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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").
- Emperor: Patron is skilled soldier, sapper, siege craftsmen or commander. He has led groups of men into battle. Inverted, Patron was once famous, but his fame faded or lost importance over time.
Mission:
- (Inverted) Knight Rods: Join a unit of soldiers and cause their moral to decline, eventually disorder and finally rebel. Inverted, go to sea and organize a mutiny of a ship's crew.
Obstacle:
- (Inverted) 4 Rods: Local government and constables will approach to try and stop mission right at start. Inverted, local group of thieves will approach to try and stop mission right at start.
- Temperance: Players' misunderstanding of the exact mission will cause it to fail on the first attempt; skip the Climax the first time the players would have been entered this stage of the scenario, and instead repeat the travel encounters. Players may otherwise quit and continue in epilogue. Inverted, during the mission a distracting element will continually make the players lose sight of their objective; double the number of encounters during travel (ignore the result of the first selected Tens in each Setting per Encounters pamphlet).
Motivation:
- (Inverted) 5 Coins: Take advantage of a recent situation or development. Inverted, Patron takes advantage of a recent situation created earlier by his illegal actions.
Finances:
- 6 Coins: Carries simplest of items, but knows contacts and Friends to acquire anything else. Inverted, though having many contacts and friends, Patron dislikes using favors; he can get anything, but players' need better be justified.
Rival:
- (Inverted) 3 Cups: Guildmaster. Inverted, Craftsman.
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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