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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Base Classes......................................4
What You Need To Play....................4
A Quick Primer on Bending.............5
Airbender...........................................6
Making An Airbender.......................6
Class Features.....................................6
Earthbender.......................................9
Making An Earthbender...................9
Class Features...................................10
Firebender........................................12
Making A Firebender.......................12
Class Features...................................12
Waterbender....................................14
Making A Waterbender...................14
Class Features...................................15
Other Classes...................................17
Martial Classes.................................17
Skill Classes......................................17
Magic Classes...................................18
Bending Overview........................19
Bending Forms.................................20
Components.......................................20
Augmentation....................................20
Combining Seed Forms....................20
Concentration.....................................21
Bender Level and Bender Skill........21
Form Failure.......................................21
Overbending......................................22
Cooperative Bending........................22
Contested Bending............................22
Form Descriptions...........................23
Name...................................................23
Difficulty Class...................................23
Components.......................................23
Bending Time.....................................23
Maintenance Action..........................23
Range...................................................23
Aiming a Form...................................23
Duration..............................................25
Saving Throws...................................26
Descriptive Text.................................26
List of Basic Forms.........................27
Airbending.......................................27
Agitate Dust (Seed)...........................27
Air Blast (Fundamental Seed)..........27
Air Scooter (Seed)..............................28
Breathstealer (Seed)...........................28
Control Winds (Seed)........................28
Flowing Air Strike (Seed).................29
Funnel (Seed).....................................29
Hand of Wind (Fundamental Seed)30
Hurricane Breath (Template)...........30
Levitation (Seed)................................30
Puppet (Seed).....................................31
Shockwave (Seed)..............................31
Somersault (Seed)..............................31
Soundbending (Seed)........................32
Twister (Seed).....................................32
Wind Barrier (Seed)...........................32
Wind Burst (Seed)..............................33
Earthbending....................................33
Armor (Seed)......................................33
Boulder Toss (Seed)...........................33
Catapult (Seed)..................................34
Density (Seed)....................................34
Dirt Spray (Seed)...............................34
Dust Cloud (Seed).............................35
Earth Blast (Fundamental Seed)......35
Earth Wall (Seed)...............................36
Earth Wave (Seed).............................36
Earthsight (Seed)...............................37
Earthwalker (Seed)............................37
Golem (Seed)......................................37
Headcracker (Seed)...........................37
Imprison (Seed)..................................38
Metalbend (Template).......................38
Move Earth (Fundamental Seed)....38
Puppet (Seed).....................................38
Quake (Seed)......................................39
Rubble Wave (Seed)..........................39
Shape Earth (Fundamental Seed)....40
Spike (Seed)........................................40
Tectonic (Seed)...................................40
Firebending......................................41
Breath of the Dragon (Seed).............41
Burning Edge (Seed).........................42
Claw of the Phoenix (Seed)..............42
Cold Fire (Template).........................42
Combustion (Seed)............................42
Explosion (Template)........................43
Fire Blast (Fundamental Seed).........43
Fire Spin (Seed)..................................43
Flamethrower (Seed).........................43
Heat Control (Seed)...........................44
Heatwave (Template)........................44
Inner Flames (Seed)...........................44
Lifebend (Seed)..................................44
Move Flames (Fundamental Seed)..45
Puppet (Seed).....................................45
Pyrotechnics (Template)...................46
Redirect (Seed)...................................46
Soaring Flames (Seed).......................46
Sweeping Flames (Template)...........47
IDEBARS
Wall of Flames (Seed)........................47 Benders and Monk Feats...............................8
Waterbending...................................48 Money & Magic............................................18
Bend Plants (Template).....................48
Sandbending.................................................38
Bloodbend (Template)......................48
Blue Fire........................................................42
Capture (Seed)...................................48
Feel the Flow (Seed)..........................49 Supernatural Feats.......................................64
Healing Water (Seed)........................49
Golem (Seed)......................................49
Ice Shards (Seed)................................50
Illusionary Mist (Seed)......................50
Move Water (Fundamental Seed)....50
Phase Change (Fundamental Seed) 51
Precipitate (Seed)...............................52
Puppet (Seed).....................................52
Riptide (Seed).....................................53
Shape Water (Fundamental Seed)...53
Spout (Seed).......................................54
Steady Stance (Seed).........................54
Tentacle (Seed)...................................55
Water Blast (Fundamental Seed).....56
Water Shield (Seed)...........................56
Water Whip (Seed)............................56
Wave (Seed)........................................57
Golem, Bender................................58
Combat..............................................58
Construct Traits..................................58
Special Abilities..................................58
Master's Traits....................................58
Creating a Bender Golem................58
Bender Golem Menu A.....................58
Bender Golem Menu B......................59
Bender Golem Menu C.....................60
Skills, Feats, Items.........................62
New Skill Uses.................................62
Bending Skill (Wis; Special).............62
Martial Lore (Int; Trained Only)......62
New Feats.........................................63
Dexterous Combatant.......................63
Eternal Flame.....................................63
Extra Form..........................................63
Haymaker...........................................63
Form Specialization...........................63
Intuitive Attack..................................63
Intuitive Reflexes...............................63
Open-Minded.....................................63
Rock Smash........................................64
Superior Reflexes...............................64
Whirling Circle...................................64
Windfall..............................................64
New Equipment...............................65
Bending Scrolls..................................65
Channeling Gauntlets.......................65
Spirit Oasis Water..............................65
S

BASE CLASSES
ong ago, the Four Nations
lived together in harmony.
Then, everything changed
when the Fire Nation attacked.
Only the Avatar, master of all
four elements could stop them.
But when the world needed him most, he vanished.
The Dungeons and Dragons game supports a number
of concepts from all around in genre fantasy. Not the least
of these are spellcasters – wizards and sorcerers, warlocks
and druids and clerics, women and men who have seen
the great beyond and delved its depths for knowledge.
Tome of Battle introduced to us crusaders, warblades and
swordsages – mighty warriors who have trained their
bodies to the uttermost extremes, performing that which
is simply beyond the ken of mere mortals. Yet, the concept
of those who obtain supernatural powers from a balance
of the two has never been adequately represented. So-
called "Gish" – spellcasters at the front lines – do not
represent their own tradition of steel and spell; they throw
a fireball sometimes, they swing a sword other times, as
the situation requires.
So of course, when Avatar: The Last Airbender – a show
with an entire nation of people who threw fireballs while
they swung swords – became wildly popular, many fans
felt that their favorite roleplaying system should have
been able to do a better representation than it did. And
thus entered the Giant in the Playground Forum
Community.
WHAT YOU NEED TO PLAY
To gain the most out of the bending system, you'll only
need the three core rulebooks or the System Resource
Document, which is available for free online. Bending is a
completely unique and new power source for characters,
and thus has standalone rules. Those wishing to play
martial or skill-based characters in the Avatar world are
advised to pick up Tome of Battle, Complete Adventurer, and
Complete Scoundrel, but these books are not necessary.

A QUICK PRIMER ON BENDING

This book describes a unique system of magic based on
the Avatar: The Last Airbender television show, known as
'bending'. Here's a quick list of terms and ideas you'll find
helpful to understanding the system.
Bender: A character with knowledge of one or more
forms is a bender.
Form: A distinct kind of magic for benders, which
emphasizes manipulating an already present element
(water, earth, air, heat) rather than creating something
from scratch. In order to use a form, you must know it and
make the form's difficulty class with your bending skill.
Forms are considerably more modular than standard
magic, similar to the epic spell system described in the
Epic Level Handbook, only we actually playtested things
instead of inadvertently making Leadership the most
important feat ever in the history of munchkins. Forms
can be altered on the fly, and DM-PC cooperation on
effects not clearly stated is very necessary. We have
attempted to make the abilities available with each form
very explicit, but it is impossible to cover everything.
There are three general classes of form, and some
subclasses of forms. A Seed Form is a basic effect ability,
similar to a spell, maneuver or power. Each bender starts
out with a small number of mandatory "Fundamental
Seed Forms." A Template Form is a specific augment to
certain Seed Forms, and does nothing on its own. These
two types are also referred to as "Basic Forms," as
combining two Seed Forms or a Seed Form and a
Template Form creates an "Advanced Form."
Bending Skill: A special skill available to anyone who
has at least one level in a Bending Class. This skill does
not require skill points to advance, and is otherwise not a
normal skill (it is not a valid subject for Skill Focus, for
example). The Bending Overview section contains more
information on Bending Skills.
Bender Level: Some forms have effects that vary with
the level of the character using them. Bender Level
functions exactly as Initiator Level, and similarly to
Manifester or Caster level.

AIRBENDER
"Wait. We can't just leave him here."
"Sure we can. Let's go."
"No. If we leave him, he'll die."
- An Airbender, discussing a foe's fate
MAKING AN AIRBENDER
Agility, grace, speed and detachment. Freedom from the
ground, freedom from the world, freedom from their own
minds. These define an airbender, a member of a small
group of individuals blessed with the ability to
manipulate the air. Airbenders can hurl blasts of wind at
their foes, create shields of swirling air, and even slice
objects to pieces with compressed air blasts.
Adventures: Craving freedom above all else, many
airbenders are simply itinerant monks, whose traveling
lifestyle invites adventure. Others adventure on behalf of
their communities, to visit and assist friends living far
away, or to help those in need.
Characteristics: Airbenders are able to manipulate the
air in many ways. Some chose to focus on mobility and
can become the most agile of fighters. Others learn to
capture their foes in swirling tornadoes, incapacitating
their enemies. Still others seek to destroy the machinery of
destruction, using compressed air
to slice through metal, stone, and
wood. All airbenders, however, are agile fighters
who can knock their enemies away and soar
through the skies.
Alignment: While an airbender can be of any
alignment, their national emphasis on ahimsa
(nonviolence) tends to attract more good than evil.
However, the airbender's philosophical quest is one
for ultimate liberation, and anyone who completes the
training can become an airbender.
Religion: Airbenders have a decidedly philosophical
focus. They seek liberation from the bonds of the world,
and their discipline and dedication to this goal are shown
in their simple lifestyles. Few airbenders worship any of
the spirits, though nothing prevents them from doing so.
Background: Airbenders are trained at monasteries
under the tutelage of senior monks. When they achieve
the status of Airbending Master, they receive arrow
tattoos on their heads, arms, hands, legs, and feet. Often,
an Airbending Master will take a young student under his
wing and help the student on an individual level.
Races: All airbenders (with the exception of the Avatar,
who is able to master all four elements) are members of
the group known as the Air Nomads. In other settings,
their diversity of approach, graceful detachment and
enjoyment of life as it comes fit well with the gnomes, and
to a lesser extent the elves. Any air genasi will consider
this path at least once in their life, and raptorans may
consider airbending to be just another facet of their pact
with the sky gods.
Other Classes: Airbenders are masters of defense and
evasion. They work well with almost all other classes;
though they find the confrontational style of earthbenders,
barbarians, warmages and warblades difficult to
understand and deal with, most will make an honest
attempt to cooperate. Their emphasis on non-violence and
defense can sometimes be frustrating for more
aggressively-minded individuals, but is just as much
appreciated by thoughtful monks and paladins, while
their mental agility is something almost any bard, marshal
or rogue can appreciate.
Abilities: A high Wisdom score is essential to an
airbender as it determines the Save DCs for many of his
best forms and abilities, also allowing him to intuitively
dodge attacks. A high Dexterity is also important, as it
affects many of an airbender's best skills, improves
his accuracy with his ranged attacks, and provides
additional AC. An airbender will often spend time
on the frontlines, so Constitution
allows them to survive longer
as they try to talk their opponent down.
Alignment: Any (Usually good)
Starting Gold: 4d4x10 (100 gp).
Starting Age: As Rogue.
CLASS FEATURES
Most airbenders believe in spiritual liberation, leading to
their philosophy being centered around respecting life.
However, the reality is that an airbender will often be
called upon to protect himself or others. Therefore, the Air
Monks have developed a tradition that focuses around
movement and defense. Ideally, the airbender slowly
exhausts their opponent into surrender, all the while
playing keepaway.
In a party, the airbender's role is that of a harasser. While
TABLE 1-1: THE AIRBENDER HIT DIE: D6
Base Fort Ref Will Deflect Forms Dodge
Level Attack Bonus Save Save Save Special Attack Known Bonus
1st +0 +0 +2 +2 Air Blast 1d6, Fundamental Seed Forms 0 1 +0
nd
2 +1 +0 +3 +3 Deflect Attack, AC Bonus -6 2 +1
rd
3 +2 +1 +3 +3 Improved Unarmed Strike, Advanced Bending +2 -6 2 +1
th
4 +3 +1 +4 +4 Evasion -8 3 +1
th
5 +3 +1 +4 +4 Wind Dancer (5 ft, 1/encounter) -8 3 +2
th
6 +4 +2 +5 +5 Kinetic Grace (Move) -8 4 +2
th
7 +5 +2 +5 +5 Air Blast 2d6, Advanced Bending +2 -8 4 +3
th
8 +6/+1 +2 +6 +6 Defensive Roll -10 5 +3
th
9 +6/+1 +3 +6 +6 Wind Dancer (10 ft) -10 5 +3
th
10 +7/+2 +3 +7 +7 Kinetic Grace (1 Round) -10 6 +4
th
11 +8/+3 +3 +7 +7 Advanced Bending +2 -10 6 +4
th
12 +9/+4 +4 +8 +8 Improved Evasion -12 7 +5
th
13 +9/+4 +4 +8 +8 Air Blast 3d6, Wind Dancer (2/encounter) -12 7 +5
th
14 +10/+5 +4 +9 +9 Kinetic Grace (2 Rounds) -12 8 +5
th
15 +11/+6/+1 +5 +9 +9 Advanced Bending +2 -12 8 +6
th
16 +12/+7/+2 +5 +10 +10 Evasive Roll -14 9 +6
th
17 +12/+7/+2 +5 +10 +10 Wind Dancer (15 ft) -14 9 +7
th
18 +13/+8/+3 +6 +11 +11 Kinetic Grace (Endless) -14 10 +7
th
19 +14/+9/+4 +6 +11 +11 Advanced Bending +2 -14 10 +7
th
20 +15/+10/+5 +6 +12 +12 Air Blast 4d6, Wind Dancer (Endless) -16 11 +8
st
Class Skills (4 + Int modifier per level, x4 at 1 level): Balance, Bluff, Climb, Diplomacy, Concentration, Craft, Escape Artist,
Handle Animal, Heal, Hide, Jump, Knowledge (Local, Geography, History, Religion), Listen, Move Silently, Perform, Profession, Ride,
Spot, Swim, Tumble.

he cannot stun like a monk, he can knock the opponent
away from his allies and friends, blind them, deafen them,
section off areas of the battlefield, and in general infuriate
a foe sufficiently to keep them chasing him, away from his
allies. An airbender functions equally well at short or close
range, able to use his Somersault form against a melee
attacker, or Deflect Attack to stop ranged attacks.
An Airbender may be interested in grabbing the
Stunning Fist feat to assist him as a harasser if he is
fighting primarily humanoid foes; larger, monstrous
opponents will resist it.
Weapon and Armor Proficiency: As an airbender, you
are proficient with all simple weapons, but not with any
armor or shields.
Forms: You bend forms from the Airbender form list,
able to use any form you know spontaneously, as the
opportunity presents itself. You begin your career with
knowledge of all airbending "Fundamental Seed Forms",
as well as one additional seed chosen from the forms you
are capable of bending at your level.
To learn a Seed Form, you must have a Bending skill
modifier equal to the form's bending Difficulty Class - 10.
Forms with a variable base Difficulty Class use their
lowest listed DC for purposes of learning the form. To
learn a Template Form, you must have a Bending skill
modifier equal to the form's bending Difficulty Class + 10.
The saving throw Difficulty Class against your forms is 10
+ ½ your level in all bending classes + ¼ your level in all
other classes + your Wisdom modifier. You must maintain
a bonus for at least 24 hours before you gain a level for it
to count towards learning a form.
You learn additional forms as you gain additional levels;
you learn another at second level, and then one more
every two levels after that.
A form is considered to be a supernatural ability unless
otherwise noted in its description. Your forms are not
affected by spell resistance, and you do not necessarily
provoke attacks of opportunity for using one. For more
information, read the "Bending Overview" section.
Air Blast (Su): One of your basic attack seed forms. A
single-classed airbender's Air Blast increases in damage at
the rate listed in Table 1-1: The Airbender, but for more
information, check the section "List of Basic Forms."
AC Bonus: As a 2nd level airbender, you can add your
Wisdom modifier as a bonus to Armor Class, so long as
you wear no armor, are unencumbered, and do not use a
shield. You also gain the listed miscellaneous bonus to
your armor class as you take additional levels in this class,
beginning at 2nd level. These bonuses to AC apply even
against touch attacks or when you are flat-footed.
However, you lose this bonus when you are immobilized
or helpless.
BENDERS AND MONK
FEATS
The bender classes, much like the monk class, owe a lot of
their origin to the East. They are extremely agile martial
artists, able to achieve superhuman feats through sheer,
extensive training of their body. For the most part, they
eschew armor and things like armor, and they all learn to
fight with just their fists.
For these thematic reasons and others, you may wish to
consider allowing benders to quality for feats and
equipment designed for the monk as though they were
one, or with lighter prerequisites. For example, the
Stunning Fist feat is rarely taken due to its stringent
requirements. It would not be unreasonable to allow a
bender to qualify to learn the feat as soon as level 3
(when they gain Improved Unarmed Strike). Improved Trip,
Grapple, and Disarm are other good candidates for this
treatment.
Additionally, the Deflect Attack class feature should
qualify as Deflect Arrows for the purposes of feats and
classes that require it.
However, classes (such as the Shadow Sun Ninja) and
feats that grant progression of many monk abilities should
not be affected similarly. The bending system inherently
limits multiclassing penalization, and hybrid prestige
classes intended for a monk may be abused by benders.
Deflect Attack (Su): As an airbender, you learn early on
to block or deflect attacks directed at you. At 2nd level, as
an immediate action, you can attempt to negate a single
ranged or ranged touch attack made against you, after you
have discovered the results of the attack roll but before the
damage has been determined. The attack takes a -6
penalty. This penalty increases as you level, raising by -2
every four levels that you take in the airbender class.
Improved Unarmed Strike: At 3rd level, you gain
Improved Unarmed Strike as a free bonus feat, reflecting
your extensive training with your body.
Advanced Bending: At 3rd level, you begin to display
some of the fruits of your focused and intense training.
You gain a +2 bonus to your Bending Skill; this bonus
applies towards learning forms as well as bending them.
You gain an additional +2 bonus every four levels in the
airbender class as indicated in Table 1-1: The Airbender.
Evasion (Ex): An airbender can avoid even magical and
unusual attacks with great agility. Upon attaining 4th level,
if you make a successful Reflex saving throw against an
attack that normally deals half damage on a successful
save, you instead take no damage. Evasion can be used
only if you are not wearing armor. A helpless airbender
does not gain the benefit of evasion.
Wind Dancer (Ex): Upon achieving 5th level, you can
become a whirling tornado in melee once an encounter. As
a free action at the start of your turn, you can initiate a
wind dance that lasts until the end of your turn. While in
the wind dance, you can take a full attack action (for
melee attacks only) and move up to the listed distance
between each attack. (5 feet initially; 10 feet at 9th level,
and 15 feet at 17th level). However, you must move a
minimum of 5 feet between each attack when using this
ability, and you cannot return to a square you just exited
(though you may return to that square later during your
full attack). You are subject to attacks of opportunity while
dancing, but may tumble normally as part of your move.
If you are prevented from completing your move, you are
also prevented from finishing your full attack. You may
not make a normal 5-foot step in the same round that you
use a wind dance.
At 13th level, you may perform a wind dance twice per
encounter. At 20th level, you may perform wind dances as
often as you like.
Kinetic Grace (Ex): Upon attaining 6th level, an
airbender has managed such perfect balance and grace
while moving, even gravity and physics must give pause.
You can traverse a wall or even a liquid surface as long as
you begin and end your move action on a solid, horizontal
surface. The height you can achieve on a wall is limited
only by this movement restriction. If you do not end your
move on a solid, horizontal surface, you fall prone (or into
the liquid), taking falling damage as appropriate, if any. If
you run over a hazardous surface such as lava, you take
normal exposure damage for that round.
Treat the wall or liquid as a normal floor for the purpose
of measuring your movement. Passing from floor to wall
or water costs no movement; you can change surfaces
freely. You provoke attacks of opportunity as normal for
all movement.
As you gain in experience, this ability improves. By 10th
level, you need only begin and end your turn (rather than
a single move action) on a solid horizontal surface, as long
as you move at least 30 feet in that round. At 14th level you
can remain on a vertical or liquid surface for two
consecutive rounds before falling, as long as you move at
least 30 feet the first round. At 18th level, you can use this
ability indefinitely, as long as you move at least 30 feet a
round.
Defensive Roll (Ex): An airbender can roll with a
potentially lethal blow to take less damage from it than
she otherwise would. After reaching 8th level, once per
encounter when you would be reduced to 0 or fewer hit
points by damage in combat (from a weapon or other
blow, not a spell or special ability), you can attempt to roll
with the damage. To use this ability, you must attempt a
Reflex saving throw (DC = damage dealt). If the save
succeeds, you take only half damage from the blow; if it
fails, you take full damage. You must be aware of the
attack and able to react to it in order to execute your
defensive roll—if you are denied your Dexterity bonus to
AC, you can't use this ability. Since this effect would not
normally allow a character to make a Reflex save for half
damage, your Evasion ability does not apply to the
Defensive Roll.
Improved Evasion (Ex): Beginning at 12th level, you gain
the Improved Evasion ability. This ability works like
Evasion, except that while you still take no damage on a
successful Reflex saving throw against attacks, henceforth
you take only half damage on a failed save.
Evasive Roll (Ex): Upon reaching 16th level, your ability
to avoid even the most deadly of attacks improves. You
may use your Evasion and Improved Evasion abilities with
your Defensive Roll class feature.
Other Benders: Like a member of any other class, an
airbender may be a multiclass character, but multiclass
airbenders face a special restriction. An airbender may
never take a level in a different base bending class; this
does not, however, mean that it is impossible for an
airbender to learn the other arts. See the Skills & Feats
chapter for more details.
EARTHBENDER
"There's no 'different angle,' no clever solution, no trickety-
trick that's gonna move that rock! You’ve got to face it head on.
And when I say head on, I mean like this!"
- The Blind Bandit, shortly before headbutting a rock
MAKING AN EARTHBENDER
Strong and steady, earthbenders are a persevering group
with the ability to manipulate stone, soil, crystal, and
other earth-based substances. They can move offensively
with hurled boulders and raging sandstorms, or they can
be bastions of defense behind walls of stone and giant
fissures.
Adventures: Many earthbenders are attached to Earth
Kingdom military units and adventure at the command of
their superior officers. Others wander for personal reasons
including acquisition of wealth and power, to fight in
earthbending tournaments, and to find an earthbending
master to help them improve their skills.
Characteristics: Of all the bending arts, earthbending is
perhaps the most balanced, strong in both offense and
defense. On the offense, earthbenders can hurl large
boulders at their enemies, trap their enemies in cages of
stone and soil, immerse their enemies in earth, or throw
them off balance with localized earthquakes. On the
defensive, they can raise stone walls out of the ground,
encase their bodies in earthen armor, and hurl their
enemies away with quickly-rising columns of stone.
Alignment: An earthbender's training and lifestyle is
one of rigidity and endurance. As such, they tend to be
lawful. However, earthbending lacks any dominant moral
imperative and earthbenders fall all over the good-evil
axis.
Religion: Earthbenders are incredibly self-sufficient and,
as a group, show little predilection for religion. Some
revere the Earth King as a minor deity, but many do not.
Background: Many earthbenders have a military
background, employing their formidable powers for the
benefit of the Earth Kingdom. Others learn in
earthbending schools as children. Still others have private
tutors.
Races: All earthbenders (with the exception of the
Avatar, who is able to master all four elements) are
members of the group known as the Earth Kingdom. In
other settings, dwarves, goliaths, deep gnomes, orcs and
earth genasi are all natural and obvious choices for this
class. A few warforged have demonstrated unusual
powers along this line. The earthbending philosophy of
waiting and listening appeals well to changelings.
Other Classes: Earthbenders find the evasive style of
airbenders, scouts and monks difficult to deal with, and
prefer to stand their ground and fight than dodge attacks.
Their comfort in the familiar is often challenged by arcane
spellcasters, who seem to violate the order of things. They
work well with almost all other kinds of classes, where
their balance of aggression and passivity makes them a
useful contribution to any fight.
Abilities: A high Wisdom score is essential to an
earthbender as it determines the Save DCs for many of her
best forms and abilities, also allowing her to intuitively
dodge attacks. Earthbenders generally spend a lot of their
time on the frontlines, so Constitution is one of their most
important abilities, allowing them to take hits and keep
moving.
Alignment: Any (Sometimes lawful)
Starting Gold: 6d4x10 (150 gp).
Starting Age: As Rogue.
CLASS FEATURES
Earthbenders tend to fight at close range whenever
feasible. Unafraid of a fight, it allows them to protect their
allies and keep the enemy off-balance and uncomfortable.
Front-line controllers, they will reshape the battlefield to
fit their desires and mix it up on their terms.
It is alternatively possible for an earthbender to take a
more passive stance towards the back, slowing and
hindering the enemy's attempts to reach them as they hurl
gigantic boulders. From their position in the rear, they are
limited on their ability to intervene in a fight, but can
greatly discourage attempts to leave the central arena.
Weapon and Armor Proficiency: As an
earthbender, you are proficient with all simple
and martial weapons, as well as light armor, but not
shields.
Forms: You bend forms from the earthbender form
list, able to use any form you know spontaneously, as
the opportunity presents itself. You begin your
career with knowledge of all earthbending
"Fundamental Seed Forms", as well as one
additional seed chosen from the forms you
are capable of bending at your level.
To learn a Seed Form, you must have a
Bending skill modifier equal to the form's bending
Difficulty Class - 10. Forms with a variable base Difficulty
Class use their lowest listed DC for purposes of learning
the form. To learn a Template Form, you must have a
Bending skill modifier equal to the form's bending
Difficulty Class + 10. The saving throw Difficulty Class
against your forms is 10 + ½ your level in all bending
classes + ¼ your level in all other classes + your Wisdom
modifier. You must maintain a bonus for at least 24 hours
before you gain a level for it to count towards learning a
form.
You learn additional forms as you gain additional levels;
you learn another at second level, and then one more
every two levels after that.
A form is considered to be a supernatural ability unless
otherwise noted in its description. Your forms are not
affected by spell resistance, and you do not necessarily
provoke attacks of opportunity for using one. For more
information, read the "Bending Overview" section.
Earth Blast (Su): One of your basic attack seed forms. A
single-classed earthbender's Earth Blast increases in
damage at the rate listed in Table 1-2: The Earthbender,
but for more information, check the section "List of Basic
Forms."
AC Bonus: As a 2nd level earthbender, you can add your
Wisdom modifier as a bonus to Armor Class, so long as
you wear no or light armor, are unencumbered, and do
not use a shield. These bonuses to AC apply even against
touch attacks or when you are flat-footed. However, you
lose this bonus when you are immobilized or helpless.
Deflect Attack (Su): As an earthbender, you learn early
on to block or deflect attacks directed at you. At 2nd level,
as an immediate action, you can attempt to negate a single
ranged or ranged touch attack made against you, after you
have discovered the results of the attack roll but before the
damage has been determined. The attack takes a -6
penalty. This penalty increases as you level, raising by -2
every four levels that you take in the earthbender class.
Improved Unarmed Strike: At 3rd level,
you gain Improved Unarmed Strike as a free
bonus feat, reflecting your extensive training
with your body.
Advanced Bending: At 3rd level, you begin to
display some of the fruits of your focused and
intense training. You gain a +2 bonus to your
Bending Skill; this bonus applies towards
learning forms as well as bending them.
You gain an additional +2 bonus every
four levels in the earthbender class as
indicated in Table 1-2: The Earthbender.
TABLE 1-2: THE EARTHBENDER HIT DIE: D10
Base Fort Ref Will Deflect Forms
Level Attack Bonus Save Save Save Special Attack Known
1st +0 +2 +0 +2 Earth Blast 1d6, Fundamental Seed Forms 0 1
nd
2 +1 +3 +0 +3 Deflect Attack, AC Bonus -6 2
rd
3 +2 +3 +1 +3 Improved Unarmed Strike, Advanced Bending +2 -6 2
th
4 +3 +4 +1 +4 Rock Steady +2 -8 3
th
5 +3 +4 +1 +4 Earth Blast 2d6, Climb (20 ft.) -8 3
th
6 +4 +5 +2 +5 Mettle -8 4
th
7 +5 +5 +2 +5 Advanced Bending +2 -8 4
th
8 +6/+1 +6 +2 +6 Rock Steady +4 -10 5
th
9 +6/+1 +6 +3 +6 Climb (30 ft.) -10 5
th
10 +7/+2 +7 +3 +7 Earth Blast 3d6, Head-On Defense -10 6
th
11 +8/+3 +7 +3 +7 Advanced Bending +2 -10 6
th
12 +9/+4 +8 +4 +8 Rock Steady +8 -12 7
th
13 +9/+4 +8 +4 +8 Climb (40 ft.) -12 7
th
14 +10/+5 +9 +4 +9 -12 8
th
15 +11/+6/+1 +9 +5 +9 Earth Blast 4d6, Advanced Bending +2 -12 8
th
16 +12/+7/+2 +10 +5 +10 Rock Steady +16 -14 9
th
17 +12/+7/+2 +10 +5 +10 Climb (50 ft.) -14 9
th
18 +13/+8/+3 +11 +6 +11 -14 10
th
19 +14/+9/+4 +11 +6 +11 Advanced Bending +2 -14 10
th
20 +15/+10/+5 +12 +6 +12 Earth Blast 5d6, Climb (60 ft.) -16 11
st
Class Skills (4 + Int modifier per level, x4 at 1 level): Balance, Climb, Concentration, Craft, Diplomacy, Gather Information,
Hide, Intimidate, Jump, Knowledge (Geography), Listen, Move Silently, Profession, Sense Motive, Spot

Rock Steady (Su): Earthbenders are hard to move when instead negate the effect. You do not gain the benefit of
they do not wish to; you are no exception. Upon attaining mettle when you are unconscious or sleeping.
4th level, whenever you are in contact with the ground and
Head-on Defense (Ex): Beginning at 10th level, you add
have not moved more than 5 feet in your last round, you
your Constitution modifier as a bonus to your Reflex
gain a +2 bonus to your reactive Grapple, Trip, Disarm
saves. This represents your ability as an Earthbender to
and Bull Rush rolls. This bonus doubles every four levels,
tackle even the most daunting attack with fortitude and
to a maximum of +16 at 16th level.
resilience more than mere agility.
Climb (Su): By bending hand and footholds into a stone
Other Benders: Like a member of any other class, an
or earthen surface, an earthbender can climb even sheer
earthbender may be a multiclass character, but multiclass
surfaces easily. When attempting to scale any bendable
earthbenders face a special restriction. An earthbender
surface, a 5th level or higher earthbender gains a climb
may never take a level in a different base bending class;
speed as indicated on the above table, as well as a +8
this does not, however, mean that it is impossible for an
competence bonus on Climb checks. This ability only
earthbender to learn the other arts. See the Skills & Feats
works on substances that you can earthbend.
chapter for more details.
Mettle (Ex): You can withstand even magical and
unusual attacks with great resolve. Upon attaining 6th
level, by drawing on your inner strength and dedication,
you can shrug off effects that would hinder even the
toughest warrior. If you succeed on a Fortitude or Will
save against an attack that would normally produce a
lesser effect on a successful save (such as a spell with a
saving throw entry of Will half or Fortitude partial), you

FIREBENDER
"I don't need luck... I don't want it. I've always had to struggle
and fight and that's made me strong. It's made me who I am."
- The Fire Prince
MAKING A FIREBENDER
Quick, chaotic, and energetic, firebending is a difficult art
that only the most dedicated are able to master through
much inner discipline. Firebenders are almost always on
the offensive, overwhelming their foes with barrage after
barrage of fiery kicks, jabs, and sweeps.
Adventures: Often, firebenders serve as part of military
detachments and adventure under the orders of their
superior officers or on their own initiative, seeking to
advance the interests of the Fire Nation. Alternatively,
they may travel on more personal quests, seeking to
regain lost honor or improve their standing within the
Fire Nation political hierarchy. Still others adventure to
prove and increase their power and command of their
destructive art.
Characteristics: Firebenders are fast, powerful, and
aggressive. Lacking the potent defensive moves of the
other bending disciplines, firebenders seek to strike quick
and hard, defeating their opponent before defense is
necessary. They use a variety of attacks to project their fire,
with quick hand jabs and punches resulting in short
bursts of fire while sweeping kicks create arcs of flame.
Some of the most powerful firebenders are able to create
walls of fire, or generate blue fire or electricity, the most
powerful forms of the firebending art.
Alignment: Master firebenders, like all other benders,
show high discipline and self-control, though like their
unpredictable medium, they can lose control of their
emotions. Chaotic and Lawful firebenders are in equal
numbers. The art of fire is obviously (though not solely)
destructive, lending a slight preference towards Evil – but
energy is as much the domain of Good.
Religion: While the extent of firebender
spirituality is unknown, it is commonly
thought that firebenders revere the sun
as the source of their powers. It is also
thought that some firebenders revere
past Avatars from the Fire Nation.
Many firebenders are stubbornly
individualistic and do not profess any
religious beliefs.
Background: Many firebenders receive their
training through the military, becoming soldiers in the
Fire Nation army. Others seek out individual masters or
train at temples dedicated to the art.
Races: All firebenders (with the exception of the Avatar,
who is able to master all four elements) are members of
the groups known as the Fire Nation or the Sun Warriors.
In other settings, their disciplined yet passionate ways are
favored by races as diverse as the kalashtar, dwarves,
kobolds and half-orcs. Many fire genasi and phoelarchs
pursue the path of fire.
Other Classes: Of all the bending disciplines,
firebenders are the most individualistic and aggressive,
often causing conflicts with those who differ in approach
or look for less martial solutions, such as clerics, druids,
and bards. The more spiritual among them may realize
that difference is not always dissonance, but harmony.
These firebenders espouse the views of a number of
different companions, especially those of like disciplined
passion, such as martial adepts.
Abilities: A high Wisdom score is essential to an
firebender as it determines the Save DCs for many of his
best forms and abilities, also allowing him to intuitively
dodge attacks. A firebender will have to choose between
his Strength and his Dexterity as well. Some firebenders
prefer fighting at range, thus needing the accuracy and
agility that Dexterity affords them; others need the
additional damage and speed granted them by Strength.
Constitution is important to any class for the sake of
survival.
Alignment: Any (Sometimes evil, rarely neutral)
Starting Gold: 6d4x10 (150 gp).
Starting Age: As Rogue.
CLASS FEATURES
Firebenders are the most aggressive and immediately
dangerous of all benders, and will directly hurt their
opponent the most. That is a defining feature of their
fighting style. But the clever realize that direct
damage is not the only way to harm an
opponent – after all, what use is a
gigantic fireball if the person you
want to use it on is in the next city?
Firebenders thus often take the role
of a frontline destroyer and rear
harasser, forcing the enemy to make
tough choices in moving safely.
Weapon and Armor Proficiency: As a
firebender, you are proficient with all simple and
martial weapons, as well as light armor, but not shields.
Forms: You bend forms from the Firebender form list,
able to use any form you know spontaneously, as the
opportunity presents itself. You begin your career with
Forms", as well as one additional seed chosen from the
forms you are capable of bending at your level. You must
maintain a bonus for at least 24 hours before you gain a
level for it to count towards learning a form.
To learn a Seed Form, you must have a Bending skill
modifier equal to the form's bending Difficulty Class - 10.
Forms with a variable base Difficulty Class use their
lowest listed DC for purposes of learning the form. To
learn a Template Form, you must have a Bending skill
modifier equal to the form's bending Difficulty Class + 10.
The saving throw Difficulty Class against your forms is 10
+ ½ your level in all bending classes + ¼ your level in all
other classes + your Wisdom modifier.
You learn additional forms as you gain additional levels;
you learn another at second level, and then one more
every two levels after that.
A form is considered to be a supernatural ability unless
otherwise noted in its description. Your forms are not
affected by spell resistance, and you do not necessarily
provoke attacks of opportunity for using one. For more
information, read the "Bending Overview" section.
Fire Blast (Su): One of your basic attack seed forms. A
single-classed firebender's Fire Blast increases in damage
at the rate listed in Table 1-3: The Firebender, but for more
information, read the section "List of Basic Forms."
AC Bonus: As a 2nd level firebender, you can add your
Wisdom modifier as a bonus to Armor Class, so long as
you wear no or light armor, are unencumbered, and do
not use a shield. These bonuses to AC apply even against
touch attacks or when you are flat-footed. However, you
lose this bonus when you are immobilized or helpless.
Firestorm (Ex): When unarmored or lightly armored,
you may strike with a firestorm at the expense of accuracy.
You may make one extra attack in a round at your highest
base attack bonus, but all attacks made that round take a -
2 penalty. It also affects attacks of opportunity you might
make before your next action. When you reach 5th level,
the penalty lessens to -1, and at 9th level it disappears. You
must use a full attack action to strike with a firestorm.

TABLE 1-3: THE FIREBENDER HIT DIE: D8

Base Fort Ref Will Firestorm Deflect Forms
Level Attack Bonus Save Save Save Special Attack Bonus Attack Known
1st +0 +0 +2 +2 Fire Blast 1d6, Fundamentals, Firestorm -2/-2 0 1
nd
2 +1 +0 +3 +3 Deflect Attack -1/-1 -6 2
rd
3 +2 +1 +3 +3 Imp. Unarmed Strike, Advanced Bending +2 +0/+0 -6 2
th
4 +3 +1 +4 +4 Fire Blast 2d6 +1/+1 -8 3
th
5 +3 +1 +4 +4 Burning Rush (10 ft.) +2/+2 -8 3
th
6 +4 +2 +5 +5 Fire Resistance 5 +3/+3 -8 4
th
7 +5 +2 +5 +5 Advanced Bending +2 +4/+4 -8 4
th
8 +6/+1 +2 +6 +6 Fire Blast 3d6 +5/+5/+0 -10 5
th
9 +6/+1 +3 +6 +6 Burning Rush (20 ft.) +6/+6/+1 -10 5
th
10 +7/+2 +3 +7 +7 Cold Resistance 5 +7/+7/+2 -10 6
th
11 +8/+3 +3 +7 +7 Advanced Bending +2, Greater Firestorm +8/+8/+8/+3 -10 6
th
12 +9/+4 +4 +8 +8 Fire Blast 4d6 +9/+9/+9/+4 -12 7
th
13 +9/+4 +4 +8 +8 Burning Rush (30 ft.) +9/+9/+9/+4 -12 7
th
14 +10/+5 +4 +9 +9 Fire Resistance 10 +10/+10/+10/+5 -12 8
th
15 +11/+6/+1 +5 +9 +9 Advanced Bending +2 +11/+11/+11/+6/+1 -12 8
th
16 +12/+7/+2 +5 +10 +10 Fire Blast 5d6 +12/+12/+12/+7/+2 -14 9
th
17 +12/+7/+2 +5 +10 +10 Burning Rush (40 ft.) +12/+12/+12/+7/+2 -14 9
th
18 +13/+8/+3 +6 +11 +11 Cold Resistance 10 +13/+13/+13/+8/+3 -14 10
th
19 +14/+9/+4 +6 +11 +11 Advanced Bending +2 +14/+14/+14/+9/+4 -14 10
th
20 +15/+10/+5 +6 +12 +12 Fire Blast 6d6, Burning Rush (50 ft.) +15/+15/+15/+10/+5 -16 11
st
Class Skills (4 + Int modifier per level, x4 at 1 level): Balance, Climb, Diplomacy, Concentration, Craft, Hide, Intimidate, Jump,
Knowledge (History), Listen, Move Silently, Perform, Profession, Sense Motive, Spot
 When using firestorm, you may attack with unarmed
strikes, your Fire Blast attack, or any light, one-handed or
double melee weapon you have proficiency in. You may
WATERBENDER
attack with any of the above interchangeably as desired.
Firestorm cannot be used simultaneously with feats and "I will never, ever turn my back on people who need me."
class abilities such as Rapid Shot or Flurry of Blows that - Southern Waterbending Master
also grant extra attacks, though a Haste effect is fine.
Greater Firestorm: When you reach 11th level, in addition
to the standard extra attack you get from firestorm, you
MAKING A WATERBENDER
get a second extra attack at your full base attack bonus. Change. Not making it, but experiencing it and doing
something with it. The seas are inconstant as the moon,
Deflect Attack (Su): As a firebender, you learn early on
and in that, waterbenders have found solidity. A swaying
to block or deflect attacks directed at you. At 2nd level, as
balance that moves the world.
an immediate action, you can attempt to negate a single
ranged or ranged touch attack made against you, after you Adventures: Waterbenders adventure most frequently to
have discovered the results of the attack roll but before the aid the tribe, be it to defend against an enemy, gain access
damage has been determined. The attack takes a -6 to a crucial resource, or provide aid to an ally of the tribe.
penalty. This penalty increases as you level, raising by -2 Also, waterbenders in small communities may adventure
every four levels that you take in the firebender class. to seek out a master to instruct them.
Improved Unarmed Strike: At 3rd level, you gain Characteristics: Waterbenders are able to manipulate
Improved Unarmed Strike as a free bonus feat, reflecting water, giving it shape, moving it with great speed and
your extensive training with your body. power, or changing its phase from water to ice or vapor
(and vice versa). They focus on a fluid defense, turning
Advanced Bending: At 3rd level, you begin to display
their opponent's blows against them. Waterbenders can
some of the fruits of your focused, intense training. You
also heal wounds, using water as a medium through
gain a +2 bonus to your Bending Skill; this bonus applies
which to align the chi and promote healing.
towards learning forms and bending them. You gain an
additional +2 bonus every four levels in the firebender Alignment: Waterbenders emphasize defense – but an
class as indicated in Table 1-3: The Firebender. active one that reflects the opponent's own offense, and
can be roused to anger. Thus, waterbenders tend toward
Burning Rush (Su): Upon attaining 5th level, you can use
neither good nor evil. In the harsh arctic environment
your firebending to greatly amplify your speed for short
which spawns most waterbenders, strict adherence to law
amounts of time. As a free action, once per encounter you
or reckless abandonment of duties can mean death for all
can activate Burning Rush. For the next three rounds, you
involved; overall, a waterbender understands the need for
gain the listed speed as a circumstance bonus to all your
flexibility, and thus tends towards neutrality.
movement speeds. Particularly powerful firebenders may
have this manifest as jets of flame exploding from their Religion: Waterbenders draw their power from the
feet. Moon and venerate the Moon Spirit above all others. Their
power waxes in the moonlight and wanes during the day.
Energy Resistance (Su): At 6th level, you gain Fire
Also, many members of the Water Tribe revere the Ocean
Resistance 5, able to reactively bend away minor
Spirit as the source of life for their people.
temperature fluctuations. As you gain additional levels in
the firebender class, you gain Cold Resistance as well, Background: Most waterbenders train under a master.
and both resistances increase to 10. In the Northern Water Tribe, there are large
group lessons under the tutelage of a
Other Benders: Like a member of any other class, a
single master. In the Southern and
firebender may be a multiclass character, but multiclass
Foggy Swamp Water Tribes where
firebenders face a special restriction. A firebender may
waterbenders are fewer in
never take a level in a different base bending class; this
number, waterbenders
does not, however, mean that it is impossible for a
tend to learn one-on-one
firebender to learn the other arts. See the Skills & Feats
from a single master.
chapter for more details.
Races: All
waterbenders (with the exception of the Avatar, who is
able to master all four elements) are members of the group
known as the Water Tribe, located at the north and south
poles and in the Foggy Swamp. In other settings, the need
for strength in flexibility is a trait that halflings and
humans alike hold in high regard. Any water genasi will
consider this path at least once in their life, and some
shifters that venerate the depths have found themselves
contemplating waterbending.
Other Classes: Waterbenders, with their emphasis on
fluid, but reactive, fighting will often find much in
common with frontline defenders accustomed to taking
abuse for their comrades, and their control and healing
abilities are likewise appreciated by such. The precision
that such a defense gives them over their offensive output
is something that peace-minded monks, clerics and some
paladins are sure to appreciate.
Abilities: A high Wisdom score is essential to a
Waterbender as it determines the Save DCs for many of
her best forms and abilities, also allowing her to
intuitively dodge attacks. A high Dexterity is also
important, as it allows the waterbender more
opportunities to strike and control incautious opponents.
A waterbender's typical position at the rear of the fight
gives them many opportunities to observe the battle and
support their allies, so a high Intelligence could be of
benefit; a more active and confrontational waterbender
may favor Constitution instead.
Alignment: Any (Usually neutral)
Starting Gold: 3d4x10 (75 gp).
Starting Age: As Rogue.
CLASS FEATURES
While a firebender will stay upfront and hurt people
while hoping to not get hurt himself, a waterbender often
finds herself doing the exact opposite – staying in the
back, actively twisting attacks made against her into
painful ripostes, daring anyone to try and get near, past
her swarms of Tentacles and her Water Whip.
And then half of those who do end up getting close are
simply swept out to sea by gigantic waves. The
waterbender can't take many hits, but misses against her
will prove costly. At her most effective when being
targeted, opponents will have to weigh the relative worth
of attacking her first or last – if they get to at all.
Weapon and Armor Proficiency: As an waterbender,
you are proficient with all simple weapons, but not with
any armor or shields.
Forms: You bend forms from the Waterbender form list,
able to use any form you know spontaneously, as the
opportunity presents itself. You begin your career with
knowledge of all waterbending "Fundamental Seed
Forms", as well as one additional seed chosen from the
forms you are capable of bending at your level.
To learn a Seed Form, you must have a Bending skill
modifier equal to the form's bending Difficulty Class - 10.
Forms with a variable base Difficulty Class use their
lowest listed DC for purposes of learning the form. To
learn a Template Form, you must have a Bending skill
modifier equal to the form's bending Difficulty Class + 10.
The saving throw Difficulty Class against your forms is 10
+ ½ your level in all bending classes + ¼ your level in all
other classes + your Wisdom modifier. You must maintain
a bonus for at least 24 hours before you gain a level for it
to count towards learning a form.
You learn additional forms as you gain additional levels;
you learn another at second level, and then one more
every two levels after that.
A form is considered to be a supernatural ability unless
otherwise noted in its description. Your forms are not
affected by spell resistance, and you do not necessarily
provoke attacks of opportunity for using one. For more
information, read the "Bending Overview" section.
Water Blast (Su): One of your basic attack seed forms. A
single-classed waterbender's Water Blast increases in
damage at the rate listed in Table 1-4: The Waterbender,
but for more information, check the section "List of Basic
Forms."
AC Bonus: As a 2nd level waterbender, you can add your
Wisdom modifier as a bonus to Armor Class, so long as
you wear no armor, are unencumbered, and do not use a
shield. You also gain the listed miscellaneous bonus to
your armor class as you take additional levels in this class,
beginning at 2nd level. These bonuses to AC apply even
against touch attacks or when you are flat-footed.
However, you lose this bonus when you are immobilized
or helpless.
Deflect Attack (Su): As an waterbender, you learn early
on to block or deflect attacks directed at you. At 2nd level,
as an immediate action, you can attempt to negate a single
ranged or ranged touch attack made against you, after you
have discovered the results of the attack roll but before the
damage has been determined. The attack takes a -6
penalty. This penalty increases as you level, raising by -2
every four levels that you take in the waterbender class.
Improved Unarmed Strike: At 3rd level, you gain
Improved Unarmed Strike as a free bonus feat, reflecting
your extensive training with your body.
TABLE 1-4: THE WATERBENDER HIT DIE: D6
Base Fort Ref Will Deflect Forms Dodge
Level Attack Bonus Save Save Save Special Attack Known Bonus
1st +0 +0 +2 +2 Water Blast 1d6, Fundamental Seed Forms 0 1 +0
nd
2 +1 +0 +3 +3 Deflect Attack, AC Bonus -6 2 +0
rd
3 +2 +1 +3 +3 Improved Unarmed Strike, Advanced Bending +2 -6 2 +0
th
4 +3 +1 +4 +4 Water Conservation 25% -8 3 +0
th
5 +3 +1 +4 +4 Water Blast 2d6, Ski (20 ft.) -8 3 +1
th
6 +4 +2 +5 +5 -8 4 +1
th
7 +5 +2 +5 +5 Advanced Bending +2 -8 4 +1
th
8 +6/+1 +2 +6 +6 Water Conservation 50%, Circular Attack -4 -10 5 +1
th
9 +6/+1 +3 +6 +6 Ski (30 ft.) -10 5 +1
th
10 +7/+2 +3 +7 +7 Water Blast 3d6 -10 6 +2
th
11 +8/+3 +3 +7 +7 Advanced Bending +2 -10 6 +2
th
12 +9/+4 +4 +8 +8 Water Conservation 75% -12 7 +2
th
13 +9/+4 +4 +8 +8 Ski (40 ft.) -12 7 +2
th
14 +10/+5 +4 +9 +9 Circular Attack -2 -12 8 +2
th
15 +11/+6/+1 +5 +9 +9 Water Blast 4d6, Advanced Bending +2 -12 8 +3
th
16 +12/+7/+2 +5 +10 +10 Water Conservation 100% -14 9 +3
th
17 +12/+7/+2 +5 +10 +10 Ski (50 ft.) -14 9 +3
th
18 +13/+8/+3 +6 +11 +11 -14 10 +3
th
19 +14/+9/+4 +6 +11 +11 Advanced Bending +2 -14 10 +3
th
20 +15/+10/+5 +6 +12 +12 Water Blast 5d6, Circular Attack +0, Ski (60 ft.) -16 11 +4
st
Class Skills (4 + Int modifier per level, x4 at 1 level): Balance, Climb, Concentration, Craft, Diplomacy, Handle Animal, Heal,
Knowledge (History, Local, Religion), Listen, Perform, Profession, Sense Motive, Spot, Survival, Swim, and Use Rope.

Advanced Bending: At 3rd level, you begin to display while skiing, provided that she skis in a straight line.
some of the fruits of your focused and intense training.
Circular Attack (Ex): Beginning at 8th level, you can
You gain a +2 bonus to your Bending Skill; this bonus
redirect your enemies' attacks, using their own energy to
applies towards learning forms as well as bending them.
retaliate against them. When you successfully dodge an
You gain an additional +2 bonus every four levels in the
attack roll for whatever reason, you may make an attack
waterbender class as indicated in Table 1-4: The
of opportunity against your attacker; this attack of
Waterbender.
opportunity may either be performed with a melee
Water Conservation (Su): As you advance in your career weapon as normal, or with your Water Blast, at your
as a waterbender, you quickly realize your limitations option. This attack roll takes a -4 penalty when you first
when not next to a body of water. Through much practice, learn the ability, though this penalty gradually disappears
you learn to compensate for this. Upon completion of a over time, as listed on Table 1-4: The Waterbender.
form that normally states that its water component is not
Other Benders: Like a member of any other class, a
immediately recoverable, you retain the listed percentage
waterbender may be a multiclass character, but multiclass
of water from the form. Your next form within the next
waterbenders face a special restriction. A waterbender
round that requires water can use your conservation pool
may never take a level in a different base bending class;
as a component, even if the water conserved is not within
this does not, however, mean that it is impossible for a
10 feet of you.
waterbender to learn the other arts. See the Skills & Feats
Ski (Su): Beginning at 5th level, you learn to move over chapter for more details.
the surface of water as naturally as if on land, or even
more so. You can move on the surface of water, ice, or
snow at the speed indicated on Table 1-4: The
Waterbender. The waterbender can use the run action

OTHER CLASSES
"We can take 'em. Three on three."
"Actually, there's four of us."
"Oh, sorry. Didn't count you, you know, no bending and all."
"I can still fight!"
"Okay, three on three plus Sokka."
- Toph and Sokka
MARTIAL CLASSES
As any fan of the Avatar: The Lost Airbender show knows,
the cast is not made up solely of benders, and while only a
bender might be able to stop a raging volcano or
earthquake, in a fight a good warrior can be a serious
threat.
Barbarian: While the episode The Great Divide shows us a
mass of people who can be considered Barbarians, we
don't actually get many examples of monstrous physical
strength in the Avatar World. The class shouldn't
detract from the feel of a close-to-canon setting show,
however.
Crusader: The Crusader, with its paladin-like
religious zeal directly powering its abilities, as
well as its iconic martial discipline Devoted
Spirit containing large, in-combat only healing
capability that is not remotely tied to water, may
find itself out of place in the Avatar World.
Fighter: The prototypical warrior class, there are
few settings that the Fighter is not at home in.
This is no exception.
Hexblade: As a class which focuses on
magic, the Hexblade is certainly out of
setting. However, the idea of hexing
someone with bad luck is not exclusive
to the West, and with some doctoring, the Hexblade
will not be a large intrusion.
Monk: The Monk has always been an Eastern-inspired
class, and Avatar draws primarily on Chinese and Hindu
influences. We never explicitly see a character with monk
abilities, especially not Abundant Step, but Guru Pathik,
and to a lesser extent Ty Lee, suggest the idea of non-
benders able to achieve some measure of supernatural
power. You can go either way with this class. The most
overt effects you may simply wish to alter mechanically in
small ways – turning Abundant Step into extremely quick,
stealthy, high-leaping movement has virtually the same
gameplay effect in most cases as actual teleportation, and
Jeong-Jeong performs a similar trick in The Deserter.
Paladin: Interestingly, while the Crusader has some issue
fitting, the Paladin could be reflavored as a martially-
focused Waterbender who only mastered the ability to
heal. However, you would have to very carefully choose
your spell selection. The Paladin's special mount would
very certainly not be able to be magically summoned from
Celestia; however, it could be a creature from the Spirit
World which you have long befriended that knows how to
cross the barriers between the two worlds.
Ranger: Much as the Paladin, careful selection of Ranger
spells to things with less overt effects – such as Jump,
Speak with Animals, Snare and many of the spells
introduced in the Spell Compendium will let the Ranger
slide into the Avatar world without making a big splash.
However, the spell-less Ranger from Complete Warrior or
the Scout class will probably be an easier fit.
Swordsage: The Swordsage, like the Monk, draws a bit on
Eastern influences and this allows it some freedom in its
supernatural qualities. Still, you may wish to avoid
explicitly supernatural disciplines, such as Shadow Hand
and Desert Spirit. (Though Desert Spirit pairs well with a
multi-classed firebender, and Stone Dragon synergizes
with earthbending.)
Warblade: A Fighter by any other name would still
fit as snug.
SKILL CLASSES
Bard: The Bard gains much of its
abilities explicitly from Arcane
Magic, which makes its spells
hard to fit in. Bardic Music itself
can be simply made to be an
extraordinary ability, as it is morale
based. Substituting the Bard's spell list
for a Warblade's maneuver list and
increasing their hit die to d8 could
work, though.
Ninja: The Rogue version of the monk. As with the monk,
the explicitly supernatural things should probably be
toned down into improbably natural elements. Invisibility
is just an exceptionally good, fast, leap into stealth or a
cloak dance.
Rogue: The prototypical scoundrel class, there are few
settings that the Rogue is not at home in. This is no
exception.
Scout: Take one part Rogue, one part Ranger, and ditch
the spellcasting – it's a recipe for success. The Scout is at
home in nearly any D&D setting.
MAGIC CLASSES
Artificer: For the most part, Artificers – like the rest of the
spellcasting, manifesting crew – simply do not fit.
However, an artificer stripped of most of its later class
features, while unbalanced, weak and boring, would serve
well as an NPC smith to get a source of magic equipment,
especially as virtually all the other caster classes do not
even remotely fit.
Binders & Spirit Shaman: Much like the Hexblade, these
two are inarguably beyond the bounds of the canonical
setting. However, dealings with the Spirit World beyond
the Avatar are poorly understood. The Binder could fill
that spot, making pacts with various spirits that have
become unruly and angered, disturbing the land;
alternatively, a Spirit Shaman with a Swordsage maneuver
progression in place of its spellcasting could be a priest
who has learned to chastise the spirits.
MONEY & MAGIC
This supplement is intended to be of equal use to people
who want to play an Avatar World campaign, and people
who just want to bend things in Eberron or Greyhawk. The
problem, though, is that the Avatar World doesn't take
well to the "Christmas Tree effect," a phenomenon in
standard 3rd Edition D&D that results in every Fighter
carrying a golf club bag full of different weapons,
omnipresent bags of holding, and everyone flying by level
15. There are no magic items at all, after all! You might
want to ban them all entirely.
But in reality, the martial D&D classes are balanced
around having equipment, and ignoring that can cause
serious problems. If you find that for whatever reason,
your PCs are not adapting well to a no-magic item setting,
you may wish to reintroduce them- slyly.
To use this variant, restrict any magic item gains to those
items which enhance already present abilities, like
straight enhancement bonuses to weapons, or things that
are feasible non-magically, like Fortification to Armor.
Magic items that improve ability scores can be thought of
in new ways. Gloves of Strength might really just improve
your grip and balance to provide a functional improvement
to strength without actually making you Hercules. The
Carrying and Encumbrance rules rarely come into play
anyway.
Make good use of the one-use permanent bonus magic
items, like the Manual of Gainful Exercise. To prevent
everyone from just reading the book and magically getting
stronger, attaching 'sidequest' adventures for PCs to train
and gain the most out of their newly found pamphlet gurus
can be a fun diversion, especially during downtime.
Players should not be walking around with large amounts
of money under this rule set, and will honestly be lucky to
have more than a couple pieces of gold as spending money
most of the time. They can find, craft, or barter for new
equipment, and even if they want to sell things, truly fine
weaponry is well beyond the purse limits of the average
citizen. The oft-neglected chapter on services and
equipment in the Player's Handbook might even see use
this way.
Of course, in such a no magic, low technology setting,
having more than a handful of money isn't as large a
benefit to anyone interested in adventuring, so if a PC in a
campaign with this variant wants you to play up her
massive inheritance from the Bei Fong family, you may
wish to play along. The additional resources can be quite
game-changing in the hands of clever PCs, but rarely will
they be game-breaking, especially with regards to intra-
party balance.
You and your players will, of course, know that they
really are using magic item rules, but it's not like it'll
matter. Last I checked, there's no Anti-Magicbender.
BENDING OVERVIEW Although bending is amazing and defies the laws of
physics, it is not magic as one commonly thinks of it.
Nothing is created, only manipulated. Therefore, bending
is never subject to spell resistance, and though it cannot be
performed in an Anti-Magic Field, bending that begins
outside of an Anti-Magic Field can continue into one via
momentum. All bending arts are considered to be a set of
Supernatural (Su) abilities, though the wide variety of
ater. Earth. Fire. Air. These techniques in bending means that not all normal rules for
four elements are the basis Supernatural abilities apply.
of all life according to those
A normal bending effect is referred to as a Seed Form
who call themselves
or Stance Form. Even these basics, when wielded by
'benders'. Using the unique
masters, can unleash amazing destructive or constructive
combination of mortality and spirituality, they are able to
powers, but Advanced Forms – created by the
bend these elements to their will and shape their world.
combination of two Seed Forms or any Form added with a
Bending is an ultimately spiritual, martial discipline Template Form – are a sight to behold.
– neither arcane or divine, but something in-between. In
many ways, it is weaker than magic, since benders cannot
create what is not there. So unlike magic, it is limited by
the endurance of its wielder and the suitability of its
environment, but in return has considerably more
flexibility.
BENDING FORMS
Components
Forms with the Somatic component require precise,
coordinated motion. Bending checks made to bend a form
with a somatic component incur double the usual armor
check penalty as a result, unless you have proficiency in
the armor. If you are proficient with the armor you wear,
light armor incurs no armor check penalty, and medium
or heavy armor incur half the armor check penalty. If you
do not at least have two limbs free, grappling, are prone,
or otherwise hindered in a significant way, you must take
a -10 penalty on your bending check in order to bend a
form with a somatic component. Attempting to bend a
form with the Somatic component while you are
completely helpless, pinned, or otherwise immobile is
impossible even for the most skilled benders.
Activating or maintaining forms with the Meditation
component provokes an attack of opportunity unless done
as a swift or free action. Getting struck in the midst of
activating or while maintaining a bending form with a
Meditation component and then subsequently failing your
Concentration check causes you to lose the form, just like
a spell.
Certain forms (particularly those of water, air, and earth)
have a material component of their corresponding
element, either to fuel the form or as an integral part of the
form's effects. It is impossible to bend a form if you do not
have a sufficient quantity of the appropriate element
within 10 feet of you.
Augmentation
Augmentation: Most forms have variable effects based
on your bending skill. Specific augments are listed in the
description of each form; at the DM's option, others may
become available based on the situation. There are four
types of Augments:
● Increase augments are fairly common. Subtract the
base difficulty class of the form from your
bending check result. This is the size of your
augment pool. You must use or spend points
from your augment pool on Increase augments in
order to gain their benefits. You must decide how
to increase augment a form prior to rolling your
bending check for it.
● Exceed augments are rare; to determine the
strength of an Exceed augment, simply subtract
the base difficulty class of the form from your
bending check result.
● Quickening augments are the most common, and
are described below. Quickening augments
actually increase the base difficulty class of a form
for purposes of determining the augment pool
and the strength of any exceed augments. You
must decide whether to attempt to quicken a form
before rolling your bending check for it.
● Templates are a special kind of augmentation.
Template Forms are forms that exist purely to
alter the effects of other forms, and must be
learned as any Seed Form would. Template Forms
are therefore specific to each type of bending.
Applying a Template Form creates an Advanced
Form, and can change many characteristics of the
Seed Form, such as its duration or Bending Time.
Template augments actually increase the base
difficulty class of a form for purposes of
determining the augment pool and the strength of
any exceed augments. You must decide whether
to attempt to apply a template to a form before
rolling your bending check for it.
Augments can be added or removed while you maintain
a form; however, you must add +4 to the difficulty class
that round in order to sustain your mental and physical
balance while adjusting to a change. Certain forms may
specify restrictions on when that form can be augmented.
Quickening: Most forms with a Bending Time of Full-
Round or shorter can be quickened. For every ten points
you increase the difficulty class of a form, you can reduce
the bending time and maintenance time of any such form
to the next smaller action, to a minimum of Swift. A full-
round action becomes a standard action becomes a move
action becomes a swift action. However, some forms have
their own rules on quickening, either allowing you to
quicken them at less of a cost, or sometimes not at all.
These special rules will be contained in their description.
Forms with a Maintenance Action require you to spend
at least that much effort a round focusing on the form to
keep it from ending. Maintenance Actions can be
quickened unless the form's description states otherwise,
as you must make another bending check each time a
form calls for a Maintenance Action.
Combining Seed Forms
You may combine various Seed Forms; creative use of the
element is important to the application of bending. Using
a single Seed Form is often very useful or powerful in its
own right, and can continue to be so at later levels by
advancing the seed's effects. However, in situations when
two of your known Seed Forms are compatible with each
other, they can be executed in conjunction with the your
other abilities, creating an Advanced Form. Doing so uses
the longer bending time of the two Seed Forms, and has a
difficulty class equal to the two base forms added
together, minus four. Only one of the two forms involved
may be augmented. Templates may be added as normal.
The intention of Advanced Forms is to replicate effects
that are logically feasible for a bender of an appropriate
skill level to perform, but simply are not modeled in the
Seed Forms, either due to creator oversight or because the
technique was dubbed to be a combination. It should
therefore be stressed that players and DMs are intended to
cooperate to determine what combinations of bending
seeds are appropriate in a given game. Many
combinations are possible, so be creative!
Concentration
To bend some forms, you must concentrate. If something
threatens to interrupt your concentration while you're
bending a form, you must succeed on a Concentration
check or lose the form. The more distracting the
interruption and the higher the level of the form that you
are trying to bend, the higher the DC. (Higher-level
meditation forms require more mental effort.) The
following rules only apply to forms with a Meditation
component.
Injury: Getting hurt or being affected by hostile effects
while trying to bend a form can break your concentration
and ruin a form. If you take damage while trying to bend
a form, you must make a Concentration check (DC 10 +
points of damage taken + ¼ the DC of the form). The
interrupting event strikes during activation if it occurs
between when you start and when you complete bending
a form (for a form with a bending time of 1 round or
longer) or if it comes in response to your bending the form
(such as an attack of opportunity provoked by the
bending of the form or a contingent attack from a readied
action).
If you are taking continuous damage half the damage is
considered to take place while you are bending a form.
You must make a Concentration check (DC 10 + ½ the
damage that the continuous source last dealt + ¼ the DC
of the form). If the last damage dealt was the last damage
that the effect could deal then the damage is over, and it
does not distract you.
Repeated damage does not count as continuous damage.
Grappling or Pinned: To bend a form while grappling
or pinned, you must make a Concentration check (DC 20 +
¼ the DC of the form) or lose the form.
Vigorous Motion: If you are riding on a moving mount,
taking a bouncy ride in a wagon, on a small boat in rough
water, belowdecks in a storm-tossed ship, or simply being
jostled in a similar fashion, you must make a
Concentration check (DC 10 + ¼ the DC of the form) or
lose the form.
Violent Motion: If you are on a galloping horse, taking a
very rough ride in a wagon, on a small boat in rapids or in
a storm, on deck in a storm-tossed ship, or being tossed
roughly about in a similar fashion, you must make a
Concentration check (DC 15 + ¼ the DC of the form) or
lose the form. Extremely severe conditions, like being in a
tornado or earthquake, can increase the DC further.
Violent Weather: If you are in a high wind carrying
blinding rain or sleet, the DC is 5 + ¼ the DC of the form.
If you are in wind-driven hail, dust, or debris, the DC is 10
+ ¼ the DC of the form. In either case, you lose the form if
you fail the Concentration check.
Bending Forms on the Defensive: If you want to bend a
form without provoking attacks of opportunity, you need
to dodge and weave. You must make a Concentration
check (DC 15 + ¼ the DC of the form) to succeed. If you
fail, you do not lose the form, but you are subject to
attacks of opportunity which may disrupt the form.
Bender Level and Bender Skill
The variables of a form's effect sometimes depend on its
bender level, which is equal to your total bender class
levels + ½ your levels in all other classes, and can never
exceed your character level.
More often, your bender skill is used. The bender skill
roll has a basic modifier equal to your total bender class
levels + ½ your levels in all other classes + your Wisdom
modifier, and there are many methods available to
improve your bender skill. Bender Skill is not a normal
skill (it is not a valid subject for Skill Focus, for example).
You may choose to take 10 on bending checks to execute
a form, unless you are being threatened in combat when
using a Meditation component form. You may also choose
to take 20 on a single bending check by taking ten times
the usual (non-quickened) amount of time to perform the
check. Standard, move, and swift actions are considered to
be three seconds long for this purpose. You can never take
20 on a maintenance check.
Form Failure
If you try to bend a form in conditions where the
characteristics of the form (range, area, and so on) cannot
be made to conform, the activation fails. Forms also fail if cannot be quickened.
your concentration is broken (see Concentration, above) or
Check and Benefit: Each secondary bender who meets
if you cannot make the difficulty class.
or exceed the form's base DC grants the primary bender a
+3 bonus to her Bending Skill check and a +1 bonus to her
Overbending Effective Bender Level for the purposes of this check. Then
the primary bender must succeed on the Bending Skill
Upon failing a bending check, you have a choice to go check to perform the combined form. Failure means the
ahead and do the action for which your rolled anyway. form does not activate. You can take 10 or 20 on a
This is known as overbending and can range from Cooperative Bending attempt as long as you meet the
strenuous to lethal, depending on the scope of what you usual requirements.
are trying to do, as shown on the table below. All effects
stack with those of lower level effects. Benders of multiple disciplines can bend cooperatively
together, but only if the substance to be manipulated
Failed By Effect
contains bendable material for all participants. For
example, a waterbender and an earthbender can work
1-5 1 Constitution Damage, Fatigue together to bend mud (containing both water and earth).
6-9 1 Constitution Damage (2 total), Exhaustion
10-14 2 Constitution Damage (4 total) Contested Bending
15-19 4 Constitution Damage (8 total), Unconsciousness
If you attempt to take control of a mass of an element
+5 x2 Constitution Damage
already under another bender's control, you must make
an opposed bending skill check. As the challenger, you
You can only overbend a number of points equal to your take a -5 penalty to your bending skill check. In order to
bender level. gain control of the element, you must beat your
opponent's bending skill check. In the case of a tie, the
If you are rendered unconscious by overbending, you
challenger loses. You can never take 10 or 20 on a
may make a DC 20 Will save to wake up after four hours,
Contested Bending attempt.
with an additional attempt every hour thereafter. After
eight hours, you automatically wake up, but are Benders of multiple disciplines can contest against each
exhausted. other, but only if the substance to be manipulated contains
bendable material for both participants. For example, a
Creatures immune to fatigue, exhaustion or Constitution
firebender and an airbender can vie against each other to
damage cannot overbend. If this immunity is granted by a
take control of a firestorm.
dismissable, harmless effect, they may dismiss this
immunity as a free action in order to overbend. If you wish to take control of an element under a
spellcaster or manifester's control, the spellcaster
substitutes a check to overcome spell resistance in place of
Cooperative Bending a bending skill check, even if the spell does not ordinarily
In certain circumstances, multiple benders can work allow spell resistance.
together to accomplish larger and more powerful feats of
bending.
Organization and Action: In any cooperative bending
attempt, one bender (usually the highest-level bender, but
any bender can be selected) acts as the primary bender for
the attempt. All benders involved must know at least one
of the seed forms in the form being attempted.
Up to five benders can assist in the cooperative bending
attempt. In order to participate in a cooperative bending
attempt, all secondary benders must be within 30 feet of
the primary bender and must use consecutive full-round
actions to assist the primary bender until the form's
bending time has been completed. A form takes at least
one round to execute when cooperative bending; this
FORM DESCRIPTIONS
The description of each form is presented in a standard
format. Each category of information is explained and
defined below.
Name
The first line of every form description gives the name by
which the form is generally known. A form may be known
by other names in some locales, and specific benders may
have names of their own for their forms. The wording in
parentheses indicates what type of form it is.
Difficulty Class
Beneath the form name is a line giving the difficulty class
of the form, unaugmented and unaltered. Benders may
choose to take 10 on any bending check, unless being
threatened in combat with a Meditation component form.
Components
This line describes the basic components of the bending
form. More about components is explained under
"Bending Overview."
Bending Time
The amount of effort and time required to bend a form.
Most forms have a bending time of a full-round action or
less. A form that takes 1 round to bend requires a full-
round action. It comes into effect just before the beginning
of your turn in the round after you began bending the
form. You then act normally after the form is completed.
A form that takes 1 minute to bend comes into effect just
before your turn 1 minute later (and for each of those 10
rounds, you are bending a form as a full-round action, as
noted above for 1-round bending times). These actions
must be consecutive and uninterrupted, or the form fails.
When you use a form that takes 1 round or longer to
bend and has the Meditation component, you must
continue the concentration from the current round to just
before your turn in the next round (at least). If you lose
concentration before the bending time is complete, the
form fails.
A form with a bending time of "Ranged Attack" or
"Melee Attack" means that the form can be substituted for
a normal Ranged or Melee attack, even in special cases
like an Attack of Opportunity (but not a Martial
Maneuver, Spell, or Bending Form.) For purposes of
quickening, it is considered to be a standard action.
Maintenance Action
The amount of effort and time required to maintain a form
after the initial activation.
Range
A form's range indicates how far from you it can reach, as
defined in the Range entry of the form description. A
form's range is the maximum distance from you that the
form's effect can occur, as well as the maximum distance
at which you can designate the form's point of origin. If
any portion of the area would extend beyond the range,
that area is wasted. Standard ranges include the following.
Personal: The form affects only you.
Touch: You must touch a creature or object to affect it. A
touch form that deals damage can score a critical hit just
as a weapon can. A touch form threatens a critical hit on a
natural roll of 20 and deals double damage on a successful
critical hit. Some touch forms allow you to touch multiple
targets. You can touch as many willing targets as you can
reach, but all targets of the form must be touched in the
same round that you bend the form.
Melee: The form is initiated with a melee attack, either
an unarmed strike or a weapon.
Range Expressed in Feet: Exactly what it says.
Aiming a Form
You must make some choice about whom the form is to
affect or where the form's effect is to originate, depending
on the type of power. The next entry in a form description
defines the form's target (or targets), its effect, or its area
as appropriate.
Target or targets: Some forms have a target or targets.
You bend these forms on creatures or objects, as defined
by the form itself. You must be able to see or touch the
target, and you must specifically choose that target.
However, you do not have to select your target until you
finish bending the form.
If you bend a targeted form on the wrong type of target
the form has no effect. If the target of a form is yourself
(the form description has a line that reads "Target: You"),
you do not receive a saving throw. The Saving Throw line
is omitted from such forms.
Some forms can be bended only on willing targets.
Declaring yourself as a willing target is something that
can be done at any time (even if you're flat-footed or it
isn't your turn). Unconscious creatures are automatically
considered willing, but a character who is conscious but
immobile or helpless (such as one who is bound,
cowering, grappling, paralyzed, pinned, or stunned) is not
automatically willing. The Saving Throw line is usually
omitted from such forms, since only willing subjects can
be targeted.
Effect: Some forms create things rather than affect things
that are already present. Unless otherwise noted in the
form description, you must designate the location where
these things are to appear, either by seeing it or defining
it. Range determines how far away an effect can appear,
but if the effect is mobile, it can move regardless of the
form's range once created.
Ray: Some effects are rays. You aim a ray as if using a
ranged weapon, though typically you make a ranged
touch attack rather than a normal ranged attack. As with a
ranged weapon, you can fire into the dark or at an
invisible creature and hope you hit something. You don't
have to see the creature you're trying to hit, as you do
with a targeted form. Intervening creatures and obstacles,
however, can block your line of sight or provide cover for
the creature you're aiming at.
If a ray form has a duration, it's the duration of the effect
that the ray causes, not the length of time the ray itself
persists.
If a ray form deals damage, you can score a critical hit
just as if it were a weapon. A ray form threatens a critical
hit on a natural roll of 20 and deals double damage on a
successful critical hit.
Spread: Some effects spread out from a point of origin
(which may be a grid intersection, or may be the bender)
to a distance described in the form. The effect can extend
around corners and into areas that you can't see. Figure
distance by actual distance traveled, taking into account
turns the effect may take. When determining distance for
spread effects, count around walls, not through them. As
with movement, do not trace diagonals across corners.
You must designate the point of origin for such an effect
(unless the effect is centered on you), but you need not
have line of effect (see below) to all portions of the effect.
(S) Shapeable: If an Effect line ends with "(S)" you can
shape the form. A shaped effect can have no dimension
smaller than 10 feet.
Area: Some forms affect an area. Sometimes a form
description specifies a specially defined area, but usually
an area falls into one of the categories defined below.
Regardless of the shape of the area, you select the point
where the form originates, but otherwise you usually
don't control which creatures or objects the form affects.
The point of origin of a form that affects an area is always
a grid intersection. When determining whether a given
creature is within the area of a form, count out the
distance from the point of origin in squares just as you do
when moving a character or when determining the range
for a ranged attack. The only difference is that instead of
counting from the center of one square to the center of the
next, you count from intersection to intersection.
You can count diagonally across a square, but every
second diagonal counts as 2 squares of distance. If the far
edge of a square is within the form's area, anything within
that square is within the form's area. If the form's area
touches only the near edge of a square, however, anything
within that square is unaffected by the form.
Burst, Emanation, or Spread: Most forms that affect an
area function as a burst, an emanation, or a spread. In
each case, you select the form's point of origin and
measure its effect from that point. A burst form affects
whatever it catches in its area, even including creatures
that you can't see. It can't affect creatures with total cover
from its point of origin (in other words, its effects don't
extend around corners). The default shape for a burst
effect is a sphere, but some burst forms are specifically
described as cone-shaped.
A burst's area defines how far from the point of origin
the form's effect extends.
An emanation form functions like a burst form, except
that the effect continues to radiate from the point of origin
for the duration of the form.
A spread form spreads out like a burst but can turn
corners. You select the point of origin, and the form
spreads out a given distance in all directions. Figure the
area the form effect fills by taking into account any turns
the effect takes.
Cone, Line, or Sphere: Most forms that affect an area have
a particular shape, such as a cone, line, or sphere. A cone-
shaped form shoots away from you in a quarter-circle in
the direction you designate. It starts from any corner of
your square and widens out as it goes. Most cones are
either bursts or emanations (see above), and thus won't go
around corners.
A line-shaped form shoots away from you in a line in the
direction you designate. It starts from any corner of your
square and extends to the limit of its range or until it
strikes a barrier that blocks line of effect. A line-shaped
form affects all creatures in squares that the line passes
through or touches.
A sphere-shaped form expands from its point of origin
to fill a spherical area. Spheres may be bursts, emanations,
or spreads.
Other: A form can have a unique area, as defined in its
description.
Line of Effect: A line of effect is a straight, unblocked
path that indicates what a form can affect. A solid barrier
cancels a line of effect, but it is not blocked by fog,
darkness, and other factors that limit normal sight. You
must have a clear line of effect to any target that you bend
a form on or to any space in which you wish to create an
effect. You must have a clear line of effect to the point of
origin of any form you bend.
A burst, cone, or emanation form affects only an area,
creatures, or objects to which it has line of effect from its
origin (a spherical burst's center point, a cone-shaped
burst's starting point, or an emanation's point of origin).
An otherwise solid barrier with a hole of at least 1 square
foot through it does not block a form's line of effect. Such
an opening means that the 5-foot length of wall containing
the hole is no longer considered a barrier for the purpose
of determining a form's line of effect.
Duration
A form's Duration line tells you how long the form lasts.
Form durations are usually Instantaneous or
Concentration, due to the manipulative rather than
creative nature of bending.
Timed Durations: When the time is up, the spiritual
energy sustaining the effect fades, and the form ends. If a
form's duration is variable it is rolled secretly.
Instantaneous: The form's energy comes and goes the
instant the form is bended, though the consequences
might be long-lasting.
Permanent: The energy remains as long as the effect
does. This means the form is vulnerable to dispel magic.
This is exceptionally rare in bending.
Concentration: The form lasts as long as you concentrate
on it. Concentrating to maintain a form has an action
defined per each form, and provokes an attack of
opportunity if it has the Meditation component. Anything
that could break your concentration when bending a form
can also break your concentration while you're
maintaining one, causing the form to end. You can bend a
form while concentrating on another one; your
concentration is limited only by the number of actions
available to you in a round. Some forms may last for a
short time after you cease concentrating. In such a case,
the form keeps going for the given length of time after you
stop concentrating, but no longer. Otherwise, you must
concentrate to maintain the form, but you can't maintain it
for more than a stated duration in any event. If a target
moves out of range, the form reacts as if your
concentration had been broken.
Subjects, Effects, and Areas: If the form affects creatures
directly the result travels with the subjects for the form's
duration. If the form creates an effect, the effect lasts for
the duration. The effect might move or remain still. Such
an effect can be destroyed prior to when its duration ends.
If the form affects an area then the form stays with that
area for its duration. Creatures become subject to the form
when they enter the area and are no longer subject to it
when they leave.
Touch Forms and Holding the Charge: Unlike spells,
you typically cannot hold a Touch Form's charge. You can
touch one friend (or yourself) as a standard action or as
many as six friends within range as a full round action.
Discharge: Occasionally a form lasts for a set duration or
until triggered or discharged.
(D) Dismissible: If the Duration line ends with "(D),"
you can dismiss the form at will. You must be within
range of the form's effect and must mentally will the
dismissal, which causes the same display as when you
first bended the form. Dismissing a form is a standard
action that does not provoke attacks of opportunity. A
form that depends on concentration is dismissable by its
very nature, and dismissing it does not take an action,
since all you have to do to end the form is to stop
concentrating on your turn.
Saving Throws Automatic Failures and Successes: A natural 1 (the d20
comes up 1) on a saving throw is always a failure, and the
Often a harmful form allows a target to make a saving form may deal damage to exposed items (see Items
throw to avoid some or all of the effect. The Saving Throw Surviving after a Saving Throw, below). A natural 20 (the
line in a form description defines which type of saving d20 comes up 20) is always a success.
throw the form allows and describes how saving throws
against the form work. If no saving throw is allowed, no Voluntarily Giving up a Saving Throw: A creature can
line is listed. voluntarily forego a saving throw and willingly accept a
form's result.
Negates: The form has no effect on a subject that makes
a successful saving throw. Items Surviving after a Saving Throw: Unless the
descriptive text for the form specifies otherwise, all items
Partial: The form causes an effect on its subject, such as carried or worn by a creature are assumed to survive a
death. A successful saving throw means that some lesser bending attack. If a creature rolls a natural 1 on its saving
effect occurs (such as being dealt damage rather than throw against the effect, however, an exposed item is
being killed). harmed (if the attack can harm objects). Refer to the below
table:
Half: The form deals damage, and a successful saving
throw halves the damage taken (round down). Determine which four objects carried or worn by the
creature are most likely to be affected and roll randomly
(object): The form can be bended on objects, which among them. The randomly determined item must make a
receive saving throws only if they attended (held, worn, saving throw against the attack form or take whatever
grasped, or the like) by a creature resisting the form, in damage the attack deals.
which case the object uses the creature's saving throw
bonus unless its own bonus is greater. (This notation does
Order* Item
not mean that a form can be bended only on objects. Some
forms of this sort can be bended on creatures or objects.) 1st Shield
2nd Armor
(harmless): The form is usually beneficial, not harmful,
3rd Magic helmet
but a targeted creature can attempt a saving throw if it
desires. 4th Item in hand
5th Magic cloak
Saving Throw Difficulty Class: A saving throw against 6th Stowed weapon
your form has a difficulty class of (10+½Bender 7th Magic bracers
Level+Wisdom Modifier).
8th Magic clothing

Succeeding on a Saving Throw: A creature that 9th Magic jewelry

successfully saves against a form that has no obvious 10th Anything else
physical effects feels a hostile force or a tingle, but cannot * In order of likeliness to be affected

deduce the exact nature of the attack. Likewise, if a

creature's saving throw succeeds against a targeted form
you sense that the form has failed. You do not sense when
creatures succeed on saves against effect and area forms.
Failing a Saving Throw against Mind-Affecting forms:
If you fail your save, you are unaware that you have been
affected by a form.
Descriptive Text
This portion of a form description details what the form
does and how it works. If one of the previous lines in the
description included "see text," this is where the
explanation is found. If the form you're reading about is
based on another form you might have to refer to a
different form for the "see text" information.

LIST OF BASIC FORMS
AIRBENDING
Air is the element of freedom, advanced by those who
seek liberty. Airbenders are almost never without their
element, like Earthbenders, but the transparent nature of
air requires their sense of perception, leading Airbenders
to consider a problem from many different angles. After
all, if the essential element which they control and benefit
from is impossible to see, what else could be missed?
Undisciplined airbenders often turn this mental agility
into mental evasiveness. Looking at a problem from too
many different angles can sometimes be an excuse to not
examine it at all. This problem sometimes extends to their
fighting style as well. The most kinetic of benders, along
with Fire, Air is an actively defensive art. Where Water
seeks to turn the opponent's energy against itself, Fire
makes opportunities to strike, and Earth waits to make a
move, Air attempts to trick and deceive the opponent into
leading to their own demise.
Agitate Dust (Seed)
Difficulty Class: 15
Components: Somatic
Bending Time: Full-round action
Maintenance Action: Move action (Darken)
Range: 30 ft.
Area: 20-ft wide, 5-ft high cylinder spread (Darken)
Target: One creature (Dirt Spray)
Duration: See text.
Saving Throw: Reflex negates (Dirt Spray)
This stance initiates two different forms.
Darken: Using your airbending, you agitate the loose
particles of dirt on the ground. You disperse copious
amounts of sand or loosely packed dirt into the air or
water. The cloud obscures all sight, including darkvision,
beyond 5 feet - creatures with a radar-like blindsense
(such as Touchsight) are no better off, though other forms
of blindsense and tremorsense work as normal.
An affected creature within 5 feet of an attacker has
concealment (attacks have a 20% miss chance); creatures
farther away gain total concealment (50% miss chance,
and the attacker can't use sight to locate the target).
This cloud normally lasts for one round after you cease
concentration; a severe wind prevents the cloud from
forming. You cannot use this ability underwater.
Earth Required: A quarter-inch coating of sand or dirt over
the area to be affected, or five gallons per five-foot radius.
Augment:
- For every two points you use from your augment pool,
you can increase the height of the cylinder by five feet.
- For every four points you use from your augment pool,
you can increase the width of the cylinder by five feet.
Dirt Spray: By aiming a spray of sand or dust at an
opponent's eyes, you can try to temporarily blind the
creature. A creature who fails their Reflex save becomes
blind for the next round. Creatures with completely
enclosed helmets or eyes and those without normal sight
are unaffected by this form.
Earth Required: A handful of sand or loosely packed dirt.
Augment:
- For every five points you use from your augment pool,
you can increase the duration of Blind by one round.
- For every five points that you exceed the difficulty class,
you deal 1d6 slashing damage with a successful attack.
Reflex negates.
Air Blast (Fundamental Seed)
Difficulty Class: 5
Components: Somatic
Bending Time: Ranged attack.
Range: 60 ft.
Effect: Ray
Duration: Instantaneous
The first offensive ability you learn as an airbender.
Whenever you would be granted a ranged attack, you
may use an Air Blast instead, including as part of a full
attack action, or feats like Shot on the Run. This attack
deals 1d6 damage, increasing by an additional 1d6
damage for every six Bender Levels that you have. This
damage may either be non-lethal bludgeoning damage, or
lethal sonic damage, at your option.
Augment:
- By using five points of your augment pool, you can
perform this form as part of a standard melee attack on
the same target.
- For every five points you use from your augment pool,
you gain a +2 bonus to your bull rush attempt.
- By using five points of your augment pool, you can
initiate bull rush attacks with successful Air Blast strikes.
Anyone struck by the attack (or who fails their save, if this
ability is made to require a save instead) is subject to a
bull rush attempt by the attack, using your scores and
modifiers (although not limited by your movement). You
gain a bonus to this bull rush check equal to half your
Bender Level. If you fail the attempt, you are not subject to
any reactive rolls or effects.
Air Scooter (Seed)
Difficulty Class: 10
Components: Meditation
Bending Time: Move action
Maintenance Action: Move action
Range: Personal
Effect: Balancing orb of wind beneath your feet
Duration: Concentration
You create a tumultuous, spinning orb of air to ride. By
balancing on the ball of air, you attain great speed and
maneuverability. It has a land speed equal of 60 ft, and the
ball floats a few inches above the surface. While riding the
Air Scooter, you may ignore any movement penalties for
difficult terrain. Even walls and pools of lava are no
impediment - the Air Scooter can climb up vertical surfaces
as long as it moves at least 30 ft per round.
The Air Scooter can also traverse normally impossible
surfaces, such as water, lava, or thin ice at no penalty. It
has a flight speed equal to its land speed with a perfect
maneuverability, but can only fly or hover for three
consecutive rounds.
If struck, you must make a DC 10+(½Damage) Balance
check or be knocked off. While riding the Air Scooter, you
are considered to be mounted for all purposes, though
you do not have to make a Concentration check to bend
while using this form. If you dismount for any reason, it
immediately dissipates.
Augment:
- By using twenty points of your augment pool, you can
maintain this form as a free action.
- For every five points that you use from your augment
pool, the Air Scooter has an additional 5 feet of movement
speed.
- For every three points that you exceed the difficulty
class, you gain a +1 bonus to your Balance check while
riding the Air Scooter.
Breathstealer (Seed)
Difficulty Class: 30
Bending Time: Full-round action
Range: 30 ft.
Target: One breathing creature
Duration: See text
Saving Throw: Fortitude negates; see text
You reach inside the subject's body through an opening
and rip out their store of oxygen or other vital gas. If the
target succeeds on a Fort save when the form is activated,
it is unaffected; if it fails, it can still continue to breathe by
taking a standard action in each round to gasp for air.
After two rounds in which it takes a standard action to
breathe, the creature regains normal breath.
An affected creature can attempt to take actions normally
instead, but each round it does so, beginning in the round
when it failed its initial save, the subject risks blacking out
from lack of oxygen. It must succeed on another Fortitude
save at the end of any of its turns in which it did not
consciously take a breath. The DC of this save increases by
1 in every consecutive round after the first one that goes
by without a breath; the DC drops back to its original
value if the subject spends an action to take a breath.
If a subject fails one of the subsequent (not the initial)
saves, it is rendered unconscious for the next 1d10
minutes, or until healed or given first aid, and the form
ends. They are not injured in any way otherwise, although
a helpless target who fails their subsequent saves against
this form is immediately killed.
Augment:
- For every three points you use from your augment pool,
the saving throw DC for this form increases by one.
- For every five points you use from your augment pool,
the target must gasp for an air an additional round before
the form ends.
- For every ten points you use from your augment pool,
you can perform this form on an additional target.
Control Winds (Seed)
Difficulty Class: See Text
Components: Meditation
Bending Time: One round
Maintenance Action: Full-round action
Range: 60 ft.
Area: Cone-shaped spread of wind
Duration: Concentration + one round
You begin to change the wind speed in a 60-ft. cone in Area: Cylindrical burst (5-ft radius, 20 ft. long) originating
front of you. (See Table: Wind Effects in the Dungeon within 20 feet.
Master's Guide.) You may choose to make these winds as Effect: Horizontal or vertical line of rushing winds.
strong - or as gentle - as you are capable of controlling. If Duration: Concentration
the winds already present in the area are stronger than Saving Throw: Reflex negates
you can control, this form fails.
Target a single square within 20 feet (including your own.)
Wind Strength Base DC You shoot huge amounts of wind originating from that
Light 0 square. Creatures caught in Funnel are allowed a Reflex
save to move to an adjacent space safely. If they do not
Moderate 5
have sufficient movement to make it to an adjacent clear
Strong 10
space (such as if their move speed is 0 ft, or the terrain in
Severe 20 the space is difficult to pass through) but make their save,
Windstorm 35 they end up prone in the adjacent space.
Hurricane 55
Tornado 80
When fired and while maintained, Funnel initiates a bull
rush with every creature in its area; it is considered to be a
creature of Medium size. You gain a bonus to this bull
One round after you cease to focus on the winds, they
rush check equal to your Bender Level. You gain a +2
begin returning to their natural state.
synergy bonus and an additional attempt for every
additional funnel simultaneously trying to push the
Augment:
subject in that direction. If they are knocked back at least
- By using ten points of your augment pool, you can
ten feet, they are knocked prone.
change this form's area to a 20-ft radius centered on you.

Subjects affected take 4d6 non-lethal bludgeoning or lethal

Flowing Air Strike (Seed) piercing damage (your option) every round that they
Difficulty Class: 10 remain in the funnel, and are considered checked (unable
Components: Somatic to move forward) against movement in that direction. If
Bending Time: Swift action trapped against a wall or other solid surface by Funnel,
Maintenance Action: Swift action they are considered to be checked against movement in all
Range: Personal directions. If suspended in mid-air by Funnel, subjects do
Target: Self not take on-going damage. Every round, the subjects are
Duration: Concentration granted a new Reflex save to escape to an adjacent space.

You improve your combat rhythm and timing, allowing
you to strike harder and faster. For the duration of this
form, you gain a +1 bonus to your melee attacks and
damage with light or one-handed weapons for every three
Bender Levels you possess.
Augment:
- For every five points you use from your augment pool,
your melee attacks with light or one-handed weapons
ignore 10% miss chance due to concealment or other
effects.
As a free action, you may instead opt for Funnel to fire at
lower pressure; in this case, it deals no damage and
creatures in the funnel's path are gently pushed to the end
of the line's effect. If you originate this attack from your
square and shoot upwards, for example, you can propel
yourself upwards twenty feet.
You can only move or bull rush a creature if at least half of
the squares they occupy on one face are covered by air
funnels. Attacking through a funnel in either direction
grants total concealment.

Funnel (Seed) Augment:

Difficulty Class: 20 - For every four points that you exceed the difficulty class,
Components: Somatic, Meditation you deal an additional 1d6 damage with one cylinder.
Bending Time: Standard action - For every five points you use from your augment pool,
Maintenance Action: Move action the length of your cylinders increase by 10 ft.
Range: 60 ft. - For every fourteen points you use from your augment
pool, you can create and maintain an additional cylinder.

Hand of Wind (Fundamental Seed)
Difficulty Class: 5
Components: Somatic, Meditation
Bending Time: Standard action
Maintenance Action: Standard action
Range: 60 ft.
Target: Object or creature up to 5 lbs per Bender Level.
Duration: Concentration
Saving Throw: Fortitude negates (see text)
You move a single object as long as it is within the weight
limit. You can take a maintenance action to suspend an
object in mid-air between rounds. You move the targeted
object up to 30 ft in a round. Subjects can be hurled
outside of the range of the form, due to momentum,
though you lose control over them.
A number of small objects within the same square can be
moved as one, provided they fit in the weight category.
They deal damage as a single large object.
When hurled, you must succeed on a single attack roll to
hit the target with the weight, using your base attack
bonus + your Wisdom modifier. When thrusting, you do
not have specific control over the way an object is thrown,
so its inherent lethality doesn't come into play. Hard,
dense objects deal 1d6 points of damage per 10 lbs. Other
objects may deal as little as 1 point per 10 lbs.
Creatures who fall within the weight capacity of the form
can be hurled, but they are allowed Fortitude saves to
negate the effect, as are those whose held possessions are
targeted by the form. A hurled creature takes damage and
deals damage to its target; an unarmored human may deal
and take only 1d3 damage per 10 lbs. One in spiked armor
may deal and take up to 1d6 damage per 10 lbs.
You may not target yourself with this form.
Augment:
- For every two points you use from your augment pool,
you can move an additional 5 pounds of weight.
- For every two points you use from your augment pool,
you can move objects 5 feet farther.
Heavenly Stride (Seed)
Difficulty Class: 20
Components: Somatic
Bending Time: Varies; see text.
Maintenance Action: Swift action (Windrunner)
Range: Personal
Target: Self
Duration: Instantaneous (Cloudwalker); Concentration
(Windrunner)
This stance initiates two different forms.
Cloudwalker: As a full-round action, make a Jump check.
Add your Bending check to the result. You are always
considered to be running for this jump. The distance you
jump in a round is not limited by your movement.
Windrunner: When you use the charge, run or double
move action, you gain a +10 circumstance bonus to your
land and air movement speed. For every consecutive run
or double move thereafter, you gain an additional +5
bonus, to a maximum of +20.
Augment:
- For every point you exceed the base difficulty class, your
maximum speed increases by 5 feet.
Hurricane Breath (Template)
Difficulty Class: 15
Components: Not Somatic
Bending Time: Move action at least; can be quickened.
Range: Personal
Target: Self
Duration: See text.
This template can be applied to any airbending form. You
breathe air, and thus, it can be used to airbend in new
ways. You take a deep breath to inhale and center your
thoughts. Your airbending form gains your Constitution
modifier as a bonus to the bending check and is
performed with no somatic components, issuing from
your mouth instead.
Even if you are not surrounded by air (such as if you are
in a vacuum, or underwater), Hurricane Breath grants you
enough air to perform a targeted airbending attack,
though you will need to breathe within the next round.
Levitation (Seed)
Difficulty Class: 15
Components: Somatic
Bending Time: Standard action
Maintenance Action: Free action
Range: Personal
Target: Self
Duration: Concentration
This stance initiates two forms.
Hover: You create rushing winds around your entire body,
slowly lifting you into the air. You gain a flight speed of 0
ft, with perfect maneuverability. (Allowing you to move 5
feet as a full-round action.)
Flying with this form while attacking makes you unstable;
the first attack has a -1 penalty on attack rolls, the second -
2, and so on, to a maximum penalty of -5. A full round
spent stabilizing allows you to begin again at -1.
Augment:
- For every three points you use from your augment pool,
you gain an additional five feet of movement speed.
- By exceeding the difficulty class by fifteen points, you no
longer take a penalty to attack rolls while using this form.
Twinkletoes: By pushing the air currents around you to
support your weight, you become light on your feet. You
weigh half as much as usual, gain concealment against
tremorsense, and a bonus to Balance, Jump, Move Silently
and Tumble checks equal to half your Bender Level.
Augment:
- By using twelve points of your augment pool, you gain
total concealment against ground-based tremorsense.
Puppet (Seed)
Difficulty Class: 20
Components: Somatic, Meditation
Bending Time: One round
Maintenance Action: Full-round action
Range: 30 ft.
Target: One Medium or smaller Air creature.
Duration: Concentration
Saving Throw: Fortitude Negates
You can attempt to control a pre-existing creature with the
[Air] subtype that is within range and to which you have
line of sight. You can force the subject to stand up, sit
down, walk, turn around, and so on, but operating the
vocal cords is too difficult. You can also hold the subject
immobile, rendering it helpless. You cannot force the
subject to manifest powers, cast spells, bend, or use any
special ability that is not a function of just its body
movements. If you lose line of sight to the subject, the
effect of this power ends.
If you force the subject to engage in combat, its attack
bonus is equal to your base attack bonus + your Wisdom
bonus, and its bonus on damage rolls is equal to your
Wisdom bonus. A subject of this power cannot make
attacks of opportunity. The subject gains no benefit to
Armor Class from its Dexterity, but it does gain a bonus to
its AC equal to your Wisdom bonus.
Although the subject's body is under your control, the
subject's mind is not. Creatures capable of taking purely
mental actions (such as manifesting powers, or bending
without Somatic components) can do so.
Every round past the first that you maintain this seed, you
take a cumulative -1 penalty to all bending checks.
Augment:
- For every four points you use from your augment pool,
you can affect one creature one size category larger.
- For every eight points you use from your augment pool,
you can control an additional creature at once.
Shockwave (Seed)
Difficulty Class: 15
Components: Somatic, Meditation
Bending Time: Standard action
Range: 15 ft.
Area: 15-ft cone burst originating from you
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: Reflex half, Fortitude negates (see text)
You slice with your hands or your weapon, creating a
brutally quick shockwave before you. Subjects inside the
area must make a Reflex save or take 1d4 sonic damage
per Bender Level. On a successful save, they only take half
of this damage.
Those who fail their Reflex save are subject to a Fortitude
save. Failure means they are pushed back five feet.
Augment:
- For every two points you use from your augment pool,
the cone becomes five feet longer.
- For every five points you use from your augment pool,
you knockback subjects an additional five feet, to a
maximum of Shockwave's range.
- For every seven points you use from your augment pool,
the saving throw DC of this form increases by one.
- For every seven points that you exceed the base difficulty
class, the size of the damage dice increases by one.
Somersault (Seed)
Difficulty Class: 20
Components: Somatic
Bending Time: Immediate action
Range: Personal
Target: Self
Duration: Instantaneous
You may make a DC 16 Tumble check. If you succeed, you
somersault over an adjacent medium-sized creature or
object's head to an empty square adjacent to them that is
within 15 feet of you. You are also granted an attack of
opportunity against them. For every size category that the
creature exceeds Medium, the Tumble DC increases by 4.
Augment:
- For every four points that you exceed the base difficulty
class, you gain a +1 bonus to your attack roll.
- By using ten points from your augment pool, you deal an
extra 1d3 points of damage per Bender Level if the attack
succeeds.
Soundbending (Seed)
Difficulty Class: 15
Components: Somatic, Meditation
Bending Time: Standard action
Maintenance Action: Swift action (Wind Whisper)
Range: 60 ft.
Area: 10-ft. radius
Duration: Concentration
Saving Throw: Fortitude partial (Thundercrack)
This stance initiates two different forms.
Thundercrack: A gigantic peal of thunder echoes through
the area, dealing 1d4 sonic damage, no save. Affected
creatures must make a Fortitude save or be deafened for
1d4 rounds.
Augment:
- For every three points you use from your augment pool,
you do an extra 2d4 damage with this attack.
Wind Whisper: By manipulating the air currents, you can
shape and alter existing sounds. Target one area. Noise
within a ten foot radius of the area is either muffled or
magnified, granting a +4 circumstance penalty or bonus
(respectively) on Listen checks for those sounds. You can
move the area at will.
Augment:
- For every point you use from your augment pool, the
penalty or bonus increases by another point.
- By using ten points from your augment pool, the
maintenance action for this form becomes a free action.
Twister (Seed)
Difficulty Class: 35
Components: Somatic, Meditation
Bending Time: One round
Maintenance Action: Full-round action
Range: 90 ft.
Area: 5-ft. wide, 60-ft. high cylindrical spread
Duration: Concentration
Saving Throw: Reflex negates
By manipulating air currents into a tight spiral, you
summon a focused windstorm. This form creates a
cylinder of wind anywhere within range, which can be
moved 40 feet per round. It immediately ceases movement
for the round after successfully striking a target.
Creatures sharing a space with the twister must make a
Reflex save to move to an adjacent space and escape the
twister. If they do not have sufficient movement to make it
to an adjacent clear space (such as if their move speed is 0
ft, or the terrain is difficult to pass through) but make their
save, they end up prone in the adjacent space.
Those who fail are flung out from the top of the cylinder
60 feet away in a direction of your choosing, taking 1d8
damage per Bender Level, as well as falling damage if
applicable. If the subject strikes a wall, they take falling
damage as though from 60 feet, and also deal that damage
to the wall. Huge or larger creatures are not thrown by the
Twister, but are incapable of moving for the round.
Attacking through a twister is impossible – it is effectively
a solid barrier.
If the area the twister is summoned in is not at least 120
feet high and 400 feet wide, this form fails due to
insufficient air.
Augment:
- For every ten points that you use from your augment
pool, the twister doubles in width, allowing it to throw
creatures one size category larger.
Wind Barrier (Seed)
Difficulty Class: 30
Components: Somatic, Meditation
Bending Time: Standard action
Maintenance Action: Swift action
Range: 30 ft.
Effect: 10-ft.-radius sphere
Duration: Concentration
Saving Throw: Reflex negates
You create a whirling, rushing barrier of wind around
yourself or another creature, provided that the subject is
small enough to fit within the diameter of the sphere. This
sphere has no hardness, and has 10 Hit Points per Bender
Level. It has Fast Healing equal to its HP, meaning that it
must take its HP worth of damage in one round to
dissipate. The wind barrier does not halve any damage
type used against it.
Subjects in the area get a Reflex save to move to an
adjacent clear space (including adjacent spaces directly
above and below them). If they do not have sufficient
movement to make it to an adjacent clear space (such as if
their move speed is 0 ft, or the terrain in the space is
difficult to pass through) but make their save, they end up
prone in the adjacent space.
When centered on you, the barrier moves with you.
Augment:
- For every two points you use from your augment pool,
the wall increases by an additional five-foot square.
- By using five points of your augment pool,, you can
make a weaker sphere in your space or an ally's space
within range as an immediate Action. This sphere grants
the target total concealment against all area attacks for one
round, but is too weak to deflect a direct attack.
Wind Burst (Seed)
Difficulty Class: 15
Components: Somatic
Bending Time: Standard action
Range: 5 ft.
Area: 5-ft radius burst centered on you
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: Reflex half
The air around you explodes in a circular burst. Creatures
within the area must make a Reflex save or take 1d4
bludgeoning damage. Subjects that fail their save are
subject to a bull rush attempt by the attack, using your
scores and modifiers (although not limited by your
movement). Use your Wisdom score in place of your
Strength score for this attempt. If you fail the attempt, you
are not subject to any reactive rolls or effects.
Augment:
- For every two points you use from your augment pool,
you deal an additional 1d4 damage.
- For every four points you use from your augment pool,
the radius increases by 5 feet.
- For every two points that you exceed the base difficulty
class, you gain a +1 bonus to your Bull Rush attempt with
this form.
EARTHBENDING
Earth is the element of substance, used by those who are
persistent and enduring. Earthbenders are the most
visibly surrounded by their element, and the quickest to
be bewildered when without it, though those who have
learned to wait and listen properly know that they have
far from lost. Patience and speed in equal parts are key.
Most Earthbenders are unable to bend metal and often
have difficulty with either sand or solid rock, depending
on their training environment when first starting out.
Their stances depend on being deeply rooted to the
ground, and though they move when necessary, most
prefer doing so in straight lines and on the ground.
Armor (Seed)
Difficulty Class: 15
Components: Somatic, Meditation
Bending Time: Full-round action
Maintenance Action: Free action
Range: Personal
Target: Self
Duration: Concentration
Small bits of rubble or sand rise up and affix themselves to
you, completely covering you. This armor moves with you
and shields you from harm, granting you a +4 bonus to
your Natural Armor, but affects you as though you were
wearing Medium Armor. The bonus to Natural Armor
increases by one point every 4 Bender Levels. You cannot
use this ability while wearing Medium or heavier armor.
Augment:
- For every point you use from your augment pool, you
gain 1 point of Fire, Cold, Acid and Electricity resistance.
- For every two points you use from your augment pool,
you gain 1/- Damage Reduction. This stacks with any
existing /- Damage Reduction you possess.
Boulder Toss (Seed)
Difficulty Class: 30
Components: Somatic, Meditation
Bending Time: Standard action
Range: 30 ft.
Effect: Ray
Duration: Instantaneous
You hurl a gigantic boulder at the target. Make a ranged
attack roll, ignoring all miss chance effects. If you hit, you
deal 1d8 damage per Bender Level and the target is
subjected to a bull rush attack. If you fail, you are not
subject to any reactive rolls or effects. You gain a bonus on
this bull rush attempt equal to your Bender Level.
This ability cannot be quickened to a Swift Action.
Earth Required: At least 200 lbs. of solid rock or crystal.
Augment:
- For every six points you use from your augment pool,
you can simultaneously attack an adjacent target to the
first. This can be accomplished by 'bouncing' the boulder,
splitting it in two, firing two at once, or other ways.
Catapult (Seed)
Difficulty Class: 15
Components: Somatic
Bending Time: Standard action
Range: 20 ft.
Area: One 5-ft square atop packed earth, crystal or rock.
Saving Throw: Reflex negates
You violently thrust up the earth beneath someone's feet,
sending them flying into another square of your choice up
to 10 feet away in any direction (including up). The
targeted square becomes difficult terrain. Affected subjects
take falling damage as normal.
Augment:
- For every three points you use from your augment pool,
you can move the target 5 feet farther. For every 10 feet
added in this fashion, you deal 1d6 damage to the target.
- For every four points you use from your augment pool,
you can target an additional adjacent five-foot square.
Density (Seed)
Difficulty Class: Varies; see text
Components: Somatic, Meditation
Bending Time: Full-round action
Range: 20 ft.
Area: One 5-ft cube of earthen materials.
Saving Throw: Fortitude negates (object), Reflex negates
You focus on a segment of earth, attempting to alter its
density and properties to suit your needs.
Initial Condition
Quicksand, dust
Sand; Loose dirt
Packed dirt
Soft rock
Stone
Dense rock
Steps Changed At Once Base Difficulty Class
1 Step 10
2 Steps 30
3 Steps 50
4 Steps 70
5 Steps 90
While altering the condition of the earth one step at a time
is easy, a flash density change can be extremely difficult.
If you attempt to surround a creature in rock or disperse
the ground beneath them, they are allowed a Reflex save
to move to an adjacent clear space (including adjacent
spaces directly above and below them). If they do not
have sufficient movement to make it to an adjacent clear
space (such as if their move speed is 0 ft, or the terrain in
the space is difficult to pass through) but make their save,
they end up prone in the adjacent space.
A creature surrounded totally in rock is completely
helpless and unable to breath, but has full cover against all
attacks.
Earthen creatures and objects such as elementals can be
altered with use of this form. Creatures are allowed a
Fortitude Save against this effect. Affected creatures and
rigid objects (such as a clay house) take 1d8 damage per
step altered in this way.
Augment:
- For every point you use from your augment pool, you
may affect an additional square. This may be adjacent to
another square you placed (even if the new square is out
of your range), or anywhere else within your range.
- By using ten points of your augment pool, you may
perform Density on or in a cube of earth which you are
standing inside without the use of Somatic components;
this is accomplished via mental exertion.
Dirt Spray (Seed)
Difficulty Class: 15
Components: Somatic
Bending Time: Standard action
Range: 30 ft. (Blind)
Target: One creature
Duration: 1 round
Saving Throw: Reflex negates
By aiming a spray of sand or dust at an opponent's eyes,
you can try to temporarily blind the creature. A creature
who fails their Reflex save becomes blind for the next
round. Creatures with completely enclosed eyes and those
without normal sight are unaffected by this form.
Earth Required: A handful of sand or loosely packed dirt.
Not immediately recoverable.
Augment:
- For every five points you use from your augment pool,
you can increase the duration by one round.
- For every five points that you exceed the difficulty class,
you deal 1d6 slashing damage with a successful attack.
Reflex negates.
Dust Cloud (Seed)
Difficulty Class: See text
Components: Somatic
Bending Time: Full-round action
Maintenance Action: Move action
Range: 30 ft.
Area: 20-ft wide, 5-ft high cylinder spread
Duration: Concentration + one minute
Saving Throw: Fortitude partial (objects; Sandswallow)
This stance initiates two different forms.
Darken (DC 15): You disperse copious amounts of sand or
loosely packed dirt into the air or water. The cloud
obscures all sight, including darkvision, beyond 5 feet -
even creatures with a radar-like blindsense (such as that
created by Touchsight) are no better off, though other
forms of blindsense and tremorsense work as normal.
An affected creature within 5 feet of an attacker has
concealment (attacks have a 20% miss chance); creatures
farther away gain total concealment (50% miss chance,
and the attacker can't use sight to locate the target).
A moderate wind or water current disperses the cloud 4
rounds after you cease concentration, a strong wind or
water current disperses the cloud in 1 round after you
cease concentration, and a severe wind or water current
prevents the cloud from even forming.
Earth Required: A quarter-inch coating of sand or loose dirt
over the area to be affected, or five gallons per five-foot
radius. Not immediately recoverable.
Augment:
- For every two points you use from your augment pool,
you can increase the height of the cylinder by five feet.
- For every four points you use from your augment pool,
you can increase the width of the cylinder by five feet.
Sandswallow (DC 25): This application functions like
Darken, but in addition to obscuring sight, the roiling sand
and grit become thick and painful to move through.
Creatures and objects inside can only move 10 feet a
round at most, or take 2d6 damage for every additional 5
feet they moved. Sand also flies into their eyes, completely
blinding them for a round. A successful Fortitude save
negates the blinding effect and halves the damage.
A severe wind or water current disperses the cloud 4
rounds after you cease concentration, windstorms and
rapids disperse the cloud in 1 round after you cease
concentration, and hurricanes and riptides prevent the
cloud from even forming.
Earth Required: An inch coating of sand or loose dirt over
the area to be affected, or twenty gallons per five-foot
radius. Not immediately recoverable.
Augment:
- For every two points you use from your augment pool,
you can increase the height of the cylinder by five feet.
- For every four points you use from your augment pool,
you can increase the width of the cylinder by five feet.
- For every five points you use from your augment pool,
you deal an additional 1d6 damage with Sandswallow.
- By using ten points of your augment pool,, you can
restrict safe movement to five feet a round.
Earth Blast (Fundamental Seed)
Difficulty Class: 5
Components: Somatic
Bending Time: Ranged attack
Range: 60 ft.
Effect: Ray
The first offensive ability you learn as an earthbender.
Whenever you would be granted a ranged attack, you
may use an Earth Blast instead, including as part of a full
attack action, or feats like Shot on the Run. Each Earth
Blast deals 1d6 piercing, slashing, or bludgeoning damage
at your option, depending on the exact shape and
composition of the earth used. This attack deals 1d6
damage, increasing by an additional 1d6 damage for
every five Bender Levels that you have.

Earth Required: 1 pint, approximately equivalent to a single
rock. Not immediately recoverable. You may choose to use
giant boulders instead, which move slower.
Augment:
- By using five points of your augment pool, you do not
provoke attacks of opportunity for using this ranged
ability in a threatened square.
- By using five points of your augment pool, you can
perform this form as part of a standard melee attack on
the same target, provided you have a quantity of earth in
your hands, such as with a rock or the Armor form.
Earth Wall (Seed)
Difficulty Class: 10
Components: Somatic
Bending Time: Full-round action
Range: 30 ft.
Area: Wall of four 5-ft square areas.
Effect: Wall of earthen material
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: Reflex negates
You cause a small wall of earth to shoot out of any earthen
surface. No matter how long the wall becomes, all of the
pieces bended with one use must be adjacent to one
another. This wall is one inch thick per Bender Level, and
its values vary depend on the material it is made out of.
Material Hardness HP/Inch-Thick
Sand, loose dirt 0 8*
Packed earth 3 5*
Soft stone, worked earth 10 5
Hard stone 15 8
Crystal 30 1 you may opt to let them ride the wave at its crest until the
* This material is twice as thick
If you fire the wall into a square occupied by a creature,
you decide which side the creature ends up on. The
subject can make a Reflex save to choose for themselves.
It is possible, but difficult, to trap mobile opponents
within or under a wall, provided the wall is shaped so it
can hold the creatures. Creatures are allowed a Reflex
save to move to an adjacent clear space (including
adjacent spaces directly above and below them). If they do
not have sufficient movement to make it to an adjacent
clear space (such as if their move speed is 0 ft, or the
terrain in the space is difficult to pass through) but make
their save, they end up prone in the adjacent space.
Augment:
- For every point you use from your augment pool, the
wall increases by an additional five-foot square.
- By using fifteen points of your augment pool, you can
make a single five foot segment in your square as an
Immediate Action. You must use this ability before your
opponent declares what attack they are using; they must
only state that they have targeted you. The wall
immediately crumbles after blocking one attack.
Earth Wave (Seed)
Difficulty Class: 15
Components: Somatic, Meditation
Bending Time: Full-round action
Range: 60 ft.
Area: Eight adjacent 5-ft cubes of sand or loose earthen
material.
Duration: 1 round
You create a giant, fast-moving tidal wave by augmenting
natural fluctuations. You pick any mass of sand within
range and send it crashing forward 5 feet per Bender
Level; even if the wave extends past your control or enters
an anti-magic field, it keeps going due to momentum.
Earth Wave can make two 45° turns, but no more.
Earth Wave initiates a bull rush with every creature it runs
into, using your Wisdom score in place of a Strength
score, and is considered to be a large creature; if the wave
fails the bull rush and the target creature is smaller than it,
it is considered to have overrun the creature instead. If the
targeted creature was the same size category as the wave
or larger, the wave stops there. You gain a bonus to this
bull rush check equal to half your Bender Level.
If Earth Wave runs into a friendly creature (including you),
wave ends, where they will be gently set down.
All creatures and objects hit by the wave take 1d6 points
of bludgeoning damage.
Earth Required: 900 Gallons per 5-ft cube, not immediately
recoverable.
Augment:
- For every three points you use from your augment pool,
you grant the wave a +1 bonus to its bull rush modifier.
- For every six points that you exceed the difficulty class,
you deal an additional 1d6 damage.
- For every ten points you use from your augment pool,
you can increase the wave's size category by 1, moving
eight times as many cubes of earth. This increases its Duration: Concentration
Strength by four points and gives it an additional four
points to its Bull Rush modifier, for an overall increase of You create a giant construct of earth. It appears where you
six points. designate and acts at your direction. The round that you
- By using ten points of your augment pool,, you can use cease maintenance, it collapses to the ground in a heap.
this ability with solid earth.
Golems are not summoned, but made and are not subject
Earthsight (Seed) to effects that hedge out or otherwise target outsiders.
Difficulty Class: 25
Earth Required:
Components: Meditation
Size Category Weight
Bending Time: Move action
Maintenance Action: Move action Medium or smaller 150 lbs.
Target: Self Large 600 lbs.
Effect: Tremorsense Huge 2400 lbs.
Duration: Concentration + 1 round.
Gargantuan 9600 lbs.
Colossal 38400 lbs.
You gain Tremorsense (30 ft.) as long as you stand on a
solid material. Loose material, such as sand, halves your This earth is not immediately recoverable.
tremorsense distance.
Augment:
Augment: - For every point that you exceed the difficulty class, your
- For every two points you use from your augment pool, bender golem has an additional 3 hit points.
you gain another five feet of range to your tremorsense. - For every four points that you exceed the difficulty class,
- By using ten points of your augment pool,, you can the level of the Golem increases by one.
maintain this ability as a free action.
Headcracker (Seed)
Earthwalker (Seed) Difficulty Class: 15
Difficulty Class: 15 Components: Somatic
Components: Somatic Bending Time: Standard action
Bending Time: Full-round action Range: Melee
Range: 0 ft. Target: One earth-containing creature or object
Target: Self and one adjacent creature.
Duration: Instantaneous You find the bits of earth in the target - maybe a man or
Saving Throw: Reflex negates demon's calcified bones, or maybe a Tarrasque's mineral
rich exoskeleton. Then you strike, ignoring barriers. Make
You burrow up to 30 feet through the earth as though you an attack roll with your melee weapon. If you hit, your
had the Earth Glide special ability. You can bring along one attack ignores damage reduction and hardness, and deals
adjacent creature of your size or smaller. +1d6 damage.

Augment: Creatures and objects without significant blocks of

- For every five points you use from your augment pool, earthen components, such as oozes, plants, wood, Iron
you can move another five feet. Golems or fire elementals, are immune to this attack.
- For every five points you use from your augment pool, (Though metal creatures and components can be affected
you can bring along another adjacent creature. with the Metalbend template.)

If you are playing a non-canon setting, plants and oozes

Golem (Seed) actually have a lot of minerals in them, so consider
Difficulty Class: 15 broadening the targets.
Components: Somatic, Meditation
Bending Time: One round Augment:
Maintenance Action: Full-round action - For every four points that you exceed the difficulty class,
Range: 30 ft.
Effect: Create an earthen creature
you deal an additional +1d6 damage with this attack.
Imprison (Seed)
Difficulty Class: 25
Components: Somatic
Bending Time: Full-round action
Range: 60 ft.
Target: One Medium or smaller creature or object
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: Reflex negates
With a gesture, the earth itself rises up to swallow your
opponent as tendrils of clay wrap around their limbs. The
subject takes 1d6 damage for every five Bender Levels you
possess.
The target must make a Reflex save before the bonds
solidify, or be trapped in a nearly unbreakable prison of
earth. An imprisoned target is helpless, but also has total
cover against all attacks. They can attempt a DC 25
Strength or Escape Artist check as a full-round action in
order to escape their bonds. While imprisoned, a subject
has five rounds worth of air before he begins to suffocate
(as rules for drowning.)
Earth Required: 100 pounds.
Augment:
- For every four points that you exceed the base difficulty
class, you can affect creatures one size larger. This requires
quadruple the amount of earth for each size increase.
- For every five points you use from your augment pool,
the skill DC to escape the sphere increases by two.
Metalbend (Template)
Difficulty Class: +10
Target: Metal objects and creatures
You can apply this template to any seed which requires or
targets earth, such as Headcracker, Earthwalker, and Move
Earth. You may control Iron, Steel, Adamantine, Mithral,
Cold Iron, Quicksilver and all other standard metals in
addition. In most seeds, metal typically adds 5 hardness
and damage reduction compared to stone, though follow
each metal's standard qualities for abilities like Shape
Earth and Earth Wall.
Move Earth (Fundamental Seed)
Difficulty Class: 5
Components: Somatic, Meditation
Bending Time: Standard action
Maintenance Action: Standard action
Range: 60 ft.
Area: 25 pounds of rock, crystal or tightly packed dirt
Duration: Concentration
Saving Throw: Fortitude negates (object), see text.
You shunt each controlled cube of earth up to ten feet in
any horizontal direction. Double this distance when
moving downwards, and halve it when moving upwards.
At the end of your action, you can release the earth, letting
it fall, or you can hold it in place. Holding the earth in
place requires a maintenance action. Appropriately
weighted earth creatures such as elementals can be moved
with use of this seed.
SANDBENDING
In the show, we see examples of sandbenders, whose
movements resemble those of airbenders. Toph is quite
uncomfortable in the sandy desert, finding it much harder
to work with than her familiar solid earth. Yet, by the end
of the third season, she seems to have utterly mastered
sand as though she had always bent with it.
For simplicity's sake, we have chosen to represent these
qualities by making certain seeds much more useful for
either a sand-dweller or normal earthbender to use, and
certain seeds have an affinity for one type of material or
another.
To go a step further, an (N)PC used to sandbending
instead of rockbending might have an easier time using
Move Earth and Shape Earth with sand than rock, rather
than the default assumption that it's the other way
around. The +5 DC increase is drastic for a low-level
bender, and almost negligible for a grandmaster – as it
should be. Toph almost certainly gained levels from Season
2 to Season 3.
Taking earth out of elementals or primarily earthen objects
deals 1d8 damage per 25 pounds of earth you extract.
Dropping rocks or throwing them at someone deals
falling object damage as though from ten feet.
You can attempt to wrest earthen items out of someone
else's control; the subject gets a Reflex save to hold on to
their item.
Augment:
- For every three points that you exceed the base difficulty
class, the distance you shunt earth increases by five feet.
- By using five points of your augment pool,, you can
move sand and loosely packed dirt instead.
- For every two points you use from your augment pool,
you can move an additional 25 pounds of earth.
Puppet (Seed)
Difficulty Class: 20
Components: Somatic, Meditation
Bending Time: One round
Maintenance Action: Full-round action
Range: 30 ft.
Target: One Medium or smaller Earth creature.
Duration: Concentration
Saving Throw: Fortitude Negates
You can attempt to control a pre-existing creature with the
[Earth] subtype that is within range and to which you
have line of sight. You can force the subject to stand up, sit
down, walk, turn around, and so on, but operating the
vocal cords is too difficult. You can also hold the subject
immobile, rendering it helpless. You cannot force the
subject to manifest powers, cast spells, bend, or use any
special ability that is not a function of just its body
movements. If you lose line of sight to the subject, the
effect of this power ends.
If you force the subject to engage in combat, its attack
bonus is equal to your base attack bonus + your Wisdom
bonus, and its bonus on damage rolls is equal to your
Wisdom bonus. A subject of this power cannot make
attacks of opportunity. The subject gains no benefit to
Armor Class from its Dexterity, but it does gain a bonus to
its AC equal to your Wisdom bonus.
Although the subject's body is under your control, the
subject's mind is not. Creatures capable of taking purely
mental actions (such as manifesting powers, or bending
without Somatic components) can do so.
Every round past the first that you maintain this seed, you
take a cumulative -1 penalty to all bending checks.
Augment:
- For every four points you use from your augment pool,
you can affect one creature one size category larger.
- For every eight points you use from your augment pool,
you can control an additional creature at once.
Quake (Seed)
Difficulty Class: 20
Components: Somatic
Bending Time: Full-round action
Maintenance Action: Full-round action
Range: 20 ft.
Area: Four 5-ft squares on packed earth, crystal or rock (S)
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: Reflex negates
You strike the ground and it breaks and twists in multiple
ways. Creatures in the affected squares must make a
Reflex save or be knocked prone, taking 1d6 piercing
damage from the sharp stones. Additionally, the chosen
squares become difficult terrain. People who pass through
the square use four squares of movement to avoid
stepping on the spikes and taking 1d4 piercing damage.
Those unconcerned by the spikes still use two squares of
movement to make it through.
Subjects can make a Balance check to move at half speed
(DC 22), or full speed (DC 27) without taking damage. A
failure by 4 or less means they can't move any further for
the round. A failure by 5 or more means they fall prone.
Anyone damaged by Quake loses speed as though they
had stepped on a caltrop.
Using Quake on loosely packed earth or sand has normal
effects, but the spikes do not remain for subsequent
rounds.
Augment:
- For every three points you use from your augment pool,
you can affect an additional square.
- For every three points that you exceed the difficulty
class, the Balance DC increases by one point.
Rubble Wave (Seed)
Difficulty Class: 20
Components: Somatic, Meditation
Bending Time: Standard action
Range: 15 ft.
Area: 15-ft cone burst originating from you
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: Reflex half, Fortitude negates (see text)
You gather up a mass of small, loose rocks, dust particles
and sand, firing them in a wide swarm. Subjects inside the
area must make a Reflex save or take 1d4 bludgeoning,
slashing and piercing damage per Bender Level. On a
successful save, they only take half of this damage.
Those who fail their Reflex save are also subjected to a
Fortitude save. Failure means that they are pushed back
five feet. This ability is often used by Sandbenders to
propel their Sand Skiffs.
Earth Required: 25 pounds of loose debris or rubble.
Augment:
- For every two points you use from your augment pool,
the cone becomes five feet longer and requires 5 more
pounds of debris.
- For every five points you use from your augment pool,
you knockback subjects an additional five feet, to a
maximum of Rubble Wave's range.
Shape Earth (Fundamental Seed)
Difficulty Class: 5
Components: Somatic, Meditation
Bending Time: See text.
Maintenance Action: Move action (see text)
Range: 30 ft.
Area: A 5-ft cube of rock, crystal or tightly packed dirt.
Duration: Instantaneous or Concentration (see text)
Saving Throw: Fortitude negates (Object, harmless)
You manipulate the basic shape of packed earth, crystal or
rock to look like something else (such as a sculpture),
though specific detail is very hard. The Craft skill
determines the exact quality of the object created. Simple
sculpture that can be created with a Craft check of 10 or
less can be made with a full-round action; however, for
every 5 points the Craft DC increases, this form requires
one additional round to activate.
Sculpted rock has 10 Hardness and 20 Hit Points per inch
of thickness. Sculpted clay has 5 Hardness and 35 Hit
Points per inch.
Craft (Weaponsmithing) can be used with Shape Earth to
make weaponry and ammunition out of rock. This
weaponry functions precisely as the base item, and can
even be enchanted; one 5-ft cube creates material for eight
medium-sized weapons, or up to four hundred pieces of
ammunition.
Appropriately sized earth creatures such as elementals
can be altered with use of this seed, though it does not
hinder them in any way:
Augment:
- For every five points that you exceed the base difficulty
class (including all modifiers), you can shape one
additional cube.
- By using five points of your augment pool,, you can
shape sand and loosely packed dirt. The duration changes
to Concentration.
Spike (Seed)
Difficulty Class: 25
Components: Somatic, Meditation
Bending Time: Full-round action
Range: 20 ft.
Area: Cylinder Burst (5-ft radius, 20 ft. long)
Target: 5-ft square atop packed earth, crystal or rock.
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: Reflex negates
Target a single square of earth within range (including
your own.) You fire a giant spike originating from that
square. Creatures caught in Spike are allowed a Reflex
save to move to an adjacent space safely. If they do not
have sufficient movement to make it to an adjacent clear
space (such as if their move speed is 0 ft, or the terrain in
the space is difficult to pass through) but make their save,
they end up prone in the adjacent space.
Anyone who fails their save against the spike is knocked
back to the edge of the form's range as though bull
rushed.
A spike is an inch thick per Bender Level, and has 10
Hardness and 20 Hit Points per inch of thickness.
The business end of Spike may be flat or pointed at your
option; subjects affected take 4d6 bludgeoning or piercing
damage respectively. If trapped against a wall or other
solid surface by Spike, they must make a DC 15 Strength or
Escape Artist check as a full-round action to escape.
You may instead opt for Spike to grow more slowly; in this
case, it deals no damage and creatures in the path are
gently pushed to the end of the line's effect. If you
originate this attack from your square and shoot upwards,
for example, you can propel yourself upwards twenty feet.
You can only move or bull rush a creature if at least half of
the squares they occupy on one face are covered by spikes.
Augment:
- For every four points that you exceed the difficulty class,
you deal an additional 1d6 damage with one cylinder.
- For every five points you use from your augment pool,
the length of your cylinders increase by 10 ft.
- For every fourteen points you use from your augment
pool, you can create an additional cylinder.
Tectonic (Seed)
Difficulty Class: 15
Components: Somatic
Bending Time: Full-round action
Range: 20 ft.
Area: Three 5-ft squares atop deeply packed earth, crystal
or rock. (S)
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: Reflex negates
With a foot stomp or ground punch, you cause the ground
to rise or sink sharply by five feet. Subjects within the
affected area must make a Reflex save or fall prone in the
space. (You can suppress this effect at will.) Those who
make their save may move to an adjacent space safely. If
they do not have sufficient movement to make it to an
adjacent clear space (such as if their move speed is 0 ft, or
the terrain in the space is difficult to pass through) but
make their save, they end up prone in the adjacent space.
If you drop the ground ten feet or more from underneath
someone, they are granted a Climb check (DC 35) to catch
the ledge. The DC to climb the mounds or trenches
created by this ability is 20 for the highest 5-ft segment,
and 25 for the remainder. This DC increases by 5 points
for especially slippery walls, like those made of sand and
crystal. Subjects who fall because of this form take falling
damage as normal.
A mound segment is five feet, or sixty inches, thick.
Material Hardness HP/Inch-Thick
Sand, loose dirt 0 8
Packed earth 3 5
Soft stone, worked earth 10 5 significantly alter the time of most adventures (e.g. 95% of
Hard stone 15 8 the adventuring is done at day or night), the Sun/Moon
Crystal 30 1 synergy for Fire and Waterbenders can prove unbalancing
Augment:
- For every three points you use from your augment pool,
you may affect an additional square. This may be adjacent
to another square you placed (even if the new square is
out of your range), or anywhere else within your range.
- For every six points you use from your augment pool,
you may raise or lower the ground by another five feet.
FIREBENDING
Fire is the element of power, and those who use it are pas-
sionate, of desire and will. A firebender is more apparent-
ly detached from his element than the other benders, due
to their seeming ability to create fire from nothing – but in
reality, fire comes from the firebender's own personal
energy and breath. Along with air, fire is the most kinetic
bending form, using every part of their body as a weapon.
Defense is just a means of better angling your next attack.
A firebender surrounded by a non-flammable substance
or whose body has begun to succumb to an arctic environ-
ment is unable to firebend for the most part, although
there are exceptions. Fire in water or other non-flammable
substances may be a stream of hot bubbles or the like.
Firebenders are powered by the sun. During the day,
they gain a +2 bonus to all firebending checks. A solar
eclipse robs them of power for the duration, and major
solar phenomena (such as a near comet or a nova phase)
can boost their power multiplicatively. This variation is
not present on planes which completely lack a sun.
If you are playing in a campaign which does not
at low levels. Try to mix it up, or consider ignoring this.
Breath of the Dragon (Seed)
Difficulty Class: 15
Bending Time: Full-round action
Range: Personal
Target: Self
Duration: Five minutes (D); see text
Firebending is all about breath control. You take a deep
breath to inhale and center your thoughts. For the
duration of the form, you do not need to breathe. Upon
ending this form, you are no longer considered to be
fatigued. (Exhaustion, however, continues as normal.) The
form must last for its full normal length for this effect to
occur.
You may choose to end this form's duration prematurely.
If you do so, your next firebending form within the next
round alternatively gains either your Constitution
modifier as a bonus to the bending check, or it may be
performed with no somatic components, issuing from
your mouth instead.
This form can be used regardless of outside temperature
or surroundings.
Augment:
- By exceeding the difficulty class by ten points, you can
also remove exhaustion with this form.
- For every ten points that you use from your augment
pool, you restore one point of physical (Strength,
Dexterity or Constitution) ability damage when you end
the fatigue condition.
Burning Edge (Seed)
Difficulty Class: 10
Components: Somatic
Bending Time: Move action
Maintenance Action: Free action
Range: 0 ft.
Effect: Blade-like flames
Duration: Concentration
You create a long, narrow tongue of fire in your hand. You
can use this cohesive flame as a weapon, and are
considered to be proficient with it. The Burning Edge has
all the features of a normal longsword for your size
category except that half of the damage that it deals is fire
damage. This does not ignite the opponent.
The Burning Edge has 0 hardness, HP equal to twice your
bending level, and is immune to all damage except for
cold damage. It lasts as long as you concentrate or until it
is destroyed or you let go of it.
Augment:
- For every five points you use from your augment pool,
the longsword gains 5' reach.
Claw of the Phoenix (Seed)
Difficulty Class: 20
Components: Somatic
Bending Time: Full-round action
Range: Melee
Duration: Instantaneous
The most damaging basic technique in a firebender's
repertoire, your fist or foot burns as you drive it into the
target with exceptional speed. Make a melee attack roll. If
you hit, you deal 1d6 fire damage per Bender Level. This
attack cannot set subjects on fire but it does ignore 20% of
miss chance from any source.
This ability cannot be quickened to a Swift Action.
Augment:
- By using ten points of your augment pool, you can use
this ability as a ranged attack with a range of 30 feet.
- For every five points that you use from your augment
pool, you ignore an additional 10% miss chance.
- For every ten points that you exceed the base difficulty
class, you deal an extra 1d6 damage per bender level.
Cold Fire (Template)
Difficulty Class: +10
Bending Time: Full-round at least; can be quickened.
Saving Throw: Fortitude negates; see text.
This template can be applied to any firebending form that
involves projecting or controlling external flames. Increase
any damage dice involved by one size. The form deals or
resists electrical damage instead. In addition to any other
saves, anyone damaged must make a Fortitude save or be
left paralyzed and helpless for one round. You may only
attempt the paralysis effect once a round.
BLUE FIRE
Something introduced with Azula (and her sole domain,
regardless of how the other firebenders advance
throughout the show) is her blue fire. Extremely potent
and focused, it completely overwhelms Zuko in their first
encounter, and is Azula's major thematic.
We do not have any method for modeling this.
Blue fire is an ability of a prodigy, one who is talented
and inherently powerful. It cannot be easily modeled
under any scheme to be balanced, since most attempts to
balance it would really render it useless – it's just a more
powerful version of what players already have. Therefore,
I propose a simpler solution: Let your players decide what
color their fire is. Prodigal talent should be demonstrated
via a higher level or higher relevant ability scores, which,
again, you cannot balance simply.
Combustion (Seed)
Difficulty Class: 35
Components: Meditation
Bending Time: One round
Range: 90 ft.
Effect: Ray
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: Fortitude partial (object)
You focus your energy into the distance, firing a narrow
beam from your mind's eye. As the beam strikes its target,
it seems to spontaneously explode in intense heat.

Make a ranged touch attack against the target. If you hit,
they take 2d6 damage per Bender Level, are set on fire and
are subject to a bull rush in a random direction. If you fail
the attempt, you are not subject to any reactive rolls or
effects. You gain a bonus on this bull rush attempt equal
to your Bender Level. A successful Fortitude save reduces
the damage to half, does not catch the target on fire and
negates the bull rush effect. This damage is not fire
damage, but a disintegration effect.
When used against an object, the ray simply vaporizes as
much as one 10-foot cube of nonliving matter. Thus, the
form destroys only part of any very large object or
structure targeted. The ray does not affects objects
constructed entirely of force, but will destroy those made
out of pure elemental energy (such as a Wall of Fire, or
Energy Wall [Electric]).
Any creature reduced to 0 or fewer hit points by this form
is entirely vaporized, leaving behind only a trace of fine
dust. A vaporized creature's equipment is likewise
destroyed.
Only the first creature or object struck can be affected; that
is, the ray affects only one target per bend.
Explosion (Template)
Difficulty Class: +5
Bending Time: Standard action at least; see text
This template can be applied to any firebending form that
involves external flames. Anyone struck by the attack (in
the case of an attack roll) or who failed their save against
damage is subject to a bull rush attempt by the attack,
using your scores and modifiers (although not limited by
your movement). Use your Wisdom score in the place of
your Strength score for this bull rush. You gain a bonus to
this bull rush check equal to half your Bender Level. If you
fail the attempt, you are not subject to any reactive rolls or
effects.
Explosive fire deals normal (rather than half) damage to
objects.
Augment:
- By using ten points of your augment pool, you can use
Explosion without increasing the bending time.
Fire Blast (Fundamental Seed)
Difficulty Class: 5
Components: Somatic
Bending Time: Ranged attack.
Range: 60 ft.
Effect: Ray
Duration: Instantaneous
The first offensive ability you learn as a firebender.
Whenever you would be granted a ranged attack, you
may use a Fire Blast instead, including as part of a full
attack action, or feats like Shot on the Run. This attack
deals 1d6 fire damage, increasing by an additional 1d6
damage for every four Bender Levels that you have.
Subjects struck do not catch on fire.
Augment:
- By using five points of your augment pool, you can
perform this form as part of a standard melee attack on
the same target.
- By using five points of your augment pool, you do not
provoke attacks of opportunity for using this ranged
ability in a threatened square.
Fire Spin (Seed)
Difficulty Class: 15
Components: Somatic
Bending Time: Standard action
Range: 5 ft.
Area: 5-ft radius burst centered on you
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: Reflex partial
You twirl fire around you, exploding in a circular burst.
Creatures within the area must make a Reflex save or take
1d6 fire damage. Subjects that fail their save catch on fire;
those that succeed take half damage and do not ignite.
This does not affect friendly creatures of your choice.
Augment:
- For every two points you use from your augment pool,
you deal an additional 1d6 damage.
- For every five points you use from your augment pool,
the radius increases by 5 feet.
Flamethrower (Seed)
Difficulty Class: 20
Components: Somatic, Meditation
Bending Time: Full-round action
Maintenance Action: Full-round action
Range: 30 ft.
Area: 30-ft long, 5-ft wide cylinder originating from you.
Duration: Concentration (minimum one round)
Saving Throw: Reflex half
You issue forth a long wave of flame that burns anything
in its path. Flamethrower deals 1d6 fire damage per Bender
Level to all creatures in its area (half on a successful save).
Subjects who fail their saves catch on fire. The affected
squares are ignited as well, if flammable.
Augment:
- For every two points you use from your augment pool,
you may increase the length by five feet.
- For every ten points you use from your augment pool,
you may increase the width by five feet.
- For every three points you use from your augment pool,
you can make one 45° bend in the attack.
Heat Control (Seed)
Difficulty Class: 10
Components: Meditation
Bending Time: Standard action
Range: 30 ft.
Target: A construct, elemental or object up to a 5-ft cube.
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: Fortitude partial (object); see text
This stance initiates two different forms.
Incandescence: You focus on an object, construct or
elemental within range, superheating it. The subject takes
1d4 fire damage; this damage is not halved. If anyone is
touching the subject, they themselves take 1d4 fire
damage as well. A successful Fortitude save halves the
damage that touching creatures take; they may opt to
make a Reflex save instead to negate the damage by
letting go of the object.
If the subject has a relatively low melting point (like ice), it
takes double damage and touching objects take no
damage.
Augment:
- For every three points you increase the difficulty class,
the damage increases by 1d4 points.
Vent: You focus on an already hot object, construct or
elemental within range, cooling it down by venting the
heat off in a different direction. The object drops in
temperature by 10º F, to a minimum of 80º F. This ability
deals 1d4 cold damage to subjects which have heat as an
intrinsic part of their nature, such as a flame.
Augment:
- For every three points you increase the difficulty class,
the temperature drop improves by 10º F and damage
increases by 1d4 points.
Heatwave (Template)
Difficulty Class: +5
Bending Time: Standard action at least; see text
Duration: One round
Saving Throw: Fortitude negates
Your attack is intentionally unfocused, more meant for the
environment than your target. The damage dice used in
the attack decrease by one size, but any square where you
make an attack (even if you fail to hit anyone) becomes
intensely and overpoweringly hot. Anyone who ends their
turn in such a square (or passes through the square, if
applied to a standing fire) becomes sickened for the
duration of the encounter if they fail their Fortitude save.
Augment:
- By using ten points of your augment pool,, you can use
Heatwave without increasing the seed form's bending time.
Inner Flames (Seed)
Difficulty Class: 15
Components: Meditation
Bending Time: Standard action
Maintenance Action: Swift action
Range: Personal
Target: Self
Duration: Concentration
You gather the inner fires of your body and extend them
in a surge of adrenaline. You glow with a bright light.
While this form is active, you gain 1 temporary hit point.
These temporary hit points are refreshed every round that
you maintain concentration. While using this form, you
are immune to non-lethal cold damage. This form can be
used regardless of outside surroundings, and allows you
to use other firebending forms in the cold.
Augment:
- For every three points you use from your augment pool,
you gain 2 additional temporary hit points.
- For every four points that you exceed the base difficulty
class, you gain a +1 bonus to your Fortitude saves to resist
fatigue and non-lethal damage.
Lifebend (Seed)
Difficulty Class: 30
Components: Somatic, Meditation
Bending Time: Standard action
Range: 20 ft.
Target: One living, deathless or undead creature
Duration: One minute
Saving Throw: Will partial (harmless)

You focus on a nearby creature's inner soul and grant
them renewed vigor. A living or fire creature gains a
temporary level: they gain one effective hit dice (d10, or
+5.5), the commensurate number of temporary hit points
(including Constitution modifier), an additional level for
the purpose of all level-based effects, and a +1 bonus to
attack rolls, saves and skill checks. Undead and deathless
characters instead take a negative level for the duration.
These temporary or negative levels do not stack from
multiple uses, even from different benders.
Augment:
- For every seven points you use from your augment pool,
you bestow an additional temporary level.
Magnify Flames (Seed)
Difficulty Class: Varies; see text.
Components: Somatic, Meditation
Bending Time: Full-round action
Range: 60 ft.
Area: One 5-ft cube of flame per Bender Level (S)
Saving Throw: Reflex or Fortitude negates; see text.
You greatly intensify or quench a flame within range. You
may choose to make this flame as strong - or as gentle - as
you are capable of controlling. If the fire in the cube is
stronger than you can control, this form fails. The
difficulty class of this form is found on the table below,
next to the entry for either the strength that you want to
magnify a fire to, or the strength that the fire is.
(Whichever is higher.)
Fire Strength DC Example Damage Spread
Light 0 Torch 1d3
Moderate 5 Creature on fire 1d6
Strong 10 Bonfire 2d6
Severe 20 Burning hut 3d6
Intense 35 Burning inn 6d6
Extreme 55 Forest fire 12d6
Inferno* 80 Firestorm 24d6
*An inferno comprised of at least 64 cubes acts as a tornado that also
deals the listed damage every round
Flames greater than Moderate have a chance every round
(as listed above) of spreading to each adjacent square
containing flammable materials and creatures. Creatures
and attended objects get a Reflex save to avoid taking the
flame. If you target a creature set on fire, the damage they
take every round and the save DC necessary to put the fire
out changes to the corresponding fire and your standard
bending save DC. No save to prevent the increased heat;
only the usual Reflex save every round to remove the fire.
If you target a creature made up primarily of fire, such as
a Fire Elemental, and try to quench its flames you deal
damage based on the above table.
Move Flames (Fundamental Seed)
Difficulty Class: 5
Components: Somatic, Meditation
Bending Time: Standard action
Maintenance Action: Standard action
Range: 60 ft.
Area: One 5-ft cube of nonmagical flame
Duration: Concentration
Saving Throw: Reflex negates; see text.
You create or control a single 5-ft cube of flame anywhere
within range.
You can move your flame up to ten feet in any direction.
At the end of your action, you can release the fire or you
can hold it in place. Holding the fire in place requires a
maintenance action, and when done can cause a fire to
burn even on improbable substances, like stone or ice;
however, a fire completely submerged in a non-flammable
material, like water or stone, is still extinguished.
As the fire moves, it ignites everything in its path. If you
move or place the flame in an occupied square, the
creature gets a Reflex save to avoid the fire. The fire deals
damage as standard for its type; 1d6 for most fires. If the
creature fails their save, they catch on fire.
Augment:
0% - For every point that you exceed the base difficulty class,
the distance you move fire increases by five feet.
0%
- For every three points you use from your augment pool,
10%
you can move an additional 5-ft cube of flame.
20%
30% Puppet (Seed)
40% Difficulty Class: 20
50% Components: Somatic, Meditation
Bending Time: One round
Maintenance Action: Full-round action
Range: 30 ft.
Target: One Medium or smaller Fire creature.
Duration: Concentration
Saving Throw: Fortitude Negates
You can attempt to control a pre-existing creature with the
[Fire] subtype that is within range and to which you have
line of sight. You can force the subject to stand up, sit
down, walk, turn around, and so on, but operating the
vocal cords is too difficult. You can also hold the subject
immobile, rendering it helpless. You cannot force the
subject to manifest powers, cast spells, bend, or use any
special ability that is not a function of just its body
movements. If you lose line of sight to the subject, the
effect of this power ends.
If you force the subject to engage in combat, its attack
bonus is equal to your base attack bonus + your Wisdom
bonus, and its bonus on damage rolls is equal to your
Wisdom bonus. A subject of this power cannot make
attacks of opportunity. The subject gains no benefit to
Armor Class from its Dexterity, but it does gain a bonus to
its AC equal to your Wisdom bonus.
Although the subject's body is under your control, the
subject's mind is not. Creatures capable of taking purely
mental actions (such as manifesting powers, or bending
without Somatic components) can do so.
Every round past the first that you maintain this seed, you
take a cumulative -1 penalty to all bending checks.
Augment:
- For every four points you use from your augment pool,
you can affect one creature one size category larger.
- For every eight points you use from your augment pool,
you can control an additional creature at once.
Pyrotechnics (Template)
Difficulty Class: +10
Bending Time: Standard action at least; can be quickened
Duration: One round or as flame; see text.
Saving Throw: Fortitude negates, Will negates; see text
You create an exceptionally bright and dazzling flame. All
those who can see the flame within 60 feet are dazzled (no
save) for one round or as long as they look at the flame,
and those subjects struck (or those that fail their save
against damage, if this ability requires one) - must make a
Fortitude save or be blinded for one round.
If used in a non-threatening context, Pyrotechnics
produces a fascinate effect on all creatures within 60 feet
who fail their Will saves. This fascinate effect lasts as long
as the flame does. Fascinated creatures take a -4 penalty
on skill checks made as reactions, such as Listen and Spot
checks. Any potential threat, such as a hostile creature
approaching, allows the fascinated creature a new saving
throw against the fascinating effect. Any obvious threat,
such as someone drawing a weapon, casting a spell, or
aiming a ranged weapon at the fascinated creature,
automatically breaks the effect. A fascinated creature's ally
may shake it free of the effect as a standard action.
This latter usage is a mind-affecting ability.
Redirect (Seed)
Difficulty Class: 25
Components: Somatic, Meditation
Bending Time: Immediate action; see text.
Range: Personal
Target: Self
Duration: Instantaneous
A rare ability among firebenders due to its defensive
nature. In order to perform a Redirect, you must not only
use an immediate action, but you must use up one of your
attacks of opportunity for the round.
You anticipate a coming attack of flame and redirect it. If
the attack specified targets, you may immediately fire it at
another target within range as though you were the attack
originator. If the attack was an area burst, you may turn
the attack any direction you wish for the remainder of its
area. If it was a spread, you are simply left immune for
this round. This ability may not function against attacks
made by creatures exceptionally more powerful than you,
such as an epic creature or deity. This ability does not
require a Contested Bending attempt.
When combined with Cold Fire, you may redirect lightning
instead. This does not change the required bending time.
Augment:
- For every seven points you use from your augment pool,
you can redirect one additional attack this round.
Soaring Flames (Seed)
Difficulty Class: Varies; see text
Components: Somatic
Bending Time: Varies; see text
Maintenance Action: Free action (Rising Phoenix)
Range: Personal
Target: Self
Duration: See text
This stance initiates three different forms.
Hurdle (DC 15): Once per round, when you are allowed a
5-ft step for whatever reason (such as during your turn, or
reactively to certain attacks), you may make a 5-ft leap
that ignores rough terrain.

Augment:
- For every ten points you use from your augment pool,
the distance you leap increases by 5 feet.
Rising Dawn (DC 20): As a full-round action, make a
Jump check. You may add your Bending check to the
result. You are always considered to be running for this
jump. The distance you jump in a round is not limited by
your movement.
Rising Phoenix (DC 40): As a swift action, you gain a
flight speed of 60 feet, with a maneuverability of Clumsy.
You may hover as though you had the Hover feat. This
form can be maintained as a free action.
Augment:
- For every two points you use from your augment pool,
you gain an additional five feet of movement speed.
- For every ten points you exceed the base difficulty class,
you improve maneuverability by one step.
Sweeping Flames (Template)
Difficulty Class: +5
Range: 15 ft.
Area: 15-ft cone burst originating from you.
Saving Throw: Reflex half.
square occupied by a creature, you decide which side of
the wall the creature ends up on. The subject can make a
Reflex save to choose for themselves.
It is possible, but difficult, to trap mobile opponents
within or under a wall, provided the wall is shaped so it
can hold the creatures. Creatures are allowed a Reflex
save to move to an adjacent clear space (including
adjacent spaces directly above and below them). If they do
not have sufficient movement to make it to an adjacent
clear space (such as if their move speed is 0 ft, or the
terrain in the space is difficult to pass through) but make
their save, they end up prone in the adjacent space.
Augment:
- For every two points you use from your augment pool,
the wall increases by an additional five-foot square.
- By using five points of your augment pool, you can make
a single five-foot segment in your square for one round as
an Immediate Action. The wall immediately extinguishes
after successfully blocking one attack.
- For every ten points that you use from your augment
pool, the wall lasts for one round after you cease
concentration.

This template can be applied to any firebending form that

is typically a targeted attack. It requires no attack roll, and
any damage dice involved decrease by one size, taking on
the above area. Subjects who fail their saves catch on fire.
The affected squares are ignited as well unless on
exceptionally non-flammable material such as steel or ice.

Wall of Flames (Seed)

Difficulty Class: 25
Components: Somatic, Meditation
Bending Time: Standard action
Maintenance Action: Swift action
Range: 30 ft.
Area: Wall of two 5-ft square areas.
Duration: Concentration
Saving Throw: Reflex half or negates; see text.

You create a barrier of semi-solid flames. No matter how

long the wall becomes, all of the pieces bended with one
use must be adjacent to one another. This wall provides
total concealment, and creatures and objects passing
through take damage as though moving through a
standing fire (Reflex half.) Creatures who fail their saving
throw catch on fire if flammable. If you fire the wall into a

WATERBENDING
Water is the element of change, and those who use it are
reactive, calm in most circumstances but fiercely defensive
when provoked. They will experience much in their lives.
Waterbenders have a seeming weakness in the fact that
most civilized life lives on the earth, often far away from
the shore and sea. But the perceptive note that without
water, there is no life.
Balance and precision grace are integral to a
waterbender; they believe in flowing while remaining in
one spot, letting enemies waste their energy moving. A
waterbender is unable to use their feet for most abilities as
a result, though there are some exceptions.
Waterbenders are powered by the moon. During the
nighttime, they gain a +2 bonus to all waterbending
checks. This doubles to +4 during a full moon, and is not
present during a new moon. A lunar eclipse robs them of
all of their powers for the duration, and significant lunar
phenomena (such as a blue moon) can boost their power
multiplicatively. This variation is not present on planes
which completely lack a moon.
If you are playing in a campaign which does not
significantly alter the time of most adventures (e.g. 95% of
the adventuring is done at day or night), the Sun/Moon
synergy for Fire and Waterbenders can prove unbalancing
at low levels. Try to mix it up, or consider ignoring this
benefit.
Bend Plants (Template)
Difficulty Class: +5
Target: Living plants
You can apply this template to any seed which requires or
targets water of a non-specific form. Forms which require
an intrinsic quality of free water, such as the Wave,
Healing Water or Illusionary Mist forms, cannot utilize
this template. You may control, freeze, boil or drain water-
rich plants of the appropriate size instead. Plants contain
water as water vapor of the same size (an eighth that of a
cube of water) and are moved at half speed compared to
free water. The amount of volume you can affect is
reduced to a quarter, rounded down. (If, for example, you
could target four 5-ft cubes of water, you instead target
one 5-ft cube of plants.) Surrounding someone with plants
and maintaining the plants via Move Water produces an
Entangle effect.
Living plants used in the place of water have Hardness,
Fire and Electricity Resistance equal to half your Bender
Level, but only half the Fast Healing.
Plants grant total concealment where water would only
grant concealment.
If the seed affects water creatures, it can now affect plant
creatures instead. Frozen plants have the same statistics as
Ice.
Bloodbend (Template)
Difficulty Class: +15
Target: Living creatures
You can apply this template to any seed which requires or
targets water of a non-specific form. Forms which require
an intrinsic quality of free water, such as the Wave,
Healing Water or Illusionary Mist forms, cannot utilize
this template. You may control, freeze, boil or drain any
creature of the appropriate size instead. Creatures contain
a sixteenth of the water that an appropriate number of 5-ft
cubes their size would contain, and are moved at a quarter
speed compared to free water. The amount of volume you
can affect is reduced to an eighth of normal, rounded
down. (If, for example, you could affect five 5-ft cubes of
water, you cannot affect any cubes of creature mass.)
Exceptionally dry creatures may be unaffected.
Capture (Seed)
Difficulty Class: 30
Components: Meditation
Bending Time: Swift action
Maintenance Action: Swift action
Range: 60 ft.
Effect: 5-ft sphere swirling ball of water
Duration: Concentration
Saving Throw: Reflex negates
You may attempt to engulf a target you have just struck
with a Waterbending form, assuming they fit in the
diameter of the sphere. The target must make their save or
be trapped in spinning water. The sphere has 0 hardness,
15 HP per Bender Level, and has fast healing equal to your
Bender Level. It is impossible to strike the creature inside
without also damaging the sphere. The creature cannot
breathe while captured, and takes 1d6 damage per 3
Bender Levels every round that it is trapped, no save.
Water Required: 900 gallons. The water you used in the
attack which initiated this one can count towards this
value. This water is not immediately recoverable.
Augment:
- For every five points you use from your augment pool,
you increase the reflex save difficulty class by one.
- For every four points that you exceed the base difficulty
class, you can affect creatures one size larger. This requires
quadruple the amount of water for each size category
increase.
Feel the Flow (Seed)
Difficulty Class: 20
Components: Meditation
Bending Time: Move action
Maintenance Action: Move action
Target: Self
Effect: Tremorsense
Duration: Concentration + 1 round.
You gain Tremorsense (30 ft.) in water. Creatures
attempting to hide from you can make a Swim check
opposed by your Bending check.
Augment:
- For every two points you use from your augment pool,
you gain another five feet of range to your tremorsense.
- By using ten points of your augment pool,, you can
maintain this ability as a free action.
of two points of ability damage and one point of ability
drain, and relieve them of the fatigue and exhaustion
conditions. This form only works on a target once per
hour.
Water Required: 2 Pints, immediately recoverable.
Augment:
- For every six points you use from your augment pool,
you heal the target of two additional points of ability
damage and one additional point of ability drain.
- By using ten points of your augment pool, you heal the
target of one negative level.
- For every additional six points you use from your
augment pool, you heal the target of one additional
negative level.
Golem (Seed)
Difficulty Class: 15
Components: Somatic, Meditation
Bending Time: One round
Maintenance Action: Full-round action
Range: 30 ft.
Effect: Create an aqueous creature
Duration: Concentration
You create a giant construct of water. It appears where you
designate and acts at your direction. The round that you
cease maintenance, it collapses to the ground in a splash.

Healing Water (Seed) Golem statistics are listed in an appendix following this
Difficulty Class: Varies; see text chapter.
Components: Somatic, Meditation
Bending Time: Full-round action Golems are not summoned, but made. They are not
Range: Touch subject to effects that hedge out or otherwise target
Target: Creature touched outsiders; they are constructs.
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: Will half (harmless); see text. Water Required:
Size Category Volume in 5-ft cubes
This stance initiates two different forms. Medium or smaller 1
Large 4
Healing Wounds (DC 10): You lay your hands upon a
Huge 16
living creature and channel positive energy to them via
Gargantuan 64
water. You heal them of 1d6 points of damage, plus 1
point per Bender Level. A healed subject is relieved of the Colossal 256
fatigue and exhaustion conditions. This water is not immediately recoverable.

Water Required: 2 Pints, immediately recoverable. Augment:

- For every point that you exceed the difficulty class, your
Restore Body (DC 25): You lay your hands upon a living bender golem has an additional 3 hit points.
creature and channel positive energy to them via water, - For every four points that you exceed the difficulty class,
directing it to where it is needed most. You heal the target the level of the Golem increases by one.

Ice Shards (Seed)
Difficulty Class: 10
Components: Somatic, Meditation
Bending Time: Standard action
Range: 60 ft.
Area: Four 5-ft. squares of ice (S)(Orca's Maw)
Target: One creature (Crystal Rain)
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: Reflex negates (Orca's Maw)
This stance initiates two different forms.
Crystal Rain: You strike at long range, creating a precise
cloud of shards which outline your target and pin them to
a nearby surface. The target must be within five feet of a
tree or other surface in which a thrown weapon could
stick, and must be wearing loose clothes or accessories.
Make a ranged attack against the target and then win an
opposed grapple check (size modifiers apply; feats like
Improved Grapple do not. If you have the Ranged Pin
feat, you gain a +4 bonus on this check). To break free, the
victim must make a DC 15 Strength or Escape Artist check
as a standard action. In temperate climes, ice melts
sufficiently in 10 minutes.
Water Required: Four Pints. This water is not immediately
recoverable.
Augment:
- For every five points you use from your augment pool,
you gain a +2 bonus to the grapple check and the Strength
and Escape Artist DC.
Orca's Maw: Ice is a powerful weapon for you, and
anyone standing on an icy surface stands on your turf.
With a motion, you can cause powerful spikes to erupt
through the surface. You fill four five-foot squares of ice
with protruding spikes - anyone standing in the square
gets a Reflex save to avoid the attack. The square also
becomes difficult terrain. People who pass through the
square use four squares of movement to avoid stepping
on the spikes and taking 1d4 piercing damage. Those
unconcerned by the spikes use two squares of movement
to make it through.
Subjects can make a Balance check to move at half speed
(DC 20), or full speed (DC 25) without taking damage. A
failure by 4 or less means they can't move any further for
the round. A failure by 5 or more means they fall prone.
Anyone damaged by Orca's Maw loses speed as though
they had stepped on a caltrop.
Augment:
- For every three points you use from your augment pool,
you may affect one additional square with this activation.
- For every three points that you exceed the difficulty
class, the Balance DC increases by one point.
Illusionary Mist (Seed)
Difficulty Class: 15
Components: Somatic, Meditation
Bending Time: Standard action
Range: 60 ft.
Area: 20-ft sphere of Fog, Thick Steam, or Mist
Duration: One hour, or until weather clears
Saving Throw: Will disbelief (if interacted with)
The mist, fog or steam turns clumpier and hazier, taking
shapes. The suggestible see what they want to see.
Creatures inside the affected area must make a Will Save
on activation, and another every minute, or see creatures
and objects that resemble whatever troubles them most or
they most desire at the moment. These illusions are purely
visual, and cannot mimic color, sound, smell, touch or
taste - however, ambient noise and other environmental
clues may be mistaken for unclear versions of these
sensations, and unusually high levels of distress or
emotion may cause the affected to receive more coherent
'visions' or 'dreams'. All of these figments of imagination
are at least as far away as is necessary to have
concealment, and no further than the edge of total
concealment. You have no control over what they see, and
you yourself are subject to the Illusionary Mist's effects if
you are inside.
Creatures who are aware they are in such a mist gain a +4
to their Will Save, and creatures who see with other senses
are not fooled.
Move Water (Fundamental Seed)
Difficulty Class: 5
Components: Somatic, Meditation
Bending Time: Move action
Maintenance Action: Move action
Range: 60 ft.
Area: A 5-ft cube of water, ice, or a 10-ft cube of water
vapor.
Duration: Concentration
Saving Throw: Fortitude negates (Object) or Reflex Initial Condition Temperature
negates. Glacial Ice -20° F
Ice 0° F
A 10-ft cube of water vapor can be broken up into or
Cold Water 30° F
recombined from eight 5-ft cubes at will and contains as
much water as a single 5-ft cube of liquid water. You shunt Water 90° F
each controlled cube of water up to ten feet in any Hot Water 140° F Water Vapor 80° F
direction. At the end of your action, you can release the Boiling Water 200° F Thin Mist 60° F
water, letting it fall or disperse, or you can hold it in place. Thick Steam 220° F Fog 50° F
Holding the water in place requires maintenance action.

With precise focus and gestures, you suddenly cause a

Size Category Volume in 5-ft cubes
spike or fall in water temperature and pressure, with the
Medium or smaller 1 appropriate results.
Large 8
Huge 64 Steps Changed At Once Base Difficulty Class
Gargantuan 512 1 Step 10
Colossal 4096 2 Steps 30
3 Steps 50
Appropriately sized water creatures such as elementals 4 Steps 70
can be moved with use of this seed. 5 Steps 90
6 Steps 110
Taking water out of elementals or primarily water objects
deals 1d6 damage per 5-ft cube of water you extract.
While altering the condition of the water one step at a
A 5-ft cube of water or 10-ft cube of vapor holds time is easy, a flash temperature change can be extremely
approximately 900 gallons and deals 1 damage when difficult.
dropped on someone, which requires a ranged attack roll.
The water disperses unevenly, preventing it from applying Normal air, except on very humid days, does not contain
its full pressure of its weight to a target. sufficient water to be affected. A 5-ft cube of liquid or solid
water changes into a 10-ft cube of gaseous water, and vice-
Augment: versa.
- For every two points that you increase the base difficulty
class, you can move one additional cube. If you attempt to freeze a creature, surround a creature in
- For every three points that you exceed the base difficulty boiling water or thick steam, or melt the ice out from
class, the distance you can move the water increases by underneath someone, they are allowed a Reflex save to
five feet. move to an adjacent clear space (including adjacent spaces
directly above and below them). If they do not have
sufficient movement to make it to an adjacent clear space
Phase Change (Fundamental Seed) (such as if their move speed is 0 ft, or the terrain in the
Difficulty Class: See Text space is difficult to pass through) but make their save,
Components: Somatic, Meditation they end up prone in the adjacent space.
Bending Time: Full-round action
Range: 30 ft. Boiling water or thick steam that completely surrounds a
Target: One 5-ft cube of water, ice, or a 10-ft cube of water creature deals 1d6 fire damage on the first round,
vapor per five bender levels (minimum 1). increasing by 1d6 a round to a maximum of 10d6.
Duration: Instantaneous; see text
Saving Throw: Reflex or Fortitude negates (object) Frozen creatures are considered helpless, take 1d4 non-
lethal cold damage a round and can break out to an
adjacent square with a DC 25 Strength or Escape Artist
check as a full-round action in normal ice, or a DC 35
Strength or Escape Artist check in glacial ice.
Quickly created ice is exceptionally frail. Ice has hardness
5 and 10 HP per cube. Glacial Ice has hardness 10 and 50
HP. It is impossible to attack someone frozen in ice
without destroying the ice around them.
Thin mist obscures all sight, including darkvision, beyond
120 feet. A creature from 60 to 120 feet away has
concealment; any farther and they have total concealment.
Fog and thick steam obscure all sight, including
darkvision, beyond 30 feet. A creature from 15 to 30 feet
away has concealment; any farther and they have total
concealment.
Water phases that are inappropriate to the environment
(such as hot steam or ice in a temperate area) return to
normal. Every ten minutes, the water progresses one step
back towards normal. A moderate wind (11+ mph)
disperses vapor, mist and fog in 4 rounds; a strong wind
disperses them in 1 round.
Creatures are allowed a Fortitude save against this effect.
Affected creatures and rigid objects (such as a water tank)
take 1d8 damage per step altered in this way.
Augment:
- By using ten points of your augment pool, you may
perform Phase Change on or in a cube of water, ice or vapor
which you are standing inside without the use of Somatic
components; this is accomplished via breath control.
- By using twenty points of your augment pool, you can
instead target 20-ft cubes of normal, dry air, treating them
as 10-ft cubes of water vapor. Exceptionally arid air, such
as that in a desert, is unaffected.
Precipitate (Seed)
Difficulty Class: 30
Components: Somatic, Meditation
Bending Time: Ten minutes (Weather Dance), one round
(Ice Storm)
Maintenance Action: Full-round action
Area: Cylinder emanation (90-ft. radius, 40 ft. high)
Effect: Heavy Precipitation and Hail centered above you
Duration: Concentration + one round
This stance initiates two different forms.
Weather Dance: You bring down a curtain of water in the
area. If the water temperature is 40° F or higher, you get
rain. If it is already raining, or the temperature is colder,
you may instead create sleet or snow. After ten minutes of
snow, the heavy snow effect comes into play. (See the
Dungeon Master's Guide, 'Rain, Snow, Sleet and Hail').
Water Required: 30 gallons per minute, not immediately
recoverable. This water may already be present in the air
as vapor on a humid day, and does not need to be
extracted and condensed first.
Augment:
- For every five points that you exceed the difficulty class,
you can increase the radius by 5-ft.
- By using ten points of your augment pool, you may
create Hail instead of Heavy Snow. This hail deals 1d3
bludgeoning damage per round.
Ice Storm: Great hailstones pound down, dealing 3d6
points of bludgeoning damage and 2d6 points of cold
damage to every creature in the area. A -4 penalty applies
to each Listen check made within the ice storm's effect,
and all land movement within its area is at half speed. The
snow remains on the ground until it melts normally,
requiring a DC 15 Balance check to move through.
Water Required: 60 gallons per round, not immediately
recoverable.
Puppet (Seed)
Difficulty Class: 20
Components: Somatic, Meditation
Bending Time: One round
Maintenance Action: Full-round action
Range: 30 ft.
Target: One Medium or smaller Water creature.
Duration: Concentration
Saving Throw: Fortitude Negates
You can attempt to control a pre-existing creature with the
[Water] subtype that is within range and to which you
have line of sight. You can force the subject to stand up, sit
down, walk, turn around, and so on, but operating the
vocal cords is too difficult. You can also hold the subject
immobile, rendering it helpless. You cannot force the
subject to manifest powers, cast spells, bend, or use any
special ability that is not a function of just its body
movements. If you lose line of sight to the subject, the
effect of this power ends.
If you force the subject to engage in combat, its attack
bonus is equal to your base attack bonus + your Wisdom
bonus, and its bonus on damage rolls is equal to your
Wisdom bonus. A subject of this power cannot make
attacks of opportunity. The subject gains no benefit to
Armor Class from its Dexterity, but it does gain a bonus to
its AC equal to your Wisdom bonus.
Although the subject's body is under your control, the Watercraft Size Speed Retention
subject's mind is not. Creatures capable of taking purely Large or smaller 100%
mental actions (such as manifesting powers, or bending
Huge 50%
without Somatic components) can do so.
Gargantuan 25%

Every round past the first that you maintain this seed, you Colossal 15%
take a cumulative -1 penalty to all bending checks.
One round after you cease to focus on the currents, they
Augment: begin returning to their natural state as the environment
- For every four points you use from your augment pool, dictates.
you can affect one creature one size category larger.
- For every eight points you use from your augment pool, Augment:
you can control an additional creature at once. - By using five points of your augment pool,, you can
generate a surfboard made out of ice to ride on while you
use this form. The surfboard counts as a watercraft of your
Riptide (Seed)
size category. While riding the surfboard, you may make a
Difficulty Class: See Text
Balance check every round to stay on your surfboard
Components: Meditation
according to the current's DC; you gain a bonus to this
Bending Time: One round
check equal to your bending modifier. If successful, you
Maintenance Action: Full-round action
ride the current at full speed.
Range: 60 ft.
- By using ten points of your augment pool, you can
Area: Cone-shaped spread of water
change this form's area to a 20-ft radius centered on you.
Duration: Concentration + one round
You cannot propel yourself with this usage.
You begin to change the currents in a 60-ft. cone in front of
you. These currents act like wind of the corresponding Shape Water (Fundamental Seed)
strength, at half speed. (Table: Wind Effects in the Difficulty Class: 5
Dungeon Master's Guide.) You may choose to make these Components: Somatic, Meditation
currents as strong - or as gentle - as you are capable of Bending Time: See text.
controlling. If the currents already present in the area are Maintenance Action: Move action
stronger than you can control, this form fails. Range: 30 ft.
Target: A 5-ft cube of water or ice
Water Strength Base DC Movement/Round Duration: Concentration (Water), Instantaneous (Ice)
Saving Throw: Fortitude negates (object, harmless)
Light 0 20 ft.
Moderate 5 45 ft. You manipulate the basic shape of water or ice to look like
Strong 10 70 ft. something else (such as a sculpture), though specific detail
Severe 20 110 ft. is very hard. The Craft skill determines the exact quality
Rapids 35 165 ft. of the object created. Simple sculpture that can be created
with a Craft check of 10 or less can be made with a full-
Riptide 55 380 ft.
round action; however, for every 5 points the Craft DC
Whirlpool 80 -
increases, this form requires one additional round to
activate.
You can let the reaction force from these strong currents
push you backwards, though you must make a Swim When you stop concentrating on liquid water, it returns to
check equal to the bending difficulty class to stay afloat. its natural shape.
You also must make Concentration checks at the current's
DC in order to not lose the form. Waterbenders often use Sculpted ice has 15 Hardness and 5 Hit Points per inch of
this ability more comfortably from boat or ship decks to thickness.
propel the craft along, or to calm the currents ahead.
Watercraft receive a certain percentage of the speed Craft (Weaponsmithing) and Craft (Fletching) can be used
increase based on their size. with Shape Water to make weaponry and ammunition out
of ice. This weaponry deals damage as a normal weapon
of its kind, +1d4 cold damage, but is extremely brittle.
Weaponry made out of ice has 10 Hardness and 1 HP.
Ammunition and thrown weapons made of ice always
break upon usage. Unless the ambient temperature is
below freezing, the weaponry becomes useless in ten
minutes, faster in hot conditions.
One 5-ft cube creates material for eight medium-sized
weapons, or up to four hundred pieces of ammunition.
Appropriately sized water creatures such as elementals
can be altered with use of this seed, though it does not
hinder them in any way:
Size Category Volume in 5-ft cubes
Medium or smaller 1 lower pressure; in this case, it deals no damage and
Large 8
Huge 64
Gargantuan 512
Colossal 4096
Augment:
- For every point that you exceed the base difficulty class,
you can shape one additional cube.
Spout (Seed)
Difficulty Class: 20
Components: Somatic, Meditation
Bending Time: Standard action
Maintenance Action: Move action
Range: 60 ft.
Area: Cylindrical burst (5-ft radius, 20 ft. long) originating
within 20 feet.
Effect: Horizontal or vertical line of rushing water.
Duration: Concentration
Saving Throw: Reflex negates
Target a single square within 20 feet (including your own.)
You shoot huge amounts of water originating from that
square. Creatures caught in Spout are allowed a Reflex
save to move to an adjacent space safely. If they do not
have sufficient movement to make it to an adjacent clear
space (such as if their move speed is 0 ft, or the terrain in
the space is difficult to pass through) but make their save,
they end up prone in the adjacent space.
When fired and while maintained, Spout initiates a bull
rush with every creature in its area; it is considered to be a
creature of Medium size. You gain a bonus to this bull
rush check equal to your Bender Level. You gain a +2
synergy bonus and an additional attempt for every
additional Spout simultaneously trying to push the
subject in that direction. If they are knocked back at least
ten feet, they are knocked prone.
Subjects affected take 4d6 bludgeoning or piercing
damage (your option) every round that they remain in the
stream, and are considered checked (unable to move
forward) against movement in that direction. If trapped
against a wall or other solid surface by Spout, they are
considered to be checked against movement in all
directions. If suspended in mid-air by Spout, subjects do
not take on-going damage. Every round, the subjects are
granted a new Reflex save to escape to an adjacent space.
As a free action, you may instead opt for Spout to fire at
creatures in the spout's path are gently pushed to the end
of the line's effect. If you originate this attack from your
square and shoot upwards, for example, you can propel
yourself upwards twenty feet.
You can only move or bull rush a creature if at least half of
the squares they occupy on one face are covered by water
spouts. Attacking through a spout in either direction
grants total concealment.
Water Required: 450 Gallons per 5 ft. segment. Not
immediately recoverable.
Augment:
- For every four points that you exceed the difficulty class,
you deal an additional 1d6 damage with one cylinder.
- For every five points you use from your augment pool,
the length of your cylinders increase by 10 ft.
- For every fourteen points you use from your augment
pool, you can create and maintain an additional cylinder.
Steady Stance (Seed)
Difficulty Class: 10
Components: Somatic, Meditation
Bending Time: Standard action
Range: 20 ft.
Target: A creature standing on the ground.
Effect: Encase creatures' feet in solid ice.
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: Reflex negates
You coat the creature's feet in solid ice, simultaneously
stabilizing and trapping them. The target creature gains a
+2 bonus to their reactive Balance, Trip, Bull Rush and
Grapple checks, but must make a Strength or Escape
Artist check (DC 15) to break free as a standard action.
Alternatively, they may attack the ice with a melee
weapon as a full-round action. The ice has an AC of 5,
hardness of 10, and hit points equal to your twice your
bender level. Waterbenders affected by this seed may
simply dismiss the ice as a move action.
Water Required: 2 Gallons per Small or Medium leg. This
water is immediately recoverable if it is in your space.
Augment:
- For every point that you exceed the difficulty class, the
ice has an additional 2 hit points.
- For every five points you use from your augment pool,
the creature gains an additional +2 bonus on those checks,
and the Strength and Escape Artist DC increase by +1.
Tentacle (Seed)
Difficulty Class: See Text
Components: Somatic, Meditation
Bending Time: Full-round action
Maintenance Action: Standard action
Range: 60 ft. (Tentacle), 0 ft. (Octopus)
Area: One or more 5-ft squares (Tentacle)
Effect: Create one or more 5-ft long tentacles
Duration: Three rounds + concentration.
This stance initiates two different forms, and can be
performed with the feet if necessary.
Tentacle (DC 10): You create a five-foot-long tentacle of
water in the targeted square. This tentacle is a Medium-
sized object with 0 hardness, HP equal to twice your
Bender Level, and has fast healing equal to your Bender
Level.
The tentacle has a single Slam attack that deals 1d8
damage, with a Strength score equal to your Wisdom
score, and with a base attack bonus equal to your Bender
Level. It has no other ability scores. It has no move speed,
and uses your saves when necessary. It also can make trip
and disarm attacks, gaining the benefit of any related feats
you possess.
Maintaining the form and directing tentacles to attack is a
full-round action. For every round past the third that you
maintain this form, you take a -1 cumulative penalty to all
bending checks as the water becomes more and more
difficult to maneuver.
Water Required: 4 Gallons per tentacle. This water is not
immediately recoverable.
Augment:
- For every four points you use from your augment pool,
you can make and control another tentacle.
- For every four points you use from your augment pool,
you can increase the damage done by all tentacles as
though they had improved one size category.
- For every six points you use from your augment pool,
you can make each tentacle a single size larger, granting it
an additional +5 ft. reach, +8 Strength, and improved
damage, reduced attack and Armor Class and all other
appropriate changes in qualities due to size. This octuples
(multiplies by a factor of eight) the water required.
Octopus (DC 15): You create three tentacles around
yourself, occupying your own square. Each of these
tentacles grant you a Slam attack as a natural weapon.
These Slam attacks have reach equal to your natural reach
plus 5 feet. They deal 1d8 damage and you add your
Wisdom modifier as a bonus to attack rolls with these
weapons. The tentacles can attack, trip or disarm, but not
grapple or sunder.
When making a tentacle full-attack, you may opt to forego
one or more Slam attacks; for each such attack you avoid
using, you gain the ability to block two attacks as though
you had the Deflect Attack class feature, with the addition
that you are able to deflect both Ranged and Melee
attacks. The attack to be deflected can be one made
against you or any allied creature in your threat range. If
you already possess Deflect Attack, the two sources stack
for Deflect attempts. Only your first Deflect attempt of the
round requires an immediate action.
Maintaining the form and directing tentacles to attack is a
standard action. For every round past the third that you
maintain this form, you take a cumulative -1 penalty to all
bending checks.
Water Required: 4 Gallons per tentacle. This water is not
immediately recoverable.
Augment:
- For every three points you use from your augment pool,
you can make and control another tentacle when you
activate this form.
- For every six points you use from your augment pool,
you can make all tentacles stronger and longer when you
activate this form, granting them an additional +5 ft. reach
and +8 Strength. This octuples (multiplies by a factor of
eight) the water required.
- By using ten points of your augment pool, your tentacles
are able to initiate grapple attacks, and you gain the
Improved Grab special attack with your tentacles; when one
strikes a creature one or more size categories smaller than
the tentacle, it may immediately initiate a grapple attack
as a free action.
Water Blast (Fundamental Seed)
Difficulty Class: 5
Components: Somatic
Bending Time: Ranged attack
Range: 60 ft.
Effect: Ray
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: None
The first offensive ability you learn as a waterbender.
Whenever you would be granted a ranged attack, you
may use a Water Blast instead, including as part of a full
attack action, or feats like Shot on the Run. Each Water
Blast deals 1d6 piercing, slashing, or bludgeoning damage
at your option, depending on the composition of the
water. This attack deals 1d6 damage, increasing by an
additional 1d6 damage for every five Bender Levels that
you have.
Water Required: 1 Pint, not immediately recoverable.
Augment:
- For every ten points that you exceed the base difficulty
class, this attack can make one 90° turn to reach its target,
though this does not grant you the ability to see around
walls or other obstructions.
- By using five points of your augment pool, you can
perform this form as part of a standard melee attack on
the same target, provided you have a quantity of water in
your hands, such as with a block of ice or a Water Whip.
Water Shield (Seed)
Difficulty Class: Varies; see text.
Components: Somatic
Bending Time: Standard action
Maintenance Action: Move action
Range: 30 ft.
Target: You
Effect: 10-ft.-radius sphere centered on you (Aqua Shell)
Duration: Concentration
This stance initiates two different forms.
Disk (DC 10): You create a thin but sturdy, tower shield-
sized mobile disk of water in front of you. This disk grants
you a +4 shield bonus to Armor Class, and does not
impose an armor check penalty.
Water Required: 3 Gallons, immediately recoverable.
Augment:
- For every five points that you exceed the difficulty class,
the shield bonus to Armor Class increases by 1.
- For every five points you use from your augment pool,
you can create an additional shield for an ally within
range.
Aqua Shell (DC 25): You create a 10-ft.-radius dome or
sphere of water around your body, allowing for 360°
protection. Attacks going through the water from either
direction suffer from concealment due to the shifting,
spinning water, and the water acts as a curtain for
purposes of blocking line of effect. However, any creature
can simply push through the water and enter.
Water Required: 60 Gallons. This water is not immediately
recoverable.
Augment:
- By using five points of your augment pool, you can
increase the radius by five feet.
- For every four points that you exceed the difficulty class,
the miss chance due to concealment increases by 5%, to a
maximum of 50%.
Water Whip (Seed)
Difficulty Class: 10
Components: Somatic
Bending Time: Move action
Maintenance Action: Free action
Range: 0 ft.
Effect: Whip-like tendril of water.
Duration: Concentration
You create a thick tendril of water that wraps itself around
your arm and into your hand. You can use this water as a
weapon, and are considered to be proficient with it. The
Water Whip has all the features of a normal whip for your
size category except that it deals lethal damage on a
successful hit regardless of a target's armor, only has a 10-
ft reach, is a light weapon, and threatens its area.
The Water Whip has 0 hardness, HP equal to twice your
bending level, and has fast healing equal to your Bender
Level. It lasts until it is destroyed or you let go of it.
Water Required: One gallon, or eight pints. This water is
immediately recoverable.
Augment:
- For every four points that you exceed the base difficulty
class, you gain an additional +2 bonus to trip or disarm
attempts made with the whip.
- For every five points you use from your augment pool,
the whip gains an additional 5' reach.

Wave (Seed)
Difficulty Class: 15
Components: Somatic, Meditation
Bending Time: Full-round action
Range: 60 ft.
Area: Eight adjacent 5-ft cubes of liquid water.
Duration: 1 round

You create a giant, fast-moving tidal wave by augmenting

natural fluctuations. You pick any mass of water within
range and send it crashing forward 5 feet per Bender
Level; even if the wave extends past your control or enters
an anti-magic field, it keeps going due to momentum.
Wave can make two 45° turns, but no more.

Wave initiates a bull rush with every creature it runs into,

using your Wisdom score in place of a Strength score, and
is considered to be a large creature; if the wave fails the
bull rush and the target creature is smaller than it, it is
considered to have overrun the creature instead. You gain
a bonus to this bull rush check equal to your Bender Level.
If the targeted creature was the same size category as the
wave or larger, the wave stops there.

If Wave runs into a friendly creature (including you), you

may opt to let them ride the wave at its crest until the
wave ends, where they will be gently set down.

All creatures and objects hit by the wave take 1d6 points
of bludgeoning damage.

Water Required: 900 Gallons per 5-ft cube, not immediately

recoverable.

Augment:
- For every six points that you exceed the difficulty class,
you deal an additional 1d6 damage.
- For every three points you use from your augment pool,
you grant the wave a +1 bonus to its bull rush modifier.
- For every ten points you use from your augment pool,
you can increase the wave's size category by 1, moving
eight times as many cubes of water. This increases its
Strength by four points and gives it an additional four
points to its Bull Rush modifier, for an overall increase of
six points.

GOLEM, BENDER
Bender golems are not independent creatures – they are
constructs made and directed by a waterbender or
earthbender, formed out of the elements of life. The skill
of the water or earthbender determines the general power
of the Bender golem.
COMBAT
Bender golems act only as directed by their creators, and
do not appear independently of them.
A bender golem looks like a giant, vaguely humanoid
creature made of water, snow, ice, rock, lava, metal or
sand (as appropriate to the bender), but the bender can
twist or carve one into a specific shape or design
according to his or her whim. The quality of this sculpture
is determined by a Craft (Sculpture) check.
A result of 10 to 19 creates a creature that is recognizably
similar to the desired creature shape; a result of 20 to 29
creates a golem that looks like an accurate portrayal of
that creature type; a result of 30 or higher creates a golem
that looks like a specific individual. No matter how high
the check result, though, a bender golem's appearance
can't hide the fact that it's a giant mass of elements.
Construct Traits
A bender golem has immunity to poison, sleep, paralysis,
stunning, disease, death effects, necromancy effects, mind-
affecting effects (charms, compulsions, phantasms,
patterns, and morale effects), and any effect that requires a
Fortitude save unless it also works on objects or is
harmless. It is not subject to critical hits, nonlethal
damage, ability damage, ability drain, fatigue, exhaustion,
or energy drain. It cannot heal damage, but it can be
repaired by magic.
Special Abilities
When the bender begins to activate the Golem form, he or
she chooses one or more special abilities from a menu of
abilities appropriate to that level of aquatic golem. He
may choose a number of Menu A traits equal to the
Golem's level plus one.
Master's Traits
Most of a bender golem's traits mimic its controllers'. It
shares the same value for Hit Dice, HP, Initiative, and
Saves and cannot see on its own – the master must be able
to see what the golem is fighting, or the golem is
considered to be blind. Its ability scores are based on the
creator's, and it gains a Base Attack Bonus equal to a
Fighter of the bender's level. Unlike most creatures, the
bender golem can use its extra attacks from high Base
Attack Bonus with its Slam Attack.
Due to this link, a bender golem that ever strays out of
range from its master (usually 60 ft) immediately
collapses.
CREATING A BENDER GOLEM
When activating the Golem form, the bender assembles
the desired creature from a menu of choices, as specified
in the golem's statistics block. A bender can always
substitute two choices from a lesser menu for one of its
given abilities. Multiple selections of the same menu
choice do not stack unless the ability specifically notes
that stacking is allowed.
A bender golem does not need to meet the prerequisites
for a feat granted by a menu choice.
Bender Golem Menu A
A bender creating a 1st-level, 2nd-level, or 3rd-level
bender golem can only choose special abilities from this
menu.
Buff (Ex): The bender golem gains an extra 5 hit points.
This trait may be selected more than once.
Celerity (Ex): The bender golem’s land speed is
increased by 10 feet. This trait may be selected more than
once.
Cleave (Ex): The bender golem gains the Cleave feat.
Combat Reflexes (Ex): The bender golem gains the
Combat Reflexes feat.
Deflection (Ex): The bender golem gains a +1 deflection
bonus to Armor Class. This trait may be selected more
than once.
Improved Bull Rush (Ex): The bender golem gains the
Improved Bull Rush feat.
Improved Size (Ex): The bender golem increases to
Medium Size. This improves its slam damage, may grant
it reach, and adds the appropriate modifiers to Armor
Class, Disarm, Trip, Bull Rush and Attack and as a
construct it also gains bonus health due to size (+10 Small,
+20 Medium, +30 Large, +40 Huge).
 Improved Slam Attack (Ex): The bender golem gains the
Improved Natural Attack feat. (1d4 → 1d6 → 1d8 → 2d6 →
3d6)
Mobility (Ex): The bender golem gains the Mobility feat.
Power Attack (Ex): The bender golem gains the Power
Attack feat.
Resistance (Ex): Choose one of the following energy
types: fire, cold, acid, electricity, or sonic. The bender
golem gains resistance 5 against that energy type. This
trait may be selected more than once, but for a different
type each time.
Stand Still (Ex): The bender golem gains the Stand Still
feat. Only earthbenders' golems can have this trait.
Swim (Ex): The bender golem is streamlined and shark-
like, and gains a swim speed of 30 feet. Only
waterbenders' golems can have this trait.
Trip (Ex): If the bender golem hits with a slam attack, it
can attempt to trip the opponent as a free action without
making a touch attack or provoking attacks of
opportunity. If the attempt fails, the opponent cannot react
to trip the bender golem.
Bender Golem Menu B
A bender creating a 4th-level, 5th-level, or 6th-level
bender golem can choose special abilities from this menu.
They are purchased at twice the rate of Menu A abilities.
Burning Touch (Ex): The golem's fists end in molten
rock, hot sand, or boiling steam, allowing it to deal an
extra 1d8 points of fire damage with a successful Slam
attack.
Extra Attack (Ex): The bender golem gains an additional
slam attack at its highest base attack bonus when it makes
a full attack.
Earth Glide (Ex): The bender golem can move through
any sort of unworked earth at its land speed. Only an
earthbender's golem may have this trait.
Fast Healing (Ex): The bender golem heals 2 hit points
each round as long as it remains in contact with its related
element. It is still immediately destroyed when it reaches 0
hit points. This trait may be selected more than once,
increasing the fast healing value by 2 each time.
Greater Size (Ex): The bender golem increases to Large
Size. This improves its slam damage, may grant it reach,
and adds the appropriate modifiers to Armor Class,
Disarm, Trip, Bull Rush and Attack and as a construct it
also gains bonus health due to size (+10 Small, +20
Medium, +30 Large, +40 Huge).
Heavy Deflection (Ex): The bender golem gains a +4
deflection bonus to Armor Class. Only bender golems
made out of water, snow or sand may have this trait. This
trait may be selected more than once.
Improved Buff (Ex): The bender golem gains an extra 20
hit points. This trait may be selected more than once.
Improved Critical (Ex): The bender golem gains the
Improved Critical feat with its slam attacks.
Improved Damage Reduction (Ex): The bender golem’s
surface forms a hard carapace and provides damage
reduction 3/-. Only bender golems made out of ice, metal
or rock may have this trait.
Improved Grab (Ex): To use this ability, the construct
must hit with its slam attack. A construct can use this
ability only on a target that is at least one size smaller than
itself. Only waterbenders' golems can have this trait.
Improved Swim: The bender golem is streamlined and
shark-like, and gains a swim speed of 60 feet. Only
waterbenders' golems can have this trait.
Muscle (Ex): The bender golem gains a +4 bonus to its
Strength score. This trait may be selected more than once.
Pounce (Ex): If the bender golem charges a foe, it can
make a full attack.
Smite (Su): Once per encounter the bender can declare
any one bender golem attack to be a smite, which deals
extra damage equal to its Hit Dice. This trait may be
selected more than once, granting an additional smite per
encounter.
Trample (Ex): As a standard action during its turn each
round, a bender golem can literally run over an opponent
at least one size smaller than itself. It merely has to move
over the opponent to deal bludgeoning damage equal to
1d8 + its Strength modifier. The target can attempt a
Reflex save (DC 10 + ½ bender golem’s Hit Dice + bender
golem’s Strength modifier) to negate the damage, or it can
instead choose to make an attack of opportunity at a -4
penalty.
Bender Golem Menu C Bender Golem
Size/Type Small Construct [Water or Earth]
A bender creating a 7th-level or stronger bender golem
Hit Dice/HP As Bender's+10
can choose special abilities from this menu. They are
purchased at twice the rate of Menu B abilities. Initiative As Bender's
Speed 30 ft. (6)
Constrict (Ex): The bender golem has the improved grab Swim (15 ft) (if Water)
ability with its slam attack. In addition, on a successful Climb (20 ft) (if Earth)
grapple check, the bender golem deals damage equal to its Burrow (15 ft) (if Earth)
slam damage. Only a waterbender's golem may have this Armor Class +5 Natural Armor
trait. +1 Size
Base Attack See above
Extra Buff (Ex): The bender golem gains an extra 60 hit
points. This trait may be selected more than once. Attack Slam (1d4)
Space/Reach 5 ft.
Extreme Damage Reduction (Ex): The bender golem’s
surface forms hard, armor-like plates and provides an Special Qualities See above
additional 6/- points of damage reduction. Only bender Saves As Bender's
golems made out of ice, metal or rock may have this trait. Abilities Str: Bender's Wis
This trait may be selected more than once. Dex: Bender's Int
Con: Ø
Extreme Deflection (Ex): The bender golem gains a +10 Int: Ø
deflection bonus to Armor Class. Only bender golems Wis: 10
Cha: 10
made out of water, snow or sand may have this trait. This
trait may be selected more than once.
Extreme Size (Ex): The bender golem increases to Huge
size. This improves its slam damage, may grant it reach,
and adds the appropriate modifiers to Armor Class,
Disarm, Trip, Bull Rush and Attack, and as a construct it
also gains bonus health due to size (+10 Small, +20
Medium, +30 Large, +40 Huge).
Rend (Ex): The bender golem makes claw attacks instead
of slam attacks (it deals the same amount of damage as it
would with its slam damage, but does slashing damage
instead of bludgeoning damage). A bender golem that hits
the same opponent with two claw attacks in the same
round rends its foe, which deals extra damage equal to
2d6 + 1½ times its Strength modifier. Only an
earthbender's golem may have this trait.
Spring Attack (Ex): The bender golem gains the Spring
Attack feat.
Tremorsense (Ex): The bender golem has tremorsense
out to 60 feet and the bender can see through it. If a
waterbender's golem has this trait, the tremorsense only
functions in water.
Whirlwind Attack (Ex): The bender golem gains the
Whirlwind Attack feat.

SKILLS, FEATS, ITEMS
he forms available to a
bender largely, but do not
solely define who they are
as both people and combat
entities. This chapter looks at feats, skills and items that
benders can utilize to enhance their abilities.
NEW SKILL USES
Below is one additional use for the Bending skill
introduced in this supplement, as well as two new usages
for the Martial Lore skill (introduced in Tome of Battle) to
adapt it for use in a Bending campaign.
Bending Skill (Wis; Special)
Check: You can teach others how to bend forms
unfamiliar to them, accelerating their growth.
DC Task
Form's Bending DC + 10 Instruct a bender in the use of this
form, granting them a +3 insight
bonus to their bending check to
learn it when they are next able to
acquire a new form (such as via a
feat, or by level in a bender class).
This bonus lasts for one week.
Action: Four hours of uninterrupted practice.
Try Again: Once per day. Multiple successes (even from
multiple instructors) do not stack.
Martial Lore (Int; Trained Only)
Check: You can identify forms and disciplines used by a
combatant, or scribe forms you have learned to perform.
You do not have to make this check for forms that you
yourself have learned; you recognize them automatically.
DC Task

Bending DC Identify a form being performed by NEW FEATS

someone you can see. No action
required. No retry.

Bending DC Scribe a form you know into a

Bending Scroll. (See Equipment
chapter). One try per day per form. Dexterous Combatant
Requires one hour.
Your fighting style emphasizes grace and agility to
20+Target's Bender Level Identify all forms known by a confuse and weaken your foe.
particular creature by watching it
for one minute. No action required. Prerequisites: Dexterity 15+, Weapon Finesse
Retry every ten minutes.
Benefit: You may substitute your Dexterity modifier for
Action: Varies, as noted above. your Strength modifier on trip, grapple and disarm
attempts.
Try Again: Varies, as noted above.

Eternal Flame
Your inner fire seems to never die.
Prerequisites: Burning Rush class feature, Inner Flames.
Benefit: Your Burning Rush ability lasts an additional
two rounds. If you bend the Inner Flame form before it
ends, the speed increase lasts until you cease maintaining
Inner Flame.

Extra Form
Through much training, you have managed to learn an
additional form.
Benefit: When you first take this feat, you gain Martial
Lore as a class skill for all your classes (current and
future).
Select any form from any discipline which you currently
have access to. (Unless you have taken the Open-Minded
feat, you only have access to one discipline.) Provided
your bending skill is high enough, you learn the form.
Your first forms learned of any discipline must be the
fundamental forms of that path; all of a discipline's
fundamental forms count as a single seed for the purposes
of learning them.
If you have not taken a level of any bending classes prior
to taking this feat for the first time, you are considered to
be a member of the class associated with the form's
discipline for purposes of determining discipline access.
Special: You may take this feat three times. Each time, it
applies to a different form.
Special: A Fighter may select this feat as a bonus feat.
Haymaker
Your unarmed style emphasizes double-hand strikes,
cross chops and lunging kicks. When you hit, you hurt
things.
Prerequisites: Strength 13+, Improved Unarmed Strike,
Power Attack
Benefit: You may treat any of your unarmed strikes as a
two-handed weapon whenever it is advantageous to; they
still are considered light weapons for the purpose of two-
weapon fighting.
Special: A Fighter may select this feat as one of his
bonus feats.
Form Specialization
After extensive practice, you have learned to master a
particular form and use it with more ease than most.
Benefit: Pick a form that you currently know. You gain a
+4 bonus to all skill checks relevant to that form.
Special: You may take this feat multiple times. Each
time, it applies to a different form.
Intuitive Attack
Seeing with your mind's eye you know where to strike at
any given moment.
Benefit: You may use your Wisdom modifier in place of
your Strength modifier on attack rolls with melee
weapons.
Intuitive Reflexes
You do not just react quickly, but intuitively.
Prerequisites: Wisdom 13+, Combat Reflexes
Benefit: You may make a number of additional attacks
of opportunity equal to your Wisdom bonus.
Special: A fighter may select this feat as a bonus feat. A
monk may select this feat as her 2nd level bonus feat in
place of Combat Reflexes, even if she does not meet the
prerequisites.
Open-Minded
You have opened your mind to all the possibilities that the
world contains. You do not merely accept or tolerate ideas
different from your own, you merge them into your
consciousness and they become part of you.
Benefit: Whenever you are able to learn new bending
forms, you may learn them from any of the four
disciplines. Your first forms learned of a discipline must
be the fundamental forms of that path; all of a discipline's
fundamental forms count as a single seed for the purposes
of learning them. You may take this feat even if you
cannot yet bend.
Special: Characters with the Avatar template start out
with this feat for free. In most circumstances, you need a
teacher to help you start the path of another discipline.
Special: In a canon setting, this feat should be highly
restricted.
SUPERNATURAL FEATS
As mentioned briefly in the Bending Overview, all Bending
Forms are considered to be sets of Supernatural Abilities.
This means that feats which improve Supernatural
Abilities are considered to affect them. You can find a
number of these feats in the book Tome of Magic.
For the purposes of the Ability Focus feat in the
Monster Manual as well as the Weapon Focus feat tree,
each bending discipline counts as a single special attack.
Rock Smash
Watching and waiting for your opportunity to strike, you
know exactly when the opponent is at their most brittle –
when they're about to act.
Prerequisites: Rock Steady class feature, Headcracker.
Benefit: When you ready an action to damage an
opponent under a specific condition, you gain a bonus on
your attack roll equal to your Wisdom modifier, and a
bonus to your damage equal to your character level.
Superior Reflexes
You have mastered the art of reaction.
Prerequisites: Wisdom 15+, Dexterity 15+, Intuitive
Reflexes
Benefit: You may make as many attacks of opportunity
in a round as your opponents provoke from you.
Whirling Circle
When you circle back your opponent's energy, you twist
unpredictably and erratically. The resulting attack sends
them off-kilter and leaves you ready to fire more.
Prerequisites: Circular Attack class feature, Combat
Reflexes.
Benefit: If your Circular Attack is a critical threat and
hits, the critical is always confirmed.
Windfall
Press your luck when you're in dire straits. No better time
to do it.
Prerequisites: Defensive Roll class feature, Improved
Trip.
Benefit: When you successfully use your Defensive Roll,
you may immediately make a trip attempt Attack of
Opportunity against your attacker. The target may not
make a reactive attempt against you if you fail.
Special: If you have the Evasive Reflexes feat, you may
take a 5-foot step instead of an attack of opportunity.
NEW EQUIPMENT
Bending Scrolls
Ancient scrolls transcribed by masters long past, bending
scrolls contain the secrets of their arts. Finding a bending
scroll is a great boon to player characters; after a character
has studied it for at least four hours, it adds a +2 insight
bonus to their bending check for the purposes of learning
the form inscribed on the scroll. (Effectively allowing
them to learn a form two levels before they normally
could.)
While a bending scroll is highly valuable to some
benders, those that have a competent master find them to
be mere curiosities at best. Nothing replaces hands-on
instruction. And of course, non-benders simply can't make
any use of them. As a result, they have no set value.
Price: - (One scroll)
Channeling Gauntlets
These simple but elegant gauntlets are made of fine lion
turtle leather and plated on the back for defense. A single
crystal colored appropriate to an element rests between
the knuckles on the back of each hand.
A long gone artifact of the time the spirits first crossed
over into our world, it greatly improves one's ability to
fight with basic bending abilities, and caused the
overhunting of the lion turtles. When worn by a bender of
the appropriate element, it grants an enhancement bonus
of +2 to +8 on attack (but not damage) rolls with unarmed
attacks and bending attacks, including attack rolls made
by objects created by the bender. This object should not be
used in a canon Avatar World campaign.
 Faint evocation; CL or ML 5th; Craft Wondrous/Universal to its spiritual link, but only a trained waterbender can
Item, true strike/offensive precognition, resist energy/energy utilize it. When a pint is used as part of the Healing Waters
ray, creator's caster or manifester level must be at least form, lost limbs are restored and scars are healed. It can
three times the gauntlets' bonus, requires dragonhide or even restore the dead to life; when used on a character
equivalent leather. that has died within the last hour, she begins a long
process of resurrection.
Price: 3,700 gp (+2), 12,700 gp (+4), 27,700 gp (+6), 48,700
gp (+8).
As long as she is attended to daily (as long-term care
Weight: 1 lb. with the Heal skill) for the next 1d4 weeks, she will return
to life with all limbs restored, and no lost or negative
levels. Spirit Oasis Water cannot resurrect someone whose
Spirit Oasis Water body has been disintegrated or otherwise destroyed
Water blessed by the spirits, distilled in the freezing ice beyond recognition.
caps. This water has a number of curative properties due
Price: 5,000 gp. (One pint.)

SIDEBARS
Benders and Monk Feats..............................................................................................................................................................................................8
Money & Magic...........................................................................................................................................................................................................18
Sandbending...............................................................................................................................................................................................................38
Blue Fire.......................................................................................................................................................................................................................42
Supernatural Feats......................................................................................................................................................................................................64