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<blockquote data-quote="Psion" data-source="post: 1481203" data-attributes="member: 172">I hear this from time to time, but I just don't see it.I think what is going on is that Diablo II is reminding you of D&amp;D. Your claim, to me, is almost like saying &quot;is it just me, or do races in Lord of the Rings remind feel like D&amp;D.&quot; It should, but you mistate the order of inheritance.D&amp;D has had this sort of stuff in it since first edition. There were non-weapon proficiencies that gave you special tricks. As those became more prevalent, they pretty much totally displaced &quot;skill like&quot; NWPs, thus necessitating their separation.Staging them into pre-requisites appeared in 2e in the form of psionic powers, but also became more graphical and clearly presented as part of other RPGs like Feng Shui, still predating Diablo II.In Diablo the original, characters tended to look a lot like each other at high levels. It's no surprise that they opted to follow in the footsteps of tabletop RPGs did before them when looking for a way to differentaite characters for their follow-on game.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Psion, post: 1481203, member: 172"] I hear this from time to time, but I just don't see it. I think what is going on is that Diablo II is reminding you of D&D. Your claim, to me, is almost like saying "is it just me, or do races in Lord of the Rings remind feel like D&D." It should, but you mistate the order of inheritance. D&D has had this sort of stuff in it since first edition. There were non-weapon proficiencies that gave you special tricks. As those became more prevalent, they pretty much totally displaced "skill like" NWPs, thus necessitating their separation. Staging them into pre-requisites appeared in 2e in the form of psionic powers, but also became more graphical and clearly presented as part of other RPGs like Feng Shui, still predating Diablo II. In Diablo the original, characters tended to look a lot like each other at high levels. It's no surprise that they opted to follow in the footsteps of tabletop RPGs did before them when looking for a way to differentaite characters for their follow-on game. [/QUOTE]

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