Naruto

[Uzor]

During the Zabuza arc they also had construction cranes and shit to help build a bridge.

Should just use Wood Ninjutsu imo. He's built a fucking house in seconds, I'm sure a bridge wouldn't be any harder.

I mean, hell, he created a mountain and a waterfall.

[Vajra]

Should just use Wood Ninjutsu imo. He's built a fucking house in seconds, I'm sure a bridge wouldn't be any harder.

I mean, hell, he created a mountain and a waterfall.

Yamato was just an anon ANBU at this point in the anime. Yamato, The 1st Hokage and Danzo are the only Wood Release users we've seen in the anime PERIOD.

[Sunrider]

Yamato was just an anon ANBU at this point in the anime. Yamato, The 1st Hokage and Danzo are the only Wood Release users we've seen in the anime PERIOD.

Which is weird, seeing that mokuton is supposed to be a kekkei genkai, which would imply that Tsunade and Tobirama would have had it.

[Dantrag]

Imagine it was about 2000, but while computers have developed there is still no internet. Oh and no phone lines too.

But they had Marine class radios D;

[Lucavi]

Methinks you've never played a pen and paper RPG, much less GMed one.

As GM, my "character" is the world, rules are things I make, not follow, and my job is simply to find ways to make the other players write interesting stories for me to see in my head as I work out what is going on.

If you wanna have people slashing at each other, take a cue from Samurai Jack, I'm still pissed that they haven't turned that into a movie, or at least brought it back to TV.


As for Yondy telesmashing shit, the fucker has to put a kunai somewhere/put a marking on something/someone to teleport there. That's a badass, stylish motherfucking bit of creativity. Take the "HA I WIN" button of teleportsmashing shit, and require you to think ahead to do it? Awesome. The tactical ideas I could think of with a character who could do that are far too numerous to list here, but it'd probably across something like Portal if you could put a portal on a moving object.

Naruto is not a pen and paper Western dungeon crawler. Its a shounen, and they all follow the same similar format. A loud, brash protagonist always spouting off about friendship and overcoming trials and whatnot. The sky is literally the limit in shounen, whereas there are clear and definitive rules in a pen and pad.

[Max™]

As the GM, much like the author of a manga, I can adjust, ignore, or even invent new rules. The sky may be the limit for a book legal PC, but as a GM, I could choose to wield the sub-orbital cow-drop jutsu of doomination at my leisure. I could run a game set up like a shonen too, or use similar concepts to run a game where the characters weren't randomly struck too dumb to remember the badass shit they can do.

[Colenzo]

what in the fuck are you talking about? GM? I dont get it

[Souj]

Yamato was just an anon ANBU at this point in the anime. Yamato, The 1st Hokage and Danzo are the only Wood Release users we've seen in the anime PERIOD.

and Yamato and Danzo both were only able to because of using 1st Hokage's cells.
and @Sunrider;
Not all bloodline traits are passed down to everyone. And I don't even see why wood release is one. it's just Water and Earth jutsu's mixed together, which is the element affinities the 1st had.

[Seanr]

I've seen so many super powers in this, and many other anime (and Heroes) go to such waste. I see so many characters get beat and I say to myself "Not only would I have won that fight, I wouldn't have had to even try." I could come up with 100X better uses of most of the abilities I see in these shows with nothing more than high school physics.

Which brings me to my next point, What fucking level of technology are these people at in this show? In one of the movies, they're communicating electronically over headsets, then in the show, they're using fucking carrier pigeons or some shit. In one episode, Kabuto is using a computer to monitor some test subject or research a cure for Orochimaru or something, but they still have to use summons or assholes on foot to carry messages. I know I've seen a ton of examples over the course of the show, but I can't recall them at the moment...

I remember an interview or some shit where the creator said he would only have 8 bit computers in the world as far as computers and technology

[Dantrag]

Not to mention the battle ships in one of the movies :D, but i know that's not cannon so it doesn't matter

[Seanr]

Here

Kishimoto added that, as Naruto takes place in a "Japanese fantasy world," the creator has to "set certain rules, in a systematic way" so that he could easily "convey the story". Kishimoto wanted to "draw on" the Chinese zodiac tradition, which had a long-standing presence in Japan; the zodiac hand signs originate from this. Regarding technology Kishimoto said that Naruto would not have any firearms. He said he may include automobiles, aircraft, and "low-processing" computers; Kishimoto specified the computers would "maybe" be eight-bit and that they would "definitely not" be sixteen-bit.[17]

[Salodin]

Not all bloodline traits are passed down to everyone. And I don't even see why wood release is one. it's just Water and Earth jutsu's mixed together, which is the element affinities the 1st had.

And Haku's bloodline limit was just wind and water mixed together, yet that is considered a bonafide bloodline limit. All bloodline limits (except ocular ones I'm assuming) are a mix of 2+ different elemental chakras mixed together in a certain way to produce the result that only people of a similar bloodline can produce. They never go into detail, but it's pretty obvious when almost every jounin can use 2+ chakra elements yet there are only a handful of bloodline limits in the narutoverse.

[Dantrag]

But Mr. "I shoot rockets" pain isn't very technologically advanced D;

[Salodin]

I think its safe to assume technology, or technology of war to be precise, evolved based on the needs of the ninja world. Theres some electronics, but nothing terribly efficient (like the jugs of battery acid shown during the 5 nation lords agreeing to the pact between nations), or small things like radios that only work short distance (like you see during the genin missions team 7 first got). Anything more then that is old school carrier pidgeon or mail man. With no need for bigger or better thiings because of ninjas, the technology doesnt need to exist.

[Boyiee]

TV's are important for the ninja world.

[Deadgye]

Not all bloodline traits are passed down to everyone. And I don't even see why wood release is one. it's just Water and Earth jutsu's mixed together, which is the element affinities the 1st had.

The ability to combine elements is what is considered a bloodline trait, because it's not something you can learn. Sometimes it gets passed down, sometimes it doesn't. Elemental affinities are sort of similar- in that people don't get to choose what their elemental affinity is and how it can be passed down. But unlike the bloodline traits, not having a strong fire affinity doesn't mean you can't use fire.

[Kiro]

Is there a chapter out this week? Lost the link to the usual manga site since my PC dieded. URL anyone?

[Zeb]

Is there a chapter out this week? Lost the link to the usual manga site since my PC dieded. URL anyone?

No manga this week

[Kiro]

Balls, thanks.

[Max™]

what in the fuck are you talking about? GM? I dont get it

What in the fuck are you talking about? Don't you remember the long ass conversation about RPG's we had last night after we got done fucking?