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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:
- 4 Coins: Hero of Blade; a person with a great power or skill that only he has. Usually a person who is the ordained wielder of a magical blade that has a purpose that the hero has sworn to follow. Magic, strange and exotic, can poison and pervert the world (once again), should its dark forces not be checked. Patron is one of these safeguards ("I wield the sword that causes foul worms to rile and flee"). However, all these guys have personal problems as well; Mission may not relate to the hero's greater goals. At times, hero is himself a victim, trapped by fate into duties that have long been a burden. Some await the next chosen one to take their duties from them. Inverted, Society of Watchers; group that is waiting for an event to take place or a discovery to be made. These are specialized groups of scholars or prophets that await the fates (or alignment of stars). In the mean time, these groups have their own survival to consider ("we await the child with the mark described by the ancients; until then we run this city for him").
Mission:
- (Inverted) Knave Coins: Organize improvements to a household or hire a new staff. Inverted, screen and select the new leaders of an area; players are assumed impartial in this task, but their decision will have implications that will follow them. They may need to defend their choice from the others.
Obstacle:
- Knave Cups: Men and resources of an entire city stand in way. Inverted, Patron's immediate family (wife or son) is opposed.
Motivation:
- (Inverted) 9 Swords: Conflict of interest -- Patron must not be identified with job or the outcome. Inverted, conflict of interest, so all actions must remain secret; neither Patron nor players must be identified with the mission.
Finances:
- King Cups: Without wealth or friends; hopes players will extend credit or share in the profits at the end. Inverted, Patron hopes players will extend credit to fund the mission, but he is notorious for default on previous loans.
- Hermit: By accepting any of the Patron's finances, the opposition will know the players' plans -- spies exist. Inverted, by accepting any of the Patron's finances, the opposition will know the players' plans; however, Patron knows this and will warn the player. He'll promises to repay handsomely later any expense the players fronts.
Rival:
- (Inverted) 6 Coins: Highwayman. Inverted, Phantom Bandit or Disguised Rogue.
- (Inverted) Death: Person is currently wounded or ill. Inverted, will die from wound sometime during scenario.
- 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.
- (Inverted) Star: Person is someone that one of the players knows from past dealings (former employer, Friend, Enemy, distant relative, etc.). Inverted, at least he thinks so; person is in fact a stranger.
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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