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Spacegamer.com - Standard Barony Mission:
This uses the Tarot Card to Generate a "Standard" Mission on the Fly as described in Designing Fantasy Missions as part of the Barony Set. (Standard means it is not focused exclusively 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. (It pastes nicely into Word.)
Mission Title:
Party Leader:
Patron:
- (Inverted) 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.
Mission:
- (Inverted) 9 Swords: Aid an underdog in a dispute. Inverted, aid a repressor or tyrant in a dispute.
Obstacle:
- 10 Coins: Bandits have been paid to interfere with the players during travel. Inverted, dwarves will follow the group awaiting a chance to steal or cause mischief ("night is full with eyes"). Some game systems, term goblin may better apply than dwarf.
- Judgement: Patron's motive or the result of a successful mission, if truly known, will anger or sadden the players (if discovered, perhaps players must join the opposition). Inverted, during the scenario, players will be unable to control their greed ("as if most could anyway"); this greed should fall short of player killing player, but NPCs deserve no such bonds of loyalty.
- Devil: By completing the mission, one Friend of each player (at random) becomes an Enemy. Inverted, by some fluke, a player is secretly opposed to the mission; during travel encounters before the Climax, Referee will take a player (at random) as an NPC and play him for the remainder of the mission as part of the opposition (many a covert act, up to this point, can be attributed in retrospect on this player). Whether character ever returns to group depends on the mission outcome and how forgivable his acts (Referee and players together decide).
Motivation:
- (Inverted) Knave Coins: Establish positions for additional tariffs or tolls. Inverted, justify additional taxes or tithes.
Finances:
- (Inverted) 8 Coins: Controls city and trade like a merchant-prince, but most cargoes and ships are already committed. Inverted, though Patron is a master of a guild that once controlled trade in an area, he is now penniless; this fact may remain unknown to the players, who might agree to the task on the reputation of the guild's name alone.
Rival:
- 6 Cups: Regent of Mines. Inverted, Leader City Workers.
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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