Earth Release Questions

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Support Issue: Basic Rules
The Issue: I'll start with just a couple of questions. There may be others. Also I'm open to others asking their own questions.

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Firstly, since between improvised weapon in brawler and throw anything in throwing/alchemy nearly anything can be used as a weapon, would it be possible to use the weapon creation jutsus to create mundane (solid, nonelectronic) object to beat people with, or do they have to be "classical" weapons like knives, swords, spears, etc?

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Scimitar of Earth
Rank: "C"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: User creates a scimitar made of earth to deal damage and dehydrate an opponent.
Special: Handseals
Drawback: ---
Description: Range of this technique is touch. Effect is 1 scimitar of grinding earth. Duration of this technique is 5 minutes per Class Level. This technique requires a small source of earth nearby. A curved, 3-foot-long blade of earth springs forth from the user's hand, screaming and churning like a caged dust storm. Attacks with a scimitar of earth are melee touch attacks. The blade deals 8 Armour Points of damage, +2 Armour Points per Class Level. In addition to being dealt damage, a creature struck by the user's weapon must succeed on a Fortitude save or become dehydrated. User may create a different weapon so long as it is a one-handed weapon.
Limit: Must know Earth Release.

Stone Shuriken
Rank: "C"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: User can create light weapons to hurl at targets.
Special: Handseals
Drawback: ---
Description: Range of this technique is 7 meters + 6 meters per Class Level. Duration of this technique is instantaneous. This technique requires a small source of earth nearby. This technique allows the user to hurl small stones or tiles at enemies, "stone shuriken". These stones may be the shape of what they wish so long as it is a light weapon. These weapons have no range increment, but the range is equal to the Technique range. User may use stone tiles found on roof tops. Weapon damage however is 9 + 1 Armour Point of Damage per Class Level. User may create an additional light weapon up to 2 per Class Level.
Limit: Must know Earth Release.

Tetsubo of Earth
Rank: "C"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: User creates a two-handed weapon out of earth to deal heavy damage.
Special: Handseals
Drawback: ---
Description: Range of this technique is Touch. Duration of this technique is 5 minutes per Class Level. This technique requires a small source of earth nearby. A 6-foot-long tetsubo formed of earth springs forth from the user's hands. The user wields this weapon with the proficiency of a polearm. Attacks with tetsubo of earth are regular melee attacks. The weapon deals 12 Armour Points of damage, +2 Armour Points per Class Level. User may create a different weapon so long as it is a two-handed weapon (not oversized).
Limit: Must know Earth Release. Must know Scimitar of Earth.

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Secondly, does Stone Shuriken automatically fire itself at a target, or can the projectiles it creates be held onto in order to perform taijutsus with? If they auto fire, what differentiates it from just being Rock Shuriken but better? Keep in mind Rock Shuriken is the same rank and neither requires the other to learn.

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Stone Shuriken
Rank: "C"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: User can create light weapons to hurl at targets.
Special: Handseals
Drawback: ---
Description: Range of this technique is 7 meters + 6 meters per Class Level. Duration of this technique is instantaneous. This technique requires a small source of earth nearby. This technique allows the user to hurl small stones or tiles at enemies, "stone shuriken". These stones may be the shape of what they wish so long as it is a light weapon. These weapons have no range increment, but the range is equal to the Technique range. User may use stone tiles found on roof tops. Weapon damage however is 9 + 1 Armour Point of Damage per Class Level. User may create an additional light weapon up to 2 per Class Level.
Limit: Must know Earth Release.

Rock Shuriken
Rank: "C"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: User creates a huge rock to hammer the opponent.
Special: Handseals
Drawback: ---
Description: Range of this technique is 7 meters + 6 meters per Class Level. Target is 1 creature. Duration of this technique is instantaneous. This technique requires a medium source of earth nearby. User levitates four huge rocks and spins them like shurikens before hurling them at the opponent. Each shuriken has a diameter of 2 meters and deals 9 Armour Points of Slashing Damage per Class Level.
Limit: Must know Earth Release. 

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Also does havoc of the society apply to attacks made with jutsu-created weapons, or does it only apply do jutsus that deal damage DIRECTLY?

For that matter, it doesn't say what kind of jutsu it applies to. So is it only an increase to chakra damage? Or does it apply to taijutsus as well?

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Havoc of the Society
Rank: "C"
Skill: Chakra Trait
Effect: Through countless hours studying vast libraries of Chakra power, they have learned how to cause greater damage to their foes.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Whenever user performs a Jutsu that deals damage, user gains a +10 trait bonus to the total damage dealt (damage is applied to a single attack, cannot be applied to multiple attacks). This damage is considered force damage regardless of the type of damage dealt by the Jutsu. This trait replaces 1 Freebies.
Limit: Must start with Character; replaces 1 Freebies.

[AMATERASU]

Per loki in the box, making basically anything as long as it fits within the size limits of the creation techs is basically fine, and havoc is only chakra (and, presumably, chakra-like) damage, not for taijutsu attacks, and only for direct-damage attacks rather than damage-increasing effects or weapon creation techniques.

All that remains for now is a ruling on the properties/mechanics of the shuriken techs. If I might lean a bit of my own reading on it, the statement that stone shuriken has no range increment seems to imply that it can optionally be used for ranged taijutsu, but doesnt have benefits to range like a normal weapon would. And since ranged taijutsu would require holding the ammo at least briefly, there's no reason why it couldnt be used in melee as well. There is one flaw with the range increment argument I should acknowledge though. While having no range increment is fine for an arrow, bolt, or marble which can rely on the ranged weapon (bow, crossbow, and sling respectively)'s range, throwing weapons rely entirely on the range of the weapon itself. In that case, if I'm right about that being a possibility at all, how would it work in terms of determining range?

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Further question. Earth release frequently inflicts Stagger. Stagger reduces the target to a single move movement or weaving movement per turn, but not both.

If a staggered individual uses their one weaving movement to somehow remove the staggered condition, is their turn still ended or do they regain their full abilities instantly?

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Tremorsense
Rank: "C"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: User gains the ability of tremorsense.
Special: Handseals
Drawback: ---
Description: Range of this technique is Personal. Duration of this technique is concentration up to 5 rounds per Class Level + 1 minute. The user gains the tremorsense 10 meters extraordinary ability for the duration of the technique. User may learn this technique up to 3 times. Each time increases the tremorsense by 10 meters. Tremorsense is sensitive to vibrations in the ground and can automatically pinpoint the location of anything that is in contact with the ground and within range. If no straight path exists through the ground from the creature to those that it's sensing, then the range defines the maximum distance of the shortest indirect path. It must itself be in contact with the ground, and the creatures must be moving. As long as the other creatures are taking physical actions, including performing Jutsus with Handseal components, they are considered moving; they don't have to move from place to place for a creature with tremorsense to detect them. Aquatic
Limit: Must know Earth Release.

What are the rules regarding concentration and where can I find them? Can I cast other jutsu while concentrating? Can I concentrate on multiple jutsus? Can someone tell if I'm concentrating on a jutsu?

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By the way, when those creation techs (shuriken, scimitar, tetsubo) say they can look like any kind of weapon, is that just in terms of shape and they look like sharp-ended rocks, or can I make them polished and give them colors and stuff?

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