Suggestions about Futakongo

[~Emi~]

We all know the twin clan and a lot of people loves it. However, as I've read through the bloodline a little closer, I've come to realize that they can be quite limited if one wants them to be fairly similar or have clans.
Tai/nin spec, clan/gen spec with 1 clan other than the futakong (with body alterations) would have to use 4 clan slots as both the twins need 2 each. If they want more advanced releases or perceptions they would need to get lower releases that most likely would already be known by the other twin resulting in them using 2 release slots for one element.

Sure, it is how the bloodline work, but twins are often very similar in both pattern and look (except for duo egg twins, they can differ more). So shouldn't we try to encourage people to have twins with similar FS or releases as the other twin?

So my suggestion is this:
Whenever the twins share a release/perception/clan it only takes away one of the overall slots of their specialization instead of two. BUT, whenever they share something, they can only get 1/2 of the maximum TP for that slots normal amount (Since mastery slots are endless, the 50% is at 750 TP as 1500 is the final mastery tech level) unless they use the normal two slots for the release/perception/clan which makes them capable of reaching normal levels for it.

What do you guys say?

(I would also like us to have a dark version of the venators, they needs to fight something truly categorized as evil! xP)

[👺 Usiel]

Mmmm, no. Ya twins can be very similar but the way these are treated are as two characters as one, so everything has to be split in the middle. Hell if you do that, where it just takes 1, then really that's not going to open up much but force people to have twins who are just, the same.

[~Emi~]

Uhm, force? I don´t really see how that would be the case. It would allow them to have twins without being extremely limited with their slots. A Hoshigaki Futakongo would for example have to have 2x water release, 2x Hoshigaki clan slots and 2x futakongo clan slots in the current system (those things are a must if one just wants the bloodline and a clan, since both have to have them all). So for those 6 slots, they would feel obligated to actually get TP in all of those things for them not to be wasted.

But someone wanting to go all futakongo with my suggestion would be no different from the one today, it can without any difficulties be 100% different from its other half. Only that someone like the Hoshigaki above wouldn't be so extremely limited just because of 2 clans.

[👺 Usiel]

After re-reading, that wouldn't help either since there is no limit, and to artificially put a limit onto masteries would take away from it.

[~Emi~]

ok, up to you.

But how about this then:

Since you want (and people appears to play it as such) for the twins to be quite different from each other, what if we do allow them to do just that - have different specialties. With this we will ofc need a restriction to make it work. So the restriction is that they can only be
master and master
or 2x spec 2x non-spec

This makes it a lot easier as one just divides their main things between them, just that it is different slots, and then the minor things. So for 1 taijutsu master and 1 ninjutsu master futakonga can divide the slots like this:

Tai master: may master 2 of 4 fighting styles + may use 300 TP into universal taijutsu + May use 200 Training Points for GenJutsu, Clan or Ninjutsu all together + 1 perception

Ninjutsu master: may master 4 of 4 releases + may use 500 TP into universal ninjutsu + May use 200 Training Points for GenJutsu, Clan or Ninjutsu all together + 1 taijutsu