Welcome to Gaia! ::

Step - 1 Concept:

Before you even begin, start thinking of a concept. Your stats should revolve around your concept rather than revolving your concept around your stats. This makes for a more enjoyable and deep character.
Do you have a Shinobi whom was cast out of his or her village, torn between returning to pay for their crimes or living a harsh life on the road?
Or maybe you have a brilliant student who always has their face smashed into a book, hoping to one day be able to become known as the best medic ninja in your village but know you must master the art of Genjutsu first?
There's many possibilities, finding out what you want your character to be, their attitude, motivation, etc is part of the fun of playing that character.

Step - 3 Affinity. Clan, and Village:

Choose the chakra affinity your character starts out with.

Choose a Clan and Village that you belong to.

Villages don't grant any real benefit, however some may have upgraded buildings, troops, etc a well as other members you may wish to team with so this is a very important decision.
Each Village's benefits can be found within a Country's Info thread.

Character Resets
It is possible to change your character once you have one. There are a few ways this can happen.
One is when your character hit's dying from critical hits and fails their recovery checks over the allowed time to make them. Another is by optionally resetting them (ie you get tired of your old character and just want to try something new).


Optional Reset:
When you "choose" to reset your character you use the same example shown above for "dead", however there are a few exceptions.
If you are level 20 or below you may use a single free reset with no penalties.
...If it is your second reset, or you are above level 20, you lose 2 levels + 2 lost more per time you've chosen to reset your character optionally in the past.
...When you reset optionally your experience goes down to exactly what you would normally gain to achieve said level.
...NOTE if you are purposely trying to kill yourself for no sensible reason (mods discretion) only to get around this cost and use the normal "dead" reset options without a level loss, we WILL still count it as an optional reset. i.e, no trying to cheat the system.