Avatar Legends, the RPG of elemental bending and cabbages has broken many Kickstarter records, surpassing $8 million heading into the home stretch.
There are, at press time, only about 30 hours left in the Avatar Legends RPG Kickstarter campaign, but it has currently blown past the initial $50,000 goal, raising almost $8.5 million at press time, making it not only the largest tabletop RPG campaign to successfully Kickstart, but making it larger than several actual tabletop games. While it may not overtake monster Kickstarters, like, well, Kingdom Death: Monster, it still has broken through at an incredibly successful rate, sitting high on the top ten Kickstarters. Especially given that it’s an RPG that isn’t D&D/d20 based.
This is a huge win Magpie Games, the makers of Avatar Legends, who have recently announced the final stretch goal as we turn the corner in the last 24 hours of the campaign: an All-Star Live Streamed game, featuring Jennie Kwan, the voice of Suki–which, naturally, people have already unlocked. There’s nothing left now but to back the campaign to secure your copy (hardbound or digital) but you may want to do so sooner, rather than later:
In short, this campaign has now grown to a size that we are encountering limits on the global paper supply available for printing this many books—our printer is telling us that there may not be enough cardboard in the United States to print these books on our original schedule.
We’re ahead of this issue—and every other global supply/shipping issue—because we’ve been working since 2020 to make sure we had everything lined up to send everything to you all on time.
Of course Magpie games isn’t going to run the world out of Cardboard. It’s just another global supply chain issue in a string of global supply chain issues, and it’s not likely that people will be clearing swathes of forests to make Avatar RPGs, but that just shows how much further this Kickstarter has gone.
The Livestreamed game isn’t the only “cool thing” that the Avatar RPG has planned, as Magpie announced:
We’ve got another few fun things in for approvals with Avatar Studios and ViacomCBS, but you all have done such an amazing job breaking every single record that we don’t want to directly tie anything else to the funding for the campaign.
Here’s one last look at the Kickstarter, you can find a backer link below.
Avatar Legends – The Roleplaying Game.
Magpie Games is excited to bring you Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game, the officially licensed tabletop roleplaying game set in the world of Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra! With over a decade of roleplaying design and publishing expertise, Magpie Games has created an innovative system that brings the world of the Four Nations to life in a tabletop roleplaying game that captures the heart of the Avatar franchise: balance, heroism, and the power of friendship.
Avatar Legends: The RPG is a heroic fantasy game set in the universe of Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra in which you and your friends take on the role of young heroes from across the Four Nations who have joined together to make the world a better place. It’s a game for people of all ages who want to look at the world beyond the scope of the existing stories and explore the meaningful actions heroes take for the good of others.
Above all, however, it’s a game about balance. Your hero fights for balance in the world, but also wrestles with maintaining balance within while trying to achieve the goals they’ve set for themselves. The villains of Avatar Legends: The RPG are never simply monsters, never mere antagonists who must be struck down by blasts of fire; they are instead people with their own desires, personal struggles, and goals, no matter how misguided.
Thus, achieving true balance isn’t easy. Whether you play a bender, martial artist, merchant, or craftsperson, you’re constantly being pulled between two important principles in your life as you face problems in the world. If you delve too deeply into one or the other—forgiveness over action, force over care, tradition over progress—it throws you off-balance, and you must work to regain your composure and sense of self.
Luckily, you’re not alone in this journey. Together with your fellow heroes, you’ll soar on the backs of flying bison, defeat devious foes, and discover the true meaning of balance…perhaps even help to save the world!
Inside the game book you’ll find four different eras as well as rules for playing everything from a heroic bender and master of martial arts, to an engineer trying to navigate a world of bending, even a humble cabbage merchant if that’s what suits your flavor. The game is built on the back of Powered by the Apocalypse rules to recreate different playbooks that let you emulate characters and moments from the series.
The combat system has been revamped, borrowing from Masks if you’re familiar with that, to bring you rules that make fights feel like you’re participating in a battle that ebbs and flows. And at the heart of it all, you can call on your relationships and principles and friends to make the fighting dramatic and meaningful every time.
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