Hand to Hand
Ability with grappling and unarmed combat. Can fight with one’s bare hands.
Blade
Mastery of all melee weapons containing a blade. Such as sword, shinobigatana , or Ninjatō.
Strength
Lift, care, and throw incredibly heavy objects. It can increase damage when in battle.
Athleticism
Able to climb, jump, swim, or run with ease. Can jump an unusually long distance or pull off a stunt jump. Can swim in treacherous currents.
Covertness
Escape
Able to free oneself, run away from predicaments, or slide out of slippery situations.
Evasion
Escape and avoid sticky situations. Master at excuses for why something did not happen.
Interception
Ability to listen through walls and from above ceilings to gather information. Able to convince messengers to give you the message rather than the intended party.
Ventriloquism
Ability to make a sound or mimic the voice of others. It can throw one’s voice and appear as though someone is talking when they are creating the voice for said person.
Invisibility
Make oneself not visible to others.
Disguise
Master at pulling together convincing disguises to blend in, masquerade as an authority figure, or conceal oneself when being targeted.
Multiplicity
Perform many tasks at once or able to create multiple clones of oneself.
Concealment
Able to conceal themselves or an object in plain sight.
Craftiness
Shrewd in deception and trickery. Cleverly deceitful at achieving a task at hand. Earn the trust of others quickly, only to take advantage of them. Have little emotional connection to victims.
Fraudulence
Able to forge a document. Masquerade as another to swindle. Make relationships to take advantage of another. Able to sell fake artifacts.
Burglary
Able to infiltrate a premise undetected for the purpose of espionage or lifting an item. Able to creep in the black of night.
Methodology
Husbandry
Able to communicate with creatures without using words. Calm a domesticated animal, keep a mount from getting spooked, or understand an animal’s intentions.
Analysis
Ability to analyze the movements of an enemy and break down their powers and capabilities.
Memory
Remember facts and recall specific details. Able to memorize writing and glyphs just by looking at them.
Connections and Contacts
Utilize channels of networks of people, both in the underbelly of the ninja clans and in regular life. Have friends in high places.
Encryption
Able to encode and decode messages with ease. Has a cunning use of metaphors, able to use hidden gestures and secret languages to transport messages.
Signal
Able to use signals, signs, writing, hidden messages, and calligraphy, to pass the information on.
Insight
Determine the intentions of someone or something. Can search out a lie or predict someone’s next move. Can glean clues from body language, speech patterns, and changes in mannerisms.
Tactics
Ability to move efficiently and effectively within units and troops. Able to infiltrate an army with ease.
Perception
Spot, hear or detect the presence of something or someone. Measures general awareness of one’s surroundings. Able to hear a conversation through a closed door, eavesdrop under an open window or hear the stealth movement of monsters. Able to spot obscured items.
Nature
Knowledge of terrain, plants, animals, weather, and natural cycles to use toward a plan.
History
Able to recall lore about historical events, legends, people, ancient kingdoms, past disputes, recent and ancient wars, and lost civilizations to make decisions about the task at hand.
Dark Arts
Necromancy
Control and summon creatures from the dead. Bring to life deceased bodies, able to bring forward departed spirits.
Illusion
It can create realism and believable illusions to manipulate other’s senses. Sensory deception and trickery.
Domination
Summoning
Specifically, summon demons and evildoers from other planes and realms to assist with tasks and missions.
Conjuring
Able to produce creatures and objects from another plane.
Transmutation
Able to change energy and matter into different substances. Similar to alchemy.
Transformation
Able to change parts of one’s body into something else.
Clairvoyance
Capable of seeing visions of events in faraway places or in distant past or future.
Curse
Summoning the dark arts to curse another and bring misfortune, misery, and disaster upon others.
Channeling
Have others come and speak through one’s body. Summon spirits to impart information.
Possession
Can head hop into different beings, taking over their bodies and controlling them to do acts against their will.
5 Character Convictions
Appendix IV
Characters are created from a sense of perfection that they hold. As a rule, a character will make a decision based on their innate conviction.
1. Chaos
Seeks strife, destruction of society, destruction of self and order. A loose cannon loves to watch things go up in flames.
2. Order
Demands the world behave through the rule of law. They cannot tolerate hypocrisy. Seeks to correct the world and restore order in it.
3. Self
Looking out for numero uno first. The first priorities are honor, money, power, status, idea, and safety. Always striving to further a personal goal. Rarely care about someone else.
4. Passion
Believes in love. Loving friends, families, and significant others as well as passions for missions and doing a good job. Overall, a passionate person. Protect those who they are passionate for.
5. Loyalty
Willing to sacrifice yourself for the clan, a higher purpose, or a belief.
6. Peace
The belief that one day Nara and Ukiyo Komorebi will be at peace, walking the path of perfect brotherhood.
6 Emotional Bonds
Appendix V
When engaged with another character during an encounter, a player will form an emotional bond based on their conviction toward the other.
If an Emotional Bond already exists, the bond may be replaced with a new bond based on the circumstance. The bonds are chosen at random. Convictions 1-3 will have a negative Emotional Bond 75% of the time. Conviction 4 will have a 50% chance of having a positive or negative Bond, and Convictions 5-7 will have a 75% chance of having a positive Bond. Both negative and positive Emotional Bonds and the Bond chosen are done by random.
The bonds are developed within clans and among clans and add to the complexity of the game.
Positive
1. Sympathy
2. Kinship
3. Physical touch
4. Brotherhood
5. Adoration
6. Faithfulness
Negative
1. Mistrust
2. Anger
3. Jealousy
4. Hate
5. Inadequacy
6. Deadly and Destructive Intentions
7 Character Covers by Clan
Appendix VI
Kagaku Clan
Researcher
Mechanic
Engineer
Artisan
Doctor
Archit
ect
Himitsu Agency
Bureaucrat
Samurai
Police
Lawyer
Politician
Religious Leader
Senshi Clan
Detective
Martial Artist
Athlete
Bodyguard
Mercenary
Security Guard
Erīto Preparatory Academy
Primary School Student
Secondary School Student
High School Student
College Student
Professor
Teacher
Lecturer
Head of School
Band of Tsuihō
Day Laborer
Artist
Waiter/Waitress
Gambler
Writer
Wanderer
Religious Zealot
Clan of the Black Harvest
Traveler
Revolutionary
Activist
Poet
Trader/Importer
Monk
Kanga Clan
Performer
Wife
Waitress
Bartender
Prostitute
Geisha
Samurai
Librarian
Religious Devotee
Weapons
1 Staff Weaponry
Damage is calculated based on the character’s strength, the weapon’s attack, and the enemy’s defense. The formula is as follows:
DMG = (Weapon Attack + Strength) * Attackers Level/8 - (Target Defense + Evasion) * Defenders Level/8
Staffs and canes have a wide range of uses. Among some of the innovations include, hollowed out and chain for cord weapons secretly concealed inside. Poisoned liquids for powered eye irritants could be housed. In addition, blowgun weaponry can be utilized. These can also be used as an underwater breathing tube.
Long-Range Ninja Staff
Varied between six to twelve feet in length. Best used against enemies who wield the traditional samurai sword, or spears, halberds, or staffs of similar reach.
Attack: 45
Medium-Range Ninja Staff
Varied between three to five feet in length. This length is ideal for leverage, pressure point attacks, arm locks, and restraining techniques.
Attack: 30
Short-Range Ninja Staff
Under two and a half feet in length. These could cleverly be concealed in garments and utilized in an element of a surprise attack. Close range techniques involve strangulation, gouging strikes to the vital organs; attacks to the eyes, nose, and ear cavities; securing wrist locks and arm bars; and reinforcing fist or open-hand punching or striking.
Attack: 15
2 Blade Weaponry
Damage is calculated based on the character’s strength, the weapon’s attack, and the enemy’s defense. The formula is as follows:
DMG = (Weapon Attack + Strength) * Attackers Level/8 - (Target Defense + Evasion) * Defenders Level/8
Katana
Characterized by a curved, single-edged blade with a circular or squared guard and long grip to accommodate two hands. Often carried by the samurai of Nara. Roughly between 4 and 5 feet in length. Made of steel.
Attack: 30
Ninjatō
The ninjatō is a short blade and is usually straight. Similar to the samurai katana, but smaller, easier to conceal. Made of steel.
Attack: 15
Shinobigatana
Similar to the ninjatō, but curved and slightly larger. Made of steel, just like the katana and ninjatō.
Attack: 50
Silencer
Forged from an ice mage from the mountain of Kusimari, this sword is made from frozen Shizen Steel, denser than normal steel, therefore it is more sturdy and can cut through metal if the swing is performed with the correct user. The user must be pure of heart, above the 3. Self in their convictions.
Attack: 95
Omega - The Final Blow
Crafted from crystallized gold, it is unmistakable from its obsidian handle. Able to deal a lethal blow to any as long as the wielder has obtained 6. Peace on their convictions. Sentient elves crafted this sword under the blood moon, taking the evil from the blood moon’s reign and repurposing that energy into good that punishes evil.
Attack: 103
Spineripper - The Last Hope for the Dark Souls
The practitioner must be 2. Order or lower to even pick up the sword. Goblins produced this sword of blackened crystal/iron, which can absorb and drain the life force. Weapons forged from blackened crystal require them to be saturated with health from a stimulant, usually fire, and can merely be competently wielded by the Dead.
Attack: 83
Soulblade, Token of Eternal Bloodlust
To perfectly use this blade, one must be at the 1. Chaos character conviction and will deal a lethal blow if the target is of 4. Loyalty or higher.
Attack: 95
Sword of Valeria
Created from the gods of Pitchu Peak, this sword was crafted from the finest frozen alabaster nickel. There is nothing that it cannot cut through. It is the superior sword of them all, best used with a user who has attained 6. Peace on their conviction as a pure heart is best.
Attack: 150
3 Sickle Weaponry
Damage is calculated based on the character’s strength, the weapon’s attack, and the enemy’s defense. The formula is as follows:
DMG = (Weapon Attack + Strength) * Attackers Level/8 - (Target Defense + Evasion) * Defenders Level/8
Kusarigama
Kusarigama is a weapon that includes a sickle and a weight and appears extremely complex. It joins the two components with a tethering chain. The range of the tether is about 1-3 feet. To control it, the weight was thrown at the enemy’s weapon to knock it or lasso the weight in an arm or the enemy’s weapon with the chain. After that, the practitioner would deal a finishing blow with the sickle to the enemy. The techniques of handling Kusarigama are so diverse that users can strike in any way using a combination of a sickle and a weight. It depends upon the ability of the user. The Kusarigama is the right weapon for Ninjas who have superior ability in body use.
Attack: 50
4 Shuriken Weaponry
Damage is calculated based on the character’s strength, the weapon’s attack, and the enemy’s defense. The formula is as follows:
DMG = (Weapon Attack + Strength) * Attackers Level/8 - (Target Defense + Evasion) * Defenders Level/8
Shuriken
Star-shaped weaponry designed to minimize the chances of missing. The art of throwing star-shaped shuriken was an exact science and required countless hours to perfect. Gripping methods, throwing positions, drawing, trajectory, and penetration must all be factored in when using this weapon.
Attack: 20
Sai-Shuriken
The Sai, the intimidating blocking, trapping and stabbing weapon. The style includes a variety of blocks, parries, strikes, and captures against attackers from all directions and height levels.
Attack: 30
5 Weighted Chain Weaponry
Damage is calculated based on the character’s strength, the weapon’s attack, and the enemy’s defense. The formula is as follows:
DMG = (Weapon Attack + Strength) * Attackers Level/8 - (Target Defense + Evasion) * Defenders Level/8
Ninjas rely extensively on the flexibility of the weighted chain weaponry. They proved to be effective in combat.
Manrikigusari
Using only one hand to manipulate the tool and usually must be brought from a place of concealment with the one hand. Snap-strikes, circular twirls, lasso techniques, figure-eight omnidirectional offensive-defensive techniques were some of the effective advancements with this weighted chain weapon.
Attack: 45
6 Air-Propelled Weaponry
Damage is calculated based on the character’s strength, the weapon’s attack, and the enemy’s defense. The
formula is as follows:
DMG = (Weapon Attack + Strength) * Attackers Level/8 - (Target Defense + Evasion) * Defenders Level/8
Blow Gun
Hollowed pipe applied to shoot a target in the air at a target. It can use arrows, needles, darts, or poison darts inside the tube. It can use an instrument to obscure the blowgun. The structure of the blowgun is that it has several holes on the frame for the adjustments so they can use it as a music pipe. Inside of the body, however, a coiled Japanese paper. By revolving the paper, the holes can be closed then they can use the pipe as a blowgun.
Attack: 0
Darts