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In general, I don't mind systems. I use and have used D&D 3, 3.5, 5, and Pathfinder systems on many occasions. It is familiar and it has its perks.

That being said... it is also incredibly time consuming and very few people really have time for it- learning it, dealing with it, it's battles, and training, and time skips... I admit I used to love working with a system, but now find its time consumption to be daunting and with very few payouts.

If there was to be a restart, I would suggest a completely clean break. New guild and new story. System is optional. If you want to attract the older, but generally busier crowds of role players I would suggest skipping the system or keeping it very light.

If you skip the system then all that needs to be done is format the guidelines for what each level of shinobi should know. Then, if they wantt to move up in rank they can put their character up for review by the crew (or participate in a role play exam) and if granted the new level will have more jutsu at hand, or something. Jutsu and named rank being the only real markers of which characters are higher up compared to others.

If you go for a system, you can try out D&D 5's advantage/disadvantage system, instead of numbers and modifiers you simply roll a die. If you have advantage you roll two and take the higher, and disadvantage roll two and take the lower. If there is deems to be a problem with the ranks using the same die then we can alter that... academy using d4, genin d6, chunin d8, jounin d10, and ANBU/Hunters use d12, and Kage use d20.

I have a few ideas... do a timeskip of a good few hundred years, Uchiha has flourished, Uzumaki clan exists also... etc... I would not mind people being allowed to be Uzumaki, they will have the signature trait of whiskers, and their clan jutsu will be like, Naruto's original signature moves... Kage Bunshin could be learned at Genin, or something... s**t like that.

I would like to keep it all fair obviously, but yeah, I feel like we should match canon in regards to how people learn stuff...

Have you kept up with the story? Its gotten really ridiculous. Shinobi came from frickin' aliens.

That aside, a new guild would be nice since Ken is ... and for the most part always has been M.I.A.

I think that if we did anything involving a system, we would need to do a direct parallel to the system and just rename things rather than try to create things from scratch.

I.e. Shuriken spray is just magic missile re-titled. A higher leveled version might be the one with chakra strings controlling the weapons.

Sorceror becomes a Ninjutsu specialist.
Monks are taijutsu specialist.
Fighters are weapon specialist, and when they hit level 3 and pick up eldritch knight they learned some ninjutsu.

New guild for sure. New system maybe. New storyline DEFINITELY.

Btw, this is Sage. Naomi Tenkou took it upon herself to ban me last week and hasn't done the kindness of explaining why. Especially since the last activity around here was ghost inviting people to a D&D guild that I was already in. Evidence attached.

Interesting idea, though limitations can also put people off joining in... like, we want balance, yeah, but we do not want to "You can have 1 piece of hay from a hay stack"... I do get what you mean. I agree we should limit to one special character at a time. Maybe one character at a time in general. So we could broaden the clans a bit, and Kekkei Genkai only, no Kenkai Tota. Though if Lava Release is in Earth, then it can't be at Water also... or what ever. Magnet is in Lightning, and not in Wind... etc.
Anyways, because they can only have ONE CHARACTER, they have to choose wisely. They cannot give up on a character once they start to develop it either, or the crew will come up with a story to kill it off I suppose... or maybe not, maybe come up with a way to seal it... technically still exists and the one character rule still applies... if they want to carry on RPing, petition for a plot to get their character unsealed... XD

Yeah we need some kind of petition or voting system for people to put forward their character for approval, before they can use it, yeah. That would be good.

But definitely some good ideas, that we can work on.

The problem with that is... sure they only have one character, but what is everyone wants to be an uchiha or a hyuuga? Then that's all we have and frankly it's really boring.

No one has to have a clan or bloodline to be a good or creative character, in fact having those limits what you can actually do with said character, that's why I suggested having slots in each village to give many people a chance, limiting them to only one clan or bloodline character to not have just a couple people monopolizing it.

If we, say, get a lot of people and all slots for clan and bloodlines are taken, then we can consider expanding the number of those slots. At the starts of the guild, we can mark it as a possibility when enough people join, that way it gives older members the option to save their potential clan or bloodline character for when they reopen rather than picking something else and then whining when they do reopen.

If we limit to one character, then few are going to want to put in the time, effort, and creativity to make a normal shinobi, so I suggest a limit of three characters.

As far as exp goes, I love ... no wait I heart LOVE heart the experimental random encounter system that Hiru made and it makes for a lot better exp gaining system than having to make up stuff about training for 30 paragraphs.

Also, watch this to catch up and learn about the aliens. Blarg.