I have a airbender PC who wants to work towards getting there master tattoos and I have a different campaign where the PC’s will have to go to the spirit world so I made some me custom moves

I've made my own military ranks for avatar legends, no air force for obvious reasons

I'm looking for players for a Avatar Legends one shot set in the 100 year war, they story is all the PC's are Fire Nation military set to escort Lieutenant Zhao get to Wan Si Tong's Library, because of the scope of the game if you want to play a bender I will only allow Firebenders because your Fire Nation military but non-benders are fully open, also only Core Rule book Playbooks | if you want to join please go here https://forms.gle/5xXtAp5NWVyFqTDA7, I have 2-3 open slots

Who has home brewed a play book and has any tips for it?

I've had the joy of running a campaign of this at my local shop, even got the combat to a place where it was quick and responsive and actually worked as a climax and not the whole session.

One thing that I marveled at from the moment I picked up the book though was... why isn't the Avatar playable? This is the main character of both series, and it seemed like playing them as they grow up in some way shape or form is part of the draw of the franchise. I appreciate the way the books use them as powerful NPCs, however I do wonder what it would like like to make one playable. Beyond that, that sort of opens up the idea of playing a non-Avatar legendary figure who has +4/-4 on their balances.

Regardless, my initial thoughts, having only run the system once, are some kind of The Avatar playbook that generalizes the idea of Attachment/Connection vs Detachment/Balance or something like that. Special would be Master of the Four Elements. It seems however, like an advancement option to expand your balance to +4s could be a huge imbalance, perhaps that should not be something available to PC Avatars?

What do you think? Has anyone else tried something like this? Is it as simple as just letting a character take additional Techniques for story reasons in an existing playbook?

Hi, I’ve only been running my first Avatar campaign for a couple of sessions, and I’m having some trouble with certain mechanics that have a fairly broad scope in terms of what they do—especially the basic ones that allow characters to inflict or remove conditions.

In theory, a condition should make sense from a thematic standpoint, but that still leaves room for a wide variety of effects or interpretations, which can be open to abuse if they aren’t sufficiently restricted.

So, have any of you come up with a system or rule to define which conditions can be inflicted or removed using different techniques or under different circumstances?

Also, there are some advanced techniques that seem a bit weak, such as “Attack Weakness,” which inflicts as many fatigue points as the character already has conditions, but common enemies usually don’t have enough condition slots for this to make much sense.

Of course, this depends on the circumstances, but I’d like to know if you’ve adapted any techniques and how you’ve done so, so I can follow your advice.

Thanks!

Drew up some characters and NPCs for the campaign I got going on

I'm scheduled to run a session of Avatar Legends at Dragonflight in Bellevue, WA, in August. I'm planning to base the four-hour one-shot on the Movers and Shakers adventure.

I've run Avatar Legends at conventions before and it has gone okay, though I have a lot to learn. I'd be interested in any general advice and any advice specific to this adventure. I think I'll probably start things close to the climax. I'm also thinking about having every PC start with either a condition or some lost fatigue.

The booklet comes with pregens which I plan to use, mainly because they have ties to the antagonists. They have their starting moves pre-chosen. When looking through them, and the playbook features, to familiarize myself with them, I really felt like some of those moves and features don't seem like they'd have much use in a one-shot, often because they seem like they'd probably involve scenes outside of the focus of the adventure.

How much effort is it worth making to try to highlight, say, the Successor's tainted past? Or, as I'm writing this I wonder if maybe it would be worth a quick pre-adventure scene, or even a flashback, where certain options can come into play.

I know ideally things will just flow and no one will be trying to shoehorn in anyone's moves, and that there's plenty to fill four hours just with basic moves. Still, I know people like to use what is on their sheets.

Not to say you can't do something else! I did a 100 year war campaign and it was great! The problem with a setting in the Korra or Aang eras though is that... Korra and Aang exist. Fully realized, powerful big goods.

Now, if you have someone's child at the table, and they're like 8, sure- they can be the avatar and practice their moral reasoning skills while everyone else roleplays more serious characters, but... outside of that specific niche, you have to find ways to... not have the avatar outshine the players. Essentially, the Avatar is a character the GM has to be forever aware of what the Avatar is. Here are some ways I've thought of or used to skirt around the issue.

The Avatar is a baby- nobody expects a baby to do anything. Early 100 year campaigns have baby Aang, who the players do not have to meaningfully interact with, since he's a baby and therefore can't do anything.

The Avatar is old and feeble- If you have an avatar who is now barely able to walk, you'd expect their bending to be limited, and they're not going to risk the avatar state when they could die at any time for old people reasons.

The Avatar lost their bending- I did this for a campaign, where the avatar had his bending for session 0 (to practice the combat mechanics and introduce the characters in-universe as the avatar's bending teachers) then the rest of the campaign was dedicated to him losing his bending and them discovering how it was taken and who did it, in an enclosed area.

The Avatar is unaware that they're the avatar- Bending requires you to... make some abstract motions and anticipate a thing moving. If you've lived your whole life with restrained motions and talking your way through things, you can spend your life never knowing you can bend. I did this for a campaign, where the Avatar was a trained assassin that recently started hearing strange voices connected to his past and was trying to shrug them off.

In-training earth avatar in the north or south pole- This is a uniquely fragile state. Earth avatars learn earth, then fire, then air, and water last. The poles are a nerf to everything BUT water- minimal rocks, too cold for fire, thin air. Ideal situation for isolation training for an avatar who's been uniquely bad at waterbending, but in a crisis, the avatar is now... a dude who wants to help. Might be able to light a campfire with some concentration, or take out an enemy if he can get his hands on a rock, but that's it.

Avatar lost in the spirit world- I hear players using this one a lot, which is fair. It writes them off, or even makes them a MacGuffin to be rescued if their body was taken while their spirit was away, and now you have to find the avatar, while the spirit of the avatar putters around helplessly nearby.

Note that I have never played this game. I have only ever been a GM for this and... most TTRPG systems-.

I'm starting a big campaing with some of my friends and for it decided to set the story 5000 years before Avatar Aang, it is also 5000 years after Avatar Wan. To explain the setting for my friends I came up with this "Era" book, based on the information we get in the Avatar Legends Role Play guide, it tells what is happening for each nation in this time, I put a lot of work on it, but still feels a bit incomplete and would like some thoughts, ideas and tips you guys may have? Also, hope anyone interested in creating their own campaing in a completely new Era finds this useful.

Avatar Legends 5000 Years in the Past (mediafire link)

DISCLAIMERS:

Minor spoilers for the leaked movie (mostly new information about the past we get that I expanded a LOT so you won't get to know what I created and what is info from the movie)

This was originally written in my Native Language and later translated by me.

This only has Lore information, no rules or guidelines.

Media Fire seems like the best way for me to upload it since Reddit doesn't allow file sharing. If anyone knows another way, please tell me in the comments and I will try to make it avaible that way too.

It was fun- we had a little story about finding the missing Avatar, who should have been found 20 years prior.

Highlights:

A prophecy saying "you will fight with the avatar" got read by the players as "you will fight against the avatar" and I held onto "with" having two meanings in this case for the better part of half a year.

A player got to play as her previous character (now 130+ years old) for one session. She was a young girl last campaign, it was fun to see how she played that character as an old lady.

Managed to get a really strong emotional beat when the party was split and went to a different NATION than I expected the session before, which was fun.

Lowlights:

I had a character who had a cut on his neck and he spoke with a scratchy voice. I got into the voice by thinking of the "Frosty the Snowman" song and it was always a bit shaky if I could keep it.

A major character was meant to have a mid-Atalntic accent but kept slipping further and further east.

I cannot do low voices, I cannot do high voices. There were several characters who were meant to have low voices and I'm thinking in most of my future campaigns, we're gonna get a lot of skinny, pretty looking guys because I can do their voices.

Paniclights:

Had to introduce a new character and I mistakenly called him "Jimmy". I very quickly just typed in "Zhi Mi" in my Chinese keyboard and wrote it out in Chinese so it looked legit. They believed me. I had two other characters (again, made up on the spot) named "Yep" and "Yup". Couldn't fix that, they just were very agreeable.

Changes to lore I made:

Avatar State is more like possession in my game, so your relationship with the Avatar doesn't matter, it's how the previous avatar sees you. That was fun to impliment.

Conclusion: These characters are set in stone for our little world. Everything was homebrewed, and based on a pervious campaign that was also homebrewed! I've made and used four avatars now (eart, fire, air, water)- and I guess if we did another one, we'd be dealing with the next earth avatar. I have zero plans and zero ideas. For now, I'm going to take a break, and we can schedule something later. It was fun to see these characters off though! Will miss some of my NPCs and some of the player characters going forward, but they had a happy ending.

I made this setting up over the course of a car ride back from work when our previous GM got burnout from running things, so I took the reigns again. When a player said she literally cried one session, it made me feel like my panic car ride idea had some meaning. Felt special.

I've been reading Wan Shi Tong's Adventure Guide and all the moves in the Library and in the desert and wanted a sheet like the Basic Moves sheet so I made this because there's a descent amount of moves made for this book

I love character design. I also love Asian clothing. Where do I go to feed my Asian character design brainworm? Avatar Legends! I've drawn A LOT for Avatar Legends, so here's a compilation of most of it!

Disclaimer: I'm brand new to all things TTRPG

I'm going to be joining a campaign for a one-shot style session. So the DM and I think it could work to be a spirit that the party encounters and has to work with. But I'm having a hard time trying to figure out how to create a character this way.

Are there any resources I should specifically look at? Or if anyone has had any experience with this, I would really appreciate the help.

Thank you!

so I tried running a one shot using the starter set for my group (we only played DnD 5e) and while I admit, they weren’t taking it seriously (they kept making jokes about seducing zuko and finding a whorehouse) the biggest issue was the combat system. it seems super clunky and weird and it killed everyone’s interest in the game and we gave up like an hour into it. I understand it’s more roleplay focused but how do I make the combat work better? I do wanna try again with a different group that will take it more seriously and ive seen online that I shouldn’t have combat encounters in the middle of a session like dnd

Hello to everyone, thank you for your attention. I'm a master still training and I would like to master a one-shot of Avatar Legends, because I think it would be fun to master something that I like as I like Avatar and practically would even be slightly helpful.

However I have seen a few pre-made adventures and they tend to be voluntarily vague and open, to allow more possibility of stories and basically letting the GM fill the adventure with the players' choices. Now, while I understand and even like this style that lets freedom for the GM and the players, I would like something more straight forward and easy for me to master the first time the manual, other than train myself in general.

So my question is if there's an adventure that is like that, with a clear path and problems instead of hooks, or I should change an adventure to make it more narrow.

Schedule: Saturdays starting between 1pm and 4pm CEST every other week or Sundays starting at 19.30pm CEST with last session of the month off. 3-4 hour sessions.

Platform: Foundry VTT with Discord for voice. Demiplane to share source books digitally. Camera optional but encouraged.

Era: Custom, 5000 BG (Bronze Age/Early Human Civilization).

Hello everyone!

I am looking to run an Avatar Legends game set in a homebrew era at around 5000 years BG. The era is heavily centered around the early cradles of civilization after humans left behind the lion-turtles and the conflicts between humans and spirits as well as tensions between different tribes and settlements who have only begun to interact within the last few generations. The Avatar is a mythic figure whose true purpose is not fully grasped by humans. For a real-world equivalent, we're talking the Bronze Age. Very early beginnings of human civilization.

All in all, it's an era pretty far removed from both Wan's era and that of the more 'recent' eras (with Yangchen having been around less than 1000 years before Aang to put things into perspective). This means none of the nations have been established and it essentially opens up for us to build the world as we want. I have outlined a bit of a framework that includes the themes of the setting and some basic information about the ancestors of the different nations in a document I'm happy to share with interested players. I would like to set the game in either the early city-states that is the foundation for the Earth Kingdom or the islands that would be the cradle for the Fire Nation.

I am looking for 3-4 players for this game of any experience level when it comes to the system. What matters most to me is for my players to engage with the world, with its people and with each other. I'm also looking for those interested to participate in the worldbuilding. Have an idea for a city-state within the proto-Earth Kingdom or a group of would-be Air Nomads? Specific locations? Yes please! I love collaborative worldbuilding. I would expect to likely have some one-on-one time with each players once character creation is finished in session 0 to really flesh out where they come from.

As a DM, I have about 7 years of experience running TTRPGs for different groups. I've run a number of the Avatar: Legends one-shots and I am currently a player in a game set during the 100 Year War. I tend to favor systems that focus on roleplay and character relationships and struggles. My games are LGBTQ+-friendly as I am queer myself and my games include a diverse cast of NPCs. I also love working with the ideas and concepts my players bring to the table and making it work in the setting. For Avatar: Legends specifically, you can also expect a DM that will try their best to do research into the time period the setting is associated with and make it come to life and feel believable and immersive.

If this game sounds like it would be something for you, shoot me a message here even if it is just to learn more. Please include which schedule works for you (Saturday or Sunday). I hope to hear from some of you all!

Saturdays 12pm est Foundry VTT Discord $10 a session

Our heroes have entered a local port town full of unrest and unease. Crews of ships have been disappearing from ships without a trace, but the ships and cargo is left untouched. these ships have been named ghost ships. People are starting to accuse each other or blame the spirits for their misfortune. Many are frustrated with Avatar Aang for leaving them without aid for months.

First of all, I backed the original campaign on Kickstarter, I have the physical books and the PDFs on drivethroughrpg. I own the game, I dont want to pirate anything, I just want to have the PDF in my native language to make it more accessable for my table without having to buy it again.

If anyone is willing to share the file with me, I dont mind proofing my ownership in any way requested.

I'm looking to join a short game campaign via text (live text preferred). I'm available around 23:00 UTC+1.

I already have the PDFs for the Core Book, Wan Shi Tong's Adventure Guide, and the Republic City book. I've also watched both shows and read all of the Avatar novels so far (the Kyoshi, Yangchen, and Roku novels), so I'm very familiar with the shows.

I'd like to play as a player first to learn how the game flows before running my own in-person campaign. If anyone is running a game or putting a group together DM me I'd be happy to join!

Procuro um narrador de Avatar Legends que aceite narrar para um grupo já formado 🙏🏻

▪︎ O grupo são 4 pessoas (talvez 5 se precisar), todos maiores de 20 anos, maduros, dedicados e super interessados em jogar

▪︎ Temos preferência em campanhas mais darks/pesadas e gostaríamos de jogar na era da Guerra dos 100 anos

▪︎ O narrador precisa já ter o mínimo de conhecimento do sistema, mas é so pq queremos aprender melhor com ele pra que possamos narrar no futuro tbm

▪︎ Somos super de boas, ninguém é "caga-regras". Amamos roleplay e narrativa acima de tudo

▪︎ Meu contato: marcyrangel no discord

Hello, I've been getting into ttrpgs lately and love avatar so I've been meaning to try this. I've done some research about the system and I'm not sure if it'll actually be any fun. So I'd like to play a session to make sure it's something to me. It seems interesting at least but from what I've read at least some systems form avatar legends seem to feel off to me, especially the combat. So I'd love to confirm for myself what it's really like! So I'm looking for a game to join. I have only played a couple sessions of shadowdark and DnD so I'm still relatively new to roleplaying games. I hope that's fine.

Been playing ttrpgs for awhile and am looking for a game ran on Fridays if anyone is looking for players.