Mentor System

Apprenticeship System:

A ninja is forever learning, evolving, and growing. They are constantly working to improve, and to learn from the generation that came before them. To that end a ninja, regardless of class gains a certain number of Apprentice points. These function as technique points but with the additional requirement of having a mentor to teach and educate them. Each level a Ninja gains a number of apprenticeship points equal to their intelligence bonus. If an apprentice wishes they may also spend their own technique points along with apprentice points in order to pay for a more expensive technique.

In order to spend apprentice points to learn a technique or jutsu the ninja requires another ninja of a higher level to teach and educate them, hereafter referred to as the mentor. The mentor must know the technique being taught, they can't teach something they don't know after all. This teaching requires the mentor to be present for at least half the total training time required to learn the technique or jutsu.

Apprentice points are cumulative from level to level, but anything learned with apprentice points cannot be retrained.