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Because this serves no place anywhere else, If I made a dwarf Inuzuka, could he ride his wolf? And Potentially, would he be allowed to use his talent to tame other animals? Namely a bear and some aquatic animal? A deer and a Panda might not be bad for him to tame either... For all intents and purposes, the wolf is the only one capable of using Inuzuka techniques, the others are just standard animals that might or might not get some sort of boost from ninja training.

But... He'll have a talent that he can tame other animals as well, while sacrificing all but possibly Medical ninjutsu. [That's right, the dwarf inuzuka is going to be a druid based on healing! And summoning, but that's just to summon his animals and send them away through reverse summoning when it's too dangerous.] Would his Talent have to sacrifice Inuzuka techniques as well to achieve the tame wild animals effect?

His talent will literally be that he gets a +1 speed increase, and a +2 Reaction increase, and that is it completely. His sacrifice is that he gives up all chakra usage, and isn't even applicable to utilize his clan's abilities. [The reason he can't is because of his altered chakra system. He's physically incapable of it because his chakra system is wired to his muscular system giving him a constant boost to speed, though not to strength.]

Thank you. ^>^ I've been working on him offline, along with two new character ideas. With this emerging village, there are a lot more character makes I could actually go with, as opposed to the previous established villages.

Only the dwarf's wolf could possibly use Inuzuka techniques, and the others would only ever get size bonuses, and maybe str and spd bonuses. That's as far as they can go. Tamed animals other than the wolf are completely incapable of jutsu. Bears would naturally gain ranks in strength over ranks in speed. Deer would gain speed as opposed to strength.

For Hathor [The Feral Inuzuka] He's never going to be capable of Inuzuka abilities unless someone else plays an Inuzuka, or someone drags an Inuzuka NPC into the village. He has no clue that he is even human. He's been so far removed from all society that he can't identify himself with another human, and instead sees himself as an animal. [And no, he's not the dwarf druid. That's another one that I can never find a picture for.] He's going to be a tracker shinobi built for quick kills and heavy damage.

Dont think of the movments as just "Steps" think of them as the more exotic dancers with their sweeping movments and little hops. We can already release chakra from our feet, and hyuga go so far as to be able to do that from any of their tenketsu (Interesting applications from that one.) As far as the medium, Im not gonna say dead skin cells as thats a little too minmaxy, but if i have to use more jutsu when it already costs double chakra for the ability to be used, whats the point of doing that? Just make a regular sealer at that point. If i could roleplay it as a light mist laying in my wake or just lining the ground with chakra, ill do it but not using even more. Would be a little ridiculous at that point.

Ill have to call BS on speed being useless. I find it difficult (in any balanced setup) to imagine a strength only character surviving against a speed character without some really heavy armor (with no obvious weak points). Otherwise you'd be ribbons in a second. Even if your skin is like leather, enough hits, especially precise hits, will knock you down in moments. (not to mention obvious weak points such as the eyes)

I'm not saying it's useless, I'm saying if you pump speed without the other stats, you effectively become unable to beat some opponents. Take a fly for example, those things are fast, and until they get tired and land, hitting one by hand is difficult. But a fly isn't going to hurt you because your Con and STR are higher than it's damage capability.

Why would you just stand there and let it hit you in the eyes? My character might have had trouble speaking common and Krell, but he wasn't stupid enough to let things hit his vital areas. He knew to block his neck, and all of that stuff, it's just that he was about the size of a year old Elephant. Not a tiny elephant, but a medium sized one. He wasn't going to be easy to kill, he brought an entire building down on top of himself just because someone pissed him off and walked out of it with only taking 5 damage because of his racial damage threshold. He was the equivalent of Sloth from FMA, minus the speed. That being said, Magic owned him completely. In D&D, Just because someone has phys resist doesn't make them powerful. In this setting, if I used him, Nemuri would kill him outright. It would put him so far into sleep that he'd cease all bodily functions. That's how much a magic attack would do to him. It's the only way my DM could honestly kill him because he kept sacrificing things to the demon that possessed him, and the dagger that got a +4 to damage for every sacrifice as long as he sacrificed someone per week in game.

Probably, My barbarian wouldn't have really been able to hit him all that well, so my barbarian couldn't have caught him and ripped him in half. [Starting str 24, which is actually a level 10+ stat range.] My Barbarian was built specifically to take the damage for the team and rip everything apart in his path to further the groups goals. Be it necessary to sacrifice a child or two, he didn't care as long as it furthered the goals of the people he cared about. [That's why he became a Lawful Evil, which really pissed off our Lawful Good Paladin.]

No, the dice weren't in my favor at all, I just had a decent character build, a ton of hp, and he couldn't reach over my 10 point damage threshold fast enough to hurt me all that much. Honestly if he would have used his rogue skills and slashed at my ankles, he could have got me, but he wasn't trying to kill me, just get revenge for me throwing him AT A DRAGON. And literally, after he got tired, my character just put his weight on him, but not enough to hurt him.

Also, my DM didn't think anything of it until he killed something he shouldn't have been able to since it's damage threshold and phys resistance was higher than mine. Then he went out of his way to send my character on a mission into the wilderness where he pitted me against a Lamia, put me to sleep, and had it sacrifice me with it's dagger. He put me against something 10+ levels over me just to make sure I died so my character couldn't exist anymore because it was over powered. My DM was NOT a bad DM, he did what he could to make it balanced, it just so happens that my character was well created. If My DM made it possible for me to have trouble with enemies, they would have slaughtered my allies. The only reason my character was able to kill the Gargoyle was because it nearly killed one of my allies, actually killed two others, and my barbarian was so stupid he failed his rage check for those three times, then as a last ditch effort, when it shattered his axe, I asked if that would allow me to use rage, and the DM said yes because if I hadn't, then the Gargoyle would have killed us all, and we'd have had to either create new characters, or scrapped the campaign altogether, and no one wanted that. When my Barbarian toppled the building, it was an old stone and wood ruined run down building that was falling apart anyway. After that, he wouldn't let me play Krell barbarians until he reworked the race, so I COULDN'T make another with str in the legendary levels. Again, my DM was NOT a bad DM, nor could he be blamed, he righted the wrong I orchestrated, and wouldn't let me use it again until he was sure it was absolutely fixed.

I'm going to ask that you please refrain from sayign that my DMs were bad, or at fault for anything. I know you don't really know them and you're entitled to your opinion, but one of them has basically become a hermit, and another is legitimately impossible to reach.

Also, let's not forget that I was 10-14 whenever I was playing D&D, so I got a bit of lenience there, due to my age.

Different games, but much different effects. Defense is very good to have, strength is useless if you have chakra control, and speed can be as hax as you could possibly get in these kinds of guilds. The thing about naruto guilds is that with the addition of chakra, you can only block and "Tank" up to certain level attacks. Even with the addition of the raikages taijutsu style " Kaiser fist" you can only block so much. We cant even go off of what the raikage can tank because he took that style to complete perfection and even with the stage 2 ( think it was 2 ) Lightning armor the A rank chidori that was being used was still piercing through. A high ranked attack would likely punch straight through it. Its the strength and defense users that are generally at a disadvantage cause these guilds usually go by anything over A rank that has a lethal hit described in the description of the jutsu. In this particular genre that can be like fighting punpun the level three kobold with a 2e level one wizard that rolled a 1 on his hp.

In short, defense can mean little when you have techniques that either A send you to other dimensions, or B can cut through steel/rock easier than a knife cuts flesh.

Im not really one to go for either rasengan or chidori myself. I like the lesser known stuff. Suiton is so useful and nobody pays attention to it. As for what you were saying, I never discount what people are saying, so were both miss-communicating here. I know what you meant, I was just having a little conversation.