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Hey, Akira back at it again with another suggestion.

Basically, it's all been a lot of conjecture about what can physically be allowed. This would be a suggestion to allow elemental mastery. The concept as a system would look like normal until you reach the combat information section.

Normally, it would look like:

Natural Chakra: Doton
Chakra Affinities: Doton, Suiton, Katon.

The new system if someone wanted to get mastery in one element, they would have to forgo other elements (denoted as a plus + sign). When someone ranks up, they either get up to 3 during creation, or up to 3 when getting promoted. My proposal would be that elements would be "tokens."

Simple enough. 2 tokens, that's all someone gets. Only applied during character creation or during a rank up, it's easy to implement - someone either uses a token to get their next element, or they apply it to an existing element, effectively locking them out from 5/4/3 elements total. You could still buy 2 elements in character using EXP, so you aren't completely locked off.

How that translates to benefits, is you could have it one of two ways:

Speed, Strength, Durability, etc - you could use a single (1) token to amplify that element's chosen attribute, to a total of two attributes (2 tokens in total). It allows someone to not have the entire lot of things, still allows someone to show off mastery.

You can leave it as is, and have it be a vague idea of who might be stronger, as well as giving leeway to have stronger SAs for elemental usage.


Cons:
- Would be a pain in the ass the opportunity to appeal to allow people to modify their existing characters to accommodate (solution: one thread, people respond with characters, remove elements, etc)
- Could set precedent for other things similarly happening (like to genjutsu senses, to particular styles of bukijutsu, so on so forth)
- May be unfairly when stacked in a certain way (i.e. Sage using doton only enhancements while having ++ on Doton).

Pros:
- More variety/ability to specialise.
- Would make it easier to denote who is stronger in a certain element
- Adds fair balance without allowing someone to min-max
- Better roleplay flavor?

[Yoshiko]

I think specializing or limiting to an element is great evidence towards an SA devoted to that element. It's a means to almost get more out of it, as well as sometimes a mean to balance certain clans.

However, that's how we balance the site, by limiting SA's and requiring each added get the same if not more scrutiny than an original application.

This site has and will always be more focused on plot than stats and this is almost a means to lean more towards stats.

Finally, I think this adds up to more work and though diversity is nice this feels more like character limitation than diversification.

[Q]

Elemental mastery already exists in the form of SA. There are a ton of shinobi floating around with an SA to increase the power of a specific element; and the current idea of whose elemental jutsu is stronger is very similar to the thought process you put into the shinobi speed guide that you made. An elemental jutsu's strength is determined by rank, specialization, SA, and is one of the elemental jutsu weak to the other.

It kinda feels like something that's going to boost Ninjutsu more than other specs, primarily because elemental ninjutsu are typically more devastating than elemental taijutsu or bukijutsu. While it might be cool to allow higher elemental mastery by sacrificing another element, I'm not a huge fan of implementing something that'll essentially buff one of the better specs.

At least that's my surface level take on the idea, i'm not sure exactly how this would work alongside SA. Do you want SA to exist alongside this suggestion, or do you want to replace elemental mastery SA with these tokens? Which one you want to do will completely change how much work will need to go into this idea.