Tokage Clan

Clan Name: Tokage
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Clan History: In the distant past, there was a group of ninja who apprenticed under a great lizard Sage. Day in and day out they trained to master Senjutsu, only to be met with disappointment from their master's poor directions until, eventually, their master suddenly died from a disease.

Still craving the power of a Sage but with nobody to teach them, the apprentices formed a cult to try and harness the powers of Senjutsu for themselves! They tried experiment after experiment to infuse their bodies directly with the nature energy of a Sage, until, as the next generation of the cult began involving themselves in the research, an attempt at recreating Senjutsu went wrong resulting in a great explosion of natural energy. While the older first generation were overwhelmed by the power and turned to stone, the younger second generation awakened to find themselves cursed with monstrous reptilian forms. However, no matter what they tried, they could never again become human.

Over each following generation, the clan continued with each one looking more human than the last. One day, the curse shall completely disappear. But as for now, on the eighth generation of the Tokage, it still remains in a form much less severe than their ancestors of the past.

Clan Size: 30 NPCs
Clan Appearance: The Tokage clan consists of people who take on a reptilian appearance. All of them are covered in a layer of scales that generally are colored based on their starting element. Their fingers and toes end in sharp claws, although some file their claws down for convenience. Their eyes can be a wide range of colors, but all have a slitted pupil, and most members possess sharp teeth and a lizard-like extended face, although how their actual face looks can vary wildly. Members can grow hair of a varied color and some Tokage have even grown horns or antlers even though the trait is growing less common with each generation. Some Tokage can grow tails, which will slowly regrow if chopped off.

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Clan Location: Mainly focused in the Land of Wind with some going to other nations
Clan's Reputation: Fairly well known, but often noted to be shy and avoid contact with people whenever possible. Tokage are used to being discriminated against or mocked for their appearances and it's not uncommon for Tokage to wear robes or veils to hide their appearance while in public.
Clan Ability/KKg Description:
Reptilian Biology- Tokage bodies are biologically different from normal humans in a few major ways. Firstly, they are mildly cold blooded, meaning they rely on outside heat to stay active. In a hot environment, their bodies will be more active, boosting their Speed by 10. In a cold environment, their Speed will be reduced by 15 and they may even fall asleep. The user's jutsu can neither make their body warmer or colder, but other jutsu can. Also, it's important to note that Tokage do not resist Fire, Lava, or Boil style techniques, they just become more active with heat.

Secondly, the Tokage have enhanced lung capacity. This allows them to take deeper breaths than normal, boosting the power of Jutsu that the user launches with their mouth by one rank (up to Rank A). Any other Rank-Boosting skill overrides this bonus to prevent stacking.

Third, Tokage have a heightened resistance to poison, surpassing humans. However, this also means that they have a resistance to any medical drugs as well. Any poison or drug's effectiveness is reduced by one rank (nullifying D-Rank poisons and drugs) and any effects of them with time limits are reduced by two posts, regardless of if they're positive or negative.

Finally, due to the nature of the clan, members are naturally capable of gathering nature energy by standing still that can be used for any clan-specific jutsu. This follows Sage Mode rules despite not requiring Sage Mode but requires the Senjutsu Skill for each tier. This also cuts the user's Chakra like normal Sage Mode without granting any Stat or Stamina increases and does not grant the ability to rank-up Jutsu with Nature Energy. The user is also UNABLE to use summoning-based Sage Mode, although non-Summoning Sage Mode is still possible. All normal Sage Mode rules and mechanics apply upon activating a non-Summoning Sage Mode.
Clan bonuses: +10 Durability
- This Clan CANNOT change their appearance through any means outside of clan-specific techniques
- This Clan CANNOT use Summon-based Sage Modes of any kind

Clan jutsus:

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1. As far as the poison resistance, please use one full rank & not percentages.

2. Sail Wing Jutsu- We use posts to mark time, not minutes or hours.

3. Venom Fang Technique- Your clan mentions nothing about using poison, only resisting it. To use poison, a shinobi must have adequate skill in medical ninjutsu.

4. Breath Release- First you say the users cannot breathe solid elements like wood & steel, but then at the bottom you say they can IF they figure out a way to do it. This is conflicting and slightly misleading. The pretense being that they cannot, however when apped anyone could use those solid elements in jutsu format. Please choose whether yes or no on this.

5. King Lizard Natural Reversion- Just no. You already have a KKG about a body that is less human and more lizard. Taking this a step further makes your clan seem more like Bijuu/Jinchuurikis than anything. I fyou want plausibility with this, you need to go back to your clan's history roots and incorporate that Senjutsu chakra that made them like this in the first place. Suggestion, make this jutsu a Sage Mode technique.

Good suggestions.

Poison Resistance has been changed and made more clear and all time indicators (Sail-Wing, Poison Resistance, and Poison) has been changed to post counts which can be adjusted if unbalanced.

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The entire clan has been re-worked to be more mechanically focused on Senjutsu. Essentially, due to the clan's history, anyone with an Adept in Senjutsu can gather Nature Energy naturally with all the downsides that go with it, but without any of the positive boosts Sage Mode would give like stat boosts or the ability to rank-up jutsu. This basically means you can gain extra energy for use with clan-specific techniques, since they're based on the original Tokage, but you need to gain all lost chakra back normally and you cannot access Sage Mode with a summon, which means you can only gain Sage Mode once you reach Master in Senjutsu and train to do it on your own.

What this basically means is that the clan's capable of gaining Nature Energy, but because they're basically doing it wrong they don't gain anything other than the extra energy and they need to get Senjutsu to A rank before they can finally gain a true Sage Mode like anyone else. But because their skills are originally based on Nature Energy, it's possible to learn every Clan Technique without investing in anything other than Senjutsu. Which makes this feature a bit of a buff and a nerf since it takes longer to gain Sage Mode, but you can still wait so you can sacrifice Chakra to have a boosted max potential energy reserve that you need to fill up by waiting for your Chakra to naturally come back that can be used for skills.

Basically, what this means IC is as follows:
1. Hopefully the clan will have a more unique feel to it
2. Waiting. Lots of standing still and waiting. As lizards tend to do. So anyone who joins this clan better invest in Stamina because if you want to keep from needing Ninjutsu, you'll have to manually get every big of chakra back manually.

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That aside, Venom-Fang has been fixed but can be accessed through Senjutsu. Breath Release has been made more clear. And King Lizard form has been changed to purely Senjutsu and nerfed so that it takes the cost to go into the form and the rest of the user's Nature Energy to go into, which means that even if the user does have a proper Sage Mode they'll still have to deal with having reduced Chakra since transforming will just straight-up use all Nature Energy. That being said, if someone's crazy enough to go full-Dragon and they somehow manage to wait it out long enough to get back their Chakra on 50 Stamina AND wait X many turns, they can still potentially go Sage Mode in the transformed state. It'll just take forever.

Sorry the re-tooling changed so much and made things a lot more complex than I originally intended, but if everything works and is fine then it'll definitely make this clan feel like you're playing a different type of character.

The dragon form has been changed and re-tooled to basically be a Sage Mode but with differently placed stats to make it more focused to being a big monster and less focused around a generalized boost. These numbers can be adjusted if necessary.