Erich Schaefer

Doc is dated February 2012, which sounds right. I usually made these in response to complaints by the team to justify my ideas. I never made anything like this while we were making the Diablos, but I should have; they often reveal weaknesses.

I'm actually more impressed that you were able to achieve essentially the same curve in both games without having graphed them the first time around. I recognized what yours meant in 2 seconds, since I had spent so much time staring at the former.

Yes, that's pretty interesting! Care to plug this book of yours?

I interviewed Max in 2013, David, Steig and Stefan across 2017. Max's interview, in which he references something very much like this, was the inspiration for my thesis about the game.

I wrote a whole series of books, actually. Everything from Chrono Trigger to Super Mario World to Half Life. https://www.amazon.com/s?i=stripbooks&rh=p_27%3APatrick+Holleman&s=relevancerank&text=Patrick+Holleman&ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1 …

I send graphs from my Diablo book to young game designers *all the time.* That stuff is super helpful, because there's so little math-intensive documentation about RPG systems in the world. So thank you again for sharing your internal stuff.

Unfortunately I can't find a lot more. I'm a bad archivist. I had five or six graph paper pads full of Diablo 2 stuff at one point, but haven't seen them in years.