Talk:Winged Duskblade/@comment-76.17.230.3-20130702092833/@comment-1321146-20130707044653

Not as much a ripoff as an improvement.

The original developers were EverQuest players, who decided to make a game with the improvements they had attempted to persuade the EverQuest developers into adding to that game.

That said, the entire Warcraft franchise was originally a Warhammer game, but the deal fell through early in development.

Of course, both Warhammer and Dungeons & Dragons are in turn completely derived from Tolkiens universe, which is in turn based on real world mythologies and legends. Only specific details are ever truly original.