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Sunday, September 26, 2010

Dungeons & Dragons


During the 1980's the world of Dungeons and Dragons became an animated series. In a demi-plane known as the Realm, some 2,000 years ago a Wizard son was corrupted by a force of evil and became an infernal wizard known as Venger. The wizard who would come to be known as "The Dungeon Master", locked his son on a demi-plane until a cure could be found. However, Venger began open portals to other worlds in hope to gain power and forces to break free of his prison. Over the course of centuries, he managed to fashion a world within the demi-plane that would come to be known as "The Realm". With hope, the Dungeon Master drew in heroes as well hoping they would defeat the evil within his son. Yet many of these heroes fell to Venger or the dangerous creatures within this world.

It is unknown whether Venger or the Dungeon Master drew in a group of children at an amusement park, but they would some come to be one of the most successful group of heroes that thwarted Venger's plan. The group consisted of .Hank who wielded a Magical Bow, Eric who was given a magical shield,  Albert who was given a magical hat, Dianna and magical staff, Shelia a magical cloak, and her younger brother bobby a magical club. They soon discovered that like themselves there were many other people who were trapped from many worlds, some of them fellow earthlings. Although the Dungeon Master was their mentor and guide, they had their doubts about him since it seemed he always toyed with them in baiting them with a way home.

Eventually some iconic characters also appear in the realms, such as an aspect of Lolth and an avatar of Tiamat (who is Venger's Nemesis). This also encounter Warduke, a villian from the world of Oerth. Eventually the group of children manage to turn Venger and defeat the evil within him. This causes the entire "Realm" to destabilize, and begin open portals to various home worlds of the beings that were drawn in. The group of adventures chooses a portal which ends up taking them somewhere to the lands of Kara-Tur on the world of Abeir-Toril. In a later comic, it is confirmed that the group ended up there and has been there for quite some time.

Within the Complete animated series DVD collection shown above, a D20 sourcebook was made detailing some of the main characters and an adventure.  

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