Samurai Ranks [Suggestion]

[Hisou Rokuna]

I'm totally not suggesting this because I'm a Samurai. That's crazy. CRAZY.

Anyway, a few ranks have been shown in Naruto. (Basically grunts, their leaders, and Mifune). So...I thought it would be fun for Samurai to have them, too. <.< >.> Besides, it would allow the Samurai to be more organized than they are now. It's just kind of...so very disorganized.


D // 0 - 999 EXP [Grunt]
C // 1,000 - 9,999 [Captain]
B // 10,000 - 19,999 [Commander]
A // 20,000 - 49,000 [General]
S // 50,000+ [God General]

For the uniform, I imagine that Grunts would wear the basic armor, Captains get the helmets with horns, Commanders get a cloak that attaches onto the shoulders of the armor similar to Dosus, Generals get a suit of armor similar to Mifune's with the basic helmet, and the God General gets Mifune's armor with a 'face' helmet.

For how rank ups occur...I suppose it would be best to just have a simulated battle between two prospective Samurai commanding a group of three Samurai that are a rank lower than what they're going for (So a Captain's exam would be two Samurai commanding three Grunts in battle.)? Or maybe that's too complicated. *shrug* I'm no good with ideas.

[addy-hime ♥]

We basically already have a system for this;

Rank limits for ninja translates for Non-Ninja in the form of EXP limits - observe below:

D // 0 - 999 EXP [Genin]
C // 1,000 - 9,999 [Chuunin]
B // 10,000 - 19,999 [Jounin]
A // 20,000 - 49,000 [Sannin]
S // 50,000+ [Seated Kage]

Although the above DOES say specifically non-ninja; it's iffy whether samurai are actually counted in this group. Overall, I do like your idea because it is samurai-centric and there would be little confusion left, not to mention the rank-up idea. I think the LMs and such should definitely give it (or something similar) consideration.

[Hisou Rokuna]

Aug 14, 2011 10:32:24 GMT -8 addy-hime ♥ said:

We basically already have a system for this;

Rank limits for ninja translates for Non-Ninja in the form of EXP limits - observe below:

D // 0 - 999 EXP [Genin]
C // 1,000 - 9,999 [Chuunin]
B // 10,000 - 19,999 [Jounin]
A // 20,000 - 49,000 [Sannin]
S // 50,000+ [Seated Kage]

Although the above DOES say specifically non-ninja; it's iffy whether samurai are actually counted in this group. Overall, I do like your idea because it is samurai-centric and there would be little confusion left, not to mention the rank-up idea. I think the LMs and such should definitely give it (or something similar) consideration.

That's kind of why I came up with this. I'm sure that that chart does count for Samurai was well, because they are non-Ninja...but the Samurai did have ranks in the manga. Also, that ranking system makes sense for people outside of an organization (Wanderers, Nuke-nin, etc), but Samurai are basically an organized military group. It just seemed like it would make more sense for them to have a command structure as opposed to roaming bandits or whatnot.

I also imagine that the Samurai would operate differently from the hidden villages, especially seeing as the only function they serve is basically as bodyguards and possibly police as opposed to interrogation, assassin, espionage, etc etc. So a group of varying sizes would be 'rented' instead of a set cell being sent out on missions.

So like a PC Captain could have a few NPC grunts under his command when hired for bodyguard detail or some such thing with the amount varying depending on the danger level of the mission and the NPCs would be significantly weaker than the Captain with their stats based on a tenth of his total EXP spent or some such thing.

Edit: I was stupid, though. I did use the non-ninja power scale thing to come up with what I posted, but I shouldn't have.

That scale is just to show equivalent power. If the Samurai were given ranks, then it should be handled somewhat like the ranks of the hidden villages and not just 'You hit this EXP mark, so promotion for you!'

[Comatose]

As Addy explained, that chart already determines the relative rank. Nobody quite knows what Fina has in store for the Samurai system and mechanics beyond what he has shown. I'll direct him here if he asks for any future suggestions though.