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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").
- Judgement: Patron is shrewd judge of character, often superior in skill and level. Inverted, Patron is a drunkard or addicted to elixirs that impair most of his decisions.
Mission:
- (Inverted) Queen Cups: Deliver legal writs or important documents for the government. Inverted, deliver legal writs or important documents for the government that involve the players' lands, ships, castles, soldiers or wealth; documents do not necessarily hurt the players, unless their delivery is stopped.
Obstacle:
- 10 Swords: Bad fortune will befall players; Referee decides result, but penalties to game's dice rolls seem to be a standard way of applying bad luck. Inverted, good fortune will follow; Referee decides result, but perhaps lower the number required for most of game's dice rolls.
- (Inverted) Hermit: Some other important task distracts the Rival; ignore all agents sent by Rival to hinder the players during travel (Knave encounters, per Encounters pamphlet). Inverted, opposition has spies and agents everywhere setting ambush; ignore all agents from their Patron (Queen encounters, per Encounters pamphlet), since these never arrive.
Motivation:
- (Inverted) Ace Coins: Better oneself for past deeds or clear up loose end. Inverted, calm his conscious not add to the deceit.
Finances:
- 2 Swords: Patron knows a secret on one of the players and will extort him (and the others) to do the job. Inverted, although Patron knows a secret on one of the players and could extort him into doing the job, he provides some finances; if the players refuse (or return to ask for more), he might then use blackmail.
Rival:
- (Inverted) 5 Rods: Respected Lord of Estate. Inverted, Regent of Noble (not yet of age).
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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