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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rasyr" data-source="post: 1782449" data-attributes="member: 2855">I have no knowledge of War Hammer, but to me the prestige classes always resembled something in the RM2 book, Arms Companion. In that product it was called Background Package, however it reminds me much of Prestige Classes - the the way PCs work so much as the descriptive layout. THe Background Packages were meant to be a way of customizing the characters. There was one package called the Treewraiths that always stands out as being memorable.Anyways, all in all, I think that it is likely that many systems had influence d20. One poster mentions House Rules from the playtesters, and yet forgets that those House Rules did not come into existance in a vacuum. House Rules are often (not always, but often) based upon rules that the maker of the House Rule saw in another system (or from discussion with someody who may have experience with another system). It also ignores the fact that playtesting is done after the rules are written. While some things may be added or changed during playtesting, the core rules and concepts behind the system would have already been in place.</blockquote>