A World of Warcraft Collectible Miniatures Game is coming. Details are still vague on the website, but there’ll be starter packs and booster packs as you’ve come to expect from this sort of thing by now (and to go head to head for your random prepainted minis dollars with D&D Minis 2.0). Some examples of the figs are on the website. As with their CCG, it looks like they’ll mostly be characters they made up (and of course, LEEROY JENKINS) instead of, I dunno, drawing on characters that people have made themselves. Come on, who wouldn’t want to play a ROFLCOPTER the gnome?

Anyway, even as non-WoW fan, and someone who really disliked the WoW CCG, I see a lot of potential because of two tidbits (emphasis mine):

You can build parties from the Alliance, Horde, and Monster factions

and

the Miniatures Game will feature standalone raid and dungeon scenarios, letting players play cooperatively against other players or fully automated dungeons.

D&D Minis tried hard to come up with a random dungeon system in their Handbook, but it still required DM intervention and all this other stuff. If they can succeed in making a satisfying random multiplayer minis-driven dungeon crawl that doesn’t need a DM, then sign me up. Bonus points for making them the same scale as D&D so I can use them in my RPG sessions.

(ninja’d from OgreCave)