Dungeon Lords has a lot of great idea's and concepts unfortunately thats all they are.
The Bad - Starting with character generation; You can't customize the way your character looks. Several of the races don't have female counter-parts.
Gameplay; The world noticably slows when ever a "random" monster is to appear, warning you your about to get ganked. Way too many "random" monster events, works out to like a check every 2 minutes. Quickly becomes a hack-n-slash. When interacting with others unless head on audio does not operate correctly. Randomly the audio will decide not play. Randomly the game crashes. No way to load a save game without quitting and restarting. Noticable abscence of world sounds - walking through the forest there should be sound not silence. walking through water and sludge there should be sound, not silence etc.
Dungeon Lords has great potential, if all the bad was fixed. until then it's fun to hack-n-slashonce in a while but quickly becomes annoying. If your trying to decide whether to buy Dungeon Lords or Dungeon Siege II, I'll make it easy Dungeon Siege II did it better although had Dungeon Lords performed to its capability it would have blown DS2 out of the water.