DnD comes off of the pages and into the game in a very well done MMORPG by turbine.
The first things you experience when playing Dungeons and Dragons are the quality of sound and graphics. The sound in Dungeons and dragons is actually quite good. It has sound affects that other MMOs do not, for instance, when the clang of metal is heard, it can also produce a resonance sound from the vibration of metal. The sound in the game is also rich and well done. The graphics of the game are not as good as Everquest 2's, but does have much more color than the game and has a different style; It is graphically superior to WoW with it's outdated Warcraft 3 graphics engine and sounds much better as well with better sound overall.
If you have ever played any MMO, such as Everquest or WoW, you will know that many of the quests are collection of a certain amount of items or kill a certain amount of monsters to complete the quest, well DnD online brings more imaginative and interesting quests to the table that the big MMOs do not. One such quest is to rescue a woman who was kidnapped by a group of Kobolds and brought deep within a sewer system like setting. Along the way there are smaller optional quests that allow you to gain more experience by killing certain important figures or doing some other sort of task that's within the instance. These quests really keep a person going if they don't like to sit in one spot killing one group of monsters in an area all day.
Dungeons and Dragons introduces a very nice combat system that most MMOs have never touched. You are able to attack, dodge, and block in real time. They also bring in tactics to play with flanking and interaction with objects, such as ledges, blocks, etc. that other games would not allow. With this said, combat can be very interesting with the tanks trying to keep the enemy away from the people lobbing spells and arrows at the enemy an at the same time trying to kill key characters such as Shamans. This really brings a unique style of combat that the big name MMOs, such as Everquest 2 and WoW don't have.
One of the drawbacks of playing DnD online is that it is purely instance based, meaning there is no actual world that you can run around and explore like in many other MMOs. Now this is a smaller drawback because of how many quests and the size of the city you can explore, but this is truly based on how people's preference.
I hav ejust touched based on some of the many good things about Dungeons and Dragons Online: Stormreach, such as multiclass characters, skills, feats, etc. But one thing is for certain, to quote GameSpy, it "feels like a breath of fresh air for the MMO genre". It introduces a very unique style of gameplay to the MMO world and is meant to be played by anyone who has as little time as an hour every once and a while to people who have no lives. This is truly a great and unique game.