Mostly everything in EQ was ripped from D&D and they had no issues. Sure they changed monk ability names like "move silently" to "sneak" and "slow fall" to "safe fall." The disciplines were still called disciplines, even if some were renamed.
Basically, most things (including general mechanics) will be copyable even if they do need to end up tweaking some ability names.
There's so many books and games in the fantasy genre going back a long long time. It can be claimed they're inspired by those and D&D instead of copying from EQ. Try proving otherwise in court.
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