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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) 10 Rods: Peasant, Farmer or Serf; a worker of the land, but importantly a person enslaved to the land. By law, common people were not allowed to travel without permission from their lord. Patron will seek the players' help, but he can not pay them (skip Finances) and further, he violates his lord's laws because he traveled (to the players) without proper permission ("at least the lord can't remember granting such"). Yet the down-trodden, they make such fine underdogs. How could the players refuse an interesting Mission? Inverted, Runaway Slave; a fugitive who escaped bondage. Slaves are pieces of property, and most lands recognize this important institution. By helping the Patron, the players will violate the law, but perhaps further the cause of justice. As with serf, slaves have no Finances (skip that card selection), unless they are also a thief (but that's a different card all together).
Mission:
- 8 Swords: Asked to perform a Mission in which at least one player is already involved; select a second card to detail this Mission (i.e. locate a thief; one that happen to have taken something earlier from the player). Inverted, perform a Mission in which one player is already involved, but he will not yet know the full impact. Player may personally benefit or lose from the Mission success (i.e. hide an item, that unknowingly was sought by a player's more knightly brother).
Obstacle:
- (Inverted) 3 Swords: Foreign emissary, spy or assassin is somehow involved and will try to thwart the mission. Inverted, a Friend of one of the players has had his mind and allegiance swayed to the Rival through the use of magical forces.
Motivation:
- Knight Coins: Detained by duties; player acts on his behalf. Inverted, Patron has other business and wishes players to act on his behalf, yet they will be observed by third party spy or enforcer.
Finances:
- (Inverted) 10 Swords: Double wages to all men, but no other items. Inverted, Patron says he'll pay double the standard wage and becomes irate if any other request is made.
- (Inverted) Tower of Destruction: Early in the scenario, the Patron's finances, not taken on the mission, will be consumed by an unrelated event. Inverted, at scenario's end, all the finances taken on the mission will be consumed (possible confiscated by a more powerful opponent or authority).
Rival:
- (Inverted) 2 Rods: Whore or Harlot. Inverted, Adulteress or Noble's Mistress.
- (Inverted) Empress: Person is relative of another pick ("WHO??"). Inverted, illegitimate, but none the less blood relative.
- (Inverted) Justice: Person has numerous allies in the barons. Inverted, a foreign ruler or emperor.
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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