most clearly derived from the Companion set high level classes.Actually, it is a general (if simple) skill system with skills such as Deceiving, Intimidation, and Planar Geography. It's a simple roll-under system. The NWP system did not claim to be general and offered only exeptional abilities, such as the ability to recognize fungus, bonuses to surprise situations, and so forth. Thus, they are not exactly alike, although they are related in function. The RC version is definitely more evolved toward a general skill system.That's certainly possible. I own a copy of neither game.Here's another tidbit. The bastard sword was a "fighter only" weapon in the Companion Set, and hence precurses the Exotic Weapon Proficiency needed to wield it.</blockquote>