I made up 8 Stands

[1] 「BIG K.R.I.T.」
Type: Medium Range, Average Stats
Ability: This stand launches objects with telekinetic force. The amount of force is the same no matter the size or air resistance of the object, so small objects like stones or coins are launched as hard as bullets, where as large objects like cars are shoved only a few meters. The object cannot be a living thing, but severed limbs could work.

However, once an object is launched, it will then rapidly begin to heat up over the course of one minute. The object will give off an amount of heat in proportion to its size. Small objects will get so hot that picking them up will burn your hand, where as large objects will get so hot they'll start to melt metal and cook the air around them. After this minute, the object will begin to cool down at a normal speed. Objects still warmed from this ability cannot be fired again with the telekinetic blast. The heat generated from this ability also will not damage the object itself, but anything around it can be affected.

[2] 「MURDER AT MIDNIGHT」
Type: Remote Control Stand
Ability: This stand appears as a weazel ball made of flesh, with a highly stylized wolf connected to it. This stand can be used on anyone if the user makes them bleed- it can be from a cut, punch, medical procedure, etc. The 'ball' will sink into the person and become dormant. At the exact moment a digital clock would end in a 0 (as in, every 10 minutes), the Stand will activate and begin to explode the person from the inside out with large, bite-shaped holes over their body once every minute.

If you are affected by this stand, it is possible to transfer it to someone else by drawing their blood before the clock hits the zero. If the time is up, the Stand will not stop attacked until whoever it is within is dead, but if they manage to survive for long enough then it will be transferred to the next person whose blood was drawn by whoever the stand was in last. It is also possible to transfer the Stand into animals, blood bag storage room in the hospital, etc.

 

[3]「MINNIE THE MOOCHER」
Type: Close Range Power Type
Ability: Whenever this Stand punches someone with a solid, good hit- one bead on the right (yellow) side of its abacus is slid over. Once all the beads on the left side have slipped over, one bead on the left (red) will slide over and all the right beads reset.

For every left side (red) bead that is active, the Stand can perform one totally unerring hit. This hit ignores physical terrain, range limit, and other Stand abilities. Once this hit is done, the bead slides back and is considered used up. As the power of this Stand grows, the number of beads on the right side of the abacus decrease, thus making it easier to use the more powerful left side beads. Also, as a surprise this Stand could potentially have right-side beads get slid over by "defeating" another Stand user in a game or sport preemptively before a battle.

If the Stand hits anyone else while it has active beads, ALL of its beads are reset, both on right and left. This Stand is only good with one on one battles.

[4]「HELL N BACK」
Type: Swarm Type, Excellent Defense
Ability: This Stand appears as a swarm of flower blossoms with no stems. Whenever this Stand is used, the user can create exactly one flower on an object. Because this is a swarm type stand, destroying just one flower head deals essentially no damage to the Stand user. Every few seconds, the flower buds will start to multiply- first creating a bud, and then 'blooming' when its active. Destroying a flower will prevent it from multiplying, but Flowers can be placed in sneaky places like inside a pant leg or handbag, or even inside your mouth and can multiply to go totally out of control.

Once there are at least two or more flowers, the person must repeat any action they attempt equal to the number of flowers on their body. If the flowers are on an object, then you must use the object that many times equal to the number of flowers. For example, if the flowers were placed on you and you took a step, you'd need to step as many times as there were flowers. If you fired a gun covered in flowers, you'd need to pull the trigger equal to the number of flowers on the gun and so on.

[5]「LIONROCK」
Type: Closer Range Power Type, Poor Stats
Ability: This Stand looks liked a golden, idealized version of a man with a wrestling championship belt. It has a hole where its face should be, which from behind the user almost looks likes its framing their face. This Stand's ability is to just make everything the user does, says, or attempts to do look incredibly intimidating and powerful.

Against this Stand and its user, you'll feel as though you're hopelessly outmatched, unless thought is used to see that the effects of his actions are mediocre at best. The Stand is actually really weak and shitty, it just tricks people into giving up by seeming unbeatable.

[6] 「NATIONAL ANTHEM」
Type: Remote Control Stand
Ability: This stand is a small instrument or music player. The Stand Master simply has to play or begin the tune around the intended target. From then on, the target will start to hear the Stand from any other device that can play music, such as phones, televisions, music players, intercoms, street musicians, and so on.

As they hear the music, their body will begin to transform into an animal. The animal is always a stereotype of their body and personality- a big hairy guy might start to turn into a bear, a slim swimmer will turn into an otter, flirty librarian will turn into a big fancy bird, and so on. The transformation takes a long time, but goes faster the longer they are within range of the music. The person turning into an animal will retain their full human mind and ability until the transformation is complete, in which case they are fully an animal in both mind and body.

 

[7]「ABRACADABRA」
Type: Medium Range, High Defense
Ability: This Stand has a long purple cloak which is used for its ability. If this cloak covers any part of a living thing, that part of the living organism will turn into a robotic version of it. The person or animal still retains full control of that body part, but it now has the capabilities of a machine and the disadvantages of a machine at the same time.

For example, a person with their legs turned into a machine's legs mean they are as hard as metal, and they won't get tired from running around, but they would 'short out' from getting shocked or their metal parts would rust very fast if submerged in water, and so on. Any stand that heals living things won't work on robots, but anything that can repair or modify machines could work on the robot body parts. The user of this Stand can use it to turn themselves into a machine for strength, or enemies to try and disable them.

[8]「BLIND GUARDIAN」
Type: Long Range
Ability: This stand appears like a flat, chrome eagle. This is a long range stand, and the user can see anything reflected in its body as long as they are outside at the same time (they look at the reflection on its body with a supernatural sense of sight). The eagle itself cannot see, and requires its user to guide it. As it flies, it can turn sideways to become nearly invisible to anyone on the ground, but if it turns sideways towards its user they will not be able to see anything through it.

This stands ability forces anyone the user can see to "trip". The person can trip in any direction, even straight up. The ability deals very little damage on its own, but can obviously be used to 'trip' people into dangerous objects or into other people to start fights etc. People who are agile can recover from these trips, but the more injured you are the more powerful these trips become. Eventually the "trips" become more like being flung several feet in any direction the Stand user choose- even including straight up to slam them against the ground or kill them from a far height.

UUUU- Super Hero Card Game Concept

This post is kind of silly. It's about an untested, unillustrated, untitled, and un-complete card game about super heroes. I've had the concept for this card game at least 5 to 10 years ago, and while it's not the most original thing in the world, I wanted to make a post about it to get it out of my head.

The Mission Board

In this game, both players play as super hero teams. Either competing teams, one player being more “hero” and one being more “villain”, or some other concept. Regardless, both players have a group of super heroes, gadgets, and other things as cards in their hands. In the middle of the board there is a small 'line' of missions. Each round, a new mission comes off the mission deck- and pushes them all by one space. If there is 5 missions already on the field, then the farthest mission ends and nobody gets the advantage for it. This basically gives each mission a soft time limit. Otherwise, each mission is pushed forward until the field is full.

Both players send their heroes in teams to defeat the missions. Each mission has 3 challenge ratings- they match the symbols on the player cards. These ratings are;

Travel- Represented by the Yellow Triangle. This is the level of how difficult it is to get to the mission. Only heroes with this number or higher for travelling can be sent to the mission, only they can “reach” the mission. For example, a drug den in a city would have a travel requirement of 1 where as a floating island of an evil mad scientist could be 5 or higher.

Scheme- Represented by the blue square. This indicates the complexity or intelligence needed to clear this mission. You need at least one hero with the necessary score to clear this mission. You can still send heroes to the mission to beat away your opponent and secure it for later, but they cannot make the mission “clear” and you cannot get the reward for it unless you have a hero with the score necessary to beat this mission. The mission may be something simple, like sending food shipments, which may have a score of 1 or 2. Some missions like disarming a nuclear bomb or decoding an alien transmission could have a 5 or 6 or higher.

Fighting- Represented by the red circle. This is the power level of the mission and the combat power you need to beat it. The total score of all your heroes fight must meet or exceed this score in order to secure this mission or complete it. You can send multiple weak heroes to accomplish this mission or one powerful one, either way works, as long as you have the score to defeat the defenses.

When two players send their heroes to a mission, they'd duke it out. The side with the highest combat gets to claim the mission space as their own; but only clears it if at least one hero has a high enough cleverness score. There could be a hidden betting mechanic with secondary fight cards or sacrificing gadgets to add their scores to the combat phase to let players not know the outcome until it happens, or it could be beneficial to let characters “lose” a combat phase so they can come back to their side of the board and be placed on new missions. Maybe heroes are stuck on a mission they are assigned to, and you can only “deploy” one per round to each mission? Maybe defeated heroes are knocked out for a round, unless the enemy has a “Killer” hero that knocks them out of the game permanently? Maybe the combat phase resolves before the other phases, meaning you could have all your smart heroes knocked out and then you cannot solve the mission?

Game Goal

The goal of the game is to complete missions. Each mission you complete is placed on your side of the field, and may also grant a reward. Completing a mission to stop the mad toymaker may let you play a single gadget for free, or a mission to stop a mind control scheme will let you “free” a hero from your deck. Depending on how morally gray the game could be, the missions could just be presented as generic installations and gaining the power and control over them is the only objective; you don't necessarily stop the death ray research, just capture it for yourself.

Additionally, to keep from snowballing, each mission completed may unlock new heroes to be played. Instead of mana or lands, the game's resource could just be based on “momentum”, and the limit of what kind of heroes and gadgets you can play may be limited by the total momentum of the highest score player. Thus, a person who is behind could start to make up lost ground since their powerful cards start to become online even if they're losing.

The game could feature a sort of time clock theme for its missions and cards. Like the “11^th hour” is the final score resource- if one player has completed 11 missions then both players have their most powerful cards ready to go, since you need 12 to win. In this same way multiple genres and power levels of super heroes are represented. The first and second hour heroes are street level heroes- Kick Ass and Rorschach. The 10^th and 11^th hour heroes are heavy hitters- Justice League and Reality Warpers. Gives the game a nice ramp up, and in the fiction of the game it could represent the small actions of minor thugs and b-list heroes ramping up into global campaigns.

Card Mechanics

Cards may have a “Doom Clock” which is the score of the highest player in completing machines to be played. As for the actual mechancis of playing with the cards, I am unsure how to do it. Maybe you can only play one card a turn normally, but certain missions can let you play more then one? A valuable mission may be to let you play two gadgets a turn when you can normally only play one. Maybe you can play one of each card each turn; one gadget and one hero. There could also be a third kind of card. Special events? Modifiers added to missions that make them tougher or easier to mess with your opponents? Or does that fit better into gadgets? Do the heroes in your 'bench' count as a sort of pesudo space on the board, and certain cards could augment your “hideout”?

As for the physical cards itself, players could have their own decks of heroes and gadgets to play with, but standardized decks of “missions” would be sold and included in starter kits, and would be required to play to make a standard playing field. Two players could also agree to each make half of the mission cards each; and interesting concept from the physical side of the game would be to include a small white rectangle on each front of the mission cards so players can mark their name or colors on the mission cards to keep them apart. But once again, a standardized deck of mission cards is most suitable. Still, for tournament style play or Friday-Night Magic (but for this game instead of magic obviously); fun events could be had by switched up by changing the mission cards. Special event matches where every mission is really hard or really easy, etc.

Gadgets

Each gadget card may have a unique bonus to grant, perhaps a bonus to specific hero stats, granting or removing a special power, or protecting the hero from death or other status effects. Gadgets can be equipped to heroes, placed on missions, or whatever else the card says. They're more fit as the one time use expendable cards, where as Heroes are more your “creatures” or character cards.

Heroes

The Heroes are the meat of the game. Each hero card has 3 stats, their Travel potential, their Scheming or Cleverness or Intelligent- whatever the stat could be called, and finally their Power or combat power for a full name. Certain heroes are better at certain things obviously, there are objectively better heroes then others but they would have a higher clock requirement to be played, or have some negative power that makes them weaker in certain situations. From a design standpoint, certain combos emerge. Fit together high Intelligence characters along with strong heroes to act as bodyguards; have a few heroes with high traveling and the ability to bring along other heroes if they have that power to act as the designated drivers of the game, and so on.

Ever Hero has powers. Powers are the special abilities of each card and hero. Some ideas for powers I've had in the past were-

Transporter- This hero can transport one hero along with them; using the Travel power of this hero over the transport power of the other hero.

Carrier- Can 'take along' as many heroes as you want, using the travel level of this hero. (better version of transporter)

Killer- When this hero is part of a winning team in a mission, they can kill one enemy hero with the lowest combat score(?)

Tinkerer- This hero gets +1 to their Scheme score for each gadget equipped to them.

Invulnerable- This hero cannot be killed.

Weakness- This hero is killed if an enemy is equipped with a magic stone item (kryptonite?)

Specialist- Hero gains X bonus to each stat if sent to a specific mission. For example, a Stealth+1 specialist may get +1 travel, +1 scheme, and +1 combat power if sent to a stealth mission.

Freeze- Given to ice or time control themed heroes. Win or lose, any enemy hero sent against this one is “knocked out” for one turn, benching them.
Sidekick- Can be attached to a Hero with a higher "Doom Clock" value as a piece of equipment.

Other- As varied and strange as superpowers could be. Could include counters, summoning disposable minions, "stealing" or suppressing the powers of other heroes, etc.

6 Super Power Origins & Enhancments

Super Power Origins – d6

[1] Science – Your power comes from super science. Usually an accident, or perhaps some sort of personal enhancement. Being exposed to radiation and developing a new super ability is a common source of a super hero's incredible powers.

[2] Technology – Your super power comes from technology. You may not have any super powers on your own, except for perhaps a skill and talent for invention. Your own power suite or special tools you use are what grant you your powers.

[3] Mutation – Your powers are genetic. If they come out in puberty, be part of a recessive gene bloodline, or be a once in a million fluke, you have some sort of innate super ability. Your powers may not necessarily be hereditary, but they are quite special.

[4] Magic – Your powers come from magic. Either magical items, magical knowledge, or magical boons granted by a God or spirit of great power. Your super abilities are more rooted in folklore and the supernatural then the tenuous connection to science.

[5] Natural – Your powers aren't special at all. Beyond perhaps a biological innate skill in this discipline, you don't have any powers. You've trained to become a master in your field, or in the case of some abilities it may just be the natural powers of one of your race.

[6] Inexplicable – Your powers are inexplicable. You have no idea how you got your abilities, and they may well be not tied to any sort of supernatural, magical, or known force in the universe. Your abilities seem to bend the rules of reality, or may well be a glimpse into other dimensions.

Super Power Enhancements Table – 1d4

Science-

[1] Unknown Element. Extremely radioactive element, glows green. Can be used in a machine experiment or combined with a person's super powers to make them more powerful.

[2] Chemical Y-23. It's a super powered acid that dissolves anything, but can be applied in a special way to accelerate super powers.

[3] Contained Wormhole. By using its power, you could strengthen your own super abilities or use it to gather rare and special materials, perhaps from other dimensions.

[4] Alien Reactor Waste. Special waste product created by alien engines and reactor cores. The waste product gives off energy similar to radiation, and could be used to empower your abilities in the same way regular radiation already has.

Technology-

[1] Cold War A.I. Artifical conciseness that has been reprogramming itself nonstop in a locked room constantly for the past few decades. If implanted into a machine will be so advanced and intelligent will greatly improve efficacy and super powered technological science.

[2] Energy Core. Alien battery, has massive amounts of energy equivalent to a star going supernova contained within a small, safe package. Requires a lot of research to unlock, but once you figure out how to tap into the power source you'll have essentially limitless power for your machines.

[3] Universal Armor. Danger comes in many forms; physical trauma, energetic blasts, psionic ablative process or direct mental attacks, radiation, dimensional shifting, and many more. Through many advances you've found a way to augment your technological protective gear to give you some protection against any kind of threat you can think of! Using this, you can improve your defensive capabilities or create better containment units for your own tools and many other practical applications.

[4] Plasmatic Interfacing. Using specially designed coils, you can contain and create closed loops of energy that act when turned on or off, “programming” free electrons in the air. While abstract, this could allow for technologies that greatly enhance your personal arsenal of gadgets.

Mutant-

[1] Gene Sculpting. This machine would let you specialize your own body's cells further; enhancing your natural mutant abilities and removing junk DNA to make room for the improvements.

[2] Nanobot Cancer-Killer. This experimental cure for cancer can be used by you instead; going through your body to detect and destroy cells without a strong mutation gene presence, or even improving the growth or cultivation of those cells and tissues.

[3] Hero X Blood Sample. Small vial of blood from the first or most mysterious and powerful super hero. Injecting their blood into your veins will strengthen your abilities.

[4] Heritage. You learn about your mutant ancestors- some of them were great heroes or villains in the past. In your research into old faded photographs and dusty tomes, you learn about their deeds and in the purpose unlock new ways to use or strengthen your powers.

Magic-

[1] Prismatic Crystal. Splits actual light as a prism, but also splits magical and elemental energies into constitute parts. Using this could allow you to gather and create new powerful spells and magical abilities from a deeper understanding of light.

[2] Arcane Amplifier. Disturbing piece of technology with a human heart beating at its center. It can however boost the powers of magical spells in its area, and can be calibrated to only boost your own powers, helping to make your spellcraft reign supreme.

[3] Staff of the Five Elements. This powerful magical artifact will only its power to be used by one who has completed its five trials; each taking place in another dimension it creates specifically to test you. Only a master sorcerer can accomplish this feat, but will be rewarded with the most powerful magic staff; the elements will be at your whims and can be easily added into whatever magic you already know and have mastered.

[4] Spiraling Sigil. This complex magical glyph must be memorized and drawn with chalk or engraved in your arcane tools to be used, but its power is to “strengthen” your magic by elevating it to a new, higher level of authority that makes counter charms almost totally ineffective against it.

Natural-

[1] Blueprints. You've found new blueprints for a state of the art training room. It's a martial arts dojo or a breach-and-clear exercise or an olympic level athletic course. As long as you can get enough money, you can use this to train yourself to even higher levels of skill.

[2] Film Reels. Black and white recordings of ancient super beings and old fighting techniques; learning them could help you get the edge you need against them in today. These new kids just don't have the same dedication the old heroes had. The film is very faded and decaying, you'll need to find a way to preserve and restore it to usable quality.

[3] Super Foods. You have learned of a rare foreign fruit, like some sort of berry found only in high mountain villages in far off places or an expensive and one of a kind breed of kale grown in one small English village. Regardless of what they are, changing your diet and supplementing it with these foods will supercharge your natural talents and abilities; you will become healthier then a normal person and it will positively impact all of your powers.

[4] Unlocking the quirk. Your body has a minor quirk or highly specialized tissue group that, genetically, gives you an advantage in physical or mental contests. This isn't the same as being a mutant, as this ability is minor and natural among your species, but by learning of and practicing with it you can augment your talent with your innate advantage.

Inexplicable

[1] Lucky Coin. All 708 recorded times this coin has been flipped, it has always landed up on heads. No matter how many times you flip it, it lands up on heads again. There is nothing magical or physically special about the coin; statistically it just keeps defying the odds. Holding onto this will boost your own powers of improbability.

[2] Squared Circle. It's drawn on an old piece of parchment and dates back hundreds of years; a mathematical impossibility drawn and figured on paper. If you try to upload this onto a computer it just crashes. The math is very abnormal but it all checks out. This opens your mind to new ways of thinking, and lets you see past the paradigm of normal belief in physical reality, increasing your own powers of an otherwise impossible nature.

[3] Cursed Ring. This silver band was passed down through several noble families who all died of mysterious circumstances. It was later passed on to senators, wealthy businessmen, minor celebrities, all of whom died or suffered greatly. There is no such thing as curses, and yet the ring is so. The ring has a reputation, and as long as you don't wear it hopefully the effects of its curse won't manifest for you- keep it close to tap into its power.

[4] First Edition. You have in your possession a first edition comic for a famous superhero's autobiographical comic book from your world. The only problem is that the hero doesn't exist, or the hero in the comic was actually a villain in your world. Key details, like names and dates, are changed in your version. Everything about it seems real and true, it simply contradicts reality. This comic is from another, alternate dimension when things were different. Keeping it safe and maintained will grant you yet another bridge between what is and is not.

8 Unusual Super Powers

[1] Snapping Snollygoster Transformation

This person has the power to transform into a Snapping Snollygoster. It's a dinosaur creature with a very furry body, bipedal, with a long snout and thick dragging tail. It is very colorful and is mostly green, yellow, and teal- It looks like something out of a children's book. By using this ability, the person gains enhanced strength, speed, and senses as well as a powerful bite and a hungry appetite, but also becomes predator and clumsy in equal measure, like a cutesy killing machine.

During periods of “intense” comfort and relaxation, the person may also inadvertently transform themselves instead, becoming like a huge living warm plush pillow. Using their newfound powers, this person could become a hero or villain.

[2] Extra Lives

Whenever you die, you respawn. There is a number tattoo'd on your forehead in black that shows you how many times you've died. So after you die for the first time, your blank forehead will now show a 1, then die again for a 2, etc. You have no other abilities, but remember everything from your past lives until a few minutes before you died; as you will not remember things that killed you. You don't have any special toughness or mental powers, you just simply reform after you die in a new body in a safe place. You still age and always reappear as your same age.

You have a hidden, fixed number of lives when you first get this power. The number of lives you have is 1d12+2 and you will not know when this life is your last.

[3] “Number 26”

At any fast food chain, taco truck, or To-Go restaurant you can quietly ask the cashier for a “Number 26” and slide them a 20 dollar bill. From the other side of the counter the cashier will give you a bag containing the following items;

• One hot food item (decoy, edible, changes based on establishment)
• Loaded, untraceable Revolver with 6 rounds
• Untraceable disposable flip phone with one battery charge
• Pair of gloves
• Print of most recent photograph and address of a Target (Variable)
• Aspirin bottle containing one pill (Variable)

These items are always the same, but change slightly based on the store. Very old dives may give you a half rusted gun with a chance to misfire, where as a fancy coffee shop may give you a smart phone with a built in self destruct feature as your phone. The price of the 'bag' is always the same, and the person who handed you the bag and took the money will never have any recollection of it. They will only remember you as 'that weird guy who didn't order anything and left' and won't remember your name or face. This power also can only be used once you fully use or dispose of the last 'bag'.

There are two extra variations of this power. If you slide the cashier a 100 dollar bill, you can also write the name of a person on the dollar bill, which will grant you the address and photograph. Only their real name works, but a legal alias or a very well known nickname will also suffice. If you draw on the face of the president on the bill you slide, you will also get a pill depending on what you drew. If you drew swirly marks over the president's eyes, the pill bottle will contain a dose of a knockout drug. If you draw hearts it will be a dose of ecstasy or LSD. If you draw Xs, then the single pill will be a cyanide capsule.

For whatever reason, all items created by this power are extremely hard to track and cannot be traced. However, the dollar bill will remain at the store and drawing a name or face is more likely to catch attention to government authorities or those who may suspect of your strange ability.

[4] Mint Jam

By touching things, this person can smear on a strange mind flavored, bright green Jam. Everything they touch with this jam becomes more “aligned” to their purposes and goals as long as the Jam stays on. Creating thick piles of it and smearing it everywhere takes time, and the Jam can easily be removed by spraying water on the affected things. Regardless, the Jam gives a bonus to standard usage rolls, a sixth sense for who or what is interacting or stepping on the Jam-covered thing, and can even allow some supernatural means of motion, such as turning a gun sideways and firing through a wall if the gun is sufficiently covered in Jam. It takes 10 minutes to create as much jam as you would find in a standard jar for your use by squeezing and rubbing your hands together.

Anybody who eats the Jam can have their internal organs messed with, or deal internal damage like stab wounds with a knife or cause them to lose consciousnesses, the power of these being dependent on how much jam the victim ate.

[5] Snowfall Switch

Whenever it snows and you are present during snow fall or a blizzard, you can mentally change what is coming down. Snow is replaced with a similar white-powdery substance. Such as cocaine, detergent, baking soda as the obvious ones. But more abstract chemicals and substances can also be snowed out by you, such as a weak acidic powder or some sort of soft fabric down to land on.

Regardless of what this substance is, it will always melt back into water as though it was standard snow as it reaches above the freezing point in temperature. Being examined in the laboratory will show some strange chemical results as to how a complex molecule melts into pure water, but this is part of the power's overview.

[6] Machine Heart

Both a bit of a super power as well as a mechanical implant. Your heart isn't natural, it's a machine instead. The grinding gears and pumps that keeps your heart beating are more powerful then a normal heart, though most of the time it does its job normally. When you concentrate, you can make your heart pump faster, giving the rest of your body better bloodflow and nutrients making you stronger or faster for a short period of time.

If you swallow down nuts and bolts, screws, washers, or other small objects that work with machines- your heart is enhanced. This power grants you no protection against the damage to your throat or digestive system eating metal would do, but it will make your heart stronger. Each handful of these you eat makes your heart capable of giving you a superhuman burst of adrenaline once a day.

[7] Air-Pocket Bile

Your vomit isn't normal. If you vomit, either by chance or by choice, you spew up a bubble instead that slowly grows from your mouth. The bubble is filled with unusually strong lighter then air gas, and if you continued to vomit without popping or removing the bubble, you could eventually create a balloon large enough to fly away with.

Unfortunately, there is no way for you to automatically get back down, but you can remove the vomit-bubbles at any size and scoop them out of your mouth without them popping. By doing this you can attach them to another object to have it fly away. The vomit bubble also acts as a shield that can absorb one bullet or attack; the gas escaping from the puncture wound tends to disperse fire and energy pretty well at the point of impact, making the chance of a penetrating attack that can go through the whole bubble to hit you very unlikely.

[8] Wind-Up Whippet

You have an incredible sense of machinery and resourcefulness for the specific purpose of creating mechanical dogs. You can turn paper and plastic into legs or flanks, metal or glass shards into teeth, any springs or electronic parts into the power core. These dogs are like giant wind-up toys and are powered by cranking their tail- each dog can be built for only one specific purpose. Each dog “unit” is still much more intricate and intelligent then any actual machine like them would be, but nothing about your machine units necessarily makes them supernatural on their own. Your dogs look like machines made of their junked or spare parts, much like moving scrap sculpture.

Dogs are built of specific purposes- dogs can be told to search an area and bark if they find a specific purpose or thing, in which case the dog gives off a low-quality mechanical bark. The dog can be made to sic people, chasing them down and biting them once with their sharp metal teeth, after that they latch on like a bear trap. Dogs can also be built to point or guard and area in the same vein as above. Machine dogs can also be built to emulate real dogs or pretend to be hurt/wounded before detonating a bomb hidden in their chest cavity, etc.

20 Godly Powers

The powers here are based on this blog post by Goblin Punch. Ambrosia, or item #30 stuck out to me especially; you essentially get very powerful godly abilities for a limited time; after a short period your character will leave the world and become unplayable as the innate cost to using this item. 

However, I thought the linear progression of powers was a little less interesting then making it totally random. Instead; each exploration turn you roll on this table. At turn 5, you don't roll on the table and instead have the universal epiphany, and your Wisdom score becomes essentially infinite (treat Wisdom modifier as +10). At turn 6 and every turn beyond, you must make the save or depart the world. If you make your save, you get to roll on the table again to get another godly power.

20 Godly Powers

[1] You can cast Fireball at will.

[2] Gain the power of flight & levitation at will. You fly as fast as a horse can run.

[3] Become locally omniscient to a range of 50 inches or about 4 feet. You know what everything in that range is thinking, what every item contains, the properties of all magic items, and what has happened in that very spot in the past if you investigate it. Relaying this information in a helpful matter, such as telling your ally how to break the curse on their magic ring, takes a whole turn; there's a lot of atomic mass and stories of every scratch you need to sieve through before you get to the critical details.

[4] You gain an extra 50 maximum hit points.

[5] You become immune to any element or specific spell of your choice. You can also wait until you need this power; such as when you fail your save vs a disintegration spell and then you say “oh actually I'm immune to that.”

[6] If you wave your hand, you can conjure structures or parts of buildings into existence. The complexity and hardness of materials you are selecting change how quickly you can build; if you simply walk through a field and wave you can create half a village worth of mud huts in a single turn. Making a simple stone bridge or a decent wooden house will take an entire turn, where as it would take a turn to just complete a few feet of wall on a heavenly cathedral.

Your buildings both finished and in progress are permanent, but you can only create things out of the normal materials and will need to supply anything more rare or expensive then wood, mud, stone, granite, or simple dyes.

[7] You gain total control of the weather. Storms have to be “built up” from calm days and you'd have to “calm down” a raging tornado, but other then that you can make it do whatever you want. You can even start a storm or bring rains across the world if you have a general idea and have visited the place you want to influence.

[8] Ultimate self-polymorphing. You can turn into any creature you can think of; provided its HD is less or equal to your level. You do not lose your powers in this new form, and you get to keep your health total even if you turn into a creature with less HD then you. You always have a 'tell' in every form you have now, including your normal form. such as glowing eyes or your hair's highlights.

[9] Your voice has the innate property of Command and Suggestion spells. Enemies still get their normal saves against you. Additionally; you can “steal” the voice of anyone who tries a similar spell on you for a turn, which renders them mute for their impudence. You can then speak with their voice as well as a perfect duplicate, and you still have your Suggestion and Command powers through it. They will have to either do something for you or “steal” their voice back by killing you or reaching their hand down your throat when you sleep.

[10] By simply looking at someone, you can bestow or cure mental insanity or make people see things that aren't there. You don't have to make eye contact, just watching them. The hallucinations you give to others function as illusion spells that only the target can see or interact with.

[11] As long as you wield no weapons, wear no armor, and do not attack first, nothing normal will willingly attack you. Animals will act mellow and peaceful towards you instead, and even creatures made of magic or conjured will hesitate. This allows you to be the ultimate diplomat, but you could still be jailed. You can also walk on water.

[12] You grow two additional arms. These arms are just as strong and dexterous as your first pair, and you can now hold two two-handed weapons, use two shields, fire two bows, etc. At will, you can conjure a Chakram in each hand, each one tied to a random element, which returns to your hands after you fling them.

[13] Each step you take, little sprigs of grass and flowers rise up at those spots. You bring about the growth and life in a land, and tracing a plot of land lets it produce a bountiful harvest. You can also heal or restore magical plants or treants, and can toss a seed like a grenade that explodes into entangling vines or a mass of flowers that grow on and rapidly decay undead. If you are of a more evil alignment, you can also do the above abilities but with thorny black briers instead and drain the life from a land.

[14] If you are hurt, you heal +1d6 hit points per round. You recover all but one point of damage from each attack, spell, or failed saving throw that was a source of damage. You can only be killed either by being whittled down to nothing, or killed in a few rounds of intense damage. You can transfer your life points to others with a touch, which are not regenerated by this power.

[15] You become as strong as 10 men. Treat your Strength modifier as +10 before magic equipment.

[16] You no longer have daily limits for casting spells; you can still only prepare the maximum number for your spell slots and level, but don't need to rest between then and preparing new spells. If your character cannot cast spells, now you can.

[17] You drain the life force from your foes; every time you slay a foe, you may heal yourself or an ally by the monster's number of HD as Hit Points. As in, when you slay a HD 9 dragon, you can suck its life force and heal 9 hit points.

[18] In your hands materializes the Splendid Sword. It is a highly ornate, divinely crafted blade, with gemstone sockets along the flat of the blade, and an edge that glows and leaves an afterimage of golden magic as it flows through the air. Treat as a +4 magic sword. It has the vorpal property (beheads anything with a head on a natural 20 attack roll) and everything you behead with the sword has its innate powers absorbed by it like The Highlander; you gain the to hit bonus of fighters killed by the sword along with their blade arts, monsters have their magic powers copied into the sword, etc. You can recall the Sword to your hand or sheathe at any time with a thought.

[19] You only make noise, can be seen, be detected by magic, or breathe if you want to.

[20] You can now turn other people into monstrous beasts and creatures; requiring eye contact and a dramatic flourish of your hand. They don't get a save, but the transformation is always slow, maddening, and an ironic twist of fate to represent that person's character flaws and fears. If the person is equal or higher level then you, they get a save. It usually takes 1d4+1 days for the transformation to finish, and there is nothing left of that person's mind and will in the beast by the end of the week.

Monsters retain their level/HD and gain that as their new form's HD (but lose -1d4 HD if they really hated you before you turned them) and obey your commands. Monsters always gain abilities that fit their old personality and twist them for your purposes.

Super Villain Plot Generator

The Man-Worm and Captain Green fight a super villain walker

Super Villain Plot Generator

This will not help you make a super villain. But it will help you figure out what they're trying to accomplish. Roll once on each table.

What they're going to do to the target (1d6)

[1] Destroy/Demolish/Kill

[2] Replace with fake copy/Sabotage to have an 'accident'

[3] Steal/Gain control of

[4] Hijack/Capture (and use as leverage for huge ransom)

[5] Experiment on/Research

[6] Politically manipulate/slander local leaders about

Who they Sent (1d10)

[1] Low powered super henchmen and 2d6 lackeys

[2] 1d6 lackeys who hired 3d6 street gang members for backup.

[3] 1d6 lackeys with 1d8 flying battledroids for backup

[4] 3 Extremely strong, mutant, humanoid animals. Breaking their collars frees them of control.

[5] 1d6 naked super men. Don't use weapons, can punch through steel and deflect bullets.

[6] Hypnotized local politician/rich celebrity, using leverage instead of direct force.

[7] 2d6 highly trained tacticool mercenaries

[8] Sprung 1d4 super villains from jail party defeated before. May have learned new tricks.

[9] 2d6 lackeys with a fucking tank, helicopter, or submarine.

[10] If you want something done right, you've got to do it yourself.

Secret Weapon to make sure plan succeeds (1d12)

[1] Skin-tight bio suit grants regeneration and fast reflexes. Given to the 'leader' of each squad.

[2] Villain has hacked nearby security cameras and is transmitting footage to minions.

[3] Schoolbus full of kids for hostages.

[4] Sniper mercenary, in a tower over a mile away. Never misses a shot.

[5] Hologram technology. Super Villain appears there but is not.

[6] One of those sent has the weakness of one of the super heroes up his sleeve.

[7] Experimental stomping war mech. Has a stupid mechanical oversight, like can't go backwards.

[8] One family member or love interest of a random super hero on the team.

[9] One of those sent is a blanker. Can temporarily neutralize the powers of one random super hero.

[10] Local police have been paid off or distracted, can't help at all.

[11] Blocks easy transport; super heroes won't be able to get there in time if they take normal route.

[12] Experimental laser guns given to each minion. If they hit a reflective surface the gun explodes.

And the Target (1d50)

[1] First self-aware AI robot

[2] Great 'first wave' super hero, in stasis inside a cyropod

[3] Experimental Cure for incurable disease

[4] Nuclear missile in decommissioned silo

[5] Last remaining tissue samples of thwarted alien invaders from a few decades ago

[6] Hyper advanced prosthetic. Works better then flesh and blood.

[7] Secret recipe of global fast food chain.

[8] The Terrafloppy disk- holds all internet data in physical form in case of massive server wipe.

[9] Hydro-electric dam; provides power to millions, breaking it will cause massive flood.

[10] Airplane with experimental weather control device mounted on it.

[11] Area 51

[12] Corporate office, contains trillions of dollars worth of classified data.

[13] Source code for government security systems. Could shut down a whole region's mega-shield.

[14] The only zombie. It's bite could still infect people.

[15] Hyper-car, police could never catch it. Bright neon lights and doors that go up.

[16] Prop from a beloved classic movie.

[17] All of the “Best in Show” dogs from the past 15 years.

[18] Innocent young teenage girl who can read minds. Not a super hero or villain yet.

[19] The DNA of the most evil super villain of all time.

[20] Magic 'indestructible' knight armor from middle ages.

[21] Magic red candle. If lit and bible is read backwards, opens portal to hell.

[22] Molecule assembler. Can mass produce anything, like gold or anthrax.

[23] Elevator to Earth's core.

[24] The almost completed space elevator.

[25] The only sample of Unobtainium 12 on Earth.

[26] Dinosaur DNA, trapped in amber.

[27] First brain uploader. Anyone uploaded to the internet could bypass any security.

[28] Time-Paradox baby clone of one of the super heroes. Could be molded to evil.

[29] Super acid. Can melt through anything except special container with squirt nozzle.

[30] CIA registry of every super heroes secret identity.

[31] Shrink ray.

[32] Ultra rare marble quarry. Rich people make floors with it.

[33] Power booster. Extends range of any super power to a mile OR doubles its effect.

[34] Invisibility material, whatever it covers is invisible. Enough to make a single body suit.

[35] Portal to alternate dimension where super powers never happened.

[36] Statue of selfless super hero who sacrificed themselves to save the city.

[37] Island resort hotel.

[38] The president's sex toys. Locked in special discrete briefcase.

[39] Ancient tablet containing records of the world's first ever language.

[40] Fishing vessel. It caught the real Loch Ness monster.

[41] Secret documents of massive conspiracy. Moon landing faked, holocaust never happened, etc.

[42] Genetically modified, elephant sized pig. Has like a hundred blue ribbons.

[43] The preserved brain of a super scientist. Could invent almost anything.

[44] Perpetual motion machine.

[45] Gallon jug of super fuel. Could blow up a city, or power a rocket ship to light speed.

[46] Scroll of an Egyptian philosopher. The meaning of life is written on it.

[47] The lost city of Atlantis.

[48] Unreleased episode of an old cartoon. Watching it makes people kill themselves.

[49] Controls to secret rocket thrusters put on the moon.

[50] Golden telephone. If you wait on hold for one hour you can talk to God on the other end.

6 Random Super Villians

[1] Melting Point

Youthful man with a bad temper. Has arsonist tendencies as a kid, enjoyed burning ants with a magnifying glass. Was taken into therapy and disciplined to control these tendencies, until now they come all boiling out.

Powers

Can make any part of his skin burn and melt things on touch as though his hand was a glowing hot stove. Can use this at a short range, but requires concentration and time to heat things up. His spit and blood is literally boiling too. This last one is unintentional, and if he is ever prodded with a needle steam escapes, so he avoids doctors who might discover his secret identity. Cutting or punching him really hard in close range will surely get you burned. Total immunity to heat and fire.

Weakness

All cold damage he takes is increased by one stage/die size/severity.

Master Plan

Go to the north or south pole, everyone better pay ransom of millions or the ice caps get melted.

[2] The Bicep

Middle aged skinny nerd who managed to inject one arm with a self contained super body serum, but it only works once and only changed one arm. Now he is the Bicep. His gigantic gray arm hands to his side always, forever bound to his smaller frame.

Powers

Has a huge gray arm. Extremely strong, capable of lifting cars and picking up street lights and swinging them around like a huge club. Arm is also nearly indestructible, hold it up to run at you like a shield. He can fling himself up the side of the building with his arm.

Weakness

All his power is in his super arm. Very difficult to disguise himself. Masturbation jokes.

Master Plan

Steal incredibly rare drugs and machines used in a top hospital to treat super cancer, needs it to make the rest of his body as powerful as his super arm.

[3] Highrise

Elderly office worker who committed suicide and fell to his 'death' in huge skyscraper elevator shaft. Got 'stuck' halfway down, and is now a powerful manifested spirit. The skyscraper itself is also part of his power, but his mind and personality controls it.

Powers

Can create holes in skyscraper floor to drop people a floor or many floors. Can rearrange cubicles to create mazes, can animate office supplies to make them attack. Fires electric bolts from office lights, can flatten stairs and make people slide down into pile of sharp objects placed at bottom. Hurting his body makes him disappear in a puff of smoke and disables his powers until he has time to manifest again in 1d6x10 minutes. The skyscraper can disguise itself on the outside and can 'teleport' from city to city, meaning it's not just bound to one location. Has 2d6 spirit flunkies, mostly suicidal old office workers who fight as well as an untrained flunky would.

Weakness

Cannot leave the skyscraper. If anyone finds his skeleton in the central elevators and shows him his own bones, he'll scream and disappear forever.

Master Plan

People who die by falling down the central elevator end up as spirits in the skyscraper under his control. Highrise wants rich and famous people to die in the tower so he can influence the world.

[4] Wheelie

Daredevil stunt pilot and mechanic. Invented an incredible new form of transport of super efficient transport involving a huge single-wheel motorbike with locking center seat; the monowheel. Younger daredevil used the device but piloted it incorrectly and ruined its reputation despite it being safe, making Wheelie conspire to bring it into the public conscious by crime and villainy.

Powers

Rides in huge mono-wheel bike. Can climb up walls and buildings, go for miles without running out of power, turn on a dime, etc. Wears heavy armor and motorcycle helmet to obscure face. His wheel is also customized with weapons like rockets, taser cannons, self driving AI that will return to him if separated from it and self destruct feature.

Weakness

Just a normal human outside of his tricked out motorwheel. It must be fed an expensive coolant or overheating could happen and must be recharged occasionally.

Master Plan

Destroy car factories, perform acts of terror, demonstrate superiority of mono-wheel transport so everyone will use them instead of lame cars.

[5] Apotheosis

College age egotistical jerk who found out that he has a divine spark. The more people worship him, the more powerful he becomes. Often dresses in white robes and cult of followers around him. Acts openly in the public, but in isolated communities.

Powers

General sense of 'power' and magnetism increases the more followers he gains. Capable of performing small magical feats, like turning water into wine and conjuring candle flames. Can rally his followers into an angry mob, or can chant prayers to make him much more powerful for a short period of time. About as strong, fast, and tough as 2-3 people put together. Immortal, but heals slowly. If body is destroyed, held in a cell too long or mangled he will just disappear and be recreated by his followers.

Weakness

All his power is relied upon by his followers. If people stop praying to him, he'll cease to exist.

Master Plan

Become God by spreading size of cult.

[6] Man-Boa

Mexican gangster who enjoys getting his hands dirty. Random burst of radiation fused him with his pet snake, meaning he can now transform part or all of himself into a massive 50ft long giant snake.

Powers

Can turn part of his body into a constrictor snake to gain its abilities in that area. Turn legs into snake tail for tail whip and faster movement, turn head into snake to bite and sense heat. Can turn entire body into snake at once to become a massive beast.

Weakness

Snake takes over the more of him is turned into a snake. Once fully a snake, he no longer has control until the snake calms down enough to be transformed back into a human. If kept in the snake's natural habitat the snake may never be able to transform back.

Master Plan

Crush and squeeze the life out of enemies of his cartel. Bribe the police, leave snake-skin purses on people's doorsteps as threats. Assassinate his boss and become leader of his cartel.