Naruto Campaign setting: A shameless ad!
 

Hello out there.

This is a message from me, Taren Lights'kar, to all the Dnd fans/gamers/roleplayers/DMs/GMs/Naruto fans out there.

Over the past few months, my friends and I have created and playtested a Roleplaying game based off of Naruto, and written it up, so as to distribute it on the internet. For. Free. It's a labor of love, and although it's far from being done, we've decided to take the next step and open it up as a beta for anyone interested in downloading the rules and playing the game with their friends. All we ask is that you pass on your suggestions and opinions to us, so that we can continue to change and improve this game.

You can see and download what we've done here:

www.narutocs.com

We are basing this RPG off of Dnd rules, but we have expanded and added to them to give the system a unique flavor and "feel".

Again, the game is FAR from done, and we've got a TON of stuff left to add. It is a work in progress. The item creation system is next on our list, as well as fleshing out the campaign world, and creating a beautiful .PDF file with both rules and world background in it for you. Right now, what is available is the core rules, all the basic stuff you'd need to run a game, as long as you have the creativity and will. Also available is a map of the Naruto world, lovingly crafted by one of our resident artists.

Future plans include: A narrative story of our group of playtesting characters, principly to what a campaign of Naruto is like; An page of naruto-inspired artwork, (PC art sent to us by fans) and other nifty things...

Moved to video games, and by god if you only signed up here to plug your site I will delete this post and ban you to kingdom come. We do not allow 'shameless ads' on this site, and the only reason I haven't already done so is I see you edited your post suggesting that you are a real human.

Suggestion: involve yourself in a community if you want to be seen as more than a garden-variety spammer. Or else pay for advertisement with nuklearpower.com itself.

I will most likely do both, good sir.

Good lad! Then your link may remain, and I bid thee welcome.

He's a sharp one, all right.

I checked out the rules, and though I haven't had the time to go over it completely yet, it all looks pretty good, and I only noticed one or two slight imbalances. However, I'm probably not very qualified to tell you about these things, because I'm not an expert twinker. Now, if you could get Dante or one of the others who frequents the D&D help thread, you'd be set in that department.

Yeah, I'd have to write up the individual PrC combos and see which ones seem to have more twinkery goodness in them. It looks like you have a lot of different PrC classes, feats and jutsus, which is good. I don't really follow Naruto so I can't comment on the accuracy of the classes and whether or not they accurately depict the abilities from the show. But when everyone is a ninja, more variety is always better, and you seem to have that down pat.

Dante and I have been discussing the CS, and we've come up with some things that need tweaking...

-at higher levels, armor is totally useless. You'd be better off running around nude.
-Sharingan is VERY broken. You could essentially use the Conceal skill (or whatever it's called) and watch someone practice jutsus. Keep rolling until you've learned all his techs.
-the straight-up Warrior-type classes have less BAB than the Hyuuga class. Kinda weird)

There was more, but you'd have to ask Dante about it. Heck, Dante came up with all of these, I would've missed the whole thing myself...

In other words, there are many ways to twink it.

As for your comments V (or Dante's comments),

1) Armor. How many times do you actually see any ninja wearing armor? Spoiler: Once, with the Third. However, it looked like really light armor. Otherwise, you don't see any of the Naruto characters wearing armor.

2) Sadly that's exactly how it is in the manga and anime. Unless, of course, it's a bloodline. Of course, a ninja would have to be pretty stupid, getting all his or her techniques stolen.

3) Well, can't remember what BAB is, actually. ^^;

Chuunin vest counts as armor in the Naruto CS, and I can easily name at least half a dozen ninja who wears one of those...

I think it's Base Attack Bonus, last time I checked...

Spoiler: Those vests are mostly to distinguish rank, just like headbands are used to distinguish affiliation. They also seem to be more about holding gear than protecting a ninja, in the show. Also note that most missing-nins don't wear armor, and there are a lot of jounins/chuunins/other ninja types that usually doesn't wear it. In other words, even in Naruto the Manga/Anime, regular armor is useless, and it really isn't used as armor.

Spoiler: Since the Hyuuga's Gentle Fist technique deals damage to the inner body, instead of the outer body, it will hurt a lot more; you can't easily train your insides to endure pain, after all. It's only a guess though.

But BAB is a number representing how easy it is to hit the opponent, not how much damage is dealt. If you really wanted to represent a technique that damaged internally, I'd think it be, if anything, harder to hit with, but then do a lot more damage if you did manage to land a hit.

Oh, I thought it meant how hard you hit.

Well then, that's simpler. The Hyuuga's have better accuracy than most ninjas. Their Bloodline Ability allows them to see almost everywhere around them all at once, including through objects and they can see chakra points. The fact that they're Taijutsu specialists generally also has to be taken into account. The Gentle Fist technique they use allows them to make quick, accurate, physically weak hits, while doing lots of internal damage by using their own chakra to damage the opponent through their chakra points. Hyuuga's are rarely caught by surprise, and I don't recall off the top of my head many instances when one missed with an attack.

So the BAB difference does make sense from a accuracy-to-the-show standpoint. But it sounds unbalanced from a gaming standpoint. It'd be like, "Hi, I'm the guy who can't be ambushed, and can hit you all the time. Oh, and did I mention it doesn't really matter how hard I hit you, because I'm going to f*ck up your chakra with my more highly-trained chakra, which bypasses all normal forms of protection. Have a nice day!"

But I don't watch the show, so maybe there's some big drawbacks that I don't know about.

The only drawbacks to the Hyuuga's eye technique is that the user must constantly concentrate (and thus expel chakra) to use it. That, and you face looks kinda scary...

Guru did point out what I was trying to say: sure, the different classes/characters may be unbalanced, but as far as gameplay goes, that's no fun at all. From a serious gaming standpoint, there's no reason to not go with an advanced bloodline, otherwise you're at a disadvantage to your overpowered teammates.

There are simple ways to counter the Hyuuga's eye technique. One is simply being faster/stronger; if their body can't react then they're screwed anyway. Another is Genjutsu; controlling the mind's chakra flow to create an illusionary world. Yet another is being unpredictable with your attacks; specifically your jutsus.

Finally, the Hyuuga's are specialists, so they can end up to be pretty predictable, as well as unfocused in other areas of ninjahood.

There's also a blind spot to the Byakugan.

Info Spoiler: The Byakugan technically isn't full 360 degree vision. There's a blind spot from the back of the neck, I believe Naruto used this to defeat Neji. So, if you were to get behind a Hyuuga, they'd be hard pressed to see you, and due to the focus using the Byakugan requires they would have to expend more energy to look for your chakra.It's not a large weakness, but it's just enough to bring them down. Also, as someone said, I've never seen anyone break loose of the Mangekyou Sharingan when an Uchiha looked them in the eye.

Ehh...the Blind Spot isn't even a weakness. Or, it is less of one than what our normal one is.

How much does the Chakra of the Byakugan take anyway? I don't recall it being ever mentioned.