Dungeons & Dragons: World of Warcraft is less than a month away, and it already looks like it's going to be a massive expansion to the tabletop game. But there are still a lot of questions about whether this new expansion is going to lean more towards the combat-oriented approach of the MMO or just be a traditional D&D game on Azeroth.

At New York Comic Con, I got a chance to sit down with Wizards of the Coast principal game designer James Wyatt to talk about the first Universes Beyond expansion for D&D. From how he was talking about the expansion, it really does sound more like a D&D game taking place on Azeroth than trying to shove WoW's complicated mechanics and combat focus on the TTRPG.

IGN: I know that there are a lot of people who play both WoW and D&D, and I've heard some WoW players say that this is going to get them into D&D. Does the Expansion have a good on-ramp for those players?

James Wyatt: That is not its purpose, but I think it is a fantastic on-ramp in terms of someone who's a WoW player. Sitting down to make a D&D character, you're like, "Okay, what's a Tiefling? What's a Dragonborn? " Whereas if you have that foundation of here's the WoW species, here's the WoW classes, you know the kind of character you want to make right away. This can help you steer and make those choices as a new player.

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