Volo's Students' Guide to
THE REALM
"The Realm" is one of the smallest material planes in history, probably because it's so damned human deficient. Really, most material planes are virtually flooded with humans. "The Realm" has, possibly, two dozen, and six of them aren't even from here. Sadly, the plane's greatest heroes are a group of kids from a way, far away material with no magic to speak of (but lots of digital media, which seem to be their equivalent). Otherwise, there's mostly bullywugs, lizard men, and single examples of other monsters. Like there's one beholder, and maybe a purple worm. It's entirely possible everything that's here was brought here from elsewhere, like the kids. The place is ruled by a riddle-talking little gnome named "Dungeon Master", and he seems to be sort of power-tripping.
Fortunately, for the kids, most of the forces of evil work for either the singular BBEG of the plane, Venger, or a poor Aspect of Tiamat who also seems to be trapped here, and has divine rank Squat.
The rules of adventuring are slightly different here. For some reason, each adventurer only gets one magic item. It's usually pretty cool though.
Division A Schools
Presto's School of Presto-Digitation
Colors: Green and Yellow
Athletic Nickname: the Unis
Popular Majors: Ranger, Barbarian, Magician,
Thief, Cavalier, and Acrobat
Alignment: Good
The newest Division A school, Presto's has not yet
developed any sort of athletic tradition. They're still on the schedule, though,
so everybody gets a win from forfeit when the game against Presto's comes up.
Faculty of Presto's School
Eric (Human Paladin-20): Head of Paladin studies at Presto's. Seemingly arrogant, he spends most of his time coming through at the end and redeeming his friendships.
Hank (Human Ranger-20): Head of Ranger studies and Presto's. He's the Dean of Schools, as well, and generally comes up with plans for the rest of the faculty, that invariably don't quite work out.
Notable Inhabitants of The Realms
Dungeon Master (gnome Wizard-30): The omnipresent arch-wizard of the Realm, who primarily kidnaps people from other planes, sends them on random missions with the promise of a way home, then yanks the rug out from under them when they come close. He seems pretty nice on the surface, but he's not much better than his enemy Vengeor.
Vengeor (tiefling Warlock-30): The arch-villain of the Realm, responsible for most of its woes. He likes to fly overhead on his nightmare at ominous moments.