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.

 

[darjr]

4million

 

[Aldarc]

I will definitely be curious how the fact that this is a non-D&D game plays out at the table for backers who may or may not have experience with either (1) TTRPGs or (2) non-D&D TTRPGs.

I kinda hope that this Kickstarter becomes a huge gateway drug to the wider world of non-D&D TTRPGs.

 

[Campbell]

Based on the Quickstart it seems to line up pretty well with scene framed Powered by the Apocalypse games like Masks and Monsterhearts albeit with more of a focus on the physical action than those games have. It reminds me a bit of Apocalypse Keys in that it seems to want characters being emotive while doing other things.

One distinguishing feature is that it does have a combat system with defined antagonists.

 

[CleverNickName]

It looks like they're done posting new stretch goals, too. (Which is a good thing...they had so many of them that I was starting to worry about fulfillment.)

I pledged at the Otter Penguin level ($75) so I'm getting:

• Core Rulebook
• Core Playbook
• Dice pack (12 custom dice)
• Four Nations cloth map
• 54-card Combat Action Deck
• Dice bag
• Pack of 5 journal booklets
• Adventure Booklet: Earth & Root
• Adventure Booklet: Fire & Brimstone
• Adventure Booklet: Ash & Steel
• Adventure Booklet: Air & Wind
• Adventure Booklet: Water & Mist
• Extended Play booklet
• And PDFs of everything

I mean, $75 isn't cheap but that's still a pretty awesome deal.

 

[overgeeked]

I will definitely be curious how the fact that this is a non-D&D game plays out at the table for backers who may or may not have experience with either (1) TTRPGs or (2) non-D&D TTRPGs.

I kinda hope that this Kickstarter becomes a huge gateway drug to the wider world of non-D&D TTRPGs.

In my experience, it’s gamers who have a hard time figuring out PBTA games not non-gamers. Fresh-faced newbs have a far easier time grokking the system as they don’t have years baggage to unlearn first.

 

[PsyzhranV2]

I will definitely be curious how the fact that this is a non-D&D game plays out at the table for backers who may or may not have experience with either (1) TTRPGs or (2) non-D&D TTRPGs.

I kinda hope that this Kickstarter becomes a huge gateway drug to the wider world of non-D&D TTRPGs.

In my experience, it’s gamers who have a hard time figuring out PBTA games not non-gamers. Fresh-faced newbs have a far easier time grokking the system as they don’t have years baggage to unlearn first.

I agree with overgeeked, from what I've been seeing and reading, brand new players who have never even heard of a TTRPG before are finding their feet really fast with PbtA system (or at least Magpie's interpretation of it). It's the people coming from D&D and other "trad" RPGs that are having trouble adjusting.

 

[Aldarc]

I agree with overgeeked, from what I've been seeing and reading, brand new players who have never even heard of a TTRPG before are finding their feet really fast with PbtA system (or at least Magpie's interpretation of it). It's the people coming from D&D and other "trad" RPGs that are having trouble adjusting.

My partner, who has next to no experience with TTRPGs, had a WAY EASIER time with Dungeon World than they did with 5e D&D.

It will still be interesting how people with various levels of knowledge with PbtA games find this game precisely because it is not the 800 lb. gorilla in the TTRPG market. I will be curious what lasting impact, if any, this TTRPG has for our hobby.

 

[overgeeked]

My partner, who has next to no experience with TTRPGs, had a WAY EASIER time with Dungeon World than they did with 5e D&D.

It will still be interesting how people with various levels of knowledge with PbtA games find this game precisely because it is not the 800 lb. gorilla in the TTRPG market. I will be curious what lasting impact, if any, this TTRPG has for our hobby.

While I don't expect Avatar Legends to dethrone D&D, it's looking quite like a 500 lb. gorilla at the moment.

 

[overgeeked]

So an update on the Kickstarter, it passed $4 million overnight ($4.08 million now) and will likely double Colville's $2.1 million Kickstarter before the day's out.

 

[CleverNickName]

So an update on the Kickstarter, it passed $4 million overnight ($4.08 million now) and will likely double Colville's $2.1 million Kickstarter before the day's out.