Dungeonosophy
Legend
The DMG is reportedly going to include references to several D&D worlds. Why not include some mention of The Realm of the D&D Cartoon Show in the DMG? Even moreso than the Forgotten Realms and Dragonlance (and the Mystara-based World of Izmir from the demented D&D film), this setting may be the D&D world more people have seen, if you count all the kids who watched the show.
During the 3e era, there was a small campaign guide with stats for the Kids, included in the DVD box.
So how about a 5e D&D Animated Series mini-game?
The unique twist of this setting is that the players play fictional versions of themselves.
The opening story is something like this: "After a session of gaming, the players go to a nearby fair or amusement park, where a new ride has appeared: the Dungeons & Dragons rollercoaster."
After being zapped into the Realm, they'd appear in some new outfit matching their chosen class and subclass. The DM would call the players by their class names.
Being fictional versions of themselves, the players would be free to assign the ability score array according to their whim. ("I didn't know my own strength!")
There'd be an Item of Power appropriate for each class (different from the Kid's items). There'd be a few options for Items for each class or subclass, in case more than one person picks the same class. (There might be "Thief" and "Other Thief".)
There'd be Venger and Tiamat.
The Dungeon Master plays himself/herself in-game, with the same red robes. The DM would be a different DM than the one who fathered Venger. Maybe we'd be Venger's uncle or aunt.
Some sort of annoyingly cute beast would attach itself to the party.
The game would include a map of the Realm. There'd also be a map showing the route of the Kids. Here's some amateur-made maps of the Realm:
http://www.oocities.org/tokyo/flats/1419/dmap.html
There'd be a description of all the places, with screenshots. Also a timeline of the Realm.
The setting would incorporate all the bits of lore from obscure sources such as the coloring books, the Fantasy Forest game (which featured the Kids as playing pieces), and the foreign editions.
After some introductory adventure, the party would (say, at 5th level) meet the Kids, and have the option of helping them escape from the Realm. It would be set soon after the last episode of the show, and would tie-in with the slated finale which was never produced. Here's a link to the final "Requiem" script. (That the Kids escaped is evident by their later appearance in the background of a Forgotten Realms comic book.)
There'd be a final adventure (say at 10th level) for the PCs escaping from the Realm themselves...with the option of moving on to adventures in other D&D Worlds.
All this would be in a single book or boxed set, as a one-off product.
It would round out that story from the 1980s, which so many kids witnessed, but which was left dangling.
Would any EnWorlders play this game?
During the 3e era, there was a small campaign guide with stats for the Kids, included in the DVD box.
So how about a 5e D&D Animated Series mini-game?
The unique twist of this setting is that the players play fictional versions of themselves.
The opening story is something like this: "After a session of gaming, the players go to a nearby fair or amusement park, where a new ride has appeared: the Dungeons & Dragons rollercoaster."
After being zapped into the Realm, they'd appear in some new outfit matching their chosen class and subclass. The DM would call the players by their class names.
Being fictional versions of themselves, the players would be free to assign the ability score array according to their whim. ("I didn't know my own strength!")
There'd be an Item of Power appropriate for each class (different from the Kid's items). There'd be a few options for Items for each class or subclass, in case more than one person picks the same class. (There might be "Thief" and "Other Thief".)
There'd be Venger and Tiamat.
The Dungeon Master plays himself/herself in-game, with the same red robes. The DM would be a different DM than the one who fathered Venger. Maybe we'd be Venger's uncle or aunt.
Some sort of annoyingly cute beast would attach itself to the party.
The game would include a map of the Realm. There'd also be a map showing the route of the Kids. Here's some amateur-made maps of the Realm:
http://www.oocities.org/tokyo/flats/1419/dmap.html
There'd be a description of all the places, with screenshots. Also a timeline of the Realm.
The setting would incorporate all the bits of lore from obscure sources such as the coloring books, the Fantasy Forest game (which featured the Kids as playing pieces), and the foreign editions.
After some introductory adventure, the party would (say, at 5th level) meet the Kids, and have the option of helping them escape from the Realm. It would be set soon after the last episode of the show, and would tie-in with the slated finale which was never produced. Here's a link to the final "Requiem" script. (That the Kids escaped is evident by their later appearance in the background of a Forgotten Realms comic book.)
There'd be a final adventure (say at 10th level) for the PCs escaping from the Realm themselves...with the option of moving on to adventures in other D&D Worlds.
All this would be in a single book or boxed set, as a one-off product.
It would round out that story from the 1980s, which so many kids witnessed, but which was left dangling.
Would any EnWorlders play this game?
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