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Spacegamer.com - Standard Barony Mission:
This uses the Tarot Card to Generate a "Standard" Mission on the Fly as described in Designing Fantasy Missions as part of the Barony Set. (Standard means it is not focused exclusively on an Underworld.) No attempt is made here to define each of the finer points.
To begin, determine who the mission is offered to and call them the Party Leader (to accept / reject Mission).
Note: This mission is temporary. Copy it out now if you want it. (It pastes nicely into Word.)
Mission Title:
Party Leader:
Patron:
- (Inverted) King Coins: Traveling Foreign Noble; landowner or baron, but one who is away from his jurisdiction. Mission often places the Patron in direct violation of the laws of the area. Inverted, Ambassador or Emissary; a person who represents the interests of a foreign monarch or powerful personage in another land. Mission may not relate to intrigue (though that's often the end result), and instead the Patron may be busy in counsel and needs players to handle personal matters.
Mission:
- Knave Cups: Organize a group of vigilantes (villagers or common townsmen) in a search for a notorious criminal or creature. Inverted, assist the constables in a legal search for a notorious criminal or creature.
- Fool: Mission is multi-parted with subMissions that must first be completed before the main Mission is resolved. Inverted, these subMissions are so involved, that the players will tend to stray from their primary goal and pursue other quests and adventures -- the main Mission is no real Mission at all, the Encounters will create the Mission.
- (Inverted) Force: Mission will take the players haplessly into a major battle, unrelated to the players' objective. Inverted, the battle will relate to the players' objective; the battle must be won to succeed.
- Hermit: Patron withholds or remains ignorant of one crucial aspect of the Mission. Inverted, players will find this out early in the Mission, usually by end of the first Setting of the scenario (see Encounter pamphlet for details on Settings).
Obstacle:
- (Inverted) 3 Cups: Ruling monarch or emperor is aware and concerned of mission. Inverted, foreign emperor or ruler will send special agents to stop players.
Motivation:
- (Inverted) 4 Coins: Change land boundaries or trade routes. Inverted, change land boundaries between countries at war.
Finances:
- 9 Swords: Provides a fully paid and supplied company of soldiers. Inverted, Patron controls a company of soldiers and provides a small force of these soldiers (amount below company size -- rest maintain image that garrison is still fully staffed).
Rival:
- 7 Swords: Hideously Disfigured Hero. Inverted, Insane or Cursed Hero.
Phases
On the way to the Mission Climax, the Party will travel through three game Phases which may be short or long (depending on the Tarot cards drawn). These represent the obstacles and challenges along the way to the Ultimate Climax of the Mission.
(A) Initial Successes:
(B) Challenges on the Journey:
(C) Final Travel to the Climax:
Climax Flow:
Referee creates the flow of the climax OR refer to Designing Fantasy Missions!!!
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Epilogue:
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