Disney Alternate Realities

[Backseatgamer]

I have a Disney campaign going on with my wife and a couple friends from work. Everyone plays a Disney character and we go around fixing the stories that have been messed up somehow. Usually this means that the villain won before the hero even had a chance or the hero is somehow put in the place of the villain. I would like some ideas for specific changes to specific stories that would be interesting or fun to play.

Also I've decided that Chernabog will probably be the final boss but i want some help designing him. My first thought was to make him a pit fiend with some templates stacked on top. Thoughts?

[Swaoeaeieu]

messed up disney stories you say?

just some ideas in no particular order:
- rapunzel is still trapped inside the tower, a hundred or so years down the line, evil mom is now queen, still young off course.
- gaston chased the beast out of its castle, the adventurers are offered to come help the brave and mighty lord gaston to witness his final victory in his glorious hunt.
- a ruined savanna kingdom picked clean by gnolls (hyiena's) led by a mean old lion-man thing (rakshasha?), go find the lost prince who is somewhere else and escort him to pride rock.
- a crazy ice queen is holding the summer stone all for herself, plunging the kingdom into eternal winter. go find her in the mountains and convince her to let it go.
- The evil empire has made a giant floating fortress capable of destroying the planet! You need to get a small airship and fly it through one of the fortress' trenches, shooting through a hole no bigger then a giant rat. (hey thats disney now too right?)

[Dappershire]

Gaston, ranger. Got a good crit in the last battle. Beasts body was never found, but the castle got sacked. Belle was forced between defending the downed "villain", or being with her "rescuer" whom her village all love and worship as a hero.
Lion King could be the political maneuvers within a were-being community. Allied were-hyenas have a pretty decent advantage over a single wereboar and wererat (Possible thieving duo?)
Little Mermaid is pretty much a straight port over to d&d already, but if you want to alter it to fit more, maybe sea-elves. Both races xenophobic. Sea-witch offered a transmutation spell to appear human. But the hag married the prince in the end instead. (magic compulsion or charm even.)

[Inevitability]

You'll need to find some additional summoning potential. 40 dretches (at most) just don't cover the scores of minions visible in Fantasia.

[CartmanTuttle]

While there are several good ones to pick from based on what the culture as a whole knows about these tales (Snow White never woke up, Cinderella never got married to the prince), you also could throw things through a loop by making one of the classic stories the alternate (Gaston was supposed to win and rescue the girl with Stockholm Syndrome), or perhaps throw things in a direction people wouldn't expect (Peter Pan, the malevolent psychotic trickster stops Captain Hook and is now kidnapping children with no repercussions).

[Red Fel]

I seem to recall someone did a whole bunch of really neat "twisted princess" pictures on dA, some of which have stories, basically exploring what would happen if each Princess became the villain or monster in her own story. They are seriously dark, and worth a glance. I'm pretty sure you could use some of them as inspiration.

[Backseatgamer]

I've already covered Tangled and The Little Mermaid. One of the players is playing the Beast and they are currently using his castle as a base of operations.

[theasl]

Sorcerer's Apprentice from Fantasia would be pretty cool. Fight a self-replicating army of animated broomsticks that's pillaging the countryside, sweeping up all the dirt in its path. :smallbiggrin:

[Jay R]

Stop the woman in the fur coat who has a large number of spotted dogs held prisoner.

Susan's and Sharon's (or Hallie's and Annie's) mother and father never re-married.

The giant stepped on a brave little tailor and is terrorizing the countryside.

Children are being kidnapped for reasons unknown. Simultaneously, somebody is doing a brisk trade in selling donkeys as beasts of burden.

A city in the desert is being ruled by a sorcerer/vizier who got that power by hypnotizing the princess to marry him.

A small town in being terrorized by some sort of small golems made from the parts of various toys.

All the hippos have disappeared. One witness has told an impossible tale that they were kidnapped by romantic alligators.

[Telonius]

I'll put in a plug for Pete's Dragon. Doc Terminus is sporting a brand-new Dragonhide breastplate, Lampy has levels in Drunken Master, and Pete's gone feral.

[Vogie]

Snow White - A "protect the Prince" Arc, You have to defeat the Woodsmen, & win over Dwarves to let him get close to the princess, then defeat the queen to gain access to the Magic Mirror. This will be a Scrying-style Plot device to point the party in other directions

Sleeping Beauty - Fighting Evil Plants in an overgrown castle while trying not to fall under the sleeping death, then fight off Maleficent, who starts off as a Wizard, then transforms into a Dragon in the second wave

Pirates of the Caribbean - A prequel fight, helping Jack Sparrow be a Pirate on the Wicked Wench, doing various pirate-y things then help him free the slaves and try to escape the slavers, then getting him to Davy Jones to resurrect the Ship as the Black Pearl

Really long arc:
Emperor's New Groove - Find the Llama, battle through the wilds to get him back to the castle, and battle the evil Alchemist. During the Emperor's Alchemist fight, all the members of the party are turned into small animals, and their next arcs are based on The Great Mouse Detective, the Aristocats, and then scamper aboard a ship on the way to your version of America (American Tale, not a Disney film, but close enough), and are finally turned back after fighting Dr. Facilier in New Orleans

[ComaVision]

Were I you, I'd make a scenario where the villain never went evil and the whole dimension is in harmony. Give the group some moral dilemma by making them choose between correcting the story and doing the right thing. (You may need to add some consequence if they don't correct the story, like the collapse of the dimension or time or whatever.)

[DrMotives]

This topic always reminds me of
https://thedreaming.moteofdust.com/1999/10/10/snow-glass-apples/, a rather not-child appropriate version of Snow White where the protagonist is the kindly queen, who is usurped by an evil vampiric Snow White, her necrophilliac prince boyfriend, and 7 dwarves of dubious moral character.

[CharonsHelper]

Curious - have you played Kingdom Hearts?

[Backseatgamer]

Yes i have.

[SoraWolf7]

Reminds me of that obscure Disney computer game where Jiminy Cricket destroyed the stories of Peter Pan, Dumbo, Snow White, and Alice in Wonderland and you had to help fix them. Anyhoo...

You must stop the execution of an innocent girl trapped in a parallel world at the hands of a tyrannical, mentally-unstable queen and her card-themed army, and then escape back to the first world.

A Dullahan has began to terrorize a village, and at the behest of a superstitious teacher named Crayne, you must rid the village of the creature he thinks is targeting him after being summoned (and subsequently lost control over) by his rival for the village leader's daughter's hand in marriage.

[Afgncaap5]

I'll put in a plug for Pete's Dragon. Doc Terminus is sporting a brand-new Dragonhide breastplate, Lampy has levels in Drunken Master, and Pete's gone feral.

I'm gonna second this. Doc Terminus would make a great bombastic villain. Probably not a big bad, but definitely a dangerous person (and who knows what delightful snakeoil treasures the players might find in his coffers.)