Avatar Legends gives the future of Last Airbender over to the fans

polygon.com:

Flameo, Hotman! Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game, Magpie Games’ tabletop role-playing game set in the Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra universe, is officially available for pre-order. It initially launched via Kickstarter, meeting its funding goals in just 16 minutes. Now anyone can own a copy.

If you’re a fan of Avatar and Korra but not as familiar, or even completely unfamiliar, with TTRPGs, don’t fret. Avatar Legends is designed to be welcoming to newcomers, while offering depth that will be satisfying to those who have tons of experience around the table. Players have freedom to express their creativity — from bending or weapon style to time period and objective — all within the wonderful world and themes of Avatar.

Playing a session of Avatar Legends should feel like creating your own episode of Avatar or Korra.

The game uses Powered by the Apocalypse, a framework designed by Meguey Baker and Vincent Baker, that puts group storytelling front and center. The dice roll doesn’t determine whether something will happen, but how it will happen. Maybe you’re trying to hide from Dai Li agents, or perhaps lob a rock at an airship. There are lots of ways your attempts might shake out — and negative outcomes have consequences. Maybe the rock fails to make contact, or hits in a spot you weren’t expecting; the benders on board can see you now and are throwing projectiles your way. How will you react? Think of it like a protracted game of “yes, and” where you’re always thinking on your feet.

The Avatar universe spans decades, and players can run a campaign in one of five eras: Kyoshi, Roku, Hundred Year War, Aang, or Korra. The era dictates the power struggle, and the canon characters (called Legends in the