Dungeons & Dragons Online Preview

The folks at GameAxis have written up a short preview of Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach, after spending some firsthand time in the game's ongoing beta test. Here's a bit to get you started:
Stormreach allows players to create at will a titular character that they will play as throughout the adventuring days out of five in-game fantasy races namely humans, elves, Halflings, dwarves and a new race called the warforged. These races can then be further divided amongst nine possible professions that include barbarians, bards, clerics, fighters, paladins, rangers, rogues, sorcerers and wizards. The game will also have a different experience and loot sharing system than most of the contemporary MMOs that we see today. Stormreach devises a feature that will see players only getting character specific loot and experience at the end of the whole adventure that can prevent unnecessary squabbles over who gets what in a party as well as possible events of kill steal.