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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) 3 Coins: Heir to Fortune; a person who one day will inherit great riches or lands, but for the moment is without money. Do not pick a Finance card (or ignore pick), unless players speed along the process of inheritance. Often these Patrons are noble dilettantes who have never known true hardship or terror ("let me introduce you to the players"). Inverted, Person in Line to Throne or Command of Land, person whose future inheritance will be a formidable kingdom. Pick a card for Finances, but such is only the tip of the iceberg that will follow one day. His father the king or Queen Regent often does not approve of the reckless adventure ("recruiting of players"). Other times a warlord king has cast his son out to learn some discipline ("experience life and battle"); the players are the Patron's first acquaintances.
- (Inverted) High Priestess: Patron has a reputation for using sorcery. Patron is a controller of the forces of science and nature or the principles of magic; he could aid the players with protective incantations or devices of magical power. Inverted, secretly Patron has sorcerer powers; his magical offerings and protection will be limited, since he does not desire his ability to be discovered. Since the card is inverted, these powers may also tend toward the dark, demonic, necromantic or perverse.
Mission:
- (Inverted) Ace Rods: Prove or disprove a legend, mystery or magical event. Inverted, start rumor or gossip of a legend or magical event. Note, this may not be a total lie; players may be asked to spread fame of another's unproven discovery.
Obstacle:
- Knight Swords: Scenario will be physically exhausting; all non-warriors must rest and recover after end. Inverted, former character of one player in the group becomes involved opposed to mission -- "perhaps a person left for dead, but can anyone truly die in a fantasy story?"
Motivation:
- Knight Rods: Desperate and needs aid. Inverted, appears to be desperate, but possibly not.
- Empress: Patron's motives are so irresistible, that all the players will eventually adopt the same. Inverted, motive is so distasteful, that players will feel drawn to support opposition by scenario's end.
- Fool: Patron pretends he is motivated by his reason, but in truth doesn't truly have a reason for the mission. Inverted, by scenario's end, he will have forgotten he has sent the players on the mission.
- Wheel of Fortune: Reshuffle the deck and continue.
Finances:
- 2 Rods: Limited wealth, but provides slaves as bearers or companions. Inverted, Patron has no wealth except an NPC slave, a master of all skills who will prove invaluable.
Rival:
- Queen Coins: Female Warrior. Inverted, Foppish Dandy.
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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