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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) 5 Coins: Invalid; person injured or magically cursed so that he is physically handicapped -- no longer can walk, hands feeble, disfigured. Mission will almost always have a Motive of revenge, so do not pick a card for Motive (or ignore picked card). Inverted, Blind Man; a person who has lost his sight. He may have overcome this weakness by ability or magic.
Mission:
- (Inverted) King Cups: Organize a riot, strike or distraction at a planned time. Inverted, uncover the head of a planned civil uprising.
Obstacle:
- Knave Coins: Mission succeeds only if a player performs a ruthless deed or action out of character. Inverted, for the mission to succeed at least one player must perform a ruthless deed against another player.
- Judgement: Patron's motive or the result of a successful mission, if truly known, will anger or sadden the players (if discovered, perhaps players must join the opposition). Inverted, during the scenario, players will be unable to control their greed ("as if most could anyway"); this greed should fall short of player killing player, but NPCs deserve no such bonds of loyalty.
Motivation:
- Knight Rods: Desperate and needs aid. Inverted, appears to be desperate, but possibly not.
- Devil: Patron will require the players to eliminate all witnesses along the journey that discover his mission and motive. Inverted, by accepting the mission, the players themselves face death by the hand of their Patron at the end of the scenario -- Patron will attempt to silence the players as the last witnesses.
Finances:
- 2 Cups: Planning to marry and use dowry to fund mission. Inverted, Patron plans to marry after the mission and use his dowry as a reward, but he loathes impending marriage; failure of the mission may also annul the event (i.e. players must succeed or their failure means no chance of payment).
Rival:
- (Inverted) Ace Cups: High Priest of Temple. Inverted, Apprentice of Temple.
- Moon: Person is really not Rival, but Patron thinks he is (pick an extra card to discover real Rival. Real rival is "WHO??"). Sometime in the scenario, the players will learn the truth. Inverted, sometime in the scenario, the players will think they face the wrong Rival or search for the wrong person; this of course is incorrect.
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!!!
Come on Back and maybe we'll have a generator in for you. Otherwise, use the Temple and Castles from our Legacy tools. (Hey, or buy the books!!!!!)
Epilogue:
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