D&D Beyond Releases New Free D&D Adventure Featuring 1980s Cartoon Characters

D&D Beyond has a new adventure featuring the cast of the Dungeons & Dragons cartoon as playable characters. Today, D&D Beyond released Uni and the Hunt for the Lost Horn as a free adventure for all D&D Beyond subscribers. The adventure, which was originally released at PAX West as a part of D&D's 50th anniversary celebration, is a Level 4 adventure. As part of the adventure, players can use pre-made character sheets for the 1980s Dungeons & Dragons cartoon characters, now grown up. A seventh character, Niko, is also in the adventure as a new character who came from a different set of real-world adventurers stuck in the world of Dungeons & Dragons. Uni and the Hunt for the Lost Horn also features a grown-up Uni and Kelek of League of Malevolence and D&D toy fame.

You can take a look at the grown up cast of the D&D cartoon (plus Niko) below:

 

[bedir than]

Autograpple in bugbears is going to be so much fun for me (I DM)

 

[FitzTheRuke]

Another comment: No one who showed up to the game day had ever heard of or seen the cartoon (too young, even the 40-year-old) so I just presented the characters as straightforward adventurers and villains, without the nudging and winking.

 

[Zaukrie]

Another comment: No one who showed up to the game day had ever heard of or seen the cartoon (too young, even the 40-year-old) so I just presented the characters as straightforward adventurers and villains, without the nudging and winking.

Ya, I can 100% believe that!

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

It's easy for them to say "We don't care about lore" as a patch for inconsistencies. Just comes off as lazy.

It is lazy and they also don't care about the cartoon as much as a segment of the fandom does.

The good news is that they are pushing these characters hard, which seems to almost certainly point to them trying to get something new going with them.

I suspect that won't be without its own drama -- it's entirely likely that this would be a new series replacing the original stories, rather than a continuation of them -- but it will be a definitive new continuity.

 

[Sacrosanct]

I played Diana during t he playtest several months ago, and was quite pleased with how the adventure was. Much better than the playtest of the final chapter of Vecna. She felt bad***, which I didn't always feel when playing a 2014 monk.

 

[pukunui]

Just seems weird that they can't get one simple thing straight in 2 instances. Did they start out in The Realm or Faerun.

It's easy for them to say "We don't care about lore" as a patch for inconsistencies. Just comes off as lazy.

They can spend pages explaining how their cosmology is different from earlier editions but can't decide if The Realm is the same as The Forgotten Realms. Just chose one and stick to it.

I'll agree it's a bit weird. But it's not the most weird thing they've ever done. As someone who has zero nostalgia for the D&D cartoon, I can forgive WotC for the inconsistency.

 

[DarkCrisis]

It is lazy and they also don't care about the cartoon as much as a segment of the fandom does.

The good news is that they are pushing these characters hard, which seems to almost certainly point to them trying to get something new going with them.

I suspect that won't be without its own drama -- it's entirely likely that this would be a new series replacing the original stories, rather than a continuation of them -- but it will be a definitive new continuity.

Speaking of a new cartoon, whatever happens with that Drizzt's Daughter cartoon?

 

[FitzTheRuke]

I played Diana during t he playtest several months ago, and was quite pleased with how the adventure was. Much better than the playtest of the final chapter of Vecna. She felt badass, which I didn't always feel when playing a 2014 monk.

My wife played Diana, and loved it too!

In spite of being married to her for 20+ years and me living and breathing D&D, I've only just been able to get her to give the game a reasonable try!

 

[Morrus]

Hey hey. My computer has decided to forget my DDB password (I swear 90% of every day is spent recovering or reseting passwords because the one my Mac/iPhone says it is is wrong) and I just can't reset another password today. It's exhausting. I've decided to limit things to 1,300,424 password resets per day.

Could anybody share some stats of the cartoon characters? Not the whole stat block but at least class, level, subclass, background, ability scores (I guess species is all human)?

Thanks!

 

[JEB]

According to the adventure hook, it looks like the cartoon characters did make it back home, but have been called back as adults to the Realm for reasons unknown.

Sounds like the premise of the comic book DIE.