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]

I don't see it among the listed shows

There's a block of the cartoon starting at 2 pm Pacific Time on Freevee today

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I won't argue that it's obscure -- but they're pushing it really hard for something obscure.

And obviously there was money enough in it for statues and action figures.

Hasbro isn't producing any of that. They're collecting licensing fees on them.

 

[Parmandur]

I don't see it among the listed shows

It was last year, at any rate.

 

[Parmandur]

I won't argue that it's obscure -- but they're pushing it really hard for something obscure.

And obviously there was money enough in it for statues and action figures.

I do suspect they have plans to do something new with the characters, or at least a desire to set the groundwork to convince Hasbro to do so in the future.

 

[Yaarel]

@Yaarel those moons look more like Krynn’s moons (white, red, and black).

I am less familiar with the Dragonlance setting, but the similarity of moons might be a reason for the decision to allow the DM to decide which world setting to place the Cartoon Realm in.

My impression is, in the Realm, the moons seem more like two moons orbiting a twin planet. I am still happy with the concept that the main moon is the Material one. Then the black moon is a glimpse of the Shadowfell echo, thus the red moon is of the Feywild echo.

Here red is blood, in the sense of life and energy. A red moon is also a lunar eclipse, thus might relate to the obscuration of Fey twilight regions. I associate the Spring Court with the color green, and the Summer Court with bright daylight. Perhaps the red moon relates to the Autumn Court and its romance and harvests?

 

[Yaarel]

I'd say the comic is more cannon than a 1 off 5 page adventure though. Not to mention that adventure is just a rehash of an episode but with adult characters for some reason.

That is the way to think of it. The comic is the canon the for the comic setting. The movie is the setting for the movie setting.

Each storytelling is like its own DM deciding the world setting for ones own table. So different DMs have different versions of the Realm and of the Forgotten Realms.