The Prodigy

The Prodigy () is one of the playbooks for Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game, an outline of a character archetype that can be customized in the game. The Prodigy is one of the ten playbooks featured in the Core Book,Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game. Core Book, Version 1.0, 2022, p. 164. and is described as an extraordinary capable practicioner of their training, but that tends to make them a bit too arrogant and isolated. Their balance principles are Excellence vs. Community.Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game. Core Book, Version 1.0, 2022, p. 165.
== Description ==
The Prodigy not only excels at their training, but has taken it even beyond their masters' teachings. Play the Prodigy if you want to stretch the limits of your training and abilities.Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game. Core Book, Version 1.0, 2022, p. 112.
Arrogant, extraordinary, stubborn, masterful. The Prodigy is more than just capable or skilled — they are truly extraordinary, and their skillset blows others — even with equivalent age or training — out of the water. They can do things that some believe are straight-up impossible, and they know it.
The Prodigy excels at their skills and training, to an extent that likely drove any number of their teachers or peers to hate them. The Prodigy has at least one teacher who genuinely helped them find the full extent of what they could do, but they have had to become tough developing their abilities. They know how capable they are and they know what they can do; they have grown tired of being told what they can or cannot do. They find it tough to form a connection with others, especially when no one else can keep up with them.Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game. Core Book, Version 1.0, 2022, p. 195.
* Starting stats: Creativity -1, Focus +2, Harmony 0, Passion 0
* Demeanor options: Curious, Proud, Defensive, Resolute, Direct, Stubborn
== Principles ==
This struggle between their own innate abilities and their ability to bond with others is at the heart of the Prodigy's two principles: Excellence and Community.
Their principle of Excellence emphasizes how much they believe in themselves and their own abilities, and their commitment to being the best. The Prodigy, already incredibly capable, knows they can get better still, and they know that they deserve recognition from others as being the greatest. A Prodigy with a high Excellence is both determined to be the best and to be seen as the best.
Their principle of Community, on the other hand, emphasizes how lonely it can be at the top, and how the Prodigy comes to desire connection with
others — a community. Because they excel so much, they have likely had difficulty connecting with anybody, but a Prodigy committed to Community still tries to make those connections, to find friends or mentors or even students. After all, one of the best ways the Prodigy can connect with others is to make them excellent too. A Prodigy with a high Community is less concerned with beating everyone than they are with forming meaningful bonds with the people around them, lifting them up in the process.
The Prodigy tries to balance this desire for community with their desire to be the best. Their Moment of Balance is when they find that perfect equilibrium, realizing that they became better because of their community and their friends, that saving or helping their friends can drive them to greater lengths than just a selfish sense of superiority ever could.
== Characteristics ==
=== Moment of Balance ===
You've always struggled to rely on other people — it feels like it makes you weak. But in this moment, connection to others is the very source of your strength. You call upon your commitment to the group to push yourself beyond your limits and do the impossible.
=== Moves ===
* Judging a Rival
* An Open Mind
* Challenge
* Wait and Listen
* Surprising EntranceAvatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game. Core Book, Version 1.0, 2022, p. 196.
=== Growth question ===
Did you express gratitude to a companion for their presence, support, or teaching?
The Prodigy's growth question encourages them away from out-and-out arrogance and solitude. Whether the Prodigy emphasizes Excellence or Community, they do not have to be annoying about how awesome they are. The Prodigy who is still able to connect with individuals, who is able to find excellence in others, is the Prodigy who grows and develops as a person.Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game. Core Book, Version 1.0, 2022, p. 197.
== Characters ==
The known Prodigy playbook characters from Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game are:
* Erdene
* Jing
* Tsemo
* Xiao
== References ==
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Category:Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game playbooks