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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:
- 10 Cups: Head of Household; a person who represents a family, clan or possibly minority of society. Clan and family bonds remain the strongest; this is particularly true in the cities (where almost everyone seems related). This may also represent the players being recruited by a city or town representative to perform a task. Inverted, Organized Club or Fraternity of Magicians; an agent who represents an established group bonded together by common interest or activity. Members are only infrequently related by blood; more often, the group gathers for social purposes, share knowledge and specialized craft, or security. The group often has access to relics or controls forces of magic. These may also be the keeper of ancient records or protectors of a relic; some maintain protective fields that protect the world from greater evil or catastrophe.
- (Inverted) Judgement: Patron is shrewd judge of character, often superior in skill and level. Inverted, Patron is a drunkard or addicted to elixirs that impair most of his decisions.
- Hierophant: Patron is deeply spiritual, a person of prayer and worship. Inverted, his belief and practices tend toward the dark, demonic, necromantic or perverse, and thus he may conceal his devotion to a forbidden religion.
UnderWorld Mission:
- (Inverted) 4 Coins: Thwart the Dark One's plans by taking a great item of power to a special place in the underworld where it loses all powers. Inverted, difficulty is not getting the item to the special place (players can use item to lay havoc and literally blow a path); the trick is escaping through Dark One's minions now minus the great item of power.
Obstacles (UW):
- 9 Cups: Fantastic. Underworld contains a great device or power that attracted a greater force and its offspring. Inverted, Strange Force of Nether-worlds. Usually manifests itself as a beast of unusual abilities, once again attracted by great force or device in underworld.
- (Inverted) Justice: Traps in underworld have only the most horrific of penalties; do not accidentally set them off.
Motivation:
- (Inverted) 3 Coins: Seeks long term financial return. Inverted, seeks to secure a monopoly on trade.
Finances:
- (Inverted) 5 Swords: Working under set fund that will not be exceeded. Inverted, Patron has a set amount from which his profit is also taken; he doesn't want all of this fund spent.
Rival:
- 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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