Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach Updated Impressions at GameSpot

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GameSpot has posted some new impressions from a recent demonstration of Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach, mostly character creation but also some adventuring, dungeon and indoors. Here's a snip:

Both the tomb dungeon and the outdoors dungeon did a good job in showing off the game's various features, which include "DM text," a text narrative that appears onscreen to describe your surroundings, similar to how a dungeon master (or "DM") player would in a tabletop game. The game will have highly interactive environments, so you can expect to be smashing open stone urns full of hidden treasure, flipping switches to open secret doors, and using healing shrines to revive your fallen comrades. Extremely high-level cleric players can use "raise dead" spells to revive their fallen friends, while parties without clerics can pick up their dead comrades' "soulstones," glowing items that can be brought to a dungeon's healing shrine to coax deceased adventurers back into this world. (Interestingly, just like in the tabletop game, characters are considered "unconscious" but not stone-dead if they reach a health level of zero to minus nine, so they can actually be revived with basic healing abilities at that level of injury.)

Read the whole thing at GameSpot.