Now I can see it doesn't fit my shelves.

Got to rearrange my manuals. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

part 1 here.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gurps/s/jxa3KjExIs

Nen reserve

ST+DX+IQ+HT+FP+LP extra = 1 character point

Aura flow

Is a Will easy skill. The Skill Level is very important. This is the only skill used in it. All the advanced nen techniques are just techniques worth 1 point to say you know how to do it. Extra points increases your level for just that technique.

Nen outputted gives you temporary characters points to use at the techniques.

in our example 16 Skill level

Costs

It costs nothing to use it under your skill level. But consider it as fatigue costs of a related activity. Enhancing walking would be every minute, enhancing running every 15 seconds, and so on. Specially after battles. Recover it at the same rate as life! Not as FP!

Over the fence

You can use more than you skill level allows, but every extra point is lost at the end of the round. That means you can use great bursts of power in strategic moments, but that quickly burns your potential.

Keep in mind using your aura under your level is cheap on purpose, that's the gap between masters and beginners.

Aura Residue

1/10 of your max reserves + 1/5 of your output roof in use + any over the fence aura. Note that down if you use a common scheme.

This number, rounded up is your Aura Residue, anyone gets a bonus equal it to detect you using a normal perception roll. Average out if many users are near the target. You may determine the enemy value this way, and you can use that to measure up their potential. They can do the same to you.

Rolls

You only roll in 3 scenarios:

1 You want to increase your aura output. Make a flow check, penalty equal any over the fence points. This is supposed to be asked only once per scene. The roll is for raising the roof, meddling under ir is free of rolls. This roll takes 1 second and requires concentration.

2 Activating Techniques. Check the technique, bonus for the extra levels in it. Activating it requires concentration and takes 1 second. Every current active technique gives -1 cumulative at all nen rolls. You can activate two or more at a time, at -3 for each.

3 Keeping concentration. At a penalty equals the number of active techniques, any over the fence levels, and -3 if you are concentrating at something else too.

Ren

You activate your ren by choosing an attribute to increase at the rate of +10% per point in ren. Always round down.

So if we use our 16 available points, we could increase one attribute in 160%, or two at 80%, or one at 100% and save 6 points for other stuff.

I usually allow only ST, DX, speed and move at base levels, and hunters can learn more specialized ren uses if they see fit.

Ten

Passive DR equals 1/5 of the used aura. Ablative, flexible, doesn't add against metabolic damage and doesn't cover membranes.

It is undone by damage, it remakes itself automatically next turn, at no cost, while it is active.

Zetsu

Success margin erases residual aura.

Any success blocks your use of nen and its Techniques, halves the recuperation time for nen, fatigue and life, and gives you +4 in stealth.

Someone with a big aura residue can take many tries to accumulate the necessary success to execute a perfect zetsu.

*En*

Each point gives you one of these. Each option counts as a different technique for every purpose.

- Precision: +1 in IQ and skill rolls to analyse what you got

- Avidity: +1 In perception rolls to detect movement and surprise attacks

- Distance: Grows one step in the distance/speed table. Stuff outside your field of distance is not even detected at all.

Weird Ens should be brought as different techniques.

IN

Any success makes the ability invisible to however is not using gyo.

Note your margin, it becomes a penalty to gyo users trying to see it.

You get a penalty equal to the residual aura contributing from the ability. (1/5 of its total point cost)

KEN

Each point invested gives you 1 DR identical to TEN.

GYO

Invest the necessary amount to activate the advantage it gives. Each one is a separate techniques

- Eyes: [3] Allows you to see aura.

- Legs : [10] Doubles your move

- Jumping: [12] can jump your entire move in any direction.

Keep in mind those are normal advantages from the book with modifiers, i can see quirky characters learning gyo for the ears and whatnot, just price it as the necessary advantage. You might have noticed see the invisible is usually 15 points, i divided it because the eyes are small, and gyo is crucial in combat. Enhanced move is usually 20, i halved it because of the legs size, and because it helps my campaign and doesn't make a big difference in our style. Jumping however, is walk on air [15] with a -20% accessibility (touching the ground once per second), with no reduction because it needs the whole body taking impact, and because it could bring balancing issues to my table. Go moderately nuts with gyo.

KO

Body size parts take less aura to cover than the whole person.

Torso or two limbs: multiply aura in it by x1.5

One limb, the head, or half the torso: x2

Hand or smaller: x3

Every division like this is a separate instance of KO (E.x. for concentration purposes)

SHU

Each level of shu costs 10+SM of the object (minimum 1). Choose the type, each type is a different technique and instance.

- Enhance: Increase the quality of an item. You can't go above maximum quality without using hatsu or special shu techniques.

- Protect: Each level gives it DR exactly like TEN and KEN.

- Time: Normally it last for 10 seconds only. Each level of time increases this as: 30s/2min/6min/1h/24h

Shu depletes the invested aura, you can't get it back without special abilities.

To recreate some stuff we see characters doing, I advise you to consider most objects as terrible quality improvised weapons. A card ♦️ could be a terrible quality shuriken, for example, and a volleyball ball could be a terrible quality nuclear bomb.

RYU

is Aura flow/2 +3 +any levels bought of this technique.

Ryu counts as an active defense, but you get one as a free action every turn.

On a success, you can change your aura really fast in response to something.

Keep in mind protecting an arm from a big blow would require KEN and KO activated at the same time, so -3 for each. RYU bypasses that penalty. But you still get penalties for going over the fence. Its safer to utilise your already outputted aura, even if you break whatever scheme you had for next turn.

HATSU

You need to invest the entire point cost of the advantage as output.

It's advised to include at least 1 level of " costs FP" that is actually nen instead of FP. When building it the player should choose between the every use, every second or every minute option.

But keep in mind the players is already occuping a big part of his output with the skill, they will pay NEN as fatigue if using it too much or in combat, and they might risk going over the fence to activate it in battle while using other techniques. So the "costs nen" limitator is not necessary.

As usual Your nen affinity gives a -100% modifiers, neighboring affinity gives -50% modifiers, next ones give +50% modifiers and the polar opposite affinity gives you +100% modifier.

The -100% is an incentive to get at least +20% amplifying mods, since gurps max reduction is -80%.

Your hatsu might need extra skills like inate attack to breathe fire or direct rays of your hands, this technique only covers the aura placement necessary to activate it.

Every hatsu produces 1/5 of its cost as aura residue. You deal this as extra damage to users without ten, but this damage might awaken them!

Emotion

Your feelings should be a problem for nen, any mental disadvantage or failure to control emotions should double the residual aura you release. That's how your enemy might catch on to your aggression, and even non users might feel observed. Remember that this could potentially double your damage against unprotected targets!

That's It.

Tell me your thoughts on it. I'm still playtesting this second version, but I'm happy that it is much simpler to use and track. It is a bit more powerful and deadly, but that's the feeling I was looking for.