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Spacegamer.com - Barony Underworld Mission:
This uses the Tarot Card to Generate a "Underworld" Mission on the Fly as described in Designing Fantasy Missions as part of the Barony Set. (Underworld means it is focused 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.
Mission Title:
Party Leader:
Patron:
- (Inverted) Knight Cups: Mounted Messenger; an agent from a Baron or King, less frequently from a general in the field, who seeks players for a task. Mounted Messengers can also recruit the players for Missions of their own, but less frequently. Often pick a card "WHO??" to find identity of Patron; other times, messenger will simply say he represents an important figure ("he wears the colors of the king"), but refuses to give additional details. Inverted, Traveling Justice; a person who travels from city to city inside of a king's realm, acting as judge in cases involving nobles. By law, only ones social superior may legally convict someone for a crime. Often nobles go unpunished for minor deeds, because their is no one with the legal authority to accuse them. This person has the legal mandate to arrest anyone, conduct a trial for the crime, and often see that final justice (execution) is completed. Mission may not relate to present assignment; justice may simply have personal matters he needs the players to accomplish while he is detained by duties. Such men have numerous enemies, draw two cards for Unforeseen Opponents; likewise, the power and influence of such a potential Friend can not be understated.
UnderWorld Mission:
- 6 Rods: Destroy a sanctuary and its cult priests - men with jaundiced flesh and flecks of red in their eyes - worshipers of the Dark One. Inverted, stealth in and observe the activities of a strange cult.
Obstacles (UW):
- (Inverted) Queen Cups: Horrible Beast. Creature so terrifying or ugly that any who look at it die (or turn to stone); definitely hard to combat (with shielded eyes or no light). Inverted, Hypnotic Beast. Creature that can charm men and cause them to do its bidding (often just simply sit still while being torn into dinner pieces).
- (Inverted) Empress: Loyalty of servitors and followers of players will be tested or changed by the experience.
Motivation:
- 3 Cups: Ruthless and will do any atrocity to obtain goal. Inverted, sadistic and commits crimes for sport or simple amusement.
Finances:
- (Inverted) 10 Cups: Recent catastrophe exhausted wealth; funds are meager. Inverted, Patron covers the fact a personal disaster has consumed much of his wealth; he feigns a rich lifestyle.
Rival:
- 5 Swords: Slaver or Taskmaster. Inverted, Leader of City's Beggars and Thieves.
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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