Dice Avatar Legends: Ash & Steel Characters

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Character Sheet Template

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[TAB=Background]
[B]Name:[/B] (Self-explanatory)
[B]Playbook:[/B] (Self-explanatory)

[B]Training:[/B] (Choose one from Waterbending, Earthbending, Firebending, Airbending, Weapons and Technology)
[B]Fighting Style:[/B] (This doesn't have to be more than just a short phrase or a rough description; it's just something than makes your character different from others with the same training)
[B]Background:[/B] (Choose up to two from Military, Monastic, Outlaw, Privileged, Urban and Wilderness)
[B]Hometown:[/B] (Either a canon location from the Avatarverse that exists during this era, or a homebrew one)
[B]Demeanor:[/B] (Each Playbook has six demeanors that complement it; you can pick one or more of these, or come up with your own)
[B]Look:[/B] (You don't need much more than their most noticeable features, but feel free to go nuts. If you decide to use image claims, please use ones of characters who wouldn't look completely out of place in the Avatarverse)

[B]History:[/B] (Each playbook comes with five questions, the answers of which explain how they came to be who they are today, and why they have this particular playbook. As long as you provide them, you can pretty much write out the history however you like. The questions are generally along the lines of the following.)
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[*]The first question concerns your character’s motivation— why they act as they do and what’s most important to them.
[*]The next two questions are about the non-player characters (NPCs) important to you. The GM plays these characters, so if you get stuck, ask them for suggestions.
[*]The fourth question is about an object or symbol that belongs to your character—something really important to them, like Avatar Kyoshi’s makeup or Katara’s necklace.
[*]The fifth question is about why you’re committed to the group—why you choose to be here, with these companions, pursuing the group’s purpose. Make sure to use this connection to explain your character’s attachment to the group focus.
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[B]Connections:[/B] (Two of these, each determined by your Playbook.)
[LIST]
[*] Connection #1
[*] Connection #2
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[TAB=Conflict Stats]
[B]Stats:[/B] (Determined by Playbook, but you can add a single point to one of them during CC)
Creativity:
Focus:
Harmony:
Passion:

[B]Fatigue:[/B] [_][_][_][_][_] (Starts at zero)

[B]Conditions:[/B] (All start unmarked)
Afraid [_]
Angry [_]
Guilty [_]
Insecure [_]
Troubled [_]
[B]Balance:[/B] (Both Balance and Center start in the middle of the graph. Your Balance and Center are represented by "B" and "{_}" respectively here here.)
Principle #1 - (_)-(_)-(_)-{B}-(_)-(_)-(_) - Principle #2

[B]Moment of Balance:[/B] (Determined by Playbook)
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[TAB=Playbook]
Playbook Feature: (Determined by Playbook)

Moves: (Pick two from your Playbook)
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[*] Move #1
[*] Move #2
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[TAB=Techniques]
(Start with one Mastered Technique, and one Learned Technique. For each Technique, specify what approach it is - Defend and Maneuvre, Advance and Attack or Evade and Observe - and whether it's Learned, Practiced or Mastered)
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[TAB=Character Advancement]
(All of these start unmarked.)

Growth: [_][_][_][_]

Growth Question: (Determined by Playbook)

Growth Advancements:
Take a new move from your playbook: [_][_]
Take a new move from another playbook: [_][_]
Raise a stat by +1 (maximum of +2 in any given stat): [_][_]
Shift your center one step: [_][_]
Unlock your Moment of Balance: [_][_]
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[Eonivar]

• Background
• Conflict Stats
• Playbook
• Techniques
• Character Advancement
• Background

• 
  Name: Duanmu Taka or Captain Duanmu of the Emerald Rangers or the Merchant Sho Shin
  Playbook: The Pillar
  
  Training: Weapons
  Fighting Style: An uses a combination of martial arts, whip, and blade
  Background: Military and Wilderness
  Hometown: Ba Sing Se
  Demeanor: Confident and Warm
  Look:
  
  History:
  How did you rise to lead a renowned squad or group?
  Being the son of General Duanmu, Taka had to work his way up to command the Rangers, particularly since he was not an earth bender. His natural leadership and charisma lead him to rise very quickly to become Captain.
  
  Who was your closest friend and confidant in the squad?
  His second in command is an older NCO named Chang Lo. Chang is an old friend of his father and was Taka's Mentor.
  
  • Who never thought you deserved to lead the group?
  Long Feng did not want the son of his most dissenting General commanding an autonomous unit that he could not control directly.
  
  • What uniform, heirloom, or symbol do you carry as a talisman of the group?
  Taka wears a gold star pin with an embedded emerald as a sign of his rank and unit, as well as the distinctive emerald green cloak with the gold star embroidered in it.
  
  • Why are you committed to this group or purpose?
  Taka knows well how the war with the Fire Nation is going and sees this mission and group as a way to possibly end the war sooner than later.
  
  What noteworthy deed did your group perform in the fight against the Fire Nation to attract the attention of Long Feng?
  <TBD>
  
  What did Long Feng offer you in exchange for delivering Onomu and the war plans to Ba Sing Se?
  <TBD>
  
  Why are you specifically committed to seeing this mission through?
  The war seems like it will never end, and Taka knows better than most the state of the war.
  
  Connections:
  
  • Guoneng doesn’t seem to respect my accomplishments; they probably need a lesson or two.
  • Hayase seem like they would’ve been a good candidate to be a part of my squad; I’ll look after them
• 
  Stats:
  Creativity: +1
  Focus: 0
  Harmony: +3
  Passion: -1
  
  Fatigue: [_][_][_][_][_] (Starts at zero)
  
  Conditions: (All start unmarked)
  Afraid [_]
  Angry [_]
  Guilty [_]
  Insecure [_]
  Troubled [_]
  Balance: (Both Balance and Center start in the middle of the graph. Your Balance and Center are represented by "B" and "{_}" respectively here here.)
  Support - (_)-(_)-(_)-{B}-(_)-(_)-(_) - Leadership
  
  Moment of Balance:
  You define yourself as a part of a larger group, and in this moment, the group defines itself by you. You rally them, move among them, saying the right things and providing the right guidance so your group works with perfect cohesion and confidence. Tell the GM what you say to each of your companions so that in this moment, you overcome an indomitable challenge, together.
  
  
• 
  Playbook Feature: Squad Leader
  
  You were the leader of a small group of 10 or so well-trained warriors from a recognized and noble tradition.
  The Emerald Rangers
  
  Where does your squad call home?
  Full Moon Bay
  
  Which are the most well known traits of your squad?
  our costumes, our legends, our purpose
  
  What does your squad value?
  Duty, Protection
  
  Despite being the leader, you chose to travel with your new companions for the time being, until you’ve achieved this group’s purpose.
  Choose where your team is without you:
  Journeying and doing good works throughout the Earth Kingdom.
  
  Within any group, you serve a role both subtle and overt, sometimes leading the team, sometimes helping it glue itself together. You earn Team through your leadership style, and you spend Team through your support style. At the end of each session, you may change 1 style of leadership and 1 style of support.
  
  Choose 2 styles of leadership.
  
  Earn 1-Team when…
  
  Firm: …you openly call on a companion to live up to their principle.
  Inspiring: …you live up to your principle and roll a hit.
  Diplomatic: …you plead with an NPC for help and roll a 10+.
  Empathetic: …you guide and comfort a companion and they open up to you.
  Guidance: …you assess a situation and give a companion instructions based on the answers
  Indomitable: …you roll a hit when you resist shifting your balance or you deny a callout.
  
  Choose 2 styles of support.
  
  Spend 1-Team when…
  
  Comforting: …you spend time one-on-one in a quiet moment with a companion to clear a condition from them.
  Invigorating: …you rally a companion to action in a tense moment to clear 2-fatigue from them.
  Defending: …you are within reach of a companion in combat to clear a negative status from them.
  Bolstering: …you help another companion to give them a +1 to their roll, after the roll.
  Encouraging: …you openly endorse a friend living up to their principle to shift their balance toward that principle.
  Trusting: …you openly endorse a friend resisting shifting their balance to give them +2, after the roll.
  
  Moves: (Pick two from your Playbook)
  
  • Out of Uniform - When you put on a disguised or physically altered persona to fool a community into thinking you’re two different people, roll with Creativity. On a hit, people mostly unfamiliar with you won’t connect your two personas. On a 7–9, this is the last time you can pull this trick without them catching on. On a miss, someone misidentifies you when you switch in a way that causes more trouble for you
  • Understanding Mein - Take +1 to Harmony (max +3)
• 
  (Start with one Mastered Technique, and one Learned Technique. For each Technique, specify what approach it is - Defend and Maneuver, Advance and Attack or Evade and Observe - and whether it's Learned, Practiced or Mastered)
  
  Slide Around the Blow(Mastered)
  evade & observe
  You move perfectly, slipping past strikes and demanding an opponent’s attention; a foe you are engaged with must remain engaged with you and can only use
  techniques against you in the next exchange. If no foe is engaged with you, you may slip through the fight to engage a new foe (no foe may mark fatigue to stop you)
  
  
  Take Cover (Learned)
  defend & maneuver
  Swerve and maneuver into cover. The first attack on you this exchange strikes your cover, damaging or destroying it, but leaving you unharmed.
  
  
  
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  (All of these start unmarked.)
  
  Growth: [_][_][_][_]
  
  Growth Question:
  Did you help a companion find a significant success with their issues, or lead the group in finding a significant collective success?
  
  Growth Advancements:
  Take a new move from your playbook: [_][_]
  Take a new move from another playbook: [_][_]
  Raise a stat by +1 (maximum of +2 in any given stat): [_][_]
  Shift your center one step: [_][_]
  Unlock your Moment of Balance: [_][_]
  
• 
  
  Taka is a tall young man with a dark brown hair and green eyes. He either wears an Earth Kingdom uniform with his Golden Emerald star and Emerald cloak, or an outfit of yellow, brown, and green of a merchant when he is under cover and gathering intelligence.
  
  Taka is the the non-bending son of General Duanmu, a member of the Council of Five (Avatar Legends Page 62). He was basically born and raised to join the army. He had spent most of his life outside of Ba Sing Se learning to hunt, trap, and learning the terrain of the Earth Kingdom. He is a master of the sword and the whip. He is the Captain of a distinguished Earth Kingdom reconnaissance unit, the Emerald Rangers. The Emerald Rangers have been instrumental in gathering intelligence and harrying the supply lines of the Fire Nation Army. The Rangers have liberated many villages outside of Ba Sing Se and are known and popular amongst the Earth Kingdom citizens outside of Ba Sing Se. Taka probably knows the most of any non-General of how the Earth Kingdom war is going with the Fire Nation.
  
  History:
  How did you rise to lead a renowned squad or group?
  Being the son of General Duanmu, Taka had to work his way up to command the Rangers, particularly since he was not an earth bender. His natural leadership and charisma lead him to rise very quickly to become Captain.
  
  Who was your closest friend and confidant in the squad?
  His second in command is an older NCO named Chang Lo. Chang is an old friend of his father and was Taka's Mentor.
  
  • Who never thought you deserved to lead the group?
  Long Feng did not want the son of his most dissenting General commanding an autonomous unit that he could not control directly.
  
  • What uniform, heirloom, or symbol do you carry as a talisman of the group?
  Taka wears a gold star pin with an embedded emerald as a sign of his rank and unit, as well as the distinctive emerald green cloak with the gold star embroidered in it.
  
  • Why are you committed to this group or purpose?
  Taka knows well how the war with the Fire Nation is going and sees this mission and group as a way to possibly end the war sooner than later.
  
  What noteworthy deed did your group perform in the fight against the Fire Nation to attract the attention of Long Feng?
  The Emerald Rangers have distinguished themselves many times in the war against the Fire Nation.
  
  What did Long Feng offer you in exchange for delivering Onomu and the war plans to Ba Sing Se?
  Taka's father, General Duanmu offered up Taka on the mission so they could figure out what Long Feng was up to with this gambit.
  
  Why are you specifically committed to seeing this mission through?
  The war seems like it will never end, and Taka knows better than most the state of the war.
  

 

[Megilagor]

• Background
• Conflict Stats
• Playbook
• Techniques
• Character Advancement

• 
  
  Name: Hayase
  Playbook: THE Foundling
  
  Training: Waterbending, Technology
  Fighting Style: Capoeira
  Background: Outlaw, Urban
  Hometown: Chin Village [found and raised], Foggy Swamp [where he was born]
  Demeanour: Dedicated, Respectful, Hotheaded
  
  History:
  
  • How and when did you learn about your second heritage? Hayase was always different from his peers, albeit the moment did strike when he started water bending. It was confusing for him after all he was raised in a family of Earth kingdom non-bending engineers so how could he bend water? So he asked his parents and found out he was a foundling, they found him in a small basket drifting along the shore.
  • Who in your family insists you focus on upholding the family heritage? His adoptive father taught him that heritage is important for it can shape a person, and with solid foundation he can live a long life.
  • Who helped you understand that your two trainings can complement each other? Weirdly enough it was the owner of a hot spring bathhouse, who explained to me that both water and fire are necessary for it to be this way, and yet they are opposites of each other
  • What detail of your clothing or visible trinket reveals you belong to two cultures? My entire clothing is based on my waterbending culture, while the trinkets I carry show my connection to the engineering side of me.
  • Why are you committed to this group or purpose? They feel like a third family for me really, and working with them is helping my second family survive so why shouldn't I be committed?
  • Why are you specifically committed to seeing this mission through? Well, it's a big mission that will help all of my families. Survival of the earth kingdom will make sure that my family in the foggy swamp will live, my family in the Chin village will live, and this family that I travel with will live. Albeit I won't say that the reward isn't something I want.
  
  Connections:
  
  • Guenong seems to think one of my heritages should be valued more; there’s something persuasive in their words.
  • Duanmu is so awesome, with skills and heritage I’ve never seen! I want to learn all I can about them and their background.
• 
  Stats:
  Creativity: +1
  Focus: 0
  Harmony: +1
  Passion: 0
  
  Fatigue: [_][_][_][_][_] (Starts at zero)
  
  Conditions: (All start unmarked)
  Afraid [_]
  Angry [_]
  Guilty [_]
  Insecure [_]
  Troubled [_]
  Balance: (Both Balance and Center start in the middle of the graph. Your Balance and Center are represented by "B" and "{_}" respectively here.)
  Principle #1 - (_)-(_)-(_)-{B}-(_)-(_)-(_) - Principle #2
  
  Moment of Balance: You have always struggled to find unity between your two halves while trying to honour their traditions. But true balance is about knowing that everything is part of a greater whole. One heritage cannot exist without the other...especially within you. Tell the GM how your new understanding lets you use both your trainings to accomplish an incredible feat or vanquish an enemy that seems unstoppable.
  
• 
  Playbook Feature:
  Double Heritage:
  Wisdom From Many Places
  
  • You can study with a master to learn techniques from any training and adapt them to your own. When you start learning a technique of training you don’t have with a willing teacher, roll, taking +1 for each“yes” to the following questions: • Is your Unity greater than zero? • Have you studied this technique before? • Has someone used this technique against you in a real battle? On a hit, you learn the technique; shift your balance towards Unity. On a 7-9, learning it was trying; to mark a condition and write its name by the technique. You can’t use the technique if you have that condition marked. When you master the technique, erase the condition’s name. On a miss, you’re struggling to incorporate the lesson into your training; you must find a new master to continue your training.
  Cultural Bonds
  
  • When you try to connect with an NPC via a shared culture, roll with Heritage. On a hit, they see you; shift your balance toward Heritage. On a 7-9, choose 1; on a10+, choose 2: • They accept you; they cease hostilities or antagonism toward you. • They grow to like you (if they already accept you); they agree to help you with a problem. • They reveal their background; you learn their principle. • They offer solace; you cleara condition. • They reveal a vulnerability; you become Prepared to deal with them. On a miss, you mix up your heritages in a terrible way; the NPC mocks you or gets offended by your slip. Mark a condition and shift your balance away from Heritage.
  
  Moves:
  
  • Building Bridges
    When you try to calm an immediate conflict between two NPCs, remind them what they have in common and roll with Harmony. On a hit, they come to terms, for now. They won’t pursue their conflict until an outside influence reignites it or time passes (a day or more). On a 10+, you have a real opportunity to get them to put aside their conflict for good; the GM will tell you what you must do. On a miss, you inadvertently highlight their differences and fan the conflict you can not use this move on them again
  • Martial Sensitive
    You are good at reading people’s intentions and gestures in the heat of battle. When you defend and maneuver against a foe whose principle you know, mark fatigue to roll with Harmony instead of Focus.
• 
  
  Spoiler: Creeping Ice

  Evade & Observe
  LPM
  
  Carefully and stealthily extend a sheet of ice out beneath foes of your choice; they become Impaired as long as they remain on the ice, and you become Prepared to engage with them.
  Spoiler: Flash Crystals*

  Evade & Observe
  *Rare Technique (has 9 on him)
  LPM
  
  Throw a scattering of flash crystals at your opponent’s feet and shield your eyes. Any fighters in the area must mark 2-fatigue or become Stunned; you need only mark 1-fatigue.
• 
  (All of these start unmarked.)
  
  Growth: [_][_][_][_]
  
  Growth Question: (Determined by Playbook)
  
  Growth Advancements:
  Take a new move from your playbook: [_][_]
  Take a new move from another playbook: [_][_]
  Raise a stat by +1 (maximum of +2 in any given stat): [_][_]
  Shift your center one step: [_][_]
  Unlock your Moment of Balance: [_][_]
  

 

[EbonChevalier]

• Background
• Conflict Stats
• Playbook
• Playbook
• Techniques
• Character Advancement

• 
  Name: "Bull Bear" Guoneng
  Playbook: The Hammer
  
  Training: Earthbending
  Fighting Style: Shoot Style Bending
  Background: Military, Urban
  Hometown: Maishan (Moved to Omashu)
  Demeanor: Loud, Determined
  
  
  History:
  
  • • What injustice has driven you to use your strength for good? Every year, every month, every day the Fire Nation is pushin' deeper into Earth Kingdom territory. More and more refugees from conquerer or destroyed villages poor into Omashu. And I while back me and my family we one of 'em. I'm wastin' my strength knocking out jobbers and not knocking Fire Nation heads.
  • • Who represents the kind of positive strength and force you want to embody? Former Omashu Earth Rumble Champ Xong Che. He spent years at the top and used a lot of the money he won to add more homes to Omashu's lower district. Because of him, my family had a home when we came to Omashu. I may have dropped out of the Earth Rumble scene but I still want to be like him.
  • • Who tried their best to teach you restraint, calm, and thoughtfulness? My big sis Ka Li, she wasn't born an Earthbender but she had more patience and grit than anyone I know. Mom was busy trying to keep food on the table so it was up to her to keep me in check. I don't know how she didn't but she managed to keep me in check. I was such a rowdy little Badgemole turd, who knows what I would have been without her. A few years back she joined the United Earth Kingdom army. I tried talking her out of it but she wouldn't listen. She just told me to stay out of trouble while she's gone. *Holds back tears* *Cough* "Uh, she's been sending me letters every month. It'll be a pain not seeing them when I'm out on the road but... I know she's okay.
  • What fragile trinket or heirloom do you keep and protect? Tell anyone about this and I WILL bury you alive upside down! Zhu Baije.....my old stuffed Porcupine Pig doll. I got it the day my family came to Omashu and I never let it go.
  • Why are you committed to this group or purpose? Listen, I might not be the shiniest gem in the treasure room but even I know this is going to help the Earth Kingdom. This is gonna help save the lives of soldiers and Civilians. Hell, it might help end the war.
  
  Connections: (Two of these, each determined by your Playbook.)
  
  
  • Duanmu has a way to solve problems with words instead of fists—it’s really impressive!
  • I worry Hayase won’t be able to hold their own when things get tough. I’m going to toughen them up!
• 
  Stats:
  Creativity: +1
  Focus:-1
  Harmony:0
  Passion:+2
  
  Fatigue: [_][_][_][_][_] (Starts at zero)
  
  Conditions:
  Afraid [_]
  Angry [_]
  Guilty [_]
  Insecure [_]
  Troubled [_]
  Balance: (Both Balance and Center start in the middle of the graph. Your Balance and Center are represented by "B" and "{_}" respectively here here.)
  Principle #1 - (_)-(_)-(_)-{B}-(_)-(_)-(_) - Principle #2
  
  Moment of Balance: You can knock down every wall in the world, but balance isn’t found in conquest and destruction. You know some walls need to stand to keep people safe. Tell the GM how you put yourself directly in the path of an inescapable threat to completely protect someone or something from harm.
  
• 
  Playbook Feature:
  Bringing Them Down
  You always have an adversary, one who represents the things you’re trying to smash through—tyranny, inequality, war; larger and more dangerous concepts that, to you at least, this one person embodies. Your adversary is someone significant and powerful—someone who actually deserves the amount of force you can bring to bear.
  
  Name your adversary: Esuraon (A Captain in the Fire Nation Navy and acting governor of a stretch of Earth Kingdom Territory that includes the town of Maishan)
  
  Choose a goal you have for your adversary: Depose them
  
  Take -1 ongoing to plead with, trick, or guide and comfort your adversary.
  Changing Your adversary
  You can change your adversary any time you mark a condition, or at the end of each session. When you do, choose an appropriate goal, and the GMshifts your balance twice to match your new adversary and your new goal. When you successfully accomplish your goal and defeat your adversary, take a growth advancement and choose a new adversary.
  Fighting Your adversary
  When you enter into a fight against your adversary, clear all fatigue and become Inspired. When you select any combat approach against your adversary, mark fatigue to roll with conditions marked instead of your normal stat
  
  Moves:
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  • Fueled by Anger Mark Angry to use an additional basic or mastered technique when you advance and attack, even on a miss. While Angry is marked, take +1 ongoing to intimidate others[/B]
  • Walls Can’t Hold Me When you rely on your skills and training to dangerously smash your way through walls or other obstacles, roll with Passion instead of Focus.
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  Mastered Technique (advance & attack)
  Earth Gauntlet
  Wrap your arm or fist in rock and strike! Mark 1-fatigue; inflict one condition or 2-fatigue. You can also knock your foe out of reach and disengage; they must mark an additional fatigue to resist.
  
  Learned Technique (Evade & Observe)
  Thick Mud
  Transform the earth and stone around you into sticky, sucking mud. Any foes engaged with and acting against you in this exchange become stuck and Impaired; you may use Strike against each stuck foe in the next exchange, regardless of your chosen approach and in addition to y0ur normal techniques.
  
• 
  (All of these start unmarked.)
  
  Growth: [_][_][_][_]
  
  Growth Question:
  Did you make progress toward your goal against your adversary?
  
  Growth Advancements:
  Take a new move from your playbook: [_][_]
  Take a new move from another playbook: [_][_]
  Raise a stat by +1 (maximum of +2 in any given stat): [_][_]
  Shift your center one step: [_][_]
  Unlock your Moment of Balance: [_][_]