I think seeing as it's called "Dragon Age", it's rather more likely to be one of your AD&D 3rd edition rulebook of doom geekfests to be honest
I LAN'd NWN for a while, and watched my flatmate sink temporarily into a phase of total KOTOR obsession, and don't think either kind of RPG is necessarily better.. I think I'd pretty happily wade through an NWN-like hardcore RPG if the story was as good as KOTOR...