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Shadow operations
Beard | Biswas | Blades | Bradley | Chan | Ghouse
Howitt | Pitre | Punzalan | Taylor | Weathers
Copyright © 2020 by Grant Howitt and Christopher Taylor.
Published by Rowan, Rook and Decard Ltd.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or
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Rowan, Rook and Decard
15 Tufnell Court, Old Ford Road
E3 5JJ, United Kingdom
www.rowanrookanddecard.com
ISBN: 9781913032142
Main text and LIFE AND SOUL
THE LAST TRAIN
A SHOTGUN WEDDING
HOUSE OF LEAVING
HOW TO STEAL A BODY
JAILBREAK
POWDERKEG
RIME AND REASON
THE MOON BENEATH
THESE FERAL SAINTS
THE SHOW MUST GO ON
Proofreading and editing
Illustrations
Layout
Grant Howitt
Nathan Blades
Christopher Taylor
Sharang Biswas
Pauline Chan
Basheer Ghouse
JP Bradley
Christine Beard
Jabari Weathers
Pam Punzalan
Jason Pitre
Helen Gould
Adrian Stone
Alina Sandu
Contents
Introduction
Life and Soul
By Grant Howitt
The Last Train
By Nathan Blades
A Shotgun Wedding
By Christopher Taylor
Powderkeg
By J P Bradley
The Show Must Go On
By Jason Pitre
Jailbreak
By Basheer Ghouse
How to Steal a Body
By Pauline Chan
Rime and Reason
By Christine Beard
House of Leaving
By Sharang Biswas
The Moon Beneath
By Jabari Weathers
These Feral Saints
By Pam Punzalan
Running One-Shots
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IntRoDUCtIon
Spire
is a campaign game first and foremost, but peo-
ple don’t always have time to run multiple linked ses-
sions. At conventions and meetups, the most com-
mon form of game is the one-shot. Unfortunately,
Spire
didn’t have any pre-written material for that
sort of thing – until now.
What you hold in your hands (or read on your
screen) is MISSION BOOK ONE – a collection of
eleven scenarios for
Spire,
all designed to be run in
a single session of three to four hours. Each of them
includes an open-ended set of challenges, non-play-
er characters and props, focused around an objective
given to the player characters by the Ministry of Our
Hidden Mistress.
To make these scenarios as simple as possible
to run, we’ve created a system of iconic NPC types
whose stats are shared between games for ease of
reference. We’ve also included advice on running a
story-game like
Spire
in a one-shot situation.
Throughout the process of making this book, we’ve
had the pleasure of working with some outstanding
authors – both veterans of the industry and complete
newcomers. They all bring something different to the
table, and we were so excited to see what they did
with the world we built.
We hope you enjoy these scenarios, even if you
don’t play them. Hopefully, they will give you some
ideas on how to build your own one-shots and have
fun with your players.
IConIC non-PLAYeR CHARACteRs
In this section, you’ll find stats for several iconic types
of NPC. If you’d like to quickly throw in a character
and there isn’t anything suitable in the scenario that
you’re using, you can scan through the options below
to find some ideas.
The name of the iconic type doesn’t necessarily
relate to the character we attach it to in each scenario.
For example, in A SHOTGUN WEDDING, Brother
Hellion uses the Queen iconic stats – but he’s not a
queen in any way. Sometimes, we let the stats guide
us rather than the titles.
tHe Keen tAG
The Keen tag was introduced in
Strata,
and some
of the iconic NPCs have weapons that use it. In
the hands of a PC, a weapon with the Keen tag
inflicts +3 stress instead of +1 for each 10 rolled.
In the hands of an NPC, it inflicts triple rather
than double stress on a roll of a 1.
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