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    Avatar The Last Airbender Fate Guide

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    This document provides guidelines for adapting the Avatar: The Last Airbender universe to the Fate Core roleplaying system. Bending abilities are represented as Extras that can be taken once per character. Substyles require stunts while exceptions like bloodbending have their own skills. The Avatar is a shared character that players take turns controlling with its own Extra. Skill changes consolidate fighting into a single Combat skill. Chi blocking is represented by a stunt.

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    This document provides guidelines for adapting the Avatar: The Last Airbender universe to the Fate Core roleplaying system. Bending abilities are represented as Extras that can be taken once per character. Substyles require stunts while exceptions like bloodbending have their own skills. The Avatar is a shared character that players take turns controlling with its own Extra. Skill changes consolidate fighting into a single Combat skill. Chi blocking is represented by a stunt.

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    This document provides guidelines for adapting the Avatar: The Last Airbender universe to the Fate Core roleplaying system. Bending abilities are represented as Extras that can be taken once per character. Substyles require stunts while exceptions like bloodbending have their own skills. The Avatar is a shared character that players take turns controlling with its own Extra. Skill changes consolidate fighting into a single Combat skill. Chi blocking is represented by a stunt.

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    Avatar The Last Airbender Fate Guide

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    This document provides guidelines for adapting the Avatar: The Last Airbender universe to the Fate Core roleplaying system. Bending abilities are represented as Extras that can be taken once per character. Substyles require stunts while exceptions like bloodbending have their own skills. The Avatar is a shared character that players take turns controlling with its own Extra. Skill changes consolidate fighting into a single Combat skill. Chi blocking is represented by a stunt.

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    The key takeaways are that bending is handled as extras that cost refresh points, substyles are handled with stunts, and bloodbending and energybending have additional rules.

    Bending is handled as extras that cost refresh points to represent the main bending styles. Substyles are represented with stunts, while bloodbending has its own skills and energybending has a special stunt.

    The Avatar is handled differently in that either the group collaboratively makes the character sheet and passes control each session, or the Avatar is not included in the game. They also have additional benefits and restrictions.

    Avatar: The Last Airbender

    A Guide For FATE Core


    Introduction
    Avatar: The Last Airbender is a pretty easy fit for Fate Core. It requires some minimal hacking to
    fit the chassis onto the source material. As a pulpy series with loosely defined rules with a focus
    on interpersonal relationships and stylish action, most of the changes are minor mechanical
    moves: a few extras and swap over to approaches.
    Summary of Changes
    -Adding in Bending Extras
    -Slight alteration to the Skill System
    -Stunt for Chi Blocking
    Bending
    Bending will be handled as Extras.
    The main four styles Airbending, Earthbending, Firebending, Waterbending are handled as
    Skills and cost refresh. This is done as a balancing mechanic: those with Bending powers are
    much stronger than their non-bending counterparts.
    The Bending Skills are:
    Skill Overcome Create An Attack Defend Refresh
    Advantage Cost
    Airbending X X X X 1
    Earthbending X X X X 1
    Firebending X X X X 1
    Waterbending X X X X 1
    Restriction: Only one Bending Extra/Skill per character

    Substyles
    Subbending styles like metalbending, sandbending, soundbending, lightning bending, etc. are
    handled with stunts. The stunts following the following format:
    Because I am an [X-]bender who has trained in [subbending style], I can manipulate
    [material] with the [main bending style] skill.
    For example,
    Because I am an Earthbender who has trained in Metalbending, I can manipulate Metal
    with the Earthbending skill.
    Subbending styles can be handled with stunts for two reasons: you already paid the refresh cost
    to get into the main style and they are just a special trick of the main style.
    Exceptions
    Three subbending styles do not follow the above format: Flying with Airbending, Energybending
    and Bloodbending. The former is due to its unique nature, the later due to its power.
    For Flying, use this format:
    Enter The Void: Because I have [aspect in the vein of letting go of attachment],
    I can fly without any tools with the Airbending skill.
    As for Bloodbending and Energybending, that is different. Bloodbending is handled as additional
    skills:
    Skill Overcome Create An Attack Defend Refresh
    Advantage Cost
    Bloodbending X X X X 1

    In addition, Energybending is handled as the following stunt (cost: 1 Refresh):


    Bending The Energy Within: Because I can bend energy, once per session, when I
    inflict a severe consequence on an opponent, I may spend a Fate point and permanently
    remove someones bending skill(s), allowing them to replace them with any other skill. I
    may also allow someone who previously lost their bending skill to replace one of their
    skills with a bending skill.
    The Avatar
    The Avatar is handled differently. First off, who gets to be the Avatar?
    There is a lot of protagonist power inherent in being the Avatar. Everyone will love or hate you
    based on it, its important in the setting and can open doors, and the spirit world will open its eyes
    and ears to you. In other words, a lot of spotlight.
    As such, there are two ways to assign this and keep everyone happy.
    The first way is to just have everyone agree on who gets to be it and have the player, the GM,
    and other players make sure the spotlight doesnt shine on the avatar disproportionately.
    The second way is for the group to make the avatars character sheet while everyone makes their
    own. Rotating from session to session, each player (including the GM) gets control of the
    character. When they are not in control of the avatar, they control their own character.
    This system does a good job of allowing for the spotlight to be shared with no one feeling
    underserved. Everyone gets to experience life as the avatar and, when the GM is in control, the
    party even gets to work without them.
    When a player is playing the avatar, their own character is either not there or just not getting
    involved. Basically, the GM doesnt control them, but they also dont factor in: best way to avoid
    complaints the GM is playing their own character wrong. Think of it like those episodes where
    one of the main cast either just wasnt there, was only featured for a minute here or there, or was
    conveniently put in a position where they had no effect on the story.
    Not an issue with the Avatar as it isnt anyones personal character and the GM doesnt play the
    Avatar when they have the character. Spotlight is always on the GM, anyway. They dont need
    the avatar. The GM getting the character is more so that everyone can play their own character at
    once in a session. When the GM has the avatar, they dont factor into the story, even if they are
    there. Theyre either locked in their own little world, off doing different things, or taken out.
    Of course, you can always just not have the Avatar in the game.
    Extra Benefit Aspect Cost Stunt Cost Refresh Limit
    Cost
    Avatar Access to High Concept 1 2 Only one
    Airbending, aspect must per game
    Eartbending, reference
    Firebending, status as the
    Waterbending Avatar
    skills; Avatar
    Spirit stunt*

    *Avatar Spirit: Because you hold the spirit of the avatar, once per session, you may
    spend a fate point to invoke the avatar spirit. Until the end of the scene, you automatically
    succeed at any overcome action a normal bender can accomplish and can attempt epic
    levels of bending, like making islands fly, volcanos erupt, or other such godly feats.
    Skill Changes
    Most of the skills are the same as standard Fate Core. However, to aid in the mechanical
    disparity between bending skills and the normal combat skills, Fight and Shoot have been
    consolidated into a singular skill: Combat. This combined skill works as the two separate skills:
    it has all four actions associated with it, but it can only be used to defend against close-range
    attacks; ranged attacks require athletics to defend.
    Chi Blocking
    Chi Blocking is a common feat and is handled with a relatively standard stunt:
    Chi Block: Gain a +2 bonus to Combat when you attempt to create a Blocked Chi
    advantage on someone.
    As For Everything Else
    Everything else is handled as normal in Fate Core. No more special exceptions need to be made.

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