He has chakra. And he needs to use it to boost his attributes or opening the Gates would do literally nothing for him.
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Don't worry too much. It looks like Fixer's doing quite a bit of the heavy-lifting and those of us who do understand it will try not to fuck things up.
No, Hinata definitely has the anima. It's just that generally the anima peters out on its own without any negative side-effects (other than being out of motes). It's learning how to harness the mote reactor that requires pushing yourself to withstand your own True PowerTM.
My current very tentative thought process is to combine @Crilltic's Princess of Blades Chakra Rating system (shinobi are rated 1 to 10 in terms of threat) with @yrsillar's Forge of Destiny Enlightenment system. In sum, the higher rated you are on the chakra rating system, the more automatic successes you get against those of a lower rating than you are, with exponential advantages the higher you go. This would neatly model how a kage-level shinobi basically renders grunt shinobi irrelevant and would prevent me having to give kage some absurd attributes in order to model them.
To give you some idea of how it'd work, the Forge of Destiny system has three divisions in between each major increases in rank - low, mid, high - and between low, mid, high there's a single auto-success difference between each. So, for the purposes of Naruto, a high chuunin fighting a low chuunin would get 2 auto-successes against them. If you increase an entire rank, however, the difference becomes twice as large. A low jounin fighting a high chuunin would have 2 auto-successes over him, and a high jounin fighting a low chuunin would have 10 auto-successes over him. This doubles again if you go up yet another rank. A high jounin fighting a high genin would have 24 auto-successes over him.
Now, of course, these rankings are not the official ones - Naruto was a kage-level shinobi masquerading as a genin for like 99% of the series, and skill-wise Neji's already the equivalent of a chunin.
For Lee, there'd be an equivalent Physique Rating system. Chakra Rating would be far more important (not sure how yet), but for every rank up in Physique you get to expand the limits of your physical dice pools. Also, probably, some vague nods at speed: every rank up your speed increases by some vague formula that basically means 'goes real fast' and, every physique rank difference (not division) against an opponent means you get to act two ticks to their one.
The Eight Gates permits you to forcibly increase your physique rating, with the final gate permitting you to literally rank yourself higher than the highest rank - but only for X actions and then you die.
But, like I said, I'm not great at mechanics, the numbers are there to give everyone a general idea of what's going on. Also, these auto-successes only apply to individual combat: social combat remains an even playing field save for the bonus willpower having a higher ranked chakra rating gives you.
All this remains quite tentative.
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Why the eyes?
1) Thematically it fits better. Hinata is a Hyuuga. Getting a powerup that deals with her eyes and perception fits the best. And if you take her personal history, revealing people who are trying to hide for all to see is a great power for her.
2) Shenanigans with Orochimaru's copies in the curse seal, bijuus, spirits of reincarnates hovering over Naruto and Sasuke, possibly actual ghosts (like Kakashi's dad) are very fun (or at least I think they could be)
3) A second purchase allows us to render immaterial beings touchable. Ie "f*ck you, Tobi, die".
I have very little idea (ie don't remember at all) what "Full Moon" means exactly in terms of castes, but eye power is appropriate and leads to fun later. Plus, it's in the name of the quest itself.
1) Thematically it fits better. Hinata is a Hyuuga. Getting a powerup that deals with her eyes and perception fits the best. And if you take her personal history, revealing people who are trying to hide for all to see is a great power for her.
2) Shenanigans with Orochimaru's copies in the curse seal, bijuus, spirits of reincarnates hovering over Naruto and Sasuke, possibly actual ghosts (like Kakashi's dad) are very fun (or at least I think they could be)
3) A second purchase allows us to render immaterial beings touchable. Ie "f*ck you, Tobi, die".
I have very little idea (ie don't remember at all) what "Full Moon" means exactly in terms of castes, but eye power is appropriate and leads to fun later. Plus, it's in the name of the quest itself.
That's No Moon. Full Moon is fightiness.
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Right, I keep mixing them up because the punchy option isn't the punchy caste.
1) To your thematics argument I present mutations. Bloodlines are mutations. So are curse seals.
I'm interested in seeing what happens if we can copy a Sharingan and run it simultaneously with a Byakugan; doesn't even require killing Saucekid to pull it off.
2) Orochimaru has no link with Hinata's story at the moment. Frankly, neither does Tobi.
And Tobi is not immaterial; what he has is a modified Perfect Dodge.
Curse seals are not mutations - they are graft-type (craft:genesis, likely) artifacts. Like artificial wings and such.
Tobi uses perfect dodge by becoming immaterial.
Disagree strongly.
We see the entire process by which Sasuke got his curse seal, and then evolved it.
And for the purposes of TAW, I quote:
Those are mutations by TAW definition.
Biological changes installed by Craft: Genesis would also be mutations.
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To be precise, a curse seal user translated to TAW terms is using the Alternate Form mutation to activate a bunch of associated mutations for a superform.
That's it.
Nothing unheard of or unaccounted for.
Disagree.
We see his technique explained in canon in detail; he shifts his body into what amounts to a sanctum.
No state change involved.
There is precisely one clan that uses immaterial techniques: The Yamanaka.
Dan Kato also specialized in that as well, but he was S-class. And dead.
And Tayuya used immaterial summons.
That's it.
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Apologies, but no. Mutations are essentially a way of representing low power modifications to the body. For example, stacking damage and soak mutations, you can become about as dangerous as someone in full plate armour carrying a two-handed weapon. Which you could also do by just wearing armour and carrying a big sword.
To put it another way; all mutations are modifications to the body, but not all modifications to the body are mutations. Infernal Shintai Charms, for example, are too powerful to be represented by mutations except when the point of the Shintai is something like Devil Tyrant Avatar Shintai which is just like "Yo, have Essence x 10 mutation points to build a boss monster form". But something like the Greater Shintai of the Endless Desert, which turns you into a mile wide Imhotep sandstorm-desert is outside the scope of mutations. Or, indeed, simply most Permanent Charms modify the user's body in some way, but they're not mutations. Hell, the Shapechange Spirit Charm isn't a mutation.
What Cursed Seals do is outside the scope of what the Mutation system can support - at least in the ways that matter. I mean, sure, Sasuke's hand-wings can be represented that way, but that's just what the Curse Seal is doing. The core of it is the power boost, not the relatively minor modifications and that's not a mutation. And this matters for Lunars, because... well, you know, it's kind bad (and disrespectful to the Naruto setting) if Hinata can just get the benefits of a Curse Seal as a mutation that she can turn off. Curse Seals are cursed power that comes at a great cost, and that narrative role should be respected.
Here are the current rules for how anima reactor exhaustion kicks in.
So, yeah, a totemic flare is probably going to wipe most characters out until they rest. Even a bonfire flare is something you avoid unless you're pressed.
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Way I see it the closest thing I can find to a cursed seal in Exalted is probably those moonsilver tattoos...
... *sigh* At least no one's voting for Full Moon (the physical class). Or almost no one by this point.
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It's been said before, but No Moon is the Mental Attribute-focused class specializing in Perception, Intelligence & Wits. It's just being offered as part of the physical package here for some reason.
Well take that one up with Fixer. I did have the right one apparently and then checked the opening post:
He has No Moon as the physical and Full as the Mental.
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Take what thing up?
The QM has a list of Physical Charms offered along with No Moon Phase. Charms are not the same thing as Instinctive Attributes. Your Instinctive Attributes are determined by your Phase.
I'm not sure why you would assume I have some sort of issue with the QM when all I did was offer information from the rules linked in the first post of the thread. Sure, it would be a natural assumption to make that No Moon was physical... if you never bothered to read the link.
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You might not, but literally everyone else is probably looking at them and going Eyes = Mental and Fists = Physical caste.
And for your information, I read the entire thing yesterday. People mix this up sometimes, who would have guessed.