e fil Credits Project Manager Licensing Liaison Elizabeth Chaipraditkul Mark Diaz Truman
Lead Designer Staff Support
Brendan Conway Kate Bullock, Derrick Kapchinsky, Adam McEwen, Val Osbourn, Chris Samson Additional Design Mark Diaz Truman Special thanks to: Lourdes Arocho, Christi Cardenas, Emilie Cruz, Michael Dante Development Elizabeth Chaipraditkul, Brendan Conway, Marissa Kelly, Mark Diaz Truman
Writing e DiMartino, Arthur “DJ” Desin, Joan Hilty, Amy Jarashow, Bryan Konietzko, Claire Posner-greco, James Salerno, Russ Spina, Jeff Whitman
Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game was designed by:
pl Danielle Lauzon, Elizabeth Brendan Conway, James Mendez Hodes, Marissa Kelly, Mark Diaz Truman Chaipraditkul, Brendan Conway With contributions from: Layout and Graphic Design Sharang Biswas, Elizabeth Chaipraditkul, Miguel Ángel Espinoza, Lee Francis Miguel Ángel Espinoza IV, Sen-Foong Lim, Yeonsoo Julian Kim, Daniel Kwan, Alexi Sargeant Art Direction Marissa Kelly Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game is based on the Powered by the Art Apocalypse framework originally developed by Meguey and Vincent Baker. m
Avatar Studios & Viacom
International Incorporated Miguel Ángel Espinoza, Abe Dieckman, Patrick Spaziante, Richard Suh
Chinese Translation Dr. Lee Siu-Leung, Tony Lee Sa
An Urgent Request is a standalone adventure set in the Roku Era. If you’ve never run a game of Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game before, this adventure is a great way to start—it includes all the elements you need for an exciting episode of your very own. An Urgent Request can also be used in an ongoing Roku Era campaign. The adventure is set in the Fire Nation and features a plot
e against Princess Zeisan and the Guiding Wind, a rogue movement of Air Nomads.
No Path to the End?
fil The Fire Nation princess, Zeisan, is engaged to the leader of the Guiding Wind, an Air Nomad named Khandro, and their If you are used to running adventures with heavily detailed wedding is nigh. News of the celebration is all over the nation’s encounters and prepared NPCs, it might come as a surprise that capital. As part of the festivities leading up to the wedding, the few mechanics are written into this adventure, beyond the esca- princess is giving a lecture on the Guiding Wind’s principles for lations and some information about various characters. Avatar all to hear in Hari Bulkan. Fire Lord Sozin believes his sister is Legends: The Roleplaying Game relies on players triggering moves out to dethrone him, and in a move to discredit her, is planning based on the actions they take during play instead of asking to interrupt the lecture with undercover Fire Nation soldiers players to make any specific checks for specific actions required pretending to be radical Air Nomads. Air Nomad Sister Rioshon by the adventure. has discovered the plot to ruin the lecture and asks the heroes to Since every significant action a PC takes drives the action
Using This Adventure
e warn Princess Zeisan before it’s too late. of the game forward, there is no prescribed order of events. In fact, there is no singular way to resolve the situation at hand. Instead, the adventure puts the PCs in a dramatic starting situ- ation that demands immediate action from the heroes! It’s your job to use the material in this adventure to keep things moving, pl providing interesting events and NPCs to consistently engage The contents of this adventure create a sandbox for your PCs, your players. a setting in which they can choose any path they’d like to move You can read more about running Avatar Legends: The Role- the story forward. Some of the tools you can find here are: playing Game in the core book, Chapter 8: Running the Game, and more about how moves shape play in Chapter 3: Funda- • The “Summary” provides an outline of the adventure mentals of Play. and explains the various issues the players face. m
• The “Introduction” brings the PCs into the story and
sets up your group to undertake the adventure. Using the Pregenerated Characters • “Important Characters & Groups” provides expanded There are four pregenerated characters at the end of this adven- descriptions and relevant rules information for the ture. Each character has a unique history, playbook, and set of characters and groups PCs might encounter. stats. These characters are based on the ones used in the Avatar • “Important Locations” features different areas for the Legends All-Star Actual Play, which you can watch on YouTube. PCs to explore during the adventure and explains Your players can use these characters to play through this ad- where important characters might be found. Sa
venture, or they can create their own as explained in the Avatar
• “GM Advice” contains additional guidance Legends: The Roleplaying Game core book. for this adventure just for the GM and gives The pregenerated characters have their moves, feature ele- advice on how the adventure could end. ments, and techniques already chosen; players need only decide whether to shift their balance by one step at the start of play, and which principle to shift it toward. Players can adjust the pregen- erated characters to make themselves more comfortable, altering names, look, and even mechanical elements if they are familiar enough to make that choice. The characters are designed to work well with the current elements included and the adventure as presented, but as always, if the GM and player agree then they can make changes. After selecting the pregenerated characters, players will still go through the process of filling out connections with each other.
Adventure: An Urgent Request 3
Summary The heroes discover that there is a plot to discredit Princess Zeisan and the Air Nomads at her pre-wedding symposium to promote Air Nomad ideals to Fire Nation nobles. The plot was concocted by Minister Zianda in order to get in the good graces of the princess’s brother, Fire Lord Sozin. The Fire Lord wants his sister’s plans stopped and though he has given no official orders, he has made it clear to his underlings that they must
e see his will done. Zianda’s plot to discredit the Air Nomads is all his own invention, and involves Firebenders pretending to be Airbenders, disrupting the symposium with anti-nobility propaganda, and attacking the nobles there. Zianda hopes this
fil might even help blow up the political marriage between Zeisan and Khandro, leader of the Guiding Wind, further casting Air Nomad influence out of the Fire Nation. Sister Rioshon of the Air Nation uncovers what is happening and asks the PCs to warn the princess of the plot as she is unable to do so herself for personal reasons. As they make their way to the symposium, they are stopped by Tiger-Monkey, a spy sent to investigate the Air Nomads by nobility, who suspects the PCs of working against the Fire Nation. The heroes must escape from Tiger-Monkey or convince him to let them go. When they arrive
e at the symposium, they must unmask the Firebenders and pre- vent them from causing a chaotic incident that will undermine the Air Nomads in the eyes of the world. pl Brother and Sister Fire Lord Sozin is working to prove himself a stronger leader than his father. Unfortunately, the current Fire Lord is a petty and insecure man. Princess Zeisan is convinced that her broth- Air Nomad Rioshon er’s insecurities will lead him down a dark path and is attempting and the Mystery Attacks to disrupt his increasingly brutal actions as much as she possibly Air Nomad Sister Rioshon is in the Fire Nation Capital on the can. Zeisan follows Air Nomad teachings and is set to marry invitation of Fire Nation nobility to act as a teacher to their chil- m
Khandro, the leader of the Guiding Wind, a disruptive faction dren, and to check in on her own people in the city. And so what of Air Nomads. She believes that if more of the Fire Nation fol- if Princess Zeisan’s wedding is nigh, and Rioshon might have a lowed the Air Nomad teachings, they would turn away from Fire chance to see the princess, if only from afar? Rioshon regularly Lord Sozin and his xenophobic fearmongering. tries to convince herself that that is not why she is here. Fire Lord Sozin is aware that his sister is attempting to Fire Lord Sozin doesn’t trust Rioshon, and has declared her undermine him and wants to thwart her by discrediting her and a guest of the royal family, assigning her an apartment in Hari her Air Nomad teachings. Their current conflict started with Bulkan and attaching a retinue of Fire Nation soldiers to keep Sa
arguments and accusations as Sozin interrogated Zeisan’s beliefs, tabs on her. They are there under the guise of being guides and but it has now escalated to the Fire Lord spreading propa- protectors, but Rioshon knows she is being kept under watch. ganda around the city concerning the Guiding Wind’s radical Sozin knows that Rioshon was one of Zeisan’s most beloved ideas. Worried Fire Nation nobles who’ve bought into Sozin’s teachers, but he has only learned hints of the depth of their propaganda machine have asked an independent investigator, relationship. Rioshon trained Zeisan in chi-blocking, and the Tiger-Monkey, to find out what the Air Nomads in the city are two also formed a meaningful, deeply personal bond—in fact, up to and bring them evidence if they’re working against the though neither said so out loud, each was in love with the other. throne. Tiger-Monkey is a master spy and is now keeping tabs on The two women still have feelings for one another despite the anyone associated with the Guiding Wind. fact that Zeisan is betrothed to another. Rioshon would never do anything to disrupt the marriage though; Zeisan has sacrificed too much to free the Fire Nation from her brother’s grasp, and Rioshon knows Zeisan would always choose her duty to the people over her own feelings. Rioshon is pointedly avoiding direct contact with Princess Zeisan while she’s in the Capital to
The Ultimate RPG Character Backstory Guide: Expanded Genres Edition: Prompts and Activities to Create Compelling Characters for Horror, Sci-Fi, X-Punk, and More
The Ultimate RPG Character Backstory Guide: Expanded Genres Edition: Prompts and Activities to Create Compelling Characters for Horror, Sci-Fi, X-Punk, and More
