Jutsu Rules and Guidelines

[Konaha Staff]

¹No custom versions of canon jutsu. (i.e. Water Rasengan or Earth Chidori)

²Though you may have control over an element, each technique must be registered individually.

³Jutsu can no longer affect time.

⁴No jutsu that take effect automatically.

⁵No stealing of custom jutsu. This is a grave offense and can result in warnings, characters being stripped, or banned. Please give credit where it’s due.

⁶Jutsu of summoned creatures have to be in their profile

⁷Newly custom made jutsu need to be ranked. Unranked jutsu in Naruto are unranked simply because the ranks aren't given in the databooks currently. The only jutsu which do not need ranks are Kekkei Genkai, Hijutsu, Canon Unranked Techniques, and Fighting Styles.

⁸This is an AU, but that does not mean that you can register the special techniques of characters who don't exist in our universe. This means you are not allowed to register things such as Chidori, or Sennin Modo, etc.

⁹We'd appreciate if you didn't repeat the effects of another Kekkei Genkai. Unlike jutsu, we like to think that one effect manifests itself only once. If your Kekkei Genkai is a carbon copy of another, we will refer you to the first clan so that you can join that one. This way, we can keep down clutter and potential confusion in the future.

¹⁰Register no more than five custom techniques per look of registration. In other words, register as many canon jutsu as you like, but only five custom jutsu can be registered at a given time. Pre-approved custom jutsu count toward the five since all pre-approved jutsu go back up for review each time they are registered.

¹¹Please, we ask that you do no more than one post per character per week. This is a request, and not so much a rule. It can become a rule if we see people blatantly disregarding this and posting multiple times anyway. You can post more than once per week if it's absolutely imperative that you do so, but we ask that before you make your second post you run your reasoning by a member of the jutsu staff or staff in general in a member of the jutsu staff is not available at the time.

**Original 'Jutsu holding system' idea courtesy Rasenden

[Tou-kun]

^one Yous need to start considering what your characters' specialties are. That being said, Iryonin should NOT be running around popping fireballs out their mouths. Nor should they have supplemented strength, etc. Iryonin are not offensive characters, and based on what Tsunade has said, the majority of their training is spent mastering their chakra control and using that chakra control to aid in their healing. NOT training for chakra control, and then going ahead and making ten to the third Katon techniques. If an Iryonin is to have ANY sort of offensive technique, it'd probably come from their master of the body and those medical techniques they've learned. Take Kabuto for example, using Chakura no Mesu offensively, when it's a technique used in surgery.

I'd be inclined to start limiting Shosenjutsu and some other other variants of medical techniques, but that'd probably be too much to ask.

^one.2 Going along with this same point, not many characters are jacks of all trades, and those that are are not spectacular at any field. If you want to be rolling around with big business techniques for the lulz, there should be some sort of specialization in the field. Examples are Kakashi and lightning techniques, and spatial manipulation to Naruto. If your character is focuses on Recon, give him or her techniques to further that orientation.

^two Genin are not able to perform elemental jutsu. Unless you have some sort of training in your history, you will not be accepted for such, and even then, you won't be approved for powerful ones.

^three Not every single jutsu you are going to make is going to kill someone through brute force. In the canon, people get slung around and get up completely fine. Therefore, stop thinking your own jutsu is going to cut off someone's head because a wire is involved, or your Katon is going to burn someone into a crisp, your lightning is going to bust through someone's chest, or your punch to the face is going to shatter someone's skull. The truth is, it's not, point blank period. Only a few higher ranking and concentrated techniques would be able to achieve such affects. Things relative to Chidori and the like.

^four Stop thinking that because Naruto, Sakura, or anyone else from the manga can do something, you can. You are not those characters. Mostly everyone with a significant role in the manga is qualified to be call a genius. I'd hate to disappoint you all, but it's not common to be a genius. If you want to be a genius, develop some sort of story to justify it. I'm not going to be approving stuff for you under the justification that someone else can do it. They are them. You are you. Know your roll. ;[

The list is liable to change, and we'll update when those changes come up.

[Tou-kun]

Limits are still in place as far as jutsu are concerned. The following are the limits.

Academy Student: 0
Genin: 5 (D-Rank; C, B-Rank)
Chūnin: 15 (B-Rank; A, S-Rank)
Jōnin: 20 (B-Rank; A, S-Rank)
Lord: 30 (B-Rank; A, S-Rank)
Kage: 35 (A-Rank; S-Rank)

These limits can be bypassed by mention of training in history or IC threads where your character learns new jutsu. However, the allowance to bypass the limit is at the discretion of the jutsu mod. The first rank within the parenthesis are the base ranks of jutsu for that given rank. Meaning, people of that rank can have jutsu of that given rank without need of mentioning learning it in the history or learning it IC. Jutsu ranks past the semicolon either require history training or IC training, and are handled at the discretion of the mod.

Base Kekkei Genkai techniques and passive Kekkei Genkai and some other passive techniques do not count toward the limit. All other jutsu, including taijutsu styles count toward the limit.

Feel free to ask questions.

[Tou-kun]

I'm going to make this announcement just to nip this issue in the butt before it gets the chance to fester and grow.

I've seen far too many people registering to be special in given fields, and that's completely fine. I've always been one who said that if you want to be special in any given field, you have to specify. But that doesn't mean people can be special in every field. People claiming to be especially fast shouldn't also be masters of chakra control. Nor should people running around with Katon and Suiton then have a taijutsu that busts someone through a wall. If your character specializes in a given field, they sacrifice prowess in other fields. That being said, a Taijutsu specialist shouldn't be popping out elemental jutsu on the regular.

If you want to, be a Taijutsu AND elemental jutsu user, that means that you are not particularly spectacular at either, but capable of using both efficiently. Jacks-of-all-trades are not the bests at every field. What makes them special is access to all fields. Not exceptionalness at all fields.

This also doesn't mean that everyone has to register things like "enhanced strength" or "excellent chakra control" because to be honest, not everyone is great at something. I understand the desire to be special, and I will once again say that if you want to be particularly good at something, please specify, but that doesn't mean to spam it. This is just a fair warning. If it gets out of hand, we'll have to tighten the belt.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask them.