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Old 03-02-2012, 12:13 AM
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Naruto d20 Meets Suicide Squad

 

Plot Hook 1: The Committee Meeting"So are we all here?" Surrounding a small circular table sat a group of male silhouettes. Nothing else was visible in the room due to the incredible darkness, and the only light seemed to come from a single smoldering ash tray in the center. Immediately following the question, a series of handseals were performed, and a number of symbols each in a different color alighted above the individual silhouette's heads. Each symbol was diffferent, and each heavily stylized like the village symbols. An eye, a sword, a wine glass, etc.

"Good, we've all survived another term. To be honest, I'm a bit surprised. My research has shown that the assassination efforts of the rival villages is up 44% over the previous term."
"Tch. 44% is outrageous, are you sure your statistics are reliable?"
"I assure you my facts are quite sound. My suggestion is that we move forward with the Devilghost initiative."
"Aya, you've been pushing that thing since day one yaknow. Methinks maybe your just tryin to scare us into voting along yaknow."
"No. I agree with Black, we need to take action now to preserve our holdings. My spies tell me the other villages are growing restless. A sheep waits and reacts, a hawk kills it's aggressors."
"I don't knooow. I give my vote to Yellow."
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"That's two for, one opposed. It rides on your Vote Yellow."
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in a whispery, raspy voice: "Do it."

Naruto Criminals Forced to Work for the Good of the Village. Dark and Gritty, but stylistically so. Fairly simple idea. Going to run a campaign of naruto d20 characters based around the idea of earning their right to return to the world. Probably based in mist village. I like the idea because I don't need to worry about people ditching. If they ditch, I'll just replace them with other ninja. No big deal. Also cool because it means I can run a fairly high campaign. The campaign will probably work like a frame narrative: individual missions rather than a combined story. I may even grab co-dms and run multiple groups at once eventually.

Keep in mind this is just an interest thread at the moment. If I get enough interest I will change the formatting to reflect a more serious approach. All of the characters would be criminals under physical force to work for a specific village. Because of that it would probably be somewhat railroaded in form though the specifics might be less so. Think of it as you need to get from point A to B and how you get there is up to you.

 

 
ApplicationsApps should be in the following format. Sheets will not be necessary until after players are selected. Apps may be submited in secret or through Private Message.

Name:
Race: (Including Bloodline)
Class:
Gender: Male, female, or other
Age:
Personality: About a paragraph
Physical Description: About a paragraph
Background: 3 - 5 paragraphs. Don't give me a block of text, break it up. This is your lifestory. This must include what you did to have yourself placed in prison and should include a couple of plot points I can bring up at a later point in the game.

In addition, to all of the above, tell me how far can I push your character. What sort of things happening to your character are likely to piss you off. No matter what if you die in combat you die, but would you be angry if... your character lost a limb, was experimented on, became the subject of a compulsion affect that wrested control from you for a limited time? This is a place to put your pet peeves.
MechanicsLevel: 7
Classes: Any
Races: Any (ask if it has an LA)
Ability Scores: 36 point buy instead of rolling
Hit Die: Max at first level, half thereafter. No rolling
Elemental Affinities: Chosen by the Player
Techniques: 4 per Hit Die, Reverse tree method. Only 1 level 7, 2 of level 6, 4 level 5 etc. Hijutsu and Kinjutsu cost 2 techs each and must be mentioned in your background. Kinjutsu are often illegal and may lead to time added to your prison sentence or other punishments.
Masteries:Techniques can be converted to stages of Mastery. Chakra no Ito is an exception.
Currency: Wealth, not Ryo
Variants: Empathic Learning, Save Scores
• Players will recieve Nin Weapons Proficiency, Combat Martial Arts, and Gennin as bonus feats
• Players will recieve Kinobori, Kawarimi no Jutsu, Bunshin no Jutsu, and Henge no Jutsu as bonus techniques
• Genius Nin only affects one technique type (Genjutsu, Ninjutsu, Taijutsu, or Chakra Control) and allows you bump any tech on your tree by one level but only for one tech. You may have one level 8 or two level 7s and no level 8s etc.
Application Due DateMARCH 13th, 2012
~Chart of Applicants~
# Applications
2 Elementalist
2 Genjutsu Master
1 Medical Nin
2 Shinobi Swordsman
1 Sword Savant
1 Summoner
1 Whatever Dark Necrofear's is
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Old 03-02-2012, 02:03 AM
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Old 03-02-2012, 08:44 AM
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I've made a Q&A so that people can easily access information when and if more interest pops up. Cherub your questions have been answered there.
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Old 03-02-2012, 05:42 PM
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Oh, Rahz, you are my hero right now. I have been drooling for a Nd20 game for a few weeks now. I can't think of any questions at the moment that you haven't already answered.

You had my interest the moment it was an Nd20 game. Had it even more so when its taking place in Kirigakure since that's my favorite Sad as it is that it hasn't really been shown much like the other non-Konoha villages.village. Being a criminal makes my character ideas difficult to pick between a few I've been thinking over lately.

I guess a question I could ask would be: Do our character have to be criminals? Would, say, a war criminal or foreign ninja captured in Water Country or perhaps even a village-less ninja seeking admission as a Kiri-ninja via the prison as a trial be acceptable?

Right now I'm thinking between a Spacetime-Raiton preferenced Well-Rounded Ninja, Taijutsu Specialist and a My leading candidateGenjutsu Specialist.
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Old 03-02-2012, 06:31 PM
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Old 03-02-2012, 08:04 PM
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Hi Jigs. I made a general answer in the Q&A but I'll be more specific here.

If you want to be a war criminal you can try that approach. However, you will have to deal with the following problems before I accept the character. This is mist we're talking about, so why didn't they just kill you outright? It would be somewhat understandable for you to be kept if the initiative program you players are taking place in had already been initiated. However, even then you would have to be able to explain why the village was comfortable sending you out again when your home village might recognize you. Either way you also need to be able to explain how they were able to cover up your disappearance from your village. You are level 7-10. Every village reclaims the bodies of their higher level ninja in order to preserve the secrets in those bodies. This was gone into in the show and I'm keeping it because it has lot's of plot potential. If you feel like working through these problems when writing your profile then I suppose you can.

The seeking admission idea I am less crazy about. It just doesn't appeal to me and the thematic construct I had in mind for the game.

Your mechanical ideas are all fine. Just go with the one you decide.
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Old 03-02-2012, 09:25 PM
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That's totally cool. I just thought I'd ask about different possible avenues so that my character wouldn't be just another face in the crowd, not that there's anything wrong with that.

If I come up with some idea to work around the aforementioned problems, is it cool if I PM them to you and see if I can't hammer them out while still fitting comfortably in what you expect the game to be?
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Old 03-02-2012, 09:33 PM
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Old 03-02-2012, 10:24 PM
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Quick questions that might be good to add to the Q&A, but probably not necessary until this goes from an Interest thread to an actual Application thread:
  • What feats, if any, would be given for free (ex. Nin Weapons Proficiency, Genin, etc)?
  • What's the generation for number of techniques starting with?
  • Are there any techniques being handed out for free (such as the basic three, Tree Climbing, Water Walking, etc?)
  • Are Elemental affinities chosen by players or rolled for on the chart in the rulebook?
  • Any variations (found at the end of Basic Game Mechanics section) used?
  • When you begin taking applications, what sort of info will you be looking for?

Sorry about the list, just thought they might be helpful later on and best gotten out of the way in one post than over several scattered posts. ^^;;

On a side note, I think I've decided on which kind of character I want to go with and have begun thinking about how to go about their background. Also, I know of a friend that has likewise been itching for an Naruto d20 game, so you'll probably have at least one more post of interest.

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Yeah, once I think I've gotten sufficient interest to actually put serious effort into this I will decide on all of those minor details.

As for background stuff I can tell you now. I'll want a background, a personality, and a physical description. Tried and true methodology.

Once I have about mmm... five people, I'll probably start taking this thread more seriously and put out some descriptives.
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Hi DN.

I like knowing peoples from time to time.

Everyone feel free to post more questions and / or comments and I will check them in the morning. However I am dead tired so I'm getting off for the night.
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Old 03-03-2012, 01:10 AM
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Nice character idea, Blade. I think the bloodline you're thinking of is Red Eyes of the Mibu clan, an optional bloodline in the Bloodline/Templates section.

I read the rulebook way too much to know that off the top of my head.
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thanks jiggy but im wondering if i should just make it full on ccd... another thing i am debating is weather he should be a fist user (psychopath lee anyone?) or if i should turn him into a swordsman... decisions decisions...
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