Avatar the Last Airbender Ultralite

Long ago the four nations lived in harmony... This image is all over the place and I can't find the artist... Play worlds, not rules. This is an Free Kriegsspiel Revolution game inspired by Jim Parkin's excellent Galaxy Away Far RPG for Star Wars. Notable features: Quick character gen - Roll 1d6 seven times. Done.Flexible …

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Stealing Seven Samurai

The village. Ross McConnell. Play worlds, not rules. This includes the worlds of movies. Anyways, I steal ideas from media recklessly. My media diet has to be good for something, right? I stole from Kurosawa for a World of Elements game that I ran. The Scenario Winter time. Bandit gang has stolen half of the …

World of Elements: Bending Spirit Tattoos

https://reallifetrash.tumblr.com/post/49336653876 Kanji = ink spirits imbued with elemental power. Also, watch the anime Mushishi. I don't normally do "lore-related" posts. But here we are. I've been using the Free Kriegspiel Revolution rules of Adventure Hour! for World of Elements. It's my love letter to Avatar. Here are the rules: The Game Master sets the situation …

Fantasy, Harry Potter, Avatar starting packages

Shipwright. Skills are cool, I guess. Making lists of stats and abilities and skills and whatever can be cool. Items are cooler, for sure. In the renewed interest in games to make things more diegetic, that is "in the game world," some designers have been moving to describe tools that are available to player characters. …

Diegetic Advancement Triggers

A. Shipwright. Last time we talked about diegetic advancement in games. That is, when you do something, your character Advances. It works well for asynchronous play in play-by-posts because triggers are dependent on the PCs actions, not when the end of a session occurs. We talked about what the Advance system would look like for …

World of Elements

This has been a passion project of mine for two years now. Avatar: The Last Airbender is my favorite show ever. Apocalypse World has forever changed my RPG experience. Mashing the two has been a blast. Watching Samurai Champloo has reinvigorated my interest in this game and my design philosophy has changed a bit since …