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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aldarc" data-source="post: 8416903" data-attributes="member: 5142">Glad to help. As the conversation drifted to running investigations, this seemed like a potentially good illustrative example. I think that the goal in bold is an incredibly interesting issue that doesn't always get discussed in "system matters." It's not just a matter of how or whether system matters, but also when should one consider one system over another for play purposes, in this case PbtA. I don't have an answer on hand for when one should consider PbtA, but I will definitely be mulling this over. I have had a similar issue with trying to find the "right system" for a back-burner game that I have wanted to run, which incidentally involves a supernatural investigative society in 1840s Vienna. So I have looked into a variety of potential investigative or urban fantasy games for those purposes: e.g., Call of Cthulhu (Berlin), Gumshoe, Fria Ligan's Vaesen, Dresden Files Accelerated, Monster of the Week, etc. Edit: This thread has also now made me aware of The Between, so... crap... the list grows. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="😩" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f629.png" title="Weary face    :weary:" data-shortname=":weary:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" />PbtA is really their system of choice and Magpie Games know it inside and out, so it's little surprise that they convinced Nickelodeon that this system would fit their IP. It seems like an incredibly appropriate system for Avatar, especially after Magpie proved themselves at handling young adult fiction with Masks. The only other systems I probably would have considered for Avatar would have been Fate (which includes games like <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/185449/Do-Fate-of-the-Flying-Temple" target="_blank">Do: Fate of the Flying Temple</a> and a Korra-like <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/127543/Jadepunk-Tales-From-Kausao-City" target="_blank">Jadepunk</a> and it even uses a mock Avatar character in its Accelerated book) and Cortex Prime (see The Dragon Prince: Tales of Xadia), or possibly something like Kids on Bikes/Brooms and that's pretty much it.</blockquote>

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