[gurps] Kage Bunshin no jutsu

[Bay Grabowski]

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Hal wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: gurpsnet-l-bounces at sjgames.com 
>> [mailto:gurpsnet-l-bounces at sjgames.com] On Behalf Of Troy Guffey
>> Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 6:48 AM
>> To: GURPSNet
>> Subject: [gurps] Kage Bunshin no jutsu
>>
>> I've been reading a little bit of Naruto fanfic and this 
>> technique sounds 
>> AWESOME!   For those who don't know, it's a chakra technique 
>> where you 
>> create duplicates of yourself  from manifested shadow.  The 
>> drawback in combat is that they're kind of fragile: One solid 
>> hit and they dissipate.
>>
>> However, the NON-combat uses are rather more nifty:  Because 
>> when the Shadow Clones disperse you gain their experience!  
>> So if you are trying to learn something, you just create 
>> several Shadow Clones and have them all go and try the 
>> technique.  If one gets popped, you now know what DOESN'T 
>> work, and when they succeed and get dismissed you know what DOES work!
>>
>> Naruto has a BIG advantage for learning stuff fast:  He can 
>> create at LEAST 100 of them at a time!
> 
> So what you'd need to do is quantify how quickly someone using this
> "technique" can learn something, as well as add in the actual advantage of
> being able to create illusionary duplicates dispersed with only 1 hit of
> damage... Sounds simple for GURPS 4e  *snickering slyly*
> 
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Wasn't there some sort of specific advantage for the clones part, Clone
or Combat Fugue, something like that? I don't have my books with me.

Bay Grabowski
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