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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) King Cups: Guildmaster; a person that controls the manufacturing and trade produced by craftsmen in a city or region. The guildmaster will have a monopoly (often called a king's boon) on a certain item. Legally, only certain people (employed by the guildmasters) can make and sell certain essential or special items. The three most important being, non-wool clothing (finer fabrics and linens), wine (medieval version of soft drink) or arms (yes, only certain people, powerful people, are allowed to make and sell weapons). In a fantasy genre, the master who controls the arms trade of an area is by far the most powerful. Inverted, Banker or Moneylender; almost the same as the guildmaster; however, the item of trade is coins. Hard coinage should be rare (and weighty), so this Patron instead has the clout to guarantee debt or supply services or materials of equivalent value. Almost all governments fund their affairs of state through borrowing, so the Patron will control great power over even greater men. Do not pick a card for Finances (or ignore card picked); instead, wealth available to Patron is unlimited ("but I earned much of my wealth through clever dealing; I'm not willing to squander it all away").
- High Priestess: Patron has a reputation for using sorcery. Patron is a controller of the forces of science and nature or the principles of magic; he could aid the players with protective incantations or devices of magical power. Inverted, secretly Patron has sorcerer powers; his magical offerings and protection will be limited, since he does not desire his ability to be discovered. Since the card is inverted, these powers may also tend toward the dark, demonic, necromantic or perverse.
UnderWorld Mission:
- Ace Cups: Recover a special item that was stolen and hidden in the underworld. Inverted, item is now worshiped by some strange and twisted cult.
Obstacles (UW):
- 3 Coins: Guardian Beast. Creature enchanted or created specifically to protect something or someone; often merely riches. Inverted, Conjured Beast. Demon brought from another dimension into the world and bound to a spot (an extremely powerful guardian, hopefully for an extremely valuable item).
- (Inverted) Judgement: Party will face many obstacles that can be solved by other than clash of arms or brute force. In most cases, the desired outcome - party survival - depends on players thinking instead of using instinct.
- (Inverted) Force: Greater creature or cult has enslaved a lesser evil (dwarves or one of the many and twisted forms of goblin).
Motivation:
- (Inverted) 2 Rods: Steady means of increasing glory or wealth. Inverted, Patron knows mission will increase wealth of all involved.
Finances:
- 7 Cups: Neither very wealthy or very poor, yet has anything required for the scenario -- Referee use discretion. Inverted, Patron has anything needed for the mission, but it takes him time to acquire these items (the more unusual the more time -- Referee decides).
- Moon: Some (maybe a fourth) Patron's troops will be disloyal. Inverted, most (maybe three-quarters) of the Patron's troops will be traitors serving the Rival.
Rival:
- 7 Rods: Lord of Port. Inverted, Urban Aristocrat.
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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