Our Dungeons & Dragons Online veteran, Goat, has finished his review of the game in its new "free-to-play" business model, and offers some insight and advice for players interested in trying out this MMO variation on a classic table-top game.  If you're a player of old-school D&D or an MMORPG fan, you'll be interested in what he has to say.

Six years ago, our editor (Fox) somehow got into the closed alpha testing for DDO, and the closed beta, and of course the open beta. He was even nice enough to let me go over to his house and hijack his computer to play them for hours at a time (yes, I know it's technically against the NDA, but so is watching someone over their shoulder). As a long-time pencil and paper D&D player, I was excited (even if it did force me to learn more about 3rd edition).

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