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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) Knave Coins: Journeyman, Tinker, Vendor or Monger; simple folks who make a living by trading in common wares. Do not pick a Finance card (or ignore picked card). This selection is similar to the peasant, another underdog. Inverted, Miner, Tradesman or Unskilled Laborer; an even more impoverished fellow who earns barely a living from working with his hands. Do not pick a Finance card (or ignore picked card), but also do not pick Other Opposition (or ignore pick). Missions from these folks tend to be direct, without many if any Encounters from travel.
Mission:
- Knave Cups: Organize a group of vigilantes (villagers or common townsmen) in a search for a notorious criminal or creature. Inverted, assist the constables in a legal search for a notorious criminal or creature.
Obstacle:
- (Inverted) 8 Cups: Climax automatically fails on first attempt. Inverted, both first and second attempts at Climax will fail; mission may well be impossible.
Motivation:
- (Inverted) Ace Cups: Rebellion and high treason -- hates the government. Inverted, rebellion and high treason, but downplays his true motive to dupe player's aid.
Finances:
- 8 Coins: Controls city and trade like a merchant-prince, but most cargoes and ships are already committed. Inverted, though Patron is a master of a guild that once controlled trade in an area, he is now penniless; this fact may remain unknown to the players, who might agree to the task on the reputation of the guild's name alone.
- Judgement: Patron's clout depends on his finances; by using his wealth, he reduces his social status and ability to politically aid the players. Inverted, Patron relies on his social position, instead of his wealth, to waive debts or provide servants to the players.
Rival:
- 4 Coins: Smuggling Merchant Captain. Inverted, Captain Monarch's Warship.
- (Inverted) Tower of Destruction: Person was a victim of untrained torture or vigilante torment (split lip, slit tongue, blinded, maimed, etc.). Inverted, player's Patron was the persecutor -- revenge is always on this person's mind.
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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