Converting Avatar: The Last Airbender/Legend of Korra setting to GURPS

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Originally Posted by Peter Knutsen

Chi is usually depicted as learnable, in fiction; even if some individuals are born with an increased aptitude for it (as represented by the two Chi Talents in GURPS Martial Arts), anyone can learn it.

Psionics, in fiction, is usually depicted as an innate gift that only a few are born with and then the rest can't participate at all. At most a few percent of the population, and more likely a few per million.

Originally Posted by Chinese Elemental Powers p. 10

If you have at least one level of Talent for an elemental power, you can acquire new abilities of that power by study.

But really this bit is trivial. That's a sentence. There's no point in buying an entire book for one sentence.

Psionic Powers doesn't have a lot of specific examples that fits Avatar, but it does show how to adapt GURPS Powers to fit various manifestations. Just focus on the physical examples, which IIRC are filed under Telekinesis and the like, rather than on the Telepathic stuff.

That doesn't make any sense at all. Why use Psionic Powers if you are just going to have to use Powers to make up your own powers anyway? Why not use the system that already has all of the elemental martial arts chi-powers from Avatar in it more-or-less already?