Campaign created Tuesday, April 14, 2009 10:06:39 PM by Jim Mills

A Fire Nation Admiral led a large contingent of the Navy against the new Fire Lord, aiming to depose him and put another on the throne... one who would destroy the Avatar and make this world a Fire Nation world. And so the next struggle began...

We now have six players and have closed applications. If you want to play in our game, please send a PM to Jim Mills or Randi and we'll put you on the waiting list. Thanks! :)



We're going to run Avatar as a Fantasy Hero game, but it won't be a full-fledged Epic Fantasy setting. This game is set in the world of Avatar: The Last AirBender, as seen on TV on Cartoon Channel, Nickelodeon and other channels. It helps if you have seen the animated TV series, but that's not an absolute requirement to playing in our game. Be aware that we fully intend to keep the flavor of the Avatar TV series, though. You will not see Elves, Dwarves or Goblins in our game. The "Magic System" is based on "Bending" the elements: Air, Earth, Fire and Water. The Avatar (and Lion Turtles and major Spirits and very few others) can Bend Spirits as well. Our main concern is to keep the flavor of the Avatar series as seen on TV.

Note: The TV Series, Characters and images are copyrighted and owned by the Producers of the series. The planned movie, The Last Airbender, will be owned by the movie producers and M. Night Shyamalan, producer-director-writer (three live-action movies are planned, probable release of the first movie in 2010). We in no way wish to infringe on any of their rights. This game should be considered fan fiction as we build our stories together. In fact, we recommend you purchase the Avatar the Last AirBender DVDs which are available from Amazon.com or at Best Buy and other stores (about $30 per set). I (Jim) used a Best Buy gift card which my brother-in-law Alex and his wife Sharon gave me on my birthday last summer (2008) to buy the Complete Book 3 Collection, which includes a disk of special features in addition to all of the season 3 episodes. The Producers divide the episodes into chapters within three books, with 20-to-25 chapters (episodes) in each book. The three books are titled: Water, Earth and Fire as Aang the Avatar struggles to learn to Bend each element to prepare himself so that he can face the Fire Lord as a full-fledged and fully-realized Avatar, which he does at the end of Book 3 (the TV series ran three years; you can catch reruns on a couple of the various animation channels). We won't tell you how it ends. Our game may differ somewhat from the TV series and/or movie endings. ;)

We're planning to run this game in the post-TV series era, with the Avatar trying to train up new Airbender monks and restore balance to the world. Zuko is the new FireLord, trying to convert the Fire Nation to a more peace-loving place, with the help of his Uncle Iroh. But some subversives like it the way Fire Lord Ozai (Zuko's father) had made it, before the comet, and those guys work against Avatar Aang and his allies, seeking to establish the Fire Nation as rulers of the whole world.

The Avatar will be an NPC. Players will be Air Benders, Earth Benders, Fire Benders, Water Benders or Warriors. In the series, it seemed that many had martial arts skills, but not all. There were also some strange (to us) animal combinations, such as the great Lion-Turtles, Air Bisons (Air Benders), Badger-Moles (Earth Benders), Dragons (Fire Benders), and the Moon and Water Spirits (Water Benders). Other animals proliferate, from bearded cats to frozen frogs to the mighty Unagi (a sort of Water Dragon). There was also at least one instance of a man who could transform himself into a bear, so something like that may be a possibility, as well.

Standard Heroic with limited Super Powers representing Bending:
75 base points + up to 75 in disadvantages = 150 total starting points possible.
Maximum points from any one type Disadvantage: 25.
Normal Characteristic Maxima (at zero points) is required for all characters.

Required Disads:
All: 15 Hunted by Fire Nation Expatriates, More Powerful, Capture or Harshly Punish.
Benders:
10 Distinctive Features: Bender Eyes: Blue or Green for Water, Blue or Gray for Air, Red or Violet for Fire, Brown or Gray for Earth, Concealable, Notices and Recognizable, Detectable by Commonly-Used Senses.
10 Physical Limitation: Skin must touch Earth, soil or stone (Earth Benders), Water must be nearby (for Water Benders), Air Benders need air (duh) and some degree of space to move, Fire Benders need to stand rooted (feet on ground).
10 Psych Lim: Very uncomfortable when not touching Earth (Earth Benders), near water (Water Benders), or when wet (Fire Benders). Does not apply to Air Benders.

Bending Powers will probably be best represented by Telekinesis and Energy Blasts, with the Powers limited to Special Effects related to the Bender's specialty: Air, Earth, Fire or Water. New techniques will be learned as time goes by... indirect attacks seem to be a mainstay, for example, but it's still pretty obvious who is doing the attacking, using elaborate gestures to cause their element to move at their commands.

See Campaign Messages Page for more Character Building Guidelines for the Avatar Campaign.

You do not need to have your character ready yet to apply to the game. Go ahead and apply and we'll work with you on Character-building. :)

Interesting links:
http://avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

http://www.tv.com/avatar-the-last-airbender/show/28841/summary.html

Contact Jim or Randi for more information about the Avatar Campaign.
PM or email us... see the User List to get a link to send Jim or Randi a PM.

Earlier	Koh the Face Stealer takes the face and life of the true love of Avatar Kuruk, originally of the water tribe (he wore a wolf-head as a helmet or hood... so did Sokka, during the Fire Nation's War of Sozin's Comet).
300 Years Ago	Chin the Conqueror attempts to conquer the Four Nations. Avatar Kiyoshi stops him and his army, separating Kiyoshi Island from the mainland. Refusing to yield, Chin fell to his death rather than retreat from the Avatar's wrath. Thus ended the war.
100 ASC (four years ago)	Fire Lord Sozin aided Avatar Roku in his attempts to fight volcanic eruptions on his home islands. Overcome with volcanic gasses, Roku died. Sozun could have rescued his lifelong friend Roku, but he let Roku die so that he could pursue his plan for world conquest. Knowing that the next Avatar would be born an Air Bender, Sozin used the power of the Great Comet, renamed Sozin's Comet, to destroy the Air Nation and almost all Air Benders; the young Avatar was lost, frozen in an iceberg for 100 years. Despite the Fire Nation searching for the lost Avatar, Aang remained hidden within the iceberg. Aang succeeded in becoming a full-fledged Avatar, but struggled with his personal need to not take a life and the world's need to restore balance and defeat Fire Lord Ozai's plans for world destruction and conquest. Aang found another solution with the aid of a giant Lion-Turtle... he Bent Ozai's spirit, taking away Ozai's Fire Bending powers and this became the first step towards restoring the Balance. Ozai's son, Zuko, defeated his sister Azula with the aid of Water Bender Katara, and became Fire Lord. Azula and Ozai went into Fire Nation prisons.
103 ASC (one year ago)	Avatar Aang wed Kitara of the Southern Water Tribe, the world's only known Water Bender with Healing powers. In a triple ceremony, Fire Lord Zuko also married Mai of the Fire Nation, his life-long love, and Sokka married Suki. Aang and Kitara set out to travel the world. Toph returned to her family. Iroh and Jeong Jeong help Zuko manage the Fire Nation, and play Pai Sho in Iroh's tea shop.
104 ASC (this year)	Over the past four years, Avatar Aang has been searching the world for any and everyone with any Air Bending talent, in an effort to re-establish the Air Bender Nation and the Monks in their temples. Meeting with some success, he restarted the Southern Air Temple and began training a dozen new monks, along with Kitara, often traveling to the Southern Water Tribe to meet with Pakku and Gran-Gran (also: see below). Earth Lord Bumi and his people have been rebuilding the Earth Nation cities of Ba Sing Se and Omashu, after the destruction left behind by the war. Fire Nation Lord Zuko wedded Mai and they have been searching for Zuko's lost mother, with no help from Zuko's father, Ozai or sister, Azula. Water Nation Masters Kitara and Pakku seek to guide and rebuild the Southern Water tribe, teaching their people the ways of Water Bending again, the Fire Nation raids having devastated them in years past.