RPG: Learn How To Play ‘Avatar Legends’
Avatar Legends will bring the world of bending to your tabletop, and you can jump in right now with quickstart rules. Here’s how to play!
With Avatar Legends smashing all records and raising enough money to buy its own island (as long as you buy a small island and not anywhere you’d want to go), it’s clear that folks are eager to play a roleplaying game set in the world of Avatar the Last Airbender and Legend of Korra. But do you know how to play the game?
Sure you can read through the Quickstart rules, but if you’re playing a Powered by the Apocalypse game for the first time, there are a few concepts you’ll want to wrap your head around first. Like these. Check ’em out!
Magpie Games is excited to bring you Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game, the officially licensed tabletop roleplaying game set in the world of Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra! With over a decade of roleplaying design and publishing expertise, Magpie Games has created an innovative system that brings the world of the Four Nations to life in a tabletop roleplaying game that captures the heart of the Avatar franchise: balance, heroism, and the power of friendship.
Avatar Legends: The RPG is a heroic fantasy game set in the universe of Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra in which you and your friends take on the role of young heroes from across the Four Nations who have joined together to make the world a better place. It’s a game for people of all ages who want to look at the world beyond the scope of the existing stories and explore the meaningful actions heroes take for the good of others.
Above all, however, it’s a game about balance. Your hero fights for balance in the world, but also wrestles with maintaining balance within while trying to achieve the goals they’ve set for themselves. The villains of Avatar Legends: The RPG are never simply monsters, never mere antagonists who must be struck down by blasts of fire; they are instead people with their own desires, personal struggles, and goals, no matter how misguided.
Thus, achieving true balance isn’t easy. Whether you play a bender, martial artist, merchant, or craftsperson, you’re constantly being pulled between two important principles in your life as you face problems in the world. If you delve too deeply into one or the other—forgiveness over action, force over care, tradition over progress—it throws you off-balance, and you must work to regain your composure and sense of self.
Luckily, you’re not alone in this journey. Together with your fellow heroes, you’ll soar on the backs of flying bison, defeat devious foes, and discover the true meaning of balance…perhaps even help to save the world!
Inside the game book you’ll find four different eras as well as rules for playing everything from a heroic bender and master of martial arts, to an engineer trying to navigate a world of bending, even a humble cabbage merchant if that’s what suits your flavor. The game is built on the back of Powered by the Apocalypse rules to recreate different playbooks that let you emulate characters and moments from the series.
The combat system has been revamped, borrowing from Masks if you’re familiar with that, to bring you rules that make fights feel like you’re participating in a battle that ebbs and flows. And at the heart of it all, you can call on your relationships and principles and friends to make the fighting dramatic and meaningful every time.
As of now, the Kickstarter has blazed through its stretch goals raising over $6,500,000 at press time, and will likely shoot up much more before all is said and done. You can find a pledge to match whatever you’re hoping to get out of the Kickstarter, including the special “Otter-Penguin” which provides you with a discount on all stretch goals exclusive to Kickstarter. So back now while you can!
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