Comment by johnfn

This is nothing new. Bringing ideas from DND into video games is as old as video games themselves. In interviews, John Carmack talks often about how he used to play DND with his friends and then try to take that experience into the games he made. And it goes back even further than that - Rogue, the primogenitor of all roguelike games, was inspired by DND as well. I could find a bunch more examples, but you get the idea.