Best solution is to create Nukenin counterparts to certain professions such as Protection Ninja and KYOBU/ANBU. The reason being that profession stacking would become OP. Imagine being an ANBU for however many years, then suddenly changing over to the protection ninja profession. Not only do you get to carry over all of the skills you learned as ANBU, but the armor you got, and all of the jutsu. Now you're an ANBU with an additional SC slot and a new set of jutsu to learn among other things. You could do this ad infinitum until you ran out of professions to hop. Sure, it may take a while, but if you consider it; any combination of 2 professions could be drastically abused. It would unbalance characters significantly if they had access to things designed to be profession limited.

Additionally, as someone above has said I'm sure; you're choosing to change professions. Do you get rewarded for quitting your job? Hell no. You may get unemployment, but otherwise you're going to have to start over, pick up new skills. Along the way, you'll forget those old skills. Maybe the instinct will still be there, but if you stop playing sports right out of highschool, then decide 10 years later to pick up; regardless of how good you were in your prime, you'll never be that good again, ever. You'll have a knack for it, but you sure as hell wouldn't keep the ability from that time. In regards to jutsu: you can't keep those either as I can imagine someone very easily joining ANBU for the AoE Genjutsu, then leaving after a few weeks. Defeats the purpose of it being a jutsu stuck to a profession if you can just pop in, take it, then leave. It's also incredibly lazy and irresponsible of the RPer to loophole a system there to help them. So yeah, while it's a bit strict, you'll never be able to carry over things from one profession to another. It would make certain characters annoyingly powerful.

Nuclear wrote:

if you change professions you loose all benefits from the old one while if you simply leave a profession but don't take another you can keep whatever old benefits you had but not learn new ones.

I quite like this idea. It's a sensible rule. I'll see what I can do about adding something along those lines; however even if such a thing were to be added, the requirements for simply leaving would be rather strict. Again, we don't want people to just pop into a profession to steal some techniques and armor then leave a month later by BSing their way out. At the very most, the restrictions may be something along the lines of "Can only retire after x IC years," or "Character must go rogue."

I don't quite like the idea of having to pay for professions. The loyalty thing could work; except as Adam said, people can just not RP as the profession. The best solution in my opinion is to say something along these lines:

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Members are allowed to leave their profession at any time to seek out another; however all skills, jutsu and equipment from their previous profession will not be carried over into their new profession. Additionally, if a member opts not to go for another profession, they may keep any abilities, equipment and jutsu that the profession entails provided they have shown adequate devotion to their job. This will be judged based on how much the member RP'd with their character under this profession, how this profession effected the character, and whether they RP'd the profession properly and were in character correctly. Think of it as a pension for hard work. If a character decides to go rogue while in a certain profession, or decides to go from a criminal to a civilized village ninja, the above stipulations still apply.

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So... Ninja A takes up profession B, but then goes rogue; so long as they don't take up another profession, they keep the perks of the profession they had when they left?

Yes. Or do you want us to keep it the way it is and just deny anyone from keeping skills altogether?

Alrighty then. Edits will be made alongside the rest of the professions in the near future. Until then, just be patient. Topic will be left unsolved so it doesn't slip our mind, but since the discussion has ended it will be locked to prevent those pesky trolls.