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Originally Posted by Law
I have a lot of experience with M&M, and none of this sounds particularly difficult, if all the players are familiar with the source material and you have a GM who knows what she's doing. Source books aren't necessary, but they are especially good at making sure the players and GM are on the same page (something a good GM can do without a book, if the players are cooperative).
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I didn't say how easy or hard it would be, I said it would require a bit of house ruling to pull off.
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1. You don't need to give anything for "free." You just need to make sure everyone buys the things they are supposed to have. If this means tweaking the PL/PP ratios, easily done as well.
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If you have to tweak the PL/PP ratios to compensate, you're essentially giving them for free anyway, so you're really just arguing semantics. The point is that
every single character is going to have the same array of baseline abilities, so it's something that has to be hammered out for all the characters, which will effect the power level of the entire game, and needs to be compensated for in some way.
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2. Depending on how often ninjas run out of power, you could either make it a complication (that's what I would do). Or you could just add "Limited to X number of uses without resting" to the array(s).
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Every character is going to be different. You can't just slap a complication on it and call it a day, or turn it into a vancian system by letting them use each individual power X number of times per day. Like mana, chakra determines the character's ability to mold their inner strength into outward force, and it depletes as it's used. Some characters have very small pools of chakra, but know how to use it with precision (Shikamaru, Sakura, Kabuto), while others have very large chakra pools but may burn it up in flashy and powerful techniques (Naruto, Sasuke, Gaara). In the end, all characters can eventually deplete their own chakra, but how much effort that takes is individual in nature.
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3. Sounds like a simple power array with the "Earth jutsus" descriptors. If there are complex limitations just write them up in however many sentences needed to describe their limitations and then assign a Flaw value to them (-1, -2, etc.).
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Like I said, possible, but takes a lot of work, and a lot of house ruling.