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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:
- Queen Swords: Widow; person whose husband or wife has died; often Mission relates to revenge or unfinished deed. If needed, pick a card "WHO??" to detail the Patron's dead spouse. Inverted, Someone who lost close friend; another uncompleted deed, but this time the person who died was a friend of the Patron.
Mission:
- (Inverted) Knight Rods: Join a unit of soldiers and cause their moral to decline, eventually disorder and finally rebel. Inverted, go to sea and organize a mutiny of a ship's crew.
- (Inverted) Tower of Destruction: Almost all non-personal resources the players utilize on the Mission will be destroyed (or consumed) -- ships will scuttle, companies of soldiers rout or disband, wealth spent and gone. Referee should take them as subtly as possible, but at scenario's end, flukes will take the rest. Inverted, all major resources owned by the players will be destroyed or stolen (Referee decides what is lost, but even horded wealth may be taken, perhaps confiscated by a powerful ruler or even deity), but only if the Mission fails. By refusing the Mission, Referee can assume it fails.
Obstacle:
- (Inverted) 4 Cups: Throughout mission, one player will be mistaken for someone else, a person the players don't know. Inverted, at least one player will be recognized and arrested for a previous crime.
Motivation:
- (Inverted) 3 Rods: Raw power and advancement in social position. Inverted, usurp rule of the land for himself or aid another pretender.
Finances:
- 9 Cups: Fortune in art and jewelry, but limited hard coin. Inverted, though Patron has a fortune in jewelry, he will not sell any of his pieces. His finances are thus limited.
- (Inverted) Emperor: During the scenario, one player will attract and command a loyal force of soldiers. Inverted, during the scenario, one player will attract and command a loyal force of soldiers, but these will be slaughtered before his eyes (Referee integrate as tactfully as possible).
Rival:
- (Inverted) Knave Cups: Crusader for the One True God. Inverted, Priest or Inquisitor of One True God.
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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