Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game Kickstarter is live!

The Kickstarter for Magpie Games' Avatar: Legends RPG has launched and is hurtling towards $1M in its opening hours. Set in the world of Avatar: The Last Airbender, and The Legend of Korra, this tabletop roleplaying game includes a free quickstart which you can download today.

Update — it hit $1M in the first few hours, making it the fastest ever TTRPG Kickstarter to do so.

Update -- after less than two days, it has made over $2.3M, already making it the biggest TTRPG Kickstarter ever (with nearly a month yet to go!)

Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game

An officially licensed tabletop roleplaying game set in the world of Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra

www.kickstarter.com

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.

 

[Campbell]

The news on the site heavily focuses on the business and publishers side of things. This is very common player-side convention.

It's also a very millennial / Gen Z / video game streamer type thing. As an elder millennial I'm mostly familiar with it from my time playing MMOs and Magic fan sites.

 

[overgeeked]

It's also a very millennial / Gen Z / video game streamer type thing. As an elder millennial I'm mostly familiar with it from my time playing MMOs and Magic fan sites.

I'll take your word for it. I'm not familiar with its origins. I only know it's ubiquitous enough to be seemingly everywhere in gaming circles and has seeped into this GenXer's head.

 

[Aldarc]

I'm aware of the generic concept of grades from A-F, obviously (they're common parlance). I didn't realise this was the same thing (I thought it was some specific video game thing), and hadn't heard of "S".

Now I know!

 

[overgeeked]

The other half the battle is gratuitous violence.

 

[Grendel_Khan]

I'm aware of the generic concept of grades from A-F, obviously (they're common parlance). I didn't realise this was the same thing (I thought it was some specific video game thing), and hadn't heard of "S".

Now I know!

First I heard of it was in the One Punch Man anime, and always assumed it was popularized there. Now I know too (I think? I’m still a bit confused about the origins)

 

[Panfilo]

It originated in Japanese video games and has spread to ubiquity over the last 15 years or so. A run of a level would get graded based on its points and time at the end, as in Sonic Adventure 2 or Armored Core 4. Tier lists as a general media concept now use it, in part in order to make room for the idea of an overpowered or boundary-defining success, ie. an S tier or S+ tier fighting game character (Meta Knight in Smash Bros. Brawl). Or, used more broadly, to say Citizen Kane was an S+ tier movie

 

[Gradine]

My first experience with S, A-E (F isn't really a part of the Japanese tier system) was with Dance Dance Revolution.

These S-F internet tier charts that you see everywhere are a relatively recent phenomenon, only a couple of years old. Treantmonk used to just use colors to define tiers prior

 

[ruemere]

Could anyone tell me how much PbtA is in the game engine?

On a scale from 1 (pure PbtA with fronts) through 3 (sprinkled with something else like Dungeon World) through 5 (half and half, like City of Mist) to 7 (entirely different, though inspired by, like Blades in the Dark).

 

[Aldarc]

Could anyone tell me how much PbtA is in the game engine?

On a scale from 1 (pure PbtA with fronts) through 3 (sprinkled with something else like Dungeon World) through 5 (half and half, like City of Mist) to 7 (entirely different, though inspired by, like Blades in the Dark).

Download the free Quickstart and read for yourself.

 

[ruemere]

Download the free Quickstart and read for yourself.

I'm on vacation. Using mostly mobile. With somewhat limited Internet access (quality varies).

Also, hopefully someone already gave it a test run and can provide gameplay level insights.