Substitute for Goblins in Avatar Universe

[CourtFool]

I am running an Avatar: The Last Airbender campaign for my daughter and I was going to use some published D&D material. I did not watch all of the episodes, so I was wondering if anyone might be able to suggest a good substitute for goblins. If not, I will fall back on low level Fire Nation thugs.

[LazarX]

CourtFool wrote:

I am running an Avatar: The Last Airbender campaign for my daughter and I was going to use some published D&D material. I did not watch all of the episodes, so I was wondering if anyone might be able to suggest a good substitute for goblins. If not, I will fall back on low level Fire Nation thugs.

I strongly recommend that you keep it to the spirit of the series... an all-Human campaign with the spirit world to provide the exotic atmosphere when needed.

And of course work on those animal hybrids..

"Pantha-bear?

"No... bear."

"Tiger-bear?"

"No.... just a bear."

"These people are weird."

[Daveth Ashvale]

CourtFool wrote:

I am running an Avatar: The Last Airbender campaign for my daughter and I was going to use some published D&D material. I did not watch all of the episodes, so I was wondering if anyone might be able to suggest a good substitute for goblins. If not, I will fall back on low level Fire Nation thugs.

If your going with the Avatar-Aang era then yeah I guess Fire Nation grunts would be your best bet, if you wanted you could defiently just have the party encounter(as LazarX mentioned) a few of the Avatar-verse's weird hybrids.

Most of the enemy's of avatar were just people so it would probably be better to stick with that since it keeps the same feeling that the show had.

The idea of a Avatar campaign sounds really awesome by the way, how are you running benders if you don't mind me asking?

[Mairkurion {tm}]

This might be useful. I like the idea of fire goblins. I thought somebody wrote up a bunch of those hybrid animals, but I can't remember where I saw them now.

[eric kiser]

Hi Mairkurion, try this...

Avatar d20

It was developed over on the Giant in the Playground forums and it's pretty extensive. If you look through the links there is even a pdf.

Hope it helps.

[CourtFool]

Daveth Ashvale wrote:

…how are you running benders if you don't mind me asking?

I am using PDQ# for its simplicity. I do not want to discourage my daughter with a lot of crunch and just want to get right to the role playing.

I am treating bending like any other Quality within the system. My daughter actually wanted to play Ang, so she has the Quality Expert Avatar [+4]. Whatever she can convince me would be appropriate for the Avatar to do, she gets to add her +4 to her dice.

[LazarX]

CourtFool wrote:

Daveth Ashvale wrote:

…how are you running benders if you don't mind me asking?

I am using PDQ# for its simplicity. I do not want to discourage my daughter with a lot of crunch and just want to get right to the role playing.

I am treating bending like any other Quality within the system. My daughter actually wanted to play Ang, so she has the Quality Expert Avatar [+4]. Whatever she can convince me would be appropriate for the Avatar to do, she gets to add her +4 to her dice.

The easy thing about this is to remember that in the beginning of the series is more about potential than ability. Aang isn't that much better than Katara for most of the beginning as he doesn't have the same focus in perfecting his abilities that she does. Most of his more powerful events in the first season are more on the order of GM events. (the sinking of the Fire Nation Navy at the North Pole comes to mind)

[Mairkurion {tm}]

eric kiser wrote:

Hi Mairkurion, try this...

Avatar d20

It was developed over on the Giant in the Playground forums and it's pretty extensive. If you look through the links there is even a pdf.

Hope it helps.

Thanks, Eric. The sad thing is, that was exactly what I was looking for...AND I had it bookmarked. I really need to clean up my organization.