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Welcome to Naruto Quest: Feeling Blue #1
I’m new to being a QM, but not new to quests in general. That being said, I’m willing to take suggestions on how I can improve things as we go along: Dice mechanics, writing focus, whatever. It’s all on the table so long as it’s presented to me in a persuasive manner.
>The Setting
You’re five years older than Naruto. You live in Konohagakure. Your family is from Kirigakure. The third shinobi world war is over, but it’s still fresh in the minds of most adults. So is the attack of the Nine-Tails. The Uchiha clan still exists, but it’ll probably be wiped out by Itachi later on unless something radically changes, and to be honest even if you tried it’s more or less out of your control. I’m going to deliberately stay away from canon characters/details as much as I can without breaking any setting logic, but they’ll make appearances sometimes as what I essentially consider to be easter eggs and I won’t generally pursue those threads or expect you to pursue them either. They exist and will come up but won’t be the focus other than setting the scene for the setting.
As for broad plot changes, like a lot of people I’m not too fond of the space alien angle things take later on, nor am I fond of the excessively OP bullshit later on that turned the setting into a superhero thing.
To that end, first, in this iteration of the setting the nature of chakra has a much more spiritual aspect. Rather than it just being a muscle that is trained, it requires a connection to the spirit world and a more philosophical mindset. Kami, yokai, spirits and demons are now present and (Relatively) common. The vast, vast majority of these entities are not sapient. Connecting with your own spiritual nature and the spirits in the world around you is a key part of getting really good with jutsu. The Otsutsuki clan still exists, but rather than traveling from another world they’re just the spirit world’s analogue for humans. Gamabunta is to toads what Kaguya is to humans would be an easy way of looking at it. There are many other ramifications to this in the background and setting logic, but I’m not going to go over every single thing up-front.
I’m new to being a QM, but not new to quests in general. That being said, I’m willing to take suggestions on how I can improve things as we go along: Dice mechanics, writing focus, whatever. It’s all on the table so long as it’s presented to me in a persuasive manner.
>The Setting
You’re five years older than Naruto. You live in Konohagakure. Your family is from Kirigakure. The third shinobi world war is over, but it’s still fresh in the minds of most adults. So is the attack of the Nine-Tails. The Uchiha clan still exists, but it’ll probably be wiped out by Itachi later on unless something radically changes, and to be honest even if you tried it’s more or less out of your control. I’m going to deliberately stay away from canon characters/details as much as I can without breaking any setting logic, but they’ll make appearances sometimes as what I essentially consider to be easter eggs and I won’t generally pursue those threads or expect you to pursue them either. They exist and will come up but won’t be the focus other than setting the scene for the setting.
As for broad plot changes, like a lot of people I’m not too fond of the space alien angle things take later on, nor am I fond of the excessively OP bullshit later on that turned the setting into a superhero thing.
To that end, first, in this iteration of the setting the nature of chakra has a much more spiritual aspect. Rather than it just being a muscle that is trained, it requires a connection to the spirit world and a more philosophical mindset. Kami, yokai, spirits and demons are now present and (Relatively) common. The vast, vast majority of these entities are not sapient. Connecting with your own spiritual nature and the spirits in the world around you is a key part of getting really good with jutsu. The Otsutsuki clan still exists, but rather than traveling from another world they’re just the spirit world’s analogue for humans. Gamabunta is to toads what Kaguya is to humans would be an easy way of looking at it. There are many other ramifications to this in the background and setting logic, but I’m not going to go over every single thing up-front.
