A Poisoned Master - Avatar Legends

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Deep in the heart of the Kung Fu Mountains, a team of martial arts experts continues to train to hone their art at the Wushu Temple. Having worked together for years, these fighters and spiritualists are as close as family, and are lead by their wise and aged teacher, Master Wushu. The time has come for Master Wushu to travel with her pupils to a secret hidden training ground to reveal to the party the secret to her ultimate martial arts technique, capable of unleashing untold power. However, just before the party can set out, tragedy strikes- Master Wushu is poisoned... by one of her disciples! Join this campaign to point fingers, rouse suspicions, travel across the land, learn an ancient technique to achieve ultimate power, and maybe even... poison your Master?

I'm looking to set up a 3-6 player Avatar legends campaign for anyone who is interested in narrative gaming, regardless of previous experience. Like other PbtA games, Avatar legends is a fiction-first gaming system that emphasizes characters' struggle to find internal balance while working together to solve a community issue or threat. This would be a good game for those interested in improv gaming and not interested in tactical combat or crunchy rules interactions. I will use the written rules as a guide, rather than a hard and fast ruleset, and I will not be using the combat rules. Instead, combat will use the same basic action resolution used throughout the rest of the narrative to give combat a fast and unified feel.


Aug 22, 2024 6:37 pm
Deep in the heart of the Kung Fu Mountains, a team of martial arts experts continues to train to hone their art at the Wushu Temple. Having worked together for years, these fighters and spiritualists are as close as family, and are lead by their wise and aged teacher, Master Wushu. The time has come for Master Wushu to travel with her pupils to a secret hidden training ground to reveal to the party the secret to her ultimate martial arts technique, capable of unleashing untold power. However, just before the party can set out, tragedy strikes- Master Wushu is poisoned... by one of her disciples! Join this campaign to point fingers, rouse suspicions, travel across the land, learn an ancient technique to achieve ultimate power, and maybe even... poison your Master?

I'm looking to set up a 3-6 player Avatar legends campaign for anyone who is interested in narrative gaming, regardless of previous experience. Expected post rate is ~3 times per week. Like other PbtA games, Avatar legends is a fiction-first gaming system that emphasizes characters' struggle to find internal balance while working together to solve a community issue or threat. This would be a good game for those interested in improv gaming and not interested in tactical combat or crunchy rules interactions. I will use the written rules as a guide, rather than a hard and fast ruleset, and I will not be using the combat rules. Instead, combat will use the same basic action resolution used throughout the rest of the narrative to give combat a fast and unified feel.

Since this is an improv-heavy game, we will use the first session to start the narrative and engage with the plot hooks, filling out character sheets with relevant information as it comes up naturally during play. For those who have not played Avatar Legends or a similar Magpie PbtA game before, the character sheets are really simple and have minimal things to choose and fill out, so the character creation process is not intimidating or difficult. Again, we will be ignoring references to Techniques on the character sheet, as these pertain to the optional combat rules that we are not using.

If you are ineterested in playing, comment down below with your character's personality and martial arts style, and I will send you an invite!
Last edited August 22, 2024 6:43 pm
Aug 22, 2024 9:09 pm
I have some interest. I am unfamilar with the rules and have never played PbtA, and would generally characterize myself as a "mechanical" player and not "narrative heavy" but I would love to try and push that part of me into a better narrative player

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As for the character:

Kyoshi, an acrobatic nunchuck using martial artist. He is calm and collected, normally moving slowly and methodically but once in combat would be surprisingly quick
Last edited August 22, 2024 9:39 pm
Aug 22, 2024 9:33 pm
Yang is a natural fit for this game.
Aug 23, 2024 1:24 pm
Sounds good for both of you (I sent invites). For reference, Yang was a martial artist in my last Avatar campaign. He was a fire bender with a lot of passion and flavor, and he would work very nicely in this campaign. It would be lovely to have him back!
Aug 24, 2024 10:40 am
Yang is also the alter ego of Bruce Lee anyone who is also a Bruce fan, will see a lot of similarities between them.

Though Yang is an extension(a super powered) of myself, my own understandings of the martial science, and perhaps a bit of my prejudice against being a stickler to a single school or line of thought. And while I have been studying martial science for decades I am still but a student, where Yang is a master of many schools and techniques. He is a bit older than I am though perhaps I will become him in time.
Aug 25, 2024 1:02 am
I actually didn't remember the Bruce Lee bit! Fascinating!
Aug 25, 2024 8:24 am
I don't think I ever expressed it specifically. That shouldn't discourage anyone from using hin as a model. Bruce Lee is an excellent choice for archetype.
Aug 26, 2024 4:00 pm
Anyone else interested? We still have some room.
Aug 30, 2024 4:47 pm
I'll wait a couple more days for someone to jump in, and then we will start.
Oct 23, 2024 9:09 pm
Is this still open? I was scrolling through 'latest games' and saw this. Was wondering what the status was?

If so, what era approximately is this taking place in?
Oct 24, 2024 1:35 am
Let me check and see if there is room for another. And I'm not sure what era, it's kind of separate from the original avatar story line right now.
Oct 24, 2024 8:53 am
Sometime before Sozin's comet I hope.
Oct 24, 2024 6:08 pm
Looks like we are good to take on another if you are interested!

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