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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) 8 Swords: Divine Test or Demigod; similar to a divine summoning, but in this case players' Patron will be a lesser (or before unknown) force of divinity. The demigods aspire to be gods; players may be instructed to accept a test ("to prove their worth") or spread word of new power ("by controlling worldly affairs"). In a fantasy world, men are screaming divine prophesy everyday. Players must capture power, control region and eliminate competition to truly establish a new religion or even cult, but in mean time the demigod needs something done. If the players refuse, demigods usually have very little power (at least now) in world ("no bolts of lightning crash from above"). At Referee's option (or when combined with major card Devil), these tests can be demonic deceptions ("must keep the players down to earth, not rampaging every time they have a dream"). Inverted, Wizard or Immortal; a person who controls a device, force or power, else has innate abilities beyond imagination. Problem with magic is that it is not absolutely predictable -- if so it would be science or cook-book. Magic is magical; mostly processes that were discovered by trial and error with cause and effect reasoning (i.e. flawed logic). Though these men at times can kill with a simple snap of the finger ("to heighten drama of story"), most of the time their abilities require considerable ritual (and lucky timing) before conjuring their greatest manifestations. Like tides of oceans, their power also crests and falls (in seemingly random cycles). Patron needs players for a task in a place or at a time that his power ebbs ("I'm immortal, but please no tests").
UnderWorld Mission:
- Knave Rods: Separate a vile man or creature from the source of its power; usually man or creature is easy to trick, hard to kill. Power source is usually an item. Inverted, power source is instead the underworld itself (or an area) from which man or creature must be tempted or tricked into leaving.
Obstacles (UW):
- 8 Cups: Great Giant. Creature that is worshiped and served by a cult. Inverted, Magical Giant. One that uses devices of magic, though it may not understand them ("lay me a golden egg").
- (Inverted) Lovers: Complex clan structure has evolved in which several different lesser species and greater creatures have joined together in a loose organization of laws based on other than only the strongest survive. This is a culture that can organize retribution to party even after it returns to the surface.
- (Inverted) World: Underworld is immense in scale with tunnels, caverns, corridors and buildings that form an underground city and complex that wanders for miles and miles. A once great city may have been covered by earthquake or dust of millenniums.
- Emperor: Scale of combat is equal to that found on the surface; players will battle in huge caverns where companies of often inhuman men battle for territory with finesse that matches the surface squabbles of the barons. There will be few "doors" to simply "boot open".
Motivation:
- (Inverted) 10 Rods: Prove a point, make an example or show by deed. Inverted, wishes to outsmart his better in social position.
Finances:
- Queen Rods: Influence in military; might enlist aid from army leaders or local garrisons. Inverted, Patron has connections in a foreign army; these may be politically dangerous to use.
Rival:
- 2 Cups: Fanatic or Zealot of Cult. Inverted, Patriot or Renegade from Conquered Land.
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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