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It is required that all new players begin at the GENIN level. If you're playing a child character under (about) the age of ten, you'd probably like to consider being an Academy Student.

While you are constructing moves for your character, keep in mind that techniques known from the Genin level are the most BASIC of your attacks. As you ascend in rank, we intend for you to continue taking those moves with you, but EVOLVING them to suit the new responsibility that comes with achieving a higher rank.

THEME

While not all ninja have a Kekkei Genkai, some ninja as seen in the Naruto-verse have common THEMES, such as:

• Shadows (Shikamaru)
  
• Insects (Shino)
  
• Dogs (Kiba)
  
• Puppets (Kankuro)

This "theme" or "specialty" deviates from their main element, but adds essential aspects to their character, and contributes to the kind of jutsu they use.




We will permit a character to make as many jutsu on his or her own as he likes. ALL techniques made by a character must relate to his or her focus and element. So, if you want to learn something outside your focus and element, you'll have to find someone who can teach what it is you want to know.

When creating a character, think over two other things than his or her Theme: ELEMENT, and STATS. Don’t worry, there is no number crunching (Except with how many jutsu you can learn, and we’ve done it all for you in the appropriate rank posts below).

EARTH

WIND

WATER

FIRE

LIGHTNING

ACADEMY STUDENTS have not yet developed their element, and are limited to the neutral-type jutsu that are learned in the classroom at the Ninja Academy, listed in the post below.

When you start as a GENIN and continuing on to CHUUNIN, you're only allowed to attribute to your Primary Element, so choose which one fits your character best. ALL THE TECHNIQUES YOU CREATE MUST REVOLVE AROUND THIS ELEMENT. (This does not apply to techniques TAUGHT to you by another character IC-ly in a village.)

Upon reaching the JOUNIN level, he or she may pick a Secondary Element, and make new Jutsu with that elemental property.




Stats are simply your estimation of your character's Ninjutsu, Genjutsu, and Taijutsu proficiency. When you ascend rank, you will be given points to divide to your choosing to each of those three areas, and any area cannot exceed seven points. All ninja must have AT LEAST one point in each area to be a Genin.

On your profile, it will appear as follows:
Stats:
Ninjutsu: _/7
Genjutsu: _/7
Taijutsu: _/7

And you fill out, for your Genin, 5 points worth between Ninjutsu, Genjutsu, and Taijutsu until it looks like this:

Ninjutsu: 2/7
Genjutsu: 1/7
Taijutsu: 2/7

These will serve as a reminder to you of what skills your character is good at, and which area they're least proficient at. Just as critical as your character’s strengths are, his or her weaknesses will also affect him over the course of his or her life. Being perfect at everything is boring, and makes for uninteresting characters.




To prevent people from going crazy with the amount of jutsu they create or learn, we have to put certain caps on the number of jutsu you can have in your arsenal. This keeps all members of the same rank on an even playing field, and promotes storyline between teachers and students.

Each rank of ninja will have a certain amount of fillable slots to assign certain jutsu to. Think of this as memory. You don't start with knowledge, but you do start with the memory to store that knowledge. The jutsu slots are just that- space to fill with jutsu when you create or learn them.



The amount of Jutsu you're able to create and learn at each level will be mentioned in the appropriate rank post below.




Kekkai Genkai (Bloodline Trait) represent a concentration of power in an individual. Because of this, those who have a Kekkai Genkai would be vastly superior to those who do not. Steps must be taken to assure that those with Kekkai Genkai do not simply outclass those who do not just because of their power.

Due to a Bloodline trait being naturally stronger than most regular techniques, ninja with a Kekkei Genkai will have a slightly smaller amount of slots for jutsu, to compensate for the immense amount of time the user would've had to spend learning their clan's Kekkei Genkai.

The amount of slots you may have if your character has a Bloodline Trait will be noted in the appropriate rank posts below.

Physical Attributes:
The guiding principle of a Genin is that they should be not much more physically able than a regular human. Each will have his or her respective strengths and weaknesses, but a Genin is fairly weak in the global scale.

An average Genin should have the approximate strength and stamina of a well-trained teenager. Because the ability to jump very high is one that is augmented by chakra, it doesn’t factor in to this estimation of how physically strong a Genin is. Thus, without chakra, a Genin cannot jump much higher than a regular teenager.

Chakra Attributes:
Depending on how experienced a Genin is, he or she can range from incapable of even doing something so basic as augmenting a leap with chakra to being skillful enough able to walk on water, or run up walls using chakra. The better with chakra a Genin is, the easier he or she will be able to do things that have to do with controlling chakra.

Jumping is so easy because all it is doing is releasing a burst of chakra from the bottom of the feet, and needs little control. It is well known as being the easiest thing to do with chakra. Similarly, Genin who are bad with chakra will likely know more techniques that have to do with releasing chakra in violent forms rather than honing chakra into technical ones.

To give you all better ideas of what Genin techniques will look like, there are two examples below:



Even though the user can only force chakra out of his or her body in a crude way, this jutsu shows that they can still do things with that power. It may be just as easy to throw a kunai, but ninja are skilled in finding extra uses for their talents.

Some variations of the same technique could be:

• If, instead of a single baseball sized object, the user holds ten marble sized objects. The single shot becomes a spread shot without ever changing the fundamentals of the attack.
  
• Or, how about firing something from your hand when you’re bound? If you can’t pull back your arm because you’re tied up with rope, just use the Rock Gun.
  
• Or, in combat, hold a rock in your hand and, instead of using just punches, just fire rocks and baseballs into people’s stomachs. It hurts.

The Fire Hand is the perfect jutsu for a chakra-proficient Genin. The technique is used by constantly releasing a slow trickle of chakra from the hands to feed the fire. While using it for hours may prove draining, for short to medium length fights it’s an effective way to augment Taijutsu combat.

The flames have no magical properties, they just burn anything they touch. This technique is especially good for a grappler who holds on and lets the fire really burn someone, but even quick punches with the fire hand will do some extra damage.



The best quality about either of these techniques is their ability to GROW and EVOLVE with the user.

As the Genin turns into a Chuunin, he can evolve his techniques into more formidable attacking jutsu which have more diverse uses. This is not some magical transformation, and usually a Chuunin will seek aid from a more experienced Chuunin or a Jounin to help them come up with ideas and learn the chakra control to UPGRADE the jutsu they originally created.



In the bottom of the post of each ninja rank, it states how many jutsu a character can learn. If a character chooses to upgrade his jutsu, it takes the place of one of his “create” slots. That is to say that, instead of creating a brand new jutsu, one of his creatable jutsu for Chuunin level becomes the advanced version of his original Genin jutsu creation. The original Genin jutsu remains, and he can use the lesser version as well as the advanced one.

Remember that no technique at genin level should be stronger than these given techniques. Weak abilities that have many uses are good to start with because they train players to use their minds to win battles rather than just spamming strong jutsu.



Special Rules for Genin:

• All Genin can use Kawarimi no Jutsu ONLY ONCE PER BATTLE. This does not count on their list of jutsu, as all ninja can use it, regardless of rank or ability.
  
  
• Genin CANNOT make Shadow Clones. All clones must be either elemental, or illusion (Bunshin no Jutsu). Genin can make NO MORE THAN TWO CLONES AT A TIME without special permission from a mod. While elemental clones DO take a slot to learn, illusion clones DO NOT, as they are one of the special jutsu all character start with from the academy.
  
  
• Genin can create or learn up to THREE Genin level jutsu other than the one they start with. A Genin can also learn one Chuunin level jutsu from a teacher. Unlike the one jutsu the Genin starts with, these must be developed in-game. This is all represented on the chart below:

Statistics: Genin are issued FIVE POINTS for their statistics, but must have AT LEAST a single point in each score. (Ninjutsu, Taijutsu and Genjutsu)

Number of Learnable Jutsu:
Genin Jutsu:4 (One that you start with, and three slots after that)
Chuunin Jutsu:1
Jounin Jutsu:0
Kage Jutsu:0



If your character has a Kekkei Genkai...

Since characters with Kekkei Genkai will have a slightly less jutsu slots to compensate for their advanced attack strength, Genin with Bloodline Traits will adhere to the following limitations for learnable jutsu:

Genin Jutsu: 3
Chuunin Jutsu: 1
Jounin Jutsu: 0
Kage Jutsu: 0

Physical Attributes:
Jounin are the elite of the ninja world, and physically reflect this. Jounin are on average more athletic than Olympian level athletes, able to naturally perform feats of strength and speed that some Chuunin still require Chakra to do. Though this is not the case widely, some Jounin choose to concentrate on other skills than physical. Count on such Jounin to be devastatingly strong in other areas to make up for whatever they lack physically. Regardless, no Jounin is a “bad” fighter.

Chakra Attributes:
An average Jounin’s level of Chakra control is usually very good (even for the worst). Not just anyone can become a Jounin, and those who do must be able to adequately conduct attacks and defenses in all areas of jutsu.

An example of a Jounin level technique is the Explosive Mark.



This jutsu shows Jounin chakra skill because it contains multiple layers of chakra control:

• First, summoning large amounts of Chakra and suppressing it into a specific area.
  
• Second, transferring that power onto a target.
  
• Lastly, continuing to suppress one’s own chakra even after it has left the body, a skill only usable by capable Jounin.

Special Rules for Jounin:

• Jounin can use Kawarimi No Jutsu THREE TIMES PER BATTLE. This does not count on their list of jutsu, as all ninja can use it, regardless of rank or ability.
  
  
• Jounin may create up to SIX illusion clones at once. (Genjutsu) Since it is an Academy Technique, it DOES NOT take up one of your available jutsu slots.
  
  
• Jounin can learn to use Shadow Clones if they find the proper teacher. A Jounin performing utilizing Shadow Clones can only summon TWO at a time. A Jounin can summon up to six elemental clones at once. Elemental and Shadow Clones (Ninjutsu) DO take up a space in your available jutsu slots.
  
  
• Jounin can create up to SIX GENIN LEVEL JUTSU for themselves and can teach them. Jounin can create up to FOUR CHUUNIN LEVEL JUTSU and can teach them, and may create TWO JOUNIN LEVEL JUTSU as well. If a Jounin can find such a teacher, he can learn ONE KAGE LEVEL JUTSU along with the rest.

Statistics: Jounin add FOUR POINTS to their previous statistics, but must have AT LEAST 3 points in each score. (Ninjutsu, Taijutsu, and Genjutsu)


Number of Learnable Jutsu:
Genin Jutsu: 13
Chuunin Jutsu: 7
Jounin Jutsu: 3
Kage Jutsu: 1



If your character has a Kekkei Genkai...

Since characters with Kekkei Genkai will have a slightly less jutsu slots to compensate for their advanced attack strength, Jounin with Bloodline Traits will adhere to the following limitations for learnable jutsu:

Genin Jutsu: 10
Chuunin Jutsu: 5
Jounin Jutsu: 2
Kage Jutsu: 1