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Naruto: Years of Winter - an Alternate Universe

@McFazzer Canon, the only jutsu we do not accept are those that appear in games only.

@pkken Yes, if you can justify it.

Naruto: Years of Winter - an Alternate Universe

OOC is, more or less, ready to go. Waiting for Hillan to approve me posting it for now.

Naruto: Years of Winter - an Alternate Universe

We have decided to allow chunin characters. So, if you want a chunin, feel free to make a chunin. I'm working on the OOC now, so it should be good to go tonight/tomorrow.

@Thecrash20 Just want to let you know this, because it might get you interested. If not, no hard feelings, I understand the sentiments.

Naruto: Years of Winter - an Alternate Universe

Just as a heads up: as a result of requests, questions and concerns me and Hillan are discussing the possibility of making the RP about chunins rather than genins (or, otherwise, opening chunins up for application.)

Naruto: Years of Winter - an Alternate Universe

@McFazzer No, they are quite strong actually! There is a severe limit on the # of jutsu one can use. Therefore you won't see the "I have 2000 jutsu at my disposal" we saw in the anime. Ultimately weapons are a decent choice.

Naruto: Years of Winter - an Alternate Universe

@Asura We ask that you "guess" and use logic to come up with a possible rank for it. It shouldn't be too hard and we will correct it downwards/upwards if we disagree but it's never been a problem before.

Naruto: Years of Winter - an Alternate Universe

@Thecrash20 Cheers.

Naruto: Years of Winter - an Alternate Universe

@Thecrash20 We've ran these RP's before. Progression is typically fast as long as people give us a good reason to promote them. We also typically allow 'new jutsu's' to be added as long as a reason can be cited.

The trick is to be a good roleplayer and get rewarded for it.

Also, if your sole motivation to join this RP is 'I want to be able to do this technique' then perhaps this isn't the right RP. We want character interaction, not dick-waving contests of whoever can cram the most OP jutsu's into a characters. That's why there's a limit on jutsu. Because we want you to be creative, and not focus solely on your characters power.

PvP happens based on logic and discussion. This isn't an arena RP, therefore PVP will be decided based on predetermined discussion or otherwise making the most effective use of a moveset.

But, PVP probably will not happen any time soon. It'll be later on at least.

Naruto: Years of Winter - an Alternate Universe

That was very detailed and insightful on the problems it would bring. I liked all your listed points about the problem from the N to the O. I will reconstruct my character as required...(genin-chuunin).

@Bishop

Because if everyone starts as a genin, but you start as a genin that has a chuunin level of power, then that's obviously a problem if PvP ever happens (which will probably happen).

Naruto: Years of Winter - an Alternate Universe

“Jutsu Limits”

Note: N/A in front of a rank means 'no limit' within reason. You can use as many of these as you like although that doesn't mean you have to use every one of them. They also need to make sense. A character with an aptitude for high level lightning jutsu will probably have more of these N/A lightning jutsu than fire jutsu. Simple as that.

“Genin”

• 0 A-rank.
• 1 B-rank.
• 2 C-rank.
• 2 D-rank.
• N/A E-rank.

“Chunin”

• 1 A-rank.
• 3 B-rank.
• 4 C-rank.
• N/A D-rank.
• N/A E-rank.

“Jounin”

- on request.

• 1 S-rank.
• 3 A-rank.
• 4 B-rank.
• N/A C-rank.
• N/A D-rank.
• N/A E-rank.

“Kage”

- Never accepting kage level characters. We'll ask you to make them if we need one.

• N/A S-rank.
• N/A B-rank.
• N/A C-rank.
• N/A D-rank.
• N/A E-rank.

Note: Kage-level characters will not be judged on their jutsu lists or anything of the sort, they will be judged on identity: are they interesting, are they worthy of the kage-level stamp and do they serve a good, useful purpose? That's because once you reach jonin status, it becomes really quite easy to pass into kage-level areas, and beyond kage there are no ranks. That means the power levels within kage-level characters fluctuate heavily.

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“Banned Jutsu”

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General bans refer to simply not being allowed to have this jutsu on any character, in or out of battle.
Combat bans refer to bans for combat only, meaning they are allowed outside of combat.
Limit jutsu refer to jutsu that are allowed, in and out of combat, but have limited usage.

• Flying Thunder God Jutsu - general ban.
• Body Flicker Technique - combat ban.
• Body Replacement Technique - limit jutsu, 3 uses per battle.
• Chimera Technique - general ban.