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[Sordorel]

Hey guys, I’m new here. I’ll probably introduce myself later, don’t feel like typing up one right now.

Anyhow, my players have been talking about a avatar; the last airbender game for a while. And I’m pretty sure that SW would do very nicely for this. (and is the only system simple enough that I feel confident home brewing a bit)
Anyhow, considering the series I would say that the general PP system isn’t entirely appropriate. (tough I could use it and never have trouble with it I suppose) anyhow, I have noticed that in most of the computers games based on this series (most of them aren’t that good mind you) there is a focus/chi bar that fills up over time, but of course were talking seconds here, not hours.
One of the idea’s I had was using a system like this for my SW game. The plan would be that benders start combat without focus points and are allocated one at the start of their turn. These focus points ad up over time but are dispensed at the end of the fight. This represents the bender getting into his forms and focusing. An additional option would be to allow benders to take a focus action, in which they make a bending check and gain an additional PP for every success and raise. Now I would suppose this leaves benders with perhaps a little to les PP at the start of combat, so perhaps they should start with a PP per rank on their first turn? Or perhaps half their bending dice? Any suggestions?

[Sunwolf]

Interesting idea, going to lose some FFF with it though.

I've been kicking something like this around the past few days. After watching some episodes, I think NE superpowers are the way to go.

Everything you need is there with no PP to track. Keeps it simple and FFF.

Just my two cents.
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[Porkchop Express]

You could try a Feng Shui approach and totally referesh power points in between encounters.

[DaRealJudas]

I had tried to come up with some ideas for the setting a few month ago. Sadly it didn't click and no one here was able to help me.
Anyway the post still exists:
http://www.peginc.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=20975


Oh btw: Welcome!
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[Lord Inar]

Just a few days short of an entire year on this post!

My son and I were talking yesterday and this is our shorthand version of bending (since he just got into the show a few months ago)

Arcane Background(Bending): Choose your element. Your Bending skill is tied to an attribute based on your element:
Fire: Strength
Water: Spirit
Air: Smarts
Earth: Vigor

Spellcasting is done like Blessed in Deadlands with the following exceptions.
Benders gets the Conviction edge for free.
Characters start with two powers and every time they take New Power, they get two more powers.

Characters may attempt to counter another bender by making a Bending roll at -2, modified by an additional -2 for each rank of the power including Novice.

Bending Block: Requirements: Seasoned, Bending d10+. You are particularly good at countering other's use of bending. You get a +2 to counter another bender's power.

Each element has a list of powers available, probably based on 50 Fathoms and tweaked based on what's seen in the show (e.g. Water is the only one to get healing for example)

Obviously the powers have the trappings of the element.

I'll post a list when we finalize it.
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[ronin3338]

Sounds more FFF than other ideas I've seen debated...

I would suggest that they have to learn bending skills (powers), remember that Ang and Kitara (sp?) are both learning to do new things.

Hmmm... maybe they get PP, but it's only to limit what they can do for the round (it would have to be lower than stated in the rules). If they "push" it (spend PP over that) they would get a negative mod, maybe take Fatigue if they fail...
I think I'll work on that in more detail for my Shadowrun conversion.

I would love to see your finished work!
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[Lord Inar]

A couple of new rules for my Avatar setting:

Damage reduction: When struck by a bending attack, a character who makes a successful bending roll may reduce the amount of damage taken and be knocked back a number of inches equal to the amount of damage reduced. Every raise on the bending roll reduces the knockback by one inch.

Example: A fire bender just blasts an earth bender for 15 points of damage. The earth bender wishes to reduce the damage somewhat, but not get knocked out of the park either. He has a Toughness of 7 so he wants to take 10 points of damage (just under a wound). He makes a successful earth bending roll with a single raise. Normally he would be knocked back 5 inches (the remaining damage) but with a raise on the roll it is only 4 inches, still within easy striking distance.


I think I'll also allow martial arts as written in Deadlands as well to account for Suki & Tai-Li. An edge relating to this would involve negating a bending background for a certain number of rounds as well.
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[AntiTrust]

Why not just have each power work like regular super powers. When an air bender wants to fly on a ball of wind he just buys the power with the new powers edge and invests skill points into it. So he'll just make a "wind rider" roll, if he succeeds then he does it.
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[jeff]

If you have a copy of 50 Fathoms, you could just adapt the elemental magic from that setting to Avatar.
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[gatharion]

My wife ran an Avatar one-shot using SW.
She did do thing with linking the different elements to different attributes.

The way she did power points was by only giving a few of them (five I think), but having them refresh one per turn.

That seemed to work really well, it meant that benders were never unable to bend, but couldn't do the big flashy stuff turn after turn.
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