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Strength measures your character's muscles and physical power. This ability is especially important when using taijutsu in combat, and it helps when moving heavy objects, swimming, breaking bones and objects or trying to break free of a grapple. When you have high strength you have a higher chance of hitting when fighting with most styles and weapons, and also have higher taijutsu/melee weapon attack damage.

Your character's strength will usually be pitted an opponent's dexterity to determine whether an attack will hit or not and, as such, must not be neglected as it is a cornerstone of combat.




Athletics

Athletics determines your character's overall physical prowess. May it be for climbing, leaping, carrying objects or otherwise, being skilled in athletics will generally help your character overpower obstacles using raw, physical strength.

Athletics has various uses in combat, among others:

- Escaping from certain types of bindings;
- Carrying heavier set characters;
- Avoiding damage from certain jutsus which require to swim, leap, or avoid being crushed;


Taijutsu

Taijutsu (体術, Literally meaning: Body Techniques) is a basic form of techniques and refers to any techniques involving the martial arts or the optimisation of natural human abilities. Taijutsu is executed by directly accessing the user's physical and mental energies, relying on the stamina and strength gained through training. Although it is used by nearly all ninja, only a few of them use it as their primary fighting style.

It typically does not require chakra, though chakra may be used to enhance its techniques. Taijutsu generally requires no hand seals to perform, occasionally making use of certain stances or poses. Simply put, Taijutsu encompasses all types of hand-to-hand combat.

While taijutsu is a general term for what we commonly call Close Quarters Combat (CQC), one does not become proficient in all types of taijutsu because they train in one. Therefore as your character upgrades taijutsu, you must identify which type it is develloping. For example, all shinobis have basic knowledge in CQC which allows them to access basic taijutsu techniques. However, certain shinobis, like Rock Lee and Might Guy, use Konoha's signature Taijutsu technique Goken (Strong fist), while the Hyuuga use Juuken (Gentle Fist), which have their specific requirements and techniques. Therefore, you must identify on your character sheet all Taijutsu schools mastered by your character:

- Taijutsu (CQC)
- Taijutsu (Gōken)
- Taijutsu (Jūken)

Increasing your skill in taijutsu has direct and significant combat benefits:

- Increases chances to hit an opponent with that specific taijutsu style;
- Increases damage dealt with that fighting style;
- Allows you character to learn higher level techniques from that taijutsu style


Bukijutsu

A ninja's use of weaponry in combat is known as "bukijutsu" (武器術, Literally meaning: Weapon Techniques). All ninja use a weapon at some point in their careers, but not all do so regularly.

Weapons can be just as useful on the battlefield as any other jutsu in a ninja's arsenal, either due to the weapon's design, its special abilities, or the unique way in which a ninja combines it with his or her other skills. Ninjas may also learn to coat their weapons with their chakra to alter the weapon's properties, a process called chakra flow.

Given the wide variety of weapons, shinobis are rarely proficient in more than a few. Like taijutsu, bukijutsu skill is developed according to the weapon types your character is proficient with:

- Bukijutsu (Blades)
- Bukijutsu (Polearms)
- Bukijutsu (Fist Weapons)

See the Weapon Combat section for more details.

Increasing your skill in bukijutsu has direct and significant combat benefits:

- Increases chances to hit an opponent with that specific weapon style;
- Increases damage dealt with that weapon style;
- Allows you character to learn higher level techniques from that weapon style

Constitution represents your character's health and stamina. The higher your character's constitution, the longer he can last in battle {the higher his HP} or hard physical conditions, such as running for extended periods of time, spending long periods of time underwater, or even resisting poison.

The importance of developing is fairly obvious to anyone as having more HP means lasting longer in physical combat which translates to outlasting your opponent (and therefore winning).





The formula to determine your character's HP:

HP = 50 + [5 x Constitution Modifier]

Therefore, if your character has a Con Mod of -2, you character will have: 50 + [5 x -2] = 50 - 10 = 40 HP.




Endurance

Endurance measures your character's ability to stave off ill effects and to push themselves beyond normal physical limits. This can take many forms, such as holding your breath for long periods of time, forestalling the debilitating effects of hunger and thirst, and swimming or running for extended periods of time. It also measures your character's physical ability to withstand environmental hazards, including extreme temperatures, violent weather, diseases or poisons.

Endurance has numerous uses in combat, among others:

- Resisting techniques meant to affect your character's body from the inside;
- Resisting techniques involving physical strain such as extreme temperatures or drowning;
- Allowing your character to perform strenuous exercise for prolonged periods of time.

Intelligence determines how well your character thinks and reasons. This ability is very important as it will be your character's first line of defense against most mental attacks. It is therefore especially important against genjutsu users, since the higher your intelligence score is the hardest it will prove for the genjutsu to take hold.

Our system treating mental combat on equal footing with physical combat, developing intelligence is extremely important as mental combat specialists will destroy a character with sub par levels in that skill.

Intelligence also has an impact on certain combat tactics which will be discussed in their own section.




First Aid

First Aid is your character's skill at treating basic wounds. The life of a shinobi being one of combat, violence and pain, it is strongly recommended that all shinobis have basic skills in FIrst Aid to at least be able to take care of basic wounds, such as cuts and burns.

First Aid has various uses in combat, among others:

- Recovering HP without having to spend CP;
- Stopping HP loss from various status ailments.


Therapy

Therapy is your character's skill at reading other character's mental health and helping them gather their wits and overcome some temporary effects of mind techniques.

Therapy has various uses in combat, among others:

- Helping other characters recover MHP faster than when simplky taking a pause to recover;
- Minimizing or nullifying status ailments of mind techniques.


Tactics

The tactics skill determines your character's ability to put into action combat tactics and recognize them from an enemy. Combat tactics are techniques that involve either multiple shinobis or a specific series of the techniques from a single shinobi designed to gradually back an opponent into a corner. A famous tactical formation is the Leaf's Ino-Shika-Cho whose synergy allows for numerous offensive and defensive tactics.

Tactics has numerous uses in combat, among others:

- Efficiently organizing a unit for combat tactics;
- Recognizing enemy tactics to minimize or nullify their efficiency.

Chakra is the energy needed by a ninja to perform techniques. Being the cornerstone of basically every technique in the Naruto universe, its importance is well reflected in our system. As such, its main use is to determine your character's total chakra pool, allowing them to cast more jutsus before being "tapped out". Also, the amount of raw chakra available to your character to pour into jutsus increases their potency, making them usually either harder to evade or resist and increasing their damage.

Chakra being the foundation of both genjutsu and ninjutsu, this same stat will have benefits in both mental and physical combat.





The formula to determine your character's CP from your Chk stat is:

CP = 100 + [10 x Chakra Modifier]

Therefore, if your character has a Chk Mod of 0, you character will have: 100 + [10 x 0] = 100 + 0 = 100 CP.





Ninjutsu

Ninjutsu (忍術, Literally meaning: Ninja Techniques) is one of the three main jutsu categories. Ninjutsu is the most nebulous of the three and may most simply be described as anything that is not genjutsu or taijutsu. Most ninjutsu require chakra and hand seals, but this is not always the case since the mere usage of weaponry qualifies as ninjutsu. The huge range of ninjutsu's uses is illustrated by its several sub-classifications: medical ninjutsu, reincarnation ninjutsu, space–time ninjutsu, barrier ninjutsu, sealing jutsu, and Cursed Seal jutsu.

Most ninjutsu use shape transformation, nature transformation, or both: shape transformation deals with controlling the form and movement of the ninjutsu, while nature transformation deals with changing the ninjutsu's physical properties.

Given the very wide variety of ninjutsu types, your character obviously needs to train each of them separately. Your character sheet must therefore explain which ninjutsu schools are trained:

- Ninjutsu (Shape Transformation)
- Ninjutsu (Summoning)
- Ninjutsu (Water Release)

Increasing your skill in ninjutsu has direct and significant combat benefits:

- Usually increases chances to hit an opponent with that specific ninjutsu style;
- Usually increases damage dealt with that jutsu style;
- Allows you character to learn higher level techniques from that ninjutsu style


Fūinjutsu

Fūinjutsu (封印術, Literally meaning: Sealing Techniques) are a type of jutsu that seal objects, living beings, chakra, along with a wide variety of other things within another object. Fūinjutsu can also be used to restrict movement or unseal objects either from within something or someone.

The presence of a seal is marked by the appearance of formations of technique formulae, kanji, or else other kinds of symbols (likewise with Summoning Techniques).

Increasing your skill in fūinjutsu has direct and significant combat benefits:

- Usually increases the potency of seals;
- Allows you character to learn higher level seals.


Genjutsu

Genjutsu (幻術, Literally meaning: Illusionary Techniques) is one of the main jutsu categories which uses chakra. Unlike ninjutsu, the effects of genjutsu are not real, being only illusions experienced by those who fall victim to it.

Genjutsu is created when a ninja controls the chakra flow of a target's cerebral nervous system, thereby affecting their five senses. This is frequently used to create false images and/or trick the body into believing its has experienced physical pain. Genjutsu can also be used to manipulate others, similar to brainwashing, by feeding the victim illusive suggestions. Most genjutsu is performed visually, requiring the target make eye contact with the caster. Audible genjutsu is deemed the most dangerous because the user can trap victims from long distances.

Despite its usefulness, genjutsu is rarely employed, most shinobi preferring the real, tangible effects of ninjutsu and taijutsu over the imagined effects of genjutsu. The difficulty of performing genjutsu in the first place presents an additional barrier to its use: genjutsu require precise chakra control in order to manipulate the target's senses and advanced intelligence to make the illusion convincing.

Those under the influence of genjutsu will either appear to be unconscious or continue to move around under the pretence of the genjutsu. The latter is very effective in battle as a genjutsu user can make themselves appear to be somewhere else and attack the victim from behind or change the environment to make the victim see a flat plain where there is a steep cliff.

Increasing your skill in genjutsu has direct and significant combat benefits:

- Usually increases chances to trap an opponent;
- Usually increases damage dealt with genjutsu;
- Allows you character to learn higher level genjutsu techniques.