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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) 10 Rods: Peasant, Farmer or Serf; a worker of the land, but importantly a person enslaved to the land. By law, common people were not allowed to travel without permission from their lord. Patron will seek the players' help, but he can not pay them (skip Finances) and further, he violates his lord's laws because he traveled (to the players) without proper permission ("at least the lord can't remember granting such"). Yet the down-trodden, they make such fine underdogs. How could the players refuse an interesting Mission? Inverted, Runaway Slave; a fugitive who escaped bondage. Slaves are pieces of property, and most lands recognize this important institution. By helping the Patron, the players will violate the law, but perhaps further the cause of justice. As with serf, slaves have no Finances (skip that card selection), unless they are also a thief (but that's a different card all together).
UnderWorld Mission:
- 4 Swords: Pursue and capture (or return with the head belonging to) someone that escaped justice and fled into the underworld. Inverted, discover the fate and rescue any survivors of an earlier group that adventured into underworld.
Obstacles (UW):
- 2 Swords: Two beasts share a domain. Pick two cards (treat second pick as "OBSTACLE??"); both exist in harmony in underworld. Inverted, again pick two cards (treat second pick as "OBSTACLE??"), but two creatures battle with each other for control of the domain.
Motivation:
- (Inverted) 3 Cups: Ruthless and will do any atrocity to obtain goal. Inverted, sadistic and commits crimes for sport or simple amusement.
Finances:
- (Inverted) 5 Coins: Breeds and owns five hundred horses -- extremely rich. Inverted, Patron owns many horses and will loan or perhaps give some to the players.
Rival:
- (Inverted) King Coins: Shylock or Money-lender. Inverted, Miser of Great Wealth.
- (Inverted) Hermit: Person is a relative of the Patron. Inverted, illegitimate, disowned or black-sheep.
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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