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

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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:

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Christian Hoffer

Christian Hoffer

The variants are oficially canon in D&D.

Some time I imagined a reboot of the 80's cartoon, and in the end of the first season they return to home, and in the second season the main character would be a different group, even no-humans natives from the Realm, but the first ones could appear in some episode style "reverse isekai invasion".
 

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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 mean, doesn't the adventure have rules for adapting it to the Forgotten Realms or Greyhawk? For the comic, they chose the FR option, but in your home campaign it can be it's own world or the FR or your own homebrew campaign world...
 

About the only genre franchise I know that have not rebooted/retconned in some fashion after 30 years is Doctor Who and Battletech.

Doctor Who as it seems continuity has been a low priority for the BBC overall.
um Doctor Who has had some huge retcons, the whole Timeless Child extra regens, the Time War and destruction of Galifrey etc. Entire seasons have been nothing but retcons-turned-plot.
 


Its size is Tiny - does that improve AC? I don’t have my new PHB with me.
Nope. Don't think it's natural armor either. I think the missing +1 to AC on the Sprite may be from a Dueling fighting style.

Couple of interesting things I noticed:

Shiela's cloak grants Improved Invisibility - no mention the invisibility is broken by attacking or casting a spell or such. Coupled with her Sniper ability (from Skulker), she's a very dangerous scout.

Presto's Hat still requires him to expend a spell slot of level 1+, so he can't use it for spells of a certain level if he's used all the spell slots of that level already.

Bobby's Club special attacks don't deal any damage to foes - only objects, unless someone falls in the Earthquake rift.

Twirling Diana's staff gives her +5 AC (1/day), but she has the Deflect Attack ability as a monk that reduces damage on attacks.
 



um Doctor Who has had some huge retcons, the whole Timeless Child extra regens, the Time War and destruction of Galifrey etc. Entire seasons have been nothing but retcons-turned-plot.
This goes back to the argument about the difference between new information versus rewriting previous continuity when we're talking about retcons ("retroactive continuity").

The Timeless Child -- a storyline I will not otherwise defend -- was new information to the Doctor and the audience, although it colors our understanding of previous events. (That is, for those who don't try to block it out of their memories entirely.) Any long running story is almost always going to start presenting new information about the universe and back story of its characters, just by virtue of how many stories get told about them.

Compare to comics, where DC Comics rewrite the history of their universe any time they get bored, so that Wonder Woman was a founding member of the Justice Society, whoops, make that the Justice League, whoops, no, that was Black Canary, no wait, that was actually Wonder Woman, well, it was Wonder Woman's mom, no, it was Wonder Woman again, no, maybe it was actually Black Canary. That's not the characters being presented with new information, that's reality being rewritten. (In fact, in many cases, the characters of the DC Universe are not always aware of these changes and are, instead, victims of a rewritten reality that has "always" been that way, as far as they know.)

Which of these applies to the cartoon characters, who knows. It's probably just retcons but I guess there could be a more complicated story where they visited the Realm and it got merged into the Forgotten Realms (where were these characters during the Spellplague, hmm?) and then the world got separated back out again. But I doubt there's any such complex storyline sitting on a shelf somewhere at WotC.
 


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