I'm honestly trying to skirt the religious stuff as much as I can. Frollo is the biggest roadblock to that, but I'm maintaining a "an it harm none, do as you will" for religion for everywhere else.
I'm honestly trying to skirt the religious stuff as much as I can. Frollo is the biggest roadblock to that, but I'm maintaining a "an it harm none, do as you will" for religion for everywhere else.
Assuming vanilla, Tangled is briefly mentioned as being currently under the domain of the Evil Queen from Snow White, who controls human civilization in central Europe, in constant conflict with Maleficent, who controls the magical and uncivilized parts of that area.
Last I checked, Tangled: The Series wasn't part of the setting, but it may have been brought in during one of the revisions. If nothing else, Zhan Tiri means that there is finally a viable "big bad" for Tangled.
Well this should be interesting. Too bad I missed the vote.
-Rare Woods, Herbs, Spices and Pelts
-College of Medicine
-Light Cavalry and Horse Archers
-A Stable For War
The exotic animals+medicine college+special forest have another synergy. While magical artifacts are present in the Aladdin setting, there are also potions, concoctions and sundry creations made from the many exotic/magical plants and animals. So while we won't have out-and-out spell flingers, we will have options.
-1 Stewardship? Appropriate, but also oof. Finding a good Stewardship advisor and bringing that stat out of the negatives should be our first priority for Aladdin.
First we have to survive (and somehow defeat) Jafar. Sure this is a 'Villains *Almost* Victorious' so presumably the story of Agrabah won't end with Jafar on the throne as an all-powerful sorcerer.* Because if he does, the only for us to win/survive is to find a genie in order to wish away his abilities.
*Doubt the rest of the world is going to be as lucky.
First we have to survive (and somehow defeat) Jafar. Sure this is a 'Villains *Almost* Victorious' so presumably the story of Agrabah won't end with Jafar on the throne as an all-powerful sorcerer.* Because if he does, the only for us to win/survive is to find a genie in order to wish away his abilities.
Well, there is always mugging Mozenrath for his glove (unhealthy as that would be) or, I guess, any of the two and a half million magical artifacts from the Aladdin series.
Well, there is always mugging Mozenrath for his glove (unhealthy as that would be) or, I guess, any of the two and a half million magical artifacts from the Aladdin series.
I doubt the glove would be enough. Or if it was, I doubt we'd have enough time to get good enough with it before Jafar came knocking. As for artifacts, only (potentially) viable one would be that time-traveling hourglass.
I doubt the glove would be enough. Or if it was, I doubt we'd have enough time to get good enough with it before Jafar came knocking. As for artifacts, only (potentially) viable one would be that time-traveling hourglass.
Problem is that as far I know, nobody knows about the Sand Witches (much less where their grimoires etc are).
Heck out of the collective characters, Jafar is probably the one most likely to know about them considering he apparently had been constantly looking for magical power etc.
Well, if we are including the stuff from the Aladdin series, then our GM has some special one be the reason for the rolls.
A being with more power than a thousand genies, and can grant his own wishes. So, TempestK, what its like having Chaos watching the rolls?
Chaos: "Oh it's wonderful. For once Fate isn't the one deciding the course of the world and all the times he's cheated at cards is finally coming back to bite him. But most of all; no Happily Ever After in this world. That ending is oh so boring and typical but here? Even when Aladdin wins it simply sets the stage for even more unpredictability and Chaos!"
"Say hello to your precious. Prince. Ali!" Jafar's smirk was a loathsome thing to behold even as Aladdin quickly shook off the lightheadedness. He felt like something was missing, beyond his princely raiment. But what stopped him in his tracks was Jasmine's expression. Shock, recognition, hurt...
"Or should we say, Aladdin?!" Jafar's minion screeched.
Jasmine moved to Aladdin, reaching out. "Ali?"
But before Aladdin could respond, or Jafar could do anything more to torment them; something shifted. Every living person and animal there flinched as a gut-wrenching sensation of foulness and wrongness permeated the very air. Genie, even at his giant size, looked terrified rather than merely sorrowfully resigned as he had been. And behind Jafar; reality tore.
A hole opened in the air, rimmed in black flames, and for one horrific moment a baleful yellow eye peered out... before black lightning began to strike out. The eye was replaced by a kaleidoscope of colors as glimpses of other places began to flash through, too fast to discern more than some general colors. A heavy wind picked up; an insistent, insatiable vortex, clawing back into that wound in the air.
Jafar turned in surprise and shock; his magical grip upon Aladdin, Jasmine and the Sultan fading. "Rajah!" Jasmine screamed as the kitten-ized tiger desperately tried to keep from being sucked into the portal. A trumpeting bellow heralded the arrival of Abu as the monkey-turned-elephant charged in, scooping up Rajah and thundering towards Aladdin and Jasmine... before he was caught by a wayward bolt of the black lightning. Abu screamed as the magic seemed to be forcibly ripped from him, spasming as the transformation was undone.
Jafar let out a howl of outrage as the flailing trunk managed to smack into him as Abu staggered towards Aladdin and Jasmine, causing the gaunt man to stumble... and then scream in denial. Aladdin managed to tear his eyes off Abu just long enough to see the golden glimmer of the lamp be pulled through the vortex... before choking clouds of smoke followed as Genie was forced to follow his prison.
Aladdin felt hands on him then as his vision was obscured, rough calloused hands of swordsmen. But the voice that shouted in his ear over the cacophony wasn't one of the Royal Guards he'd grown up dodging..
"Come, we must go, now your highness!" Aladdin felt a welter of confusion, before he struggled against the grip.
"I can't; Abu!" the voice responded insistently, bodily lifting him off his feet as other hands joined in.
"Kamir has him and the tiger! We get away from here, now!" With no way to see who it was, and no way to see Abu, Aladdin was forced to comply. Whoever they were, they were wearing cloaks and dark clothing as they hurriedly rushed Aladdin, the Sultan and Jasmine through halls of the palace. Jasmine and the Sultan hadn't fought back, seeing that whoever these men were; they were getting them away from Jafar. Aladdin was gratified though as one of the cloaked figures caught up, passing Abu to him as the monkey weakly stirred, before handing off a very unhappy Rajah to Jasmine.
Behind them, they could hear Jafar cursing even this deep in the palace, flashes of black lightning clashing against red waves of sparks through the windows as the newly minted Sorceror fought to control the rift and close it. The group arrived in a windowless room deep within the Palace to find Razoul; the captain of the guard there with a woman that Aladdin recognized from as one of Jasmine's ladies in waiting; an older woman that reminded him of the matron from the marketplace that had teased him about getting into trouble.
The Sultan, draped in a borrowed cape, approached the captain. "Razoul, what is going on here?" The captain immediately dropped to one knee, as did his men.
"Your majesty, I gave my oaths to you, not that usurper." He gestured at the men in cloaks. "These men got me and my wife," Aladdin felt a shock run through him at that. Razoul was married?! "Out of immediate danger. They say that Ababwa is here to help; and I've been rallying the guard that is still in the palace and wasn't left outside." Now Aladdin felt numb. Ababwa... but Ababwa only existed because of his wish, and after what Jafar had done... The ringing in his head came back again, louder and more insistent.
"My prince, are you alright?" The man that had initially grabbed him stepped closer, lowering the cowl of his hood to show his face. "Prince Ali?"
Aladdin's head thundered, but he forced back the grey creeping at the edges of his vision through force of will. "Later. We need to figure out how to deal with Jafar now. He's occupied with that... that rift, but once he deals with it he'll be able to get himself dug in like the parasite he is."
Razoul looked like he'd bitten into a wormy fig as he nodded, taking in Aladdin's change in wardrobe and immediately recognizing him. "As much as it pains me to admit, the street rat has the right of it." The men in cloaks and cowls placed their hands on the hilts of their swords, and the Agrabah guards tensed.
The leader of the Ababwan's spoke up in an icy tone. "You will not speak of my Prince in such a manner again. It is courtesy to your lord and the crises at hand that keeps me from drawing my blade. Do you understand me?" Razoul bristled, but a cough and a glare from the Sultan had the burly man backing down... before his wife gave him a none-too gentle nudge in the ribs with her elbow, and a muttered "behave husband."
"But how to attack him?" The Sultan sounded less unsure and more contemplative. A good sign. Aladdin felt his balance coming back he focused on the problem at hand, rather than on the impossibility of the men that had come to aid them.
[] Snipe him from a distance with bows: It has the advantage of giving them a surprise strike, but carries the risk of the arrows being sent off course by the wind of the vortex, or blown out of the air by the lightning.
Chance of success: 50%
Uses Intrigue, Abu bonus at +5 due to injuries
[] A Frontal Assault: You have the advantage of numbers, and a coordinated attack means that Jafar can only blast so many of you before someone slips a blade into him. Hopefully between his ribs or some other vital area.
Chance of success: 50%
Uses Martial. +5 bonus from Sultan
[] Divide and Conquer: Have two forces strike at him, a frontal assault and then a pincer attack while he's distracted. With his focus split three ways you may manage to take him out.
Change of success: 40%
Uses Intrigue, Abu bonus at +5 due to injuries. +5 bonus from Sultan.
[X] Divide and Conquer: Have two forces strike at him, a frontal assault and then a pincer attack while he's distracted. With his focus split three ways you may manage to take him out.
Change of success: 40%
Uses Intrigue, Abu bonus at +5 due to injuries. +5 bonus from Sultan.
Risk it for the biscuit, I say. 2 +5 bonuses you say?
Ok our forces are light Calvary and Horse archers right? So I don't think we should go with a frontal attack we don't(yet) have a unit of heavy cavalry or Heavy Infantry to do so and it be suicided to send our men in there. I think our best bet here is to snipe him from afar. That and I would rather not get near a sorcerer trying to control a out of control rift.
[X] Snipe him from a distance with bows: It has the advantage of giving them a surprise strike, but carries the risk of the arrows being sent off course by the wind of the vortex, or blown out of the air by the lightning.
[X] Snipe him from a distance with bows: It has the advantage of giving them a surprise strike, but carries the risk of the arrows being sent off course by the wind of the vortex, or blown out of the air by the lightning.
Full intrigue for assassin synergy and intrigue training, and having defeated Jafar 'on our own' (without Sultan helping) will have a positive long term impact diplomatically, prestige wise.
[X] Divide and Conquer: Have two forces strike at him, a frontal assault and then a pincer attack while he's distracted. With his focus split three ways you may manage to take him out.
Change of success: 40%
Uses Intrigue, Abu bonus at +5 due to injuries. +5 bonus from Sultan.
Ok our forces are light Calvary and Horse archers right? So I don't think we should go with a frontal attack we don't(yet) have a unit of heavy cavalry or Heavy Infantry to do so and it be suicided to send our men in there. I think our best bet here is to snipe him from afar. That and I would rather not get near a sorcerer trying to control a out of control rift.
Given that the palace is currently rather inaccesible to horses after Genie took the "Rule on High" part of Jafar's wish literally, all you've got are the Agrabah guards, Rahzoul's wife, the Ababwans, Aladdin, Jasmine and the Sultan.
Given that the palace is currently rather inaccesible to horses after Genie took the "Rule on High" part of Jafar's wish literally, all you've got are the Agrabah guards, Rahzoul's wife, the Ababwans, Aladdin, Jasmine and the Sultan.
Oh yeah I know that but from my understanding our people train as horse archers right, and part of being said horse archer is being able to adjust to wind and the movement of the horse to actually make a shot. And while we don't have any horses here in the palace that training should at least help make a shot on jafar in all the wind, so yeah I say taking the shot is our best chance.
Oh yeah I know that but from my understanding our people train as horse archers right, and part of being said horse archer is being able to adjust to wind and the movement of the horse to actually make a shot. And while we don't have any horses here in the palace that training should at least help make a shot on jafar in all the wind, so yeah I say taking the shot is our best chance.
[X] Snipe him from a distance with bows: It has the advantage of giving them a surprise strike, but carries the risk of the arrows being sent off course by the wind of the vortex, or blown out of the air by the lightning.
[X] Snipe him from a distance with bows: It has the advantage of giving them a surprise strike, but carries the risk of the arrows being sent off course by the wind of the vortex, or blown out of the air by the lightning.
[X] Snipe him from a distance with bows: It has the advantage of giving them a surprise strike, but carries the risk of the arrows being sent off course by the wind of the vortex, or blown out of the air by the lightning.
