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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:
- 9 Cups: Debt Collector or Enforcer; a person employed by a guildmaster as a strongarm or agent. Note, Mission need not relate to Patron's job (though it might). Often, this man (or creature) is so occupied with his own tasks, that he hires the players to accomplish personal business. Yet equally true, the Patron's "honest" profession will attract Enemies galore, who will now also oppose the players not because of direct involvement, but simply on principle and in hatred for Patron. Pick two cards for Rival (2nd rival is "WHO??"). Inverted, Tax or Tithe Collector; a person who is literally an enforcer or debt collector for the government, ruler, society or religion. Again, the Mission need not relate to the Patron's position; instead, these are legalized strongarms and agents who might have personal affairs that the players can set right. Such Patrons are perfect NPCs that the players should do their best to help (befriend); these are men in the service of rulers who can personally intervene on a later Mission to aid the players (not of too lofty a position to remain aloof of the normal problems the players get their characters into).
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:
- (Inverted) 7 Coins: One player will contract a disease that will leave him injured or in need of rest, at the scenario's end. Inverted, if wounded during mission, players will contract complications or diseases that will kill characters if not magically healed.
Motivation:
- (Inverted) 7 Cups: Formalize his position and status. Inverted, prove his capability under duress.
- (Inverted) Sun: Patron was recently promoted or recognized by the monarch; reason relates to this change of position. Inverted, Patron was recently discredited or refused promotion by his monarch; reason relates to this loss.
Finances:
- (Inverted) 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) 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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