Clans can be composed of either blood-related individuals or a variety of groups or people allied to one another. Each clan itself is also aligned with a particular village or country as well.

Though many are typically of the former variant, members may also be adopted into a particular familial clan, pending the founder’s approval. This includes both the founder’s own NPCs, and other user characters, if the founder approves their entry into the clan.

These characters may learn and teach Hiden techniques at the discretion of the founder. Clan members not related by blood to the family, however, cannot access the clan bloodline techniques.

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Clan Techniques:

Kekkei Genkai and Hiden techniques can be submitted with either flat costs or percentage costs. Additionally, players have the choice to use either branched Trained Style Feats, wherein the user acquires a tree of set techniques through reaching certain requisites, or slotted techniques. The advantage to these two different types is that Trained Style Feats are techniques that, while allowed more power and complexity than your standard slotted techniques, are limited to a maximum of 5 techniques.

Slotted techniques are far more numerous:

E-Rank: 10 Techniques
D-Rank: 10 Techniques
C-Rank: 8 Techniques
B-Rank: 6 Techniques
A-Rank: 4 Techniques
S-Rank: 2 Techniques

Trained Style Feat techniques can use either percentage costs or flat costs. Slotted techniques use only flat costs.

The advantages of either are obvious; with Trained Style Feats, though the number of techniques is limited as compared to slotted techniques, these techniques scale in power as the user grows stronger and are typically not tied to any specific stat other than Chakra or Chakra Control. Whereas slotted techniques have slots attributed to each based on its rank. However, the advantage of having a catalog of abilities has its appeal as well.

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Joining Clans:

With the permission of the creator of the clan in question, you are allowed to have either your PC or an NPC join another family.

Remember, if you are a part of someone else’s clan, do not bother them about how they run their clan. Though there is no harm in bringing your own ideas to them, do not bother them to submit clan techniques they themselves have not created and do not deride them for not considering yours. It is their clan, and they’re allowed to run it as they see fit. Period.