Then, all Villains in the current location of the fire nation statue will activate, simply carrying out the actions on their card.

Only then do players start picking playbooks, coming up with character concepts, and deciding what sort of bender (or otherwise) they are. This spread includes several ways of interacting with NPCs (that each use a different stat), a move to encourage emotional support between characters, and a generic ‘figure out what’s up’ move. And Magpie Games has produced several excellent roleplaying games, from the crowd-pleasing young superhero RPG Masks: A New Generation to the phantasmagoric horror of Bluebeard’s Bride. There might be multiple exchanges without interruption, or there might be breaks in between – think of how in the show two benders might exchange attacks, then continue a conversation about the source of their conflict, then go back to fighting again. However, the balance and ruin track does add a new element to the game, with a new way to split the main phase and the end game phase.These elemental tiles likely create opportunities to affect nearby enemies, blasting them with rocks, disorienting them with air or freezing groups in place with ice. Instead of being a bender, a character might instead have weapons training (like Sokka) or technology training (like Asami). A well-designed Powered by the Apocalypse game chooses moves so that the activities that are important to the themes and experience of that particular game are highlighted. Outside of combat, the basic moves in Avatar Legends are assess a situation, guide and comfort (anyone), intimidate (an NPC), plead (with an NPC), trick (an NPC), help (another PC), rely on your skills and training, and push your luck. During the first part of the game players will recruit Heroes from the four nations and battle a variety of Villains leading up to the Day of Black Sun, all while advancing their position on the Balance Track, while the Villains advance on the matching Ruin track.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Gamer Network Limited, Gateway House, 28 The Quadrant, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 1DN, United Kingdom, registered under company number 03882481. Either fighting a villain, recruiting an ally, activating a power on your player card, or moving on the balance track. Product description: Based on the Avatar film by James Cameron, the game continues the story introduced into the film thanks to a board game requiring good sense and strategy.The players’ outline will create a three-act episode, likely identifying an ally, a powerful figure who opposes them, and some sort of thing or location of importance. Each character has its own set of dice to roll, and as you recruit new characters they will brig new dice to roll in this phase, offer re-rolls, or other useful powers. There’s also an experience track for campaign play that eventually allows players to unlock new abilities to add to their bending portfolio, becoming more adept and versatile as the story continues. Avatar Legends: The RPG is built on the Powered by the Apocalypse framework, used in many TTRPGs such as Evil Hat Productions’ Monster of the Week and Magpie’s previous games, Masks: A New Generation, and Root: The RPG (which was also funded in part through Kickstarter).

For example, if that Adamant is shifted far towards their Restraint principle, but is usually pretty bad at Harmony – they might want to draw on their Restraint to comfort someone. Players will now take it in turns to place their character token into one of the three locations on the main board.Then each Adamant has other moves to choose from, like being better at awkwardly comforting other characters by admitting their insecurities, or verbally needling an opponent to get them to reveal their motivations.