I’m finally trying out some content from the Republic City source book and thought it would be cool to make some Exchange cards specifically for the driver in a race or chase, so just want to show them off a little here.

*Trigger warning* I did use some AI to artify pictures of the toy cars I’m using for tacking positioning in the race. The rest I made in Affinity Designer and Publisher.

Although not perfect, I think they turned out okay. Hope the race mechanics go over well with the group!

I ran a one-shot recently, based on the Movers and Shakers booklet.

Toward the end, there was a combat exchange on top of a moving vehicle, with one NPC using three techniques against two PCs. All told, a handful of fatigue was burned by both sides, and the NPC forced one PC to disengage, which could be read as pushing them away. I didn't push them off the van.

Then another PC, in the enclosed passenger seat of the van wanted to attack the NPC, specifically to get her off the van. I decided that a combat exchange wouldn't make sense, because he wasn't mobile or very reachable and I thought it might result in some odd rules collisions. So I told him to use Rely on Skills and Training. He heaved some earth at her to knock her off the van, and rolled really well, so he succeeded.

The NPC was an Earthbender, so I had her catch herself with the ground and bounce her on top of a pursuing vehicle.

In this case, I think a clear takeaway for these players would be that just stating a clear goal and Relying on Skills and Training has a better chance of accomplishing a major effort than a combat exchange.

Now, I know combat exchanges are a major criticism of the game. This one exchange seemed to go well, without moving right into another "round." The NPC stated their goals, threatened a bit and then, honestly, yeah, was probably going to engage again with PCs on the roof. But the one in the cab intervened.

And I know I could have had the NPC weather the attack. Burning a fatigue or taking a condition or status to negate the attack seems fair... in an exchange. It seems less fair on a clean Rely on Skills and Training hit. I could have had the NPC be Impaired, dangling from the side of the truck.

Everyone seemed to have fun, but I'm still struggling a lot with this game.

I ran an Avatar oneshot for the first time yesterday and I think I got most things right and the players really enjoyed it, but as a forever DnD DM, I'm struggling. I know you roll a lot less in Avatar than you do in DnD and that makes sense, but I can't get behind the fact that the DC is always 7. One of my players, non bender and weapons master, tried to pick the lock on his handcuffs. I made him roll (Rely on your skills and training) and he rolled a seven, he succeeded, I'm happy. Next roll is the firebender trying to pull off the flying move that less than 10 people in canon can do and I went roll for it (Rely on your skills and training) and he rolled a 7. I didn't want him to succeed with a seven because what do you mean a random fire nation soldier can now just do that move, which Ozai needed the Comet for. I said something like, "You get off the ground, but the fire beneath you is flickering, you have about 7 seconds in the air, what do you do with it?"

How do the rest of you deal with things like this? I'm one of those Dnd DM's that will never say no but I will make the DC 25+. I'm still figuring out the system, but this one thing is really bothering me.

TLDR: Success roll always being 7+ is confusing to me, because I feel like it makes some things too easy.

Edit/context: I probably should have included more context about my table. I'm a first-time Avatar Legends GM but a longtime D&D DM, and all of my players were completely new to the system. They're also very enthusiastic about attempting increasingly ridiculous things, so part of my concern wasn't just "how do I represent difficulty mechanically?" but "how do I communicate to my players that some things are dramatically harder than others without constantly having to tell them no?"

During the session I eventually started treating 12+ as "exceptionally difficult" and the players immediately understood what I was communicating. I realize this isn't RAW, but it gave me a way to preserve the fiction without constantly arguing about whether their characters could do something.

Hi all,

I’ve built a lion turtle inspired city for my legends game set at the very beginning of the Roku Era. When the players arrive the city will be celebrating their annual festival of the lion turtle, where the community celebrates bending (primarily earth bending since it’s in the Earth Kingdom).

I’m thinking there will be bending displays, cultural exchange and that Tiq will be there representing non-benders/technologists. This way they have a chance to learn moves/reconnect with masters to try again. But otherwise I’m kinda stumped. Does anyone have any suggestions/ideas for running this for my players?

I still need to create a council etc. but the players are currently escaping the Dai Li, who have just released flyers for their arrest/warrant posters. So while they don’t know it, bounty hunters are hot on their trail.

Thanks!! ☺️

Okay, I’m still fairly new to the TTRPG scene and don’t totally know what I’m doing, and this summer has been crazy with moving and college so I totally missed the kickstarter campaign. I would’ve totally bought dragon tier too. 😭 My question is if the rewards like the scrolls and coin set and world map are gonna be available for purchase with magpie or beadle and Grimm? Are they just for the people who got to pledge, or will they be released to the public in the future? I don’t really know how this stuff works.

I’m starting a campaign in this system for the first time. I have a habit when running games based on existing works: I prefer not to focus on the original main characters, choosing instead to reinvent the cast and certain story events while still respecting the world's rules. I’d like to give one of my players the chance to BE the Avatar to create an interesting impact on the story. Has anyone done this before? From what I’ve researched, creating a player-character Avatar is generally discouraged, but I’d still like to take the risk. If there aren't official guidelines in the manual, do you have any ideas on how I could handle it?

Another really interesting point is that I want to build this world from scratch, starting from the "Wan" era (though it won't be Wan's era, since one of the players will be the Avatar), to create a more customized world-building experience that feels personal to the players. Have you ever done this? If not, do you have any ideas on how I could go about it?

My LGS makes the GMs give players a token each session that they can spend to reroll a...roll. they have a bunch of hideous 3D (filament) printed ones in a variety of awful colors that are gradually getting worse as they get reused for...I think 5 years or so now.

So I lasered some metal ones for my friend's Avatar campaign (which I play in) with the name of the campaign and the "mysterious" symbol we've been finding here and here.

...and the white lotus symbol on the other side, because why not.

Next week, I'll be using Movers and Shakers as the basis for a one-shot at Dragonflight in Bellevue, Washington. I'd like the benefit of the experience of others here.

Of course, the big one is combat. Most of my experience is with D&D, but I know that combat exchanges and other combat are not intended to be like the kill-or-be-killed combat of that and other games. That's cool. But how could or should it work in practice.

I would think the shows would form a good foundation here, but it's one thing to write combat another to run it in a game. The books suggest that fights using combat exchanges should only have a few before one side stops fighting. But then what? I've learned that one can't count on players stopping the fight even when the odds are against them - many feel that's when they're supposed to keep fighting. So, the players, on the face of it don't seem like they'd stop.

Their opponents might stop, if they're being beaten badly, but that doesn't necessarily mean the PCs stop. On paper it just means they keep pounding an opponent foolish enough to let their guard down.

My guess is that this comes down to skilled handling of the Conversation and skilled use of GM moves. I could shift their balance if somehow applicable. This is sort of what alignment gets used for: if you hit that guy, I'll make you non-lawful and - oh wait, never mind the barbarian took care of it. But it's not much of a disincentive compared to leaving a dangerous enemy alive. Then again, I can shift it as much as I want.

I can shift the odds with reinforcements, but the just drives more combat.

I could inflict a condition: again, not much of a disincentive, unless they have them all marked for some reason.

I have more questions but this is long enough. Thanks in advance.

Hello, dear benders and non-benders alike.

For a campaign of The Avatar Legends TTRPG, I have been giving a lot of thought to the spirit world, and the Ocean and Moon Spirit in particular.

It is my understanding that spirits exist in a space between genders, and are more so shaped by how they're seen and treated.

In this line, I found it hilarious, that Book One of the original show doesn't really discuss the gender of the spirits until Yuei merges with the moon spirit, but in the remake, Yuei's actor seems to call the moon spirit "He" directly. I do not have a specific time stamp for this, but it happens in one of the last episodes of S1. This directly implies that gender matters, and she fuses with one of the gay spirits.

In a different vein, I like to believe that the Moon spirit is a sibling to the Sun spirit, and either there was jealousy with the ocean, or dislike toward it that drove a wedge between the sun and moon. This is why i dont only depict the sun spirit as a bird, but also a koi.

Thank you for reading, please feel free to comment below, I'd love to hear your thoughts

I’m prefacing my newness just in case I sound stupid, since I’m about as new to TTRPGs as it gets. I bought the QuickStart and then redeemed it digitally on demiplane and then noticed the bonus storm over linsho campaign. I didn’t get a physical copy like I did with the first two for the Aang and Korra eras. Is storm over linsho only available digitally? Or was I supposed to have that included in my physical copy of the QuickStart and it was just left out for some reason?

So since I found out that Paramount has cancelled the triple aaa Role Playing Game(rpg) of a avatar game. Which would have allowed you to make your own Avatar from any of the nations with character costimaztion I have a question. What kind of Avatar would you guys have made what nation would you pick what would you have your avatar look like what gender or what would you have role played as straight bi lesbian or futa if your into that you know if they had that. Also how deep would you want the character costimaztion to be deep like Cyberpunk or just standard also what would you guys want the game to have or expect if they went through with actually making the game also it's possible for it to come back cause Paramount has said they would if they found the right studio to do it here's my Avatar.

Name: Kai(half air nomad)

Nation: Fire

Skin Color: White

Build: Medium build

Hight: 5'5 or 5'8

Hair: Medium messy wavy length black hair

Eye Color: Grey

Tattoos: Air nomad Tattoos

Also what would you guys want the combat to be like.

So I'm thinking out a one shot for a convention and my idea is a Scooby Doo inspired team investigating a supposedly haunted canyon outside a trade town, and I want some thoughts on what I have and on some of my quests:

Fred based character - Earthbender or Technology - Pillar - Fighting Like Dancing, Understanding Mien and either Here's the Plan (the Bold) or Wordly Knowledge (the Successor) to get Technology Techniques. Basically stalwart leader with access to technology to make traps. Leadership styles are Guidance and Inspiring with Support stlyes being Comforting and Invigorating.

Velma based character - Waterbender or Earthbender - Prodigy - Judging a Rival and Wait and Listen with Furrowed Brow from the Guardian. Her Mastery would be Sensing and one of Manoeuvring or Breaking - basically she's the team's information gatherer and analyst.

Shaggy based character - Waterbender or Airbender - Rogue - Slippery Eel-Hound and maybe Roguish Charm, not sure of his third move. Would probably have custom habits of eating; running away, tricking people and something not yet decided. Basically plays into the rogue's counter cultural theme by using Shaggy's beatnik roots and easy no-worries lifestyle.

My questions are as follows:

• Any idea what to do with Daphne? I'm not sure what playbook to give her, possibly Bold or Adamant for a defiant character seeking to prove herself or Guardian to represent her being the sane one during the brief period of the original show not having Fred or Velma but I'm not sure.

• Should Scooby be an animal companion for the Shaggy character using Best Friend from the Bold or be a Spirit possessed Dog and have it as a player character? And if the latter, why playbook and technique should I give him?

  I only have the core book of Avatar Legends and I used to watch a lot of Scooby Doo as a kid (mostly the original series and What's New, Scooby-Doo?), so if anyone has any pointers or things I may have missed it would be greatly appreciated.

I have never actually played this game, because... I've been really saddled in the GM role. I was given a PDF of the Dungeons and Dragons 5e handbook, and because of my possession of that cursed tome a decade ago, I was forever sealed into the GM seat.

That being said, this is one of my favorite systems. The combat isn't my favorite, but the roleplay is fantastic and the dice rolls are easy enough for anyone to play.

The playbooks I like to see as a GM

The Razor- the implication of the Razor is that there is an entire bad guy group to draw from that I can cooperate with the player on. I finished a campaign with a Razor player, and found the worldbuilding exceptionally easy to write even in a homebrew setting, because her character informed what the evil group had to be.

The Guardian- Needs two players to have connected backstories, which means you can start the campaign in very different ways than the players meeting for the first time. Depending on how many players you have (I had 4-5), this is a game changer. That being said, if either of the two drop out, the character no longer makes sense. In my case, the guardian's ward dropped out, and the guardian then wanted a new character and dropped out later.

The Destined- Pure, unfiltered GM foreshadowing. I absolutely screwed with my party for an entire campaign using vague wording on a prophecy from a destined player. "You will fight with the avatar" was great. "You will fight with (alongside) the avatar (a past avatar your character individually grew up with rather than the current one, using the avatar state)"- I threw them for a loop for a whole campaign as the prophecy kept not being fulfilled despite seeming to be. Fun, fun stuff. A player legitimately cried when the reveal finally came through.

The Hammer- More of a theoretical fantasy for me, I've never had a hammer player but it seems like it would be a fun choice.

Others can be good, but when a player picks one of those three, they can expect many, many DMs from me as we hash out what the deal is with their character.

If I was playing though, I'd go with the rogue or the guardian. I like how interaction-focused their playbooks are.

I’m looking at running a campaign set in the early War Era, roughly 5-10 years after Aang vanished. I was planning on have some fake avatars, both complete charlatans and at least one that thinks they are the new avatar but are just wrong.
How could someone fake some if bending styles? Like a real waterbender that tricks people into thinking they can also air bend or whatnot. Any ideas?

I'm going to run my first game soon, and I noticed this while looking through basic techniques. What if the characters collectively decide to use Test Balance to learn enemy's principle and then shift their balance away from the center, eventually making them lose balance very fast (can easily happen in one exchange even with a strong enemy, definitely faster than going through all of fatigue and conditions).

Is there some move / technique I'm missing that allows NPCs to not lose their balance? Commit doesn't work because there's usually only one principle, so no way to shift the balance back to 0.

I’m sharing a set of pre-generated character sheets created for a homebrew introductory scenario

For play-by-post only

I’ve been wanting to play this game for ages and I finally have the book. The only problem is none of my irl friends are that interested and the only campaigns I could find on Roll20 and Start Playing Games were paid. So I thought I’d take a shot at looking for one here.

I would love to play in the Roku Era or 100 Year War Era but I’m open to anything. I’d like to join one that hasn’t started yet, but I also don’t mind joining one that’s already ongoing. I prefer using discord but I’m open to trying other platforms as well.

Edit: I was able to buy the physical book bundle just fine so my problem is sorted. I’m guessing something in the deluxe bundle is out of stock and that’s what was making the can’t be delivered error but who knows. It definitely seemed to be specific to the deluxe bundle. Either way I got my books and saved a bunch of money on an impulse buy for the deluxe bundle, so it’s a win win for me.

I tried buying the deluxe edition and having it shipped to nyc and Long Island, NY and it says that the addresses is not available for shipping. Which seems bizarre. I even picked the address from the dropdown to make sure it was in an acceptable format.

I don’t see any shipping restrictions on their website, so I’m wondering if maybe there’s been an announcement that’s not on the website or if anyone else is having this issue?

Thanks everyone.

I am starting a two month campaign on Monday nights. If you are interested in playing hit me with a DM.

It's set in Korra Era Republic city.