holy and nature miracles! - religious revisions for my next campagn

Some progress in my class design for 2026 for EMO

This took maybe 2 months of jiggling, but have new class write-ups going well, which are more space efficient. After Chagrinspire will be using these versions. These have made me consider boatloads of beast changeling sea rover vikings and other strange beginer options.

If you played with these miracles, what weird cultural side effects and player combos would people choose?

Suggestions welcome for buff/debuff or minmaxing tips
I was fiddling with a system to swap out holy power with a ritual from a pool rather than use any one you had access to, but they all share the same resource so felt the faster you burn uses the better.

Problem:
I want a fighting templar class of dualists and a more magic, less fighty priest to cover other ritual and specific cult priests.

Fix:
Made a satisfying class mix and did new spell tables 

New Problem:
What about Druids - they have always been sort of an earthly mirror of clerics so do they need the same treatment? Can we squeeze rangers in there too? Can rangers be much weirder?

Fix:
So more classes in works at the same time im reluctant to solve problems with.
Ive been reluctant to have rangers in the past and more reluctant to have a paladin when all clerics are martial anyway. So you can build a pladin from not just fighters in my games with my alighnment oaths but teamed up with my templar class you can build a very 1st ed paladin looking character.

Templar - less magic (like bx) and more hp and combat like AD&D cleric, usually dualists and deal with reversible spells more. Basically, a monastic war priesthood. Have one holy power at 1st  then another at 10th and 20th Lv but all draw from same pool of uses  per day equal to your level.

Priest - more magic spells and choices, some bonus spells for specific cults/gods, poor hp and combat choices. Holy power can be used once per level per day but the get a power choice from 1 5 9 13 17th levels. There include modern and older generations of gods of the divine natural forces of creation and younger gods of civilisation. They vary widely from place to place, especially with alignment.  

Rover - apparently homeless wilderness wanderers, hunters and scouts but actually the secret society martial arm of Druidic orders and leaders devoted to nature cults like a chieftain (and maybe other cults and witches). Maybe a bit like rangers or the brit comic Finn and the Order in Lone Wolf game book series not Tolkien. Use nature magic. May live alone or in wilderness and frontier monasteries. Have one holy power and a use per day (try and use d12s). Have one nature power at 1st  then another at 10th and 20th Lv but all draw from same pool of uses  per day equal to your level.

Druid - more magic spells and choices, some bonus spells for specific cults/gods, poor hp and combat choices. Nature powers can be used once per level per day but they get a power choice from 1 5 9 13 17th levels.

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Holy and Nature Miracle Name Notes

Most have a pool of uses of one per level
Time is action rounds or ten minute turns or hours mostly
A ritual takes one hour to cast but if you have the ritual skill you can do it in one turn
Skills can improve shapeshifting abilities, improve your effective level for some uses, get extra uses and other meta magic abilities.

(Various) indicates you choose one of these types for the power to affect undead, spirits (non-corporeal beings), beasts, faeries, lycanthropes, elementals (one type), demons, devils, daemons, daimons, archons (law), angels, primordials (chaos), automatons, old ones, chimeric hybrids, mutants and more.  

(Alignment) indicates you must specify an alignment

(Element) indicates you must specify an element

d12 Templar & Priest Holy Miracles
1 Ceremony
2 Healing Ray
3 Heroic Action
4 Holy Ray
5 Holy Sight
6 Holy Strike
7 Purify
8 Resist (alignment) 
9 Resist (element)
10 Sacred Ally
11 Sanctify
12 Turn

d12 Rover & Druid Nature Miracles

1 Awareness
2 Beast Ally
3 Beast Form
4 Beast Speech
5 Berserk
6 Elemental Mastery
7 Faerie Steps
8 Flora Form  

9 Hibernation
10 Hunters Gaze

11 Regenerate
12 Wild Walk

d12 Templar & Priest Holy Miracles

1 Ceremony
Touch Ritual, one use of holy power per ritual
Can perform various rituals often used in everyday life for church members. Most ceremonies require an hour to perform. These rituals are accessible to all who possess this power. Your level determines how many ceremonies a day you can perform them. Some cults have unique blessings.
 
>Marriage
Perform a wedding ceremony, the recipient couple know if the official partner is sick, gives birth, unfaithful or dies while on the same plane (evil people prefer a one-way link)
>Burial
Protects corpses from reanimation as undead, being recycled into golem parts or eaten by undead for food. Grave requires a holy symbol, a grave marker or a coin to be placed on the body
>Initiation 
Apply a ritual to one subject per level, providing recipients with +1 all saving throws. If applied to babies and children, it lasts until they become teenagers. Adult recipients must be willing initiates into the church, and abiding by its edicts and benefits will last a month
>Prosperity
Bless a medium or larger animal, an area of plants or small animals +1 all saving throws until a reproductive adult. Adult recipients are blessed for a month and can be cast again. Used by rural orders and neutrals
>Consecrate
Each religion can consecrate an altar or holy building for its community. Gives the regular inhabitants +1 temp hp inside or while defending the site. Some have other types, such as a ship and its crew, a wagon and its owners, a hearth and a family household, a barn and its animals or others. Some consecrate workshops that give users +1 on a specific craft skill. Members of the religion can see a consecrated area of their faith 

2 Healing Ray

1 range per level, as spell action, Instant, d12 per use of holy power as magic action
Healing ray, you can use to heal d12 to a target in range once per level per day. You can use one or multiple uses at once to single or multiple targets in range but not yourself. Will cause holy damage to undead creatures instead

3 Heroic Action
Self, +1 bonus action per use of holy power at will once per round
Gain an extra action on top of your normal missile or melee action in combat. Can also be used to move, drink a potion or attack or provide first aid. Does not require a magic action to activate.

4 Holy Ray
1 range per level, as spell action, Instant, d12 per use of holy power as magic action
Shoot a d12 ray of Holy damage (or one other type, like an element, depending on the cult). Shoot a target in range once per level per day. Multiple bolts can be stacked or fired simultaneously at a single or multiple targets. Each target gets one Will save vs total damage, or the damage is halved. Positive, negative or elemental rays are possible depending on the god. 

5 Holy Sight
1 range per level, one round per level for one use of holy power as a magic action
Can see magic, sanctified ground and spirits or planar beings normally invisible to most people. Undead stand out by connection from their negative life force. You can see an object like a tree, artwork or weapon has a spirit inside. You can see if a person is possessed by a spirit. Especially beings watching from the ethereal or astral planes. You may be able to target them with some mental spells requiring perception of a target. Limited by walls, invisibility magic or illusions. If it is dark you can still see spirits in range as they seem luminous or wreathed in shadowy flames
>At 5th Level can detect magic
>At 9th Level can see living being auras

>At 13th Level can see invisible creatures
>At 17th Level can see through illusions

6 Holy Strike
Self, +1 hit and d6 damage next attack action per use of holy power
Make an attack with an approved chosen weapon of your religion. Each use adds +1 to hit and +d6 holy damage (or a type favoured by the god) per use. Activate a single use or multiple or all uses at once, stacking the effect. You can activate this power when attacking, then apply the plus to hit until your next successful attack action within your Lv in rounds. When you hit apply extra damage, then the effect ends. Magical plusses can help to hit magic creatures

7 Purify
Touch Ritual, one use of holy power per ritual

The subject is anointed with holy water or blood
>1st Lv a use can purify food and water for a medium-sized creature for a week in a bushel or pack or jars for storage or transport per use. Multiple uses could purify a spring or well

>5th Lv a use has Lv chance on a d20 of curing a subject with a disease

>9th Lv a use has Lv chance on a d20 of removing a curse 

>13th Lv a use has Lv chance on a d20 of restoring a lost attribute or a d6 permanant HP drain
>17th Lv a use has Lv chance on a d20 of removing any charm or will attacking spell effect

8 Resist (alignment) 
Self, round per level per use of holy power as spell action
Always have protection from your opposite alignment enemies while holding or wearing a holy symbol. Gain +2 AC and save vs attacks from your opposite alignment. As long as you dont strike them first, they require a saving throw to attack you. Once you attack them, they are free to attack you back. Once saved or you attack, they dont need to roll again for the encounter but your AC is still improved

9 Resist (element)
Self, round per level per use of holy power as spell action
Always have protection from one element while holding or wearing a holy symbol. Gain +2 AC and save vs attacks from elemental beings or spells. Each element has its own properties.
>Air -2 damage per dice from air or lightning attacks
>Earth -2 damage per dice from falls or blunt attacks
>Fire -2 damage per dice from heat or fire attacks
>Water -2 damage per dice from water or cold attacks.  
 As long as you dont strike them first, elemental beins require a saving throw to attack you. Once you attack them, they are free to attack you back. Once saved or you attack, they dont need to roll again for the encounter, but your AC is still improved

10 Sacred Ally
One turn each use of holy power per as a spell action
Summon a divine spirit for aid. Each user chooses one of the following Types. HP are rolled each summoning and forms vary for different religions. When summoned, they appear within 3m of you if there is space for a large creature.  
>Guardian, summon a large warbeast (3 attacks) or humanoid (1 attack) 
1-4 Lv (AC+3 HD d4 per Lv Att 3 d4 d3x2 or Att 1 2d4 Mov 12)
5-8 Lv (AC+4 HD d6 per Lv Att 3 d6 d4x2 or Att 1 3d4 Mov 15)
9-12 Lv (AC+5 HD d8 per Lv Att 3 d8 d6x2 or Att 1 4d4 Mov 18) 
13-16 Lv (AC+6 HD d8 per Lv Att 3 d10 d8x2 or Att 1 5d5 Mov 21) 
17-20 Lv (AC+7 HD d8 per Lv Att 3 d12 d10x2 or Att 1 6d4 Mov 24)
>Mount, a large beast can carry the caller and a passenger or pack load (AC+4 HD Mov12+Lv)
1-4 Lv (AC+3 HD d4 per Lv Att 1 d4  Mov 18 or Swim 6 pick one)
5-8 Lv (AC+4 HD d6 per Lv Att 3 d4x2  Mov 21 or Swim 9 Climb 6 pick one)
9-12 Lv (AC+5 HD d8 per Lv Att 3 d4x3 Mov 24 or Swim 12 or Climb 12 pick two)
13-16 Lv (AC+6 HD d8 per Lv Att 3 d6x3 Mov 27 or Swim 18 or Climb 15 or Fly 12 pick two)
17-20 Lv (AC+7 HD d8 per Lv Att 3 d8x3 Mov 30 or Swim 25 or Climb 18 or Fly 18 Pick three)

11 Sanctify
Touch, ritual, 3x3x area, lasts one year, ritual per use of holy power 

Make a holy area sacred with a ritual. Often used to make shrines or over a longer time, a church or cemetary. Users may work together to create larger holy zones. You may neutralise a rival area by placing a sanctify on top, leaving the area devoid of magic and ready for a friendly holy area to be placed on top. Gods view sanctified zones as belonging to them, and they can be angered by actions in the area or damaging to the location. The sanctified area is marked by sticks, bricks or stones with a symbol on them placed in the corners and the application of a few drops of holy water or even holy symbols, which can be buried or built into a structure to protect them. Anyone involved in the creation of an area knows if it has been neutralised. If neglected, abandoned or lacks prayers, the site gets a saving throw each year or is neutralised. Any allied spirit in the area knows if enemy beings enter.

>Sacred Ground
Good and Lawful
Make the area unpleasant for undead, evil, lower planar beings, or non-allied spirits, requiring a saving throw each round or they take a d4 damage, causing most to flee. Evil beings may not be summoned or plane shift in the area and cannot heal or regenerate.
>Corrupt Ground
Evil or Chaos
Makes flora sickly and repels living fauna. Living do not heal naturally in the area. Each 3x3 area has a 1% cumulative chance per month of animating a corpse, attracting a lesser evil spirit or evil beings. Dead bugs, leaves, cobwebs, bones and other garbage might be attracted here also 
> Fecund Ground
Balanced or Neutral
Makes an area have +100% increased fertility, +1 save vs disease and improves natural healing by +1hp per day. It even slows the ageing of foodstuffs and stores by half. Outdoors, it rapidly grows moss, lichen, plants and fungus, which may attract animals. May be cast on sacred beds, barns, gardens, ponds or animal pens but they will need to be well attended to or attract vermin too. Crops and growth in area will be improved

12 Turn (Various)
1 range per level, Instant, one use of holy power as spell action
You must specify what type of target the turn power effects, with turn undead being the default type. Weilders alignment defines the power turn type.

>Banish
Good or Lawful usually vs undead or lower planes beings
Used to banish and destroy evil supernatural beings
Once per lv per day, range 1 per level
If less HD than a user, then (various) a d12 will flee towards its lair if any for a round per Lv and will only combat to retaliate to attacks on them or if cornered
If equal HD or one better than one subject gets a will saving throw to resist
If level doubles targets' HD then they are disintegrated or banished to some netherworld
> Command
Chaos or Evil usually vs undead, devils or demons
Evil use this to control thralls in their subversive war on normalcy and goodness
If less HD than a user, then (various) a d12 will obey a one-word command (like the spell, plus you can gesture like point) that lasts a round per level (flee or attack)
If equal HD or one better than user, then one subject (various) gets a will saving throw to resist
If level doubles targets' HD then they are charmed for 24 hours
> Halt 
Balanced or Neutral usually vs beast, flora or one type of elementals or undead
Use to maintain balance or the status quo, avoid conflict or to ambush foes
If less HD than a user then (various) a d12 will stand peacefully for a round per level unless attacked
If equal HD or one better than user, then one subject gets a will saving throw to resist
If level doubles targets HD then they return to their plane or grave or lair or some place significant to it and rest there and the area for a day per level

d12 Rover & Druid Nature Miracles

1 Awareness
2 Beast Ally
3 Beast Form
4 Beast Speech
5 Berserk
6 Elemental Mastery
7 Faerie Steps
8 Flora Form  

9 Hibernation
10 Hunters Gaze

11 Regenerate
12 Wild Walk

d12 Rover & Druid Nature Miracles

1 Awareness 

3 range per level, as spell action, one round per level per one use of holy power 

Nightvision, Thermal vision and +2 all survival, tracking or sense rolls (Balance, Listen, Scent, Search, Taste, Touch). At 10th Lv gain a sonar sense also

2 Beast Ally
Self, one HD of animal linked per Lv, call once per use of holy power as spell action
You may call beast ally companions. You can split the total HD they have among various normal or giant animals. They are real animal friends so avoid abuse, harm or death. Giving your friends healing and food will keep them loyal.  At 5th Lv you can speak the beast languages of your current allied species. At 9th level, with a ritual, you may see through one beast ally's eyes for an hour per use within 1km per level. At 13th level you can speak to your beast allies with telepathy in 1km per level, at 17 level your mindlink to your beasts' range extends to anywhere on the mortal plane or 1km per level if both on some other plane. If you lose a beast ally, you can replace them with an hour ritual per HD. Surviving beast allies might leave if they feel unprotected, like followers, and appreciate good treatment like grooming and nice treats.

3 Beast Form
Self, as spell action, one form change per use of holy power 

One specific species of animal form per level with up to HD or less = Lv, and one shape change per level per day so turning back to human requires one use also. May pick species you have seen for mobility, muscle or stealth uses.  HP dont change, and any unencumbering kit is included in the change (but not usable in the current form), the rest falls off. 

4 Beast Speech
Self, as spell action, communicates an hour per use of holy power

>1-4th Lv You can speak to one species of animal at a time per use
>5-8th Lv You can speak with all types of creatures from one of these groups:
amphibians, birds, fish, reptiles or mammals 
>9-12th You can speak to any vertebrate animal with bones
>13-16 Lv You can speak to any visible animal, including swarms or colonies
>17-20 Lv You can gossip with tiny creatures of the area as a divination ritual each use. Use them to sense enemies, find a lair, trail, herb, water, object or hazards over 1km outdoors (or 30 range indoors) incite birds, frogs and bugs to be silent or chirp loudly with a whisper

5 Berserk

Self, as spell action, one round per level, use of holy power 

>+2 hit and damage for duration, immune to fear and draw power from natures wrath
>You can't fall unconscious for the duration, even in negative hp while power on unless you die
>If no enemies in sight will charge and attack any moving or standing target the bigger the better (including allies). Allies may fake being dead. Turning off rage is a hard Will save
>Lv 5-8 roll a d4 rolls on one type of petty mutation every time you go berserk mutation
>Lv 9-12 roll d4 petty mutations and one major mutationswhen raging
>Lv 13-16 roll d4+1 petty mutations and two major mutations when raging
>17-20 roll d4+2 petty mutations and three major mutations when raging

6 Elemental Mastery

Self, as spell action, one round per level, use of holy power 

>Air Mastery

Lv1-4 -2 per dice of air or lightning damage
Lv 5-8 +2 save vs air magic or lightning
Lv 9-12 predict the weather for the next day or detect unnatural weather
Lv 13-16 immune to fall damage or lightning or asphyxiation (pick one)
Lv 17-20 immune to fall damage, lightning or asphyxiation 
>Earth Mastery
Lv1-4 -2 per dice of blunt damage, including falls and blunt unarmed
Lv 5-8 +2 save vs earth magic or petrification
Lv 9-12 always know your location on the earth
Lv 13-16 immune to petrification or poison or acid (pick one)
Lv 17-20 immune to petrification, poison and acid
>Fire Mastery
Lv1-4 -2 per dice of fire or heat damage
Lv 5-8 +2 save vs fire, heat or smoke
Lv 9-12 cast Ignite cantrip at will
Lv 13-16 immune to fire, heat and smoke 
Lv 17-20 immune to fire, heat and smoke
>Water Mastery
Lv1-4 -2 per dice of water, cold or ice damage
Lv 5-8 +2 save vs water magic or cold
Lv 9-12 +6 swim speed  
Lv 13-16 immune to cold or water or drowning (pick one)
Lv 17-20 immune to cold, water and drowning

7 Faerie Steps

Self, as spell action or ritual per use of holy power 

> Lv 1-4 You can locate and find faerie gates and determine when they open with a ritual

> Lv 5-8 You can dimension door yourself 1 range per Lv as a spell action  

> Lv 9-12 You can dimension an additional person per use as a spell action 
> Lv 13-16 You can open a portal to Faeriland with a ritual with a mirror, water, stone circle, mushroom ring, flower ring, or a natural wood or stone arch or crack
> Lv 17-20 You can teleport anywhere on the mortal plane to a faerie portal you know

8 Flora Form 

Self, as spell action, one form change per use of holy power 

One specific species of plant, fungus, ooze, mould or slime form per level with up to HD or less = Lv. May pick species you have seen for various uses.  HP dont change, and any unencumbering kit is included in the change (but not usable in the current form), the rest falls off. All kinds of brainless growing life forms or colonies of them are possible. Your flora form always has a Move score of at least 1/3 their human speed, but can remain immobilised as a spy for months or years. Could live inside a monster's guts, grow fruit and other weird stuff in some forms.

9 Hibernation

Self, ritual, sleep per use

>Sleep under the earth or inside a tree, in water, requiring no food or water or air
>If attacked or forced awake, get a Will saving throw to react; otherwise, takes a round per year asleep to revive. Will be skinny and hungry when awake, but it's kind of time travel and why nature religion keeps returning. Why you get big turnouts at holy places big festivals. You awake with full hp unless woken early. Powerful users will carry fragments of old allies they can cast reincarnation on.

Lv1-4 month per use
Lv 5-8 year per use
Lv 9-12 decade per use
Lv 13-16 century per use
Lv 17-20 millenium per use

10 Hunters Gaze
Self, as apell action, one target per use of holy power 
>Select one target in sight and gain +2 to hit and damage and +4 to track for you vs the target
>Target remains selected until killed or you select a new target with the use of your holy power
>At 10th Lv your allies get a +1 to hit the target
>At 20th Lv your allies get a +2 to hit the target

11 Regenerate
Self, always on
Up to the user if it leaves or erases scars
>Lv 1-4 Heal 1 hp per hour, remain spry in old age
>Lv 5-8 Heal 1 hp per ten-minute turn, live as long as oldest of species
>Lv 9-12 Immune to bleeding, regrow missing body parts in d4 days
>Lv 13-16 Heal 1hp per round, no longer age
>Lv 17-20 Revives from death and dismemberment in a d4 days

12 Wild Walk

Self, as spell action, turn per use of holy power 
>Blend into natural environment, getting +4 sneak or hide and cannot be tracked, no terrain penalties to move in wilderness

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This will get updated tweets for a while before being part of a PDF with possibly a system for bard songs to. Id like to squeeze the bard into say runmaster. So please let me know in the comments if anything here sounds too open to abuse or recommend possible weirdness.

The prospect of prehistoric peoples just popping up from time to time who could possibly revive lost species with my nature spells, will help my world be more magical.

Spy Fi Schools for super students

I need this for an adventure im writing for our shared TSR Marvel 60s spy-fi game.
I will be doing some more spyfi stuff and finishing a table i started 6 years ago for Bond villains and recent world events have inspired me to finish it. Ive been reading uk kids' annuals from the 60s to 80s from British Weekly Comics. Plenty of kids with one weird power. So this is full of that and other UK kids and spyfy shows. A bit of Marvel and Teen Titans.

I'm playing more than running games lots of late.
I think ive improved a bit as a player.
Our usual jan hard-to-catch-up period has actually been the best in years.
Some players' kids a bit older now possibly helps.

In WW2 superheroes took their sidekicks into battle, and post-war, this practice has been banned by the UN Superhuman Test Treaty. Recently, a new generation of child superhumans has become old enough to cause trouble as vigilantes. Their numbers have grown, so the Dept of Metahuman Affairs has created a truant squad to round them up for their own good. As no one system could be agreed on as a sole methodology, various thinktanks and organisations funded and established various schools. Some were for more dangerous children. Schools are to make sure kids dont become supervillains. Some think love and understanding works others prefer sport and beatings. Staff are mostly spies.

The Truant squad inspect schools quarterly for MOD Ministry of Defence. They have plans to raid every school in preparation and to imprison all students to assess them for potential villainy. There are UN inspections in the less secret schools that also investigate eugenics and racism. Some of the UN teams are former Nazi Hunters.

The oldest school run by Ministry of Defence clearly failed early on as its first WW2 born class ran wild as superhero team before they were supposed to on their own. They were a handful. Other failures created supervillains. So for the new generation has all kinds of organisations and government departments creating many schools to test which is the most successful at creating well-adjusted, responsible superhumans or black ops agents who can hide from public. Too much spy or millitary training has created problems. Most schools have only a dozen students in a limited age range. Only a few of the biggest have 40-200 students.

Due to the time period their are remnants of racism and eugenics still being cleaned up. Most of the larger schools are co-ed and of a variety of nationalities. Smaller ones are more likely to be specialised in a limited age, gender and mostly UK descent. There are many failed experiments locked in cells and containment fields.

This could be for backgrounds for characters, a campaign of inspecting schools, a student campaign or just for investigative or combat missions. Players could be humans managing super youths. In a hero campagn the state might lumber you with some scheme to match heroes up with delinquents. Or even a class of them. Could overlap with my super hero old folks home which the players liked so much they took over management. 

d20 Cool School Features
1 Training Gymnasium and pool
2 Secret underground science labs and vaults
3 Arcade, rollerskating, trampolines and bumper cars
4 Therapeutic petting zoo or hobby farm with puppies and horse riding
5 Transport hub: helicopter pad, garage, boat pier or train station
6 Commando course
7 Museum of heroes, villains, graduates and portraits of students
8 Armed guard security force
9 Massive library 
10 Luxury spa & cafeteria
11 Workshop for military-grade construction projects
12 Operate a junior super team or provide legal sidekicks in traineeships
13 Martial arts school
14 Botanical garden or zoo 
15 Simulated street or village test site

16 Paranormal events site (ghosts, ufos, cryptids)
17 Predictive AI computer system controls the school security and doors

18 Village, a suburb or complex full of agents and student families requiring protection, living typical domestic lives. Might be around school as a cover and include retired superhumans
19 Spooky sealed old building 
20 Astronomy centre with telescopes and radio telescope dishes

d20 Uncool School Features
1 Hostile agent infiltration (foreign, alien, cult, crime)
2 Funding shortfalls and disrepair (faulty and retro tech)
3 Possible takeover, closure or merger (red tape or funding attack)
4 Data leaks about students and lab work
5 Former student or staffmember now a vindictive villain
6 Secret surveillance-resistant control centre
7 Excessive defences seem like a prison (giant robots, army base, force dome)
8 Large student graveyard or morgue
9 Abusive bullying (juve gang or rigid staff)
10 Factional feuds (competition and sabotage among staff or students)
11 Disappearances, deaths, and drama (investigators needed)
12 Secret prison research hospital for rejects and experiments

13 Black lab for metahuman study with an anatomical organ vault
14 Firing range and test site, cratered and rubble-filled area like a quarry

15 A secret society in the school has strange plans or an agenda

16 Vault of enigmatic objects
17 Some staff might be supervillains or have dark past come up
18 Guard autoguns, androids or robots
19 Secret underground training bunker with an armoury and a hazard chamber
20 Secret clone or cryonics pods

d12 School Education Style (roll for school of staff)
1 Elite private school with strict discipline and punishments
2 Scientist staff train and educate students with a few specialists
3 Millitary school with marching in uniform and drills
4 Groovy progressive with music, cool clothes, young staff and a discotheque
5 Run as a well-intentioned ordinary state school

6 Sport and athletics focused 

7 Students are all scouts and have lots of outdoor activities

8 Arts-based school for drama, dance, music and visual arts

9 Science and engineer focused school to give students tech to the industry and millitary

10 Paranormal Research School encourages students to conduct unusual research

11 Mental hospital treats students like patients and drugs them

12 Spy org that weaponises students for black ops and millitary actions

d12 Exotic Location
1 Creepy old castle
2 Former manor house and estate
2 Mod multi-level urban structure
3 Private Island with pier and helicopter pad
4 Alpine location with woods and mountains
5 Former sea fort or lighthouse complex
6 Former prison
7 Former power station
8 Closed underground railway station or tunnel
9 Former boarding school in crime filled area
10 Inside a military base
11 VIP campus of an ordinary school 
12 Atomic bunker complex

d12 Who Runs it?
1 Branch of millitary from the army, airforce or navy
2 British Tocket Group (for space conquest)
3 Experimental Eugenics Foundation (replace homo sapiens)
4 Ministry of Defence MOD Metahuman Affairs Division
6 Thinktank, a science research organisation interested in robotics, war and mind control
7 Department of Metahuman Affairs, Truancy Squad, with children rounded up
8 UN org like UNIT, UNCLE, Nemesis, and even UNICEF might have saved some children
9 European Union superhuman test treaty organisation, multicultural
10 Independant ecentric wealthy scientists who got a contract, wildly vary
11 Scotland Yard employs dozens of child vigilantes with large cash rewards
12 Hijacked government tender for school, a secret society like HIVE, HYDRA, THRUSH or possibly under extraterrestrial control. Everything seems legitimate and boring

d12 Specialisations
1 Patriotic propaganda training
2 Mutant or psionic students
3 Military and black ops combat
4 Vigelante law enforcers
5 Freak containment
6 Paranormal research
7 Dangerous or troubled students
8 A top secret project
9 Search and rescue training
10 Spoiled privileged bastards
11 Mind control
12 Technology

d20 Staff
1 Old scientist

2 Millitary disciplinarian
3 Nosey Nanny
4 Hippy revolutionary softy

5 Psychological practitioner

6 Former secret agent

7 Former or veteran superhuman

8 Coach, a former athlete

9 Medical profesional

10 Charming and popular

11 Youthful and fun

13 Frightening elder
14 Philanthropist progressive
16 Witty with humiliating insults
17 Paternal counciler
18 Attractive and athletic scientist
19 Former villain
20 Creepy weirdo (human or some kind of creature teacher?)

d12 Managable Crisis 
1 School dance
2 Interschool sport event
3 School inspection by social workers and Truant Squad
4 Exams season

5 Student election

6 Parents try to break in to take the child back

7 School excursion or camp

8 Someone has an accident, injuring some students

9 Student runs away, initiating a manhunt

10 Exchange students from rival school here to spy, prank, sabotage and provoke fights

11 Interesting new students and staff this term

12 School faction feud with pranks over age, gender, sport, pop music or some nonsense

d12 Mega Crisis Events
1 Enemy of the school attacks to seize or kill staff or students
2 Criminals, cultists or conspiracy agents raid the school

3 Criminals, cultists or conspiracy spies have undercover agents

4 Rival school students want a battle and cause trouble

5 School was raided by the government for non-compliance, and some students were taken by social workers and the Truant Squad

6 Students include some who serve an enemy faction

7 Kids break curfew and run amok in the outside world, risking press discovery

8 Fire, explosion or other "accident". Some students were injured and cause covered up

9 Students find some Cold War, eugenics or superhuman secret on campus
10 Anti-meta robots attack and will kill or kidnap targets to take to their AI lab factory
11 Time travellers, possibly future students, visiting in secret or trying to give a warning
12 Flying saucers land, aliens d4 1=kidnapping test subjects 2=here to limit superhuman evolution 3=take kids to study galactic civilisation 4=invasion test assault 5=help save a civilisation 6=need hosts for spawn of their alien gods from overspace

d20 Famous Schools
1 Beat Street School - Beat Street kids are all martial artists and roam as a gang in a violent, run-down district. They are regarded as thugs and are actually being trained in black ops. They have rivalries with ninja and assassin schools
2 Pauline Pepperpotts School For Extraordinary Abnormal Children - strict but small classes under the direction of a mysterious educator. Trained to be paranormal investigators and some of the staff are paranormal entities

3 Cuckoo Academy - where telepathic albino hive mind students are educated after being born in a english village. Supervised by scientists and millitary who are just starting to worry. A similar school is in the Soviet Union and some data has been exchanged. Soviets have suggested a nuclear device should be placed in each school if students become dangerous

4 Essex Academy - a school for mutant children to learn heroic values like teamwork, operating since 1840s and furnishing and uniforms of Victorian era style. The headmaster is a long-lived expert on genetics and mutation

5 Camp Chimaera - a school on a millitary base also contains some freaks and monsters in cells and was where the first postwar generation of heroes escaped their education. Now there is a stricter regimen of mind control. Previous failures blame the kids psionics, causing them to rebel vs the worst intentions of their teachers

6 Space School - child astronauts trained to survive space colonisation run by the British Rocketry Group. Many spend time in a simulated space habitat and expect to be on the moon or beyond in five years. Some students are gifted with technology. Some students and staff have powers from alien contamination like Boy Martian, Moony and Princess Venus

7 Weber Institute - a strict, isolated school in a rural manor with high security and lots of labs. Many staff worked in german superhuman labs in WW2. Has had complaints of eugenics, white supremacy, torture, creating own army and cloning Adolf Hitler. The Ministry keep tight reigns on the place and 5 former headmasters are now in prison. The Hitler clone died in a fire

8 St. Ursula's - an all-girls school in a rural manor, where children are encouraged to plot and scheme to be future spies. Children building bombs, labs and guns are all encouraged as long as discreet. Lots of sports like hockey, tennis, croquet, archery, rugby and martial arts. Staff are mostly nuns secret religious women's combat order

9 John Dee Special Academy - students trained in paranormal investigation, the school has a vault of contained relics and the property is haunted by cryptids, ufos and spectral beings (rivals with the Crowley Academy)

10 Challenger Academy - for future explorers and scientists of the Challenger Foundation, from a highland castle. Every year tip students go to some fabulous field trip to a mysterious hidden land or the most extreme locations on earth. Some students spend years abroad in study around the British Commonwealth, living with natives. They bring many recruits back, making their school the most representative of the commonwealth peoples

11 Bleak Hill Youth Detention Centre - actually for delinquent metahumans, a modern prison with a research hospital. There are three wings of severity and releasable, a fourth wing with cryogenic vault and force field cells. Surrounded by isolated woods and moors 

12 Excelcior Academy - for future superheroes, trained in law enforcement and rescue and building their heroic identities. Some dropouts became villains or black ops. Professor Excelcior operates a high-tech secret science base under the school. Many go on to join hero teams. The school also has a large graveyard of past students, and giant robots guarding the school provided by the Ministry of Defence
13 Tomorrow Foundation - prepping kids to be benevolant utopian pacifists, mostly take psionic talents, and they have technology to monitor and enhance mental power. Older youths lead younger students with help from a biomechanical inteligence the first students built
14 Churchill Grammar School - run by millitary establishment but mostly an ordinary school next to a millitary base where they are all cadets. Can be unruly but obey uniformed superiors 
15 Dream Academy - a philosophical think tank school where students learn to build utopia through science, diplomacy and violence. Run by a committee of free-thinking beatnik genius educators in many fields, including arts and sciences. Their building is ultra-modern and open design. They try and help mostly teenage students cope with their powers and use them to benefit their utopian cause. Counter-cultured but pacifist with its problems suppressed so far 
16 Legends Legacy Academy - a fashionable casual dress school where staff are older heroes and an aged care facility lets kids interact with heroes of past generations. More interaction with normal humans and the community. High security for children of superhuman, has facilities for all ages from preschool

17 Grand Order of Druids Preparatory School of the Sacred Oak - students with lots of flora and fauna powers, including a campus for super animals, sapient animals and students with beast powers being educated by an animal empath teacher. There is a team of plant-themed student heroes: Snapdragon, Tigerlilly, Mandrake, Wormwood, Nightshade, Wolfbane, Hemlock and Mistletoe. Students have strong ecological education and community programs. Many staff are tough colonials of the commonwealth. Also love cricket and proper football 
18 Blackstaff Hall School - in a spooky Scottish Victorian private estate specialising in supernatural, mutant and psionic students who learn control of their powers. They encourage students to blend in with normal youths and influence them. The teachers seem cold and strict but warm up with individual students to facilitate training. Many students believe they are special or chosen and are notoriously competitive with other schools and each other. The principal Mr Algenon Blackstaff, and his staff are occultists and have some minor talents at least
19 Penningham Grammar School - a spy school in a secure village where retired spies are kept as residents and experimental mind control projects are researched from an underground complex. Everything in the village is generic, yet there are no familiar brands, limited propaganda media and local. Its true location is secret, but based on a seaside holiday hotel complex
20 Tillenghast Foundation Science School - using a resonator to perceive ultraterrestrials, the students are trained to sense or combat these strange things from beyond. The professor sadly vanished decades ago, and a committee of self-funded scientists continues his work. They also investigate other paranormal events and use a resonator to tap into other realities to find clues. Some students seem to be more sensitive to ultraterrestrial spirits

d12 Foreign Schools for Exchange Students or Visits
1 Nippon Robotic Technical School - Japan has lots of kid heroes who are the only operators of various robots. Lots of genius scientists made robots with genetic lock controls operable only by themselves and their offspring. A sinister alien force took these mecha scientists, leaving their children. Also has android, bionic and robot students and staff. A separate campus for psychics has been called for
2 Texas Super Ranger School - Texas USA trains students to be super cowboys and cowgirls and follow a code of upholding society with gun violence. All learn to ride, survival and to resist torture. Many use knives, whips, lassos and guns. A bit extra racist
3 Emu Flats Extraordinary School - Australia near a nuclear test site to encourage mutant students. Very hardy with lots of outdoor exercises. Work with the nuclear test program and other secret black sites in the secure wasteland
4 Tunguska Technical School - part of a millitary base in soviet union for research and millitary training. Many students were recruited into the KGB or other bureaus and paranormal research. Considered ahead in psionics training and millitary use
5 Chairman Mao Technical College for Superhuman Excellence - Chinese state school from a bunker under a millitary base with a local village of mostly millitary families. Seek to create a Chinese super team for propaganda
6 Nemesis School - Switzerland-based international UN law enforcement organisation operate a special school where international students with unusual abilities are trained. Founded by three superhuman agents who increasingly came up against dangerous, failed super soldier programs. Students may assist with actual cases in their training as law enforcers
7 Ultima Thule School - Iceland, a joint program of Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland, training superhuman youths and spies to face the USSR. Works with many allied nations on operations. Very serious and high performing in a frozen, isolated millitary base
8 Occult School of Science - NYC, USA, a paranormal school for the gifted, operated by a mystic Doctor Droom, Dorian the Witch Boy and his pet hellcat Tim. They have a vault of demonic relics and books guarded by demons and gargoyles
9 International Football School - soccer team cover for travelling international students. They roam the world, staying in various cities to train and compete. Tend to have lots of adventures when travelling. Operated by a UN agency and various law enforcement bodies that want international discreet agents. Many graduates play worldwide 
10 Académie Française D'études Surhumaines - Paris based french defence force school, seems to be priveladged modern school in the city with secret sub levels into the city catacombs. Students are stylish and efficient. English refer to it as "The French School" but many European students who all study diplomacy
11 Genetic Security Agency Institute for the Future - SanDiego USA, a modern designer utopian school operated by the GSA with the Genemax corporation. Seems idealistic and benevolent. Plan to hothouse children of the rich to become superhuman rulers of the future

12 HIVE Academy - New England USA, a private school that trains and studies superhumans. Receives government funding money but is really run by a terrorist and criminal organisation. Premier producer of teen super criminals. Many staff are scientists or super villains 

West Germany is still banned since ww2 from operating superhuman millitary programs but leans into various international orgs instead. East German talent go to Moscow or Siberia for experimentation.

In the UK, Robot Andy solves problems on his own, but there are some child "robots" being socialised before getting combat upgrades. Some robots clanker students raised with superhumans will get body upgrades when deemed stable and mature.

Some schools specialise in a type of powers like Corky Wilde's School for Cat Children or Mrs Wilson's School for Extraordinarily Infants (taming terrible terrorist toddlers since 1904).

There is a whole school of super monkeys and apes from early tests, and many "students" are in their 20s now. A few have managed to live in a normal society with some prejudice. Most live ordinary working-class lives but a few accountants and academics.

There are martial arts schools producing extraordinary athletes, they dont qualify as superhuman and thus not included.

Some children manifest powers and attribute a separate personality to them, even as far to manifest as "magic item" or "pet". As they grow and receive training, they will overcome these limitations.

Names with illiteration, rhymes, puns, metaphores or jokes are common.
Most get new names when adult.

d100 Superhuman Kids
01 Cuckoo kids - psionic linked hive mind
02 Will Scarlet - boy archer
03 Stinker - emits awful gases to stun or kill
04 Boy Cyborg - part machine after an accident
05 Toybox Boy - builds small robots
06 Chomper - super eating and biter, matter eater
07 Animal Boy - talks to animals
08 Wild Girl - feral girl
19 Jaquie's Geni - conjures a magic spirit that makes illusions
10 Boy Frankenstein - dumb but resilient and strong
11 Transistor Danny - electronics and women's shoe expert
12 Monkey boy - powers of a monkey
13 Catboy and Catgirl - cat powers
14 Leopard Girl - cat powers
15 Whistler - sonic whistling powers
16 Skateboy - skater vigilante
17 Kid Cobra - flight, fast, poison resistant, wears snake suit
18 Oddballs - generates force spheres that obey will and fly 
19 Shrinky Dink - shrinks
20 Thinker - smart problem solver
21 Brain Box - super smart nerd
22 Chatter - overly talkative and mystery solver
23 Dodger - great at avoiding harm and good at persuasion
24 Billy Black Eye - boxing mad lad
25 Kid Champ - boxing and athletics
26 Jokeshop Jack - makes and carries jokes
27 Stormy Summers - weather control
28 Face Freak - face change
29 Eraser - disintegrating beam, which comes from a "magic eraser"
30 Pocket Penny - shrinking
31 Kid Claw - has a super crab claws one big one small
32 Polly and her Parrot - mindlinked smart animal

33 Ghost Girl - insubstantial at will
34 The Spook - causes fear
35 Underwater Girl (U-Girl)
36 Crybaby - sonic screams, water generation and super tantrums
37 Kid Fixer - genius grifter and manipulator
38 Wild Boy - feral athletic kid
39 Pepper & Her Magic Pony - ghostly pony is a psionic construct
40 Sammy & His Servant - psionics form a jolly looking geni from a 1920s book
41 Hooky - child with a silver hook hand that can harm supernatural beings and interfere with psionics. He can even snag astral trails and small spirits
42 Dead Eye Dan - super precision and accuracy, uses peashooter or catapult, also strong
43 Ghastly Greg - can become frightfully hideous, strong, clawed and amphibious
44 Freddy Fatty - inflates and floats, resilient to harm
45 Windbag Wilson - controls air, flight
46 Malvern the Menace - violent thug gifted at combat and attacking weakness
47 Billy Speed - hyperspeed from his speed pills
48 Spotty - pimply bald squat child with psionics, others see spots around him, he can blind others for a while
49 Zipper - superfast and hands become like jackhammers
50 Laser Lad - energy emission
51 Mole Boy - burrows in his black furry stealth mole form
52 Numbskull - resistant to kinetic damage and flexible
53 Kid Jack Frost - cold emision
54 The Goober - damage resistant, lucky and dim witted
55 Mad Minx - violent combat talent girl
56 Choker - telikinetic crush, some call him Grooper
57 Jackpot - super lucky and agile
58 Derek the Jungle Boy - a wild boy raised by a science genius hermit
59 Wendy the Werewolf - wolf and hybrid form, resistant to harm
60 Earnie & his Magic Eye - eye sheilds him and causes bad luck. gives him terrible advice
61 Sally & her Spectre - girl has a guardian ghost
62 Mandy Monster Hands - hands become clawed and can cut steel
63 Gobbler - can eat several adult whole, can regurgitate them later
64 Sunbeam Sally - glows and flies, shoots rays that make people feel nice
65 Bouncing Billy - inflates and bounces
66 Scruffy - grubby kid everyone looks away from, good at infiltration and stealing snacks
67 Funnybone - flexible bones and body, can streach or bounce
68 Merry Midget - shrinking and increasing strength
69 Rattler - makes a sonic rattle with psychological or deadly effects
70 Sparkler - shoots stars and lights
71 Bouncer - bouncing and super strong hoodlum
72 Bubbles - makes force bubbles and finds new uses for them
73 Jenny Jester - makes people fall over laughing, talks to her pet dog, monkey and parrot 
74 Puck - invisibility and shrink
75 Son of the Spider - ruthless, fearsome mastermind, boasts about his dad being the greatest villain and hero ever 
76 Basher - super strong and invulnerable
77 Ten Ton Tony - becomes dense and heavy but looks the same
78 Kid Squid - Sprouts tentacles and can breathe water and change colour
79 Katie & her Zoo Crew - psychic bonded to a ever growing herd of pets
80 Miss Moon - floats, emits light or can cover herself in shadow
81 Ultra Violet - super strong, invulnerable, emits light, very violent
82 Fireball - shoots explove fireballs, getting the hang of safety and size
83 Kid A-Bomb - explodes at will then reforms, sometimes in another location
84 Flat Lad - becomes 2d and can slice through most 3d matter
85 Bomb Girl - projects explosive black energy spheres, a bit anarchic
86 Full of Beans - when eats certain foods, metabolism becomes superhuman briefly
87 Pixie - fly, shrink and invisibility
88 Stardust - makes sparkly light, sheilds and telekinesis
89 Cocroach Kid - turns into a tiny bug or full size battle insect form
90 Sky Lad - flight, weather control
91 Bird Girl - wings, turns into a bird, speaks to birds
92 Fish Finger Pete - can breathe water and becomes a fish humanoid if immersed in water, shedding his human skin. If on land a while sheds again into a boy
93 Tip Top Tim - super strong, invulnerable and fast pugilist
94 Atom Girl - disintegration, super strength and invulnerable
95 Gouger - can tear chunks of flesh or other matter with hands at high speed
96 Penny Powers - controls and mimics other people's powers
97 Funny Face - disguise but also cause fear or laughter
98 Mega Megan - strong, density increase
99 Girl Pirate - athletic, lucky, expert with weapons
100 Miracle Maid - strong and telekinesis

Creature Teacher is ideal for difficult students. I think they might be Azathoth.

Also brit comic ETT Extra Terrestrial Teacher is probably a more queer version of Martian Manhunter and Uncle Martin from my favorite martian

Puffball Hooligan Holidays for Fungi Folk

Deep underground, fungus folk have weekly games of puffball, where they gently kick a giant puffball without exploding it, requiring replacement. Blowing up a ball is -1 point. Two villages compete over an area between them, starting in the middle. But sometimes players wander a bit or go higher or lower than usual, like the underworld or the surface world. As mushroom folk may interact with faerie paths, this can include other planes of faerieland. Each village has a clay pot to put a puffball in to earn a victory point. Each team has 12 balls and needs them ready to replace balls that break. Getting a goal against you or losing all your balls is a loss. An elder acts as a referee and is carried around the field on a giant mushroom cap. So teams fight over the ball but gently and chase it sometimes for days over many miles.

You may play this with teams of identical mushroom men on a tabletop or with geomorphs. Your team of a dozen may have its own flair, style, name and banner. You can roll for random encounters as they fight over a puffball. Play starts between two goals by the referee elder.

This elder is a nuetral religious official both parties agree, is objective. The game is a ceremony.

Some teams have mascots of fungi or animals that live among them (giant toads, newts, bugs). Each team has an entourage of cheerleaders emitting spores, ball bearers, a healer, a coach, a magician to deal with terrain, six substitutes or enemies and a gang of hooligan fans. Terrain and luck will win. Punching and using sticks, bones and stones found on the course are ok but only one-handed weapons. Some teams allow two shroomlings to replace one mushroom person. Both teams attack outsiders who meddle in the game, and the entourage and referee will help too.

You never met such awful mushroom folk as hooligan puffball fans. They are often hopped up on foamining berserker yeast brews that make them dangerous if a fight breaks out. They will rampage over an area, breaking things and vomiting. They scare children and make babies cry with noises. They dont talk much when linked in a spore mind link, but humans may accidentally be affected and have a nightmarish episode of the spore mind.

Mushroom hooligans are surprisingly quiet to humans, but some sensitives or magicians will hear them screaming, taunting and chanting.

Some know the usually stoic shroom people don't normally gamble or get drunk. They often carry potions, and all this makes them good at grifting in games of chance. They are often naive to human fraud.

d12 Puff Ball Holigans Scenarios

1 Mushroom creatures every night and rampage over the fields, waking babies and breaking things for no reason. Please stop them

2  Team members or entrants are really lost and separated, and need help finding the team or the game. Dealing with humans is hard. The rest of the gang rampaging through a district

3 Gnome tourists require guides to protect them while they watch a puffball game

4 Giant pufballs have been growing in the area, rolling to new areas in the breeze and exploding spores in new places. Other giant fungi are spreading too over the years. Some say they have seen sinister shrooms performing some kind of drunken dance at the heart of the problem. Please stop their vile rites

5 Mushroom team elders contact outsiders, asking them to be substitute players in a match, after a purple worm ate the sub players' house

6 Drunken, violent mushroom folk burst into a tavern demanding fermented yeast beverages. They are trying to find their team but now fancy a drink. Beer makes them potential berserks

7 Team stray mascots are roaming the village. Why is this happening?

8 A mushroom folk elder came to the graveyard away and took away all the dead, even the blessed ones protected from necromancy. While vile magic is this, go investigate. They now follow the Deathcap team mob

9 The village well was a goalpost long ago, and sometimes confused fungus folk come here to hurl puffballs in it. Locals have no idea and want it to stop, and the drunken mushroom folk to go away

10 Team on their way to a championship needs escorts to get them through civilisation in secret so they get to their match on time

11 Due to a shortage of puffballs this year, mushroom folk at night are sneaking around fields, kicking melons and pumpkins to test them as substitutes. They might accept substitutes like huge spiders found in a cave. Some evil jerk suggests rotting human heads or skulls. They need 26 for a match

12 A diminutive clan of smaller 2-4 foot high shroomling folk have begun playing with human children. Parents and larger mushroom folk come to watch. Some adults want to start a team and need some tough monster brawlers who are not afraid to punch 7-foot-tall mushroom folk in the face. Someone has even planted a puffball crop. Some humans worry about this and call the inquisition for sensible clarity 

d12 Famous Teams
1 Deathcaps - include zombie entrance among their hooligans but it slows them down. Sometimes use zombies to make bridges or ladders or walls
2 Toad Lickers - have pet giant toads who sometimes eat humanoids or animals, the entrance pass. Toads are also good at dealing with fungus-eating giant bugs that prey on the wounded. They are all hopped up on toad juice and good at jumping and dancing
3 Raming Tortoise Fist - have a giant snapping tortoise with a catapult they use to launch spore bombs. They also favour dense formations. The turtle is also good for digging and water crossings
4 Battling Glow Worms - members are luminous and leave glowing hand and footprints. People often think they are ghosts. They rarely get lost. Some have gone a bit insane from being worm-infested, but they say it makes them braver. Some say the team taint often remains, leaving luminous fungi in caves and dark places 
5 Purple Centipedes - charge single file, ploughing through obstacles. Some up front if injured, fall back and join the back of the line when able. Sometimes they get trapped in loops in circular paths around a rock, and it takes them a while to realise. They often hurl huge centipedes at enemies as a taunt
6 Devils Fingers - creepy thin mushroom folk, unusually have a pact with hell and sometimes open hellgates to help hell's minions enter the world on some mission. Where they have rampaged, creepy red finger-like fungal growths bloom in positions of diabolical hand gestures or sometimes grasp passersby

7 Witch Butter Churners - lewd slimy yellow shroom folk includes human witches and their familiars in their entourage and fans. Quite a few goats join them too. The witches enhance the team with magic and potions

8 Ghost Shrooms - eerie, luminous, fragile fungus are aided by ethereal woodland spirits and their followers include shamans and other followers of their spirit allies

9 Horns of Gomphus - play fungal trumpets and loudest of all the fans. Obnoxios drinkers and users of berserker potions to get excited for a match

10 Elf Caps - allied to faerie folk and often have faerie, elves and goblinoids in followers. Some are quite pretty but usually include a variety of fungal beings. They are a bit fragile, but the team use magic

11 Staghorn Maulers - grow antler-like fungal horns as part of a secret cult. Viscious brawlers who may infest foes. Those who grow horns prefer this team over all others

12 Slime Lords - include slime, oze and gelatinous monsters as followers. Also good to dispose of murder evidence. Leave slimes wherever they go, fouling water and irrigation ditches

d20 Game Troubles
1 Ball moved by freak occurrence 1d10 x 100 yards away by a d4 1=creature 2=gust of wind 3=water 4=rolls down hill
2 Third fungi tribe wants to interfere with the local league ladder and will use magic and traps to get the ball out of the legal zone
3 Enterage hooligans have a violent brawl 
4 Goblins want to eat the puffball like a pudding and chase it to their fort
5 Ball rolls in front of a monster lair like an owlbear

6 Someone replaces the ball with a deadly, floating, explosive fungus sphere

7 Hundreds of rival hooligan shroomians come to the match, they riot and start some fires

8 Local millitary or church ready to face the invasion of chaos fungus demons

9 Corrupt fungus folk want to rig the contest to gamble

10 Trails of giant fungus and bugs grow in the wake of the teams

11 Evil elves kidnap teams of followers for slaves

12 Human cult of bigots harasses mushroomkin, making more problems as hooligans arrive to support teams and spread spores or giant critters

13 Goblins come to see and collect spores and cause mischief
14 Dandy gourmets send cooks to collect dead and wounded fungoids, upsetting them
15 Sinkhole opens, and two more battling fungoid teams break out, fighting over puffballs
16 Dark elf and fungal dryads come to watch and prank humans in the area
17 Two fungoid villages grow overnight and meet in the centre to play puffball
18 Giant inflatable puffballs fly overhead in the hundreds, raining spore clouds
19 Clouds of fungal telepathy spores released, putting all sentient beings in the area into an empathic link for a d4 days. Some locals are profoundly changed by fungal thought, forming a cult
20 Manifestation of a fungal deity appears to watch with its own followers

d12 Random spore clouds
1 Obscuring fog like clouds
2 Caughing and choking clouds
3 Giant fungus spores also promotes giant bug growth
4 Aggression spores
5 Fear spore clouds
6 Hallucinogenic spores
7 Empathic link spores
8 Telepathic link spores
9 Fungal group mind spores

10 Shroom folk spores growing more team supporters
11 Spores create fungal undead in graves, fungi not evil

12 Spores grow mushroom houses attracting animals, gnomes, and wee folk

How to stop the 18km tall Gnome Gigadungeon & Countermeasures

Gnome data accountants have used cognitiver engine golems, psi monasteries for divination and centuries of committees to isolate possible threats. They have produced these plans in order to stop them.

Each includes proposed and possibly used countermeasures 

Currently, the tower is damaged and crews are working to power up the Black Sphere device to nullify all time and space to save us from all suffering ever. Their is new interest in gnomes of the under;land join ing up. Some however really serve a faction. The Gold Vube dont want to destroy all histoty just turn all matter into a super dense solid mass of gold they will rule from a parallel dimension in a time bubble. Mostly, they just use Black Sphere systems to make money on the side. 

Documents of this topic are classified and gamed out in thinktanks.
Some gnome agents know these or can access documents.
Anyone getting any of these plans will become a secret police kill team target.

d12 Most Likely Strategies to Threaten the Black Sphere
1 Operation Space Rock - a flying giant citadel or a crystal palace of the star people could be dropped on the tower. This was tried several times and caused destruction to the lands around the tower that was shielded by a void shield device. This is related to the function of the tower b ut currently it is uncertain whether the tower is working.

2 Operation Drunken Giant - a colossus or great titan beast attacks the structure. This could include walking cities said to exist in the dawn age end. The tower and its defensive wall managed to kill, drive away or capture such attackers, even using their bodies for magical purposes like for protoplasm in their golem factories. Ruined walking and flying cities were looted and scrapped, their power sources incorporated into the tower. Even gods shun coming near Chagrinspire.

3 Operation Gloom & Dispair - attempt to alter gnome culture by means of trade, religion or reducing the vital elements in underland food that gnomes need to maintain cosmic melancholia to carry out their apocalyptic nullist duties. Gnomes have increased trade, but more seem motivated to join the great crusade against existence, the source of all suffering ever. So it seems this is not happening. Be suspicious of gnomes having parties, fun or celebrations.

4 Operation Open Birdcage - release various gods imprisoned and usurp the power of the dead gods bodies they use. Let them destroy the tower. The gods tried and failed in the apocalypse. A generation of godlings vanished and the remaining gods have avoided manifestations on the mortal world since. Some cults come here to free their gods but show little unity.

5 Operation Grim Reaper - poison and disease in the system to kill occupants and crew of the tower. Amphibians and fish folk invaded the water system and have occupied it. They have contaminated it with their filth and established portals to the plane of water. These invaders living in between levels and in the waterworks actually helped purify the water by infesting growing plants and infesting life in the works.

6 Operation Cursed Sword - unified continental kingdoms invade Chagrins pire, seizing the lower levels and working up. The 1000 year apocalypse war improved the technology of the invaders, but also constant invaders into the wasteland around the tower have been turned into undead, mutants & heretical cults. In turn, they defended the tower and supplied thousands of souls for the great nullification apparatus. These souls have helped repair the tower's function slowly

7 Operation Black Harvest - some faction captures the operation of the tower and subverts it to some alignment or faction. They want to use the resources to build a global empire of airship gunboats, plundering the world again. There are gnome factions and cults who seek this but so far, the secret police of the black sphere have terminated these heretics
8 Operation Coconut Shuffle - take the tower to another dimension. Expensive and difficult but the right planar beings might help. There have been attempts but planar beings are terrified of being used as fuel for gnome alchemists. Agents actively stopped this and the wasteland is now shielded from this by pylons scattered in the wasteland.

9 Operation Basement - undermine or destroy the three great caverns under the tower, causing a great cataclysm. This was tried, and gnomes built magical wards to protect the caverns from earthquakes with titanic earth elemental shock absorbers. They could be released and turned against the structure. There were gnome experts in binding earth elementals at ready in the past, but modern gnomes are less interested in elementals and more interested in golems.

10 Operation Hungry Worm - corrupt golem engines with false date, confusing the tower systems and the Black Sphere and other apparatus. Could be used to make areas of the tower uninhabitable or make golems turn dangerous. Wizards plotted this in the past and were killed by gnome arcane assassins. There are fewer powerful magicians capable of doing this now.

11 Operation Hornet Nest - use a species of creature to overrun key systems and structures of the tower like slime, fungus, spiders, rats, dungeon monsters and other vermin. Gnome trappers hunt these creatures to protect the tower and because vermin feeds other threats to the tower. The tower is well shielded from planar threats. Kobolds have been using dungeon monsters beasts to help keep the lower levels of the tower abandoned. They claim to have built the tower and to own it as payment long ago.

12 Operation Golden Needle - convince the `12 ruling houses of the gnome underland kingdom so they cut funds and support for the tower. Approval has waxed and waned over 2 thousand years but most gnomes dont care or know how advanced the project is as they never see the surface. The surface is just a source of food and slaves to gnomes. Gnome propagandists are always working openly and secret to protect the project of nullification 

Other Problems
One problem of the tower was if it fell how many earthquakes would it cause, years of dust in the atmosphere taking years to end and triggering a mini ice age and magical polution effects

These past failures each will have data files with more information on past attempts and countermeasures. This information will help repeat efforts of the plan and evade gnomw detection. 

Their may be aparatus to detect certain threats that could be sabotaged.

Gnomes who know too much are sent to a prison camp on the moon. They may know things to help these plans. Tricking gnomes that some other plan is in the works might waste their time and resources.

Saboteurs might assist in shutting down systems, letting wreckers escape or leaking data.

See former posts on gnome agents and spies also.

I will be doing a piece on large-scale automaton juggernauts sometime and some stuff on clerics and orcs im working on.

Gnome data centres dont burn themselves down, they need your help.

Some faction might seek the tower just to control the world.
They might be deluded or possibly a real threat.

TSR Marvel - Reskinned into a Swinging 60s SpyFi Romp

Started a shared world game using characters from this post and B-Man's stats
https://elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com/2025/10/tsr-marvel-for-holidays-spy-fi-silver.html

B-Man's Car the Sting Mobile
aslo b-man's secret stash of bee puns
one two

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The Holigraphic Man's Stats here at Death & Drek



The Holgraphic Man's Opticar

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M'Ladies Rolls

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A holiday game with:
Dallas/Holographic Man
Me (Chris)/B-Man
Richard was the Ref 

Basicly its a Kim Numan genre pastiche with the UK Avengers 
This is the sequel of our last 40s and 50s games
Nice to be a player this time but we made to mix up refs

So we work for Broadsword the espionage division of UNIT and are investigating a trail of dead electronics experts and missing business diaries. Holographic man spied on offices remotely while b-man met targets and planted bugs and mostly used spy skills. He thought he was a bit better than he was and chatted up secretaries. They went clubbing and holographic man was dancing with a new starlet. We mostly wore suits MIB style and I had a cool apartment and armoury in London.

Had a bungled base infiltration and had a fight with goons where we got hurt but showed off powers. B-man released his bees from his body and they carried him over the wall to a guard tower identified by Holloographic mans vision as the best target. Bman got into a fight and accidently disarmed the guard in a cuffle and grappled him. The man screasmed so B-mav spewed bees into his face andmouth then used them to block all the windows. Guards were alerted by and alarm from the scuffle so  Holographic man used his ray gun to burn a man's skin off, ignite his hair and clothes and left the guy falling from a wall 2 stories. Bman ended up throwing the guard two floors into courtyard and the bees attacled spotlights while he can along darkened walls with a captured smg and a silenced pistol.

Holographic man burned through the gates while their boss lady got inside and git into fight with guards. A guard wouldnt quit and pulled a grenaide and killed himself and injured Holographic man who was zaping guards. B-man set bees on guards and fired bursts at guards. It was somewhat messy and bombs went off lots. Played bond soundtracks in background and gogo for the clubs and london scenes.

Tracked down the science villains and trapped in their lair. Got to get the villains story before trapped by a steel wall and a robot released. B-man distracted it and broke his shotgun that he tried to blind the robot with. Holographic man cut through wall and hopped through. While B-man got clobbered twice badly, a laser in the back cut through the robots armoured shell. It identified the new threat and turned to Holographic man trying to grab him through the hole. B-man shoved a grenaide in the injury and dived in the hole. The Robot finally fell but the vikllaons had escaped. It was too slow to cut out so B-man trained in nuclear demolitions placed the robots atomic power cell in the right spot and the agents went back ot the hole then zapped the cell. It was a big blast with a jet of flame through the hole and the base power dead. Hollographic man demonstrated his holographic illusions from his weird eye by making light. 

The found the villains dead and clues it was by a second robot unseen and apparently smarter than people thought. Was lots of fun. Made hundreds of bee puns. Only used our flashy powers in lethal situations. I failed almost every spot roll and swapped d100 set in game. Failing was kinda fun though. Richard did a great job of escalating the investigation and damaging us just enough and left a good hook at the end.

I got to use my bees in strange ways and were pretty terrifying. The holographic man gave me some od looks. But he has a weird alien eye and a raygun. Its a great distraction. Im writing a list of geat I wish I had including a Lockpick gun, rope and grapple, a comando knife & a helmet. We got to change clothes and costumes lots. Business man with bowler to all black comando to diving suit. Good for my toy line and comic. Lots of bee roleplay moments like having a smoke of cigarettes to calm my bees dowm. More details of my mysterious past as an astronaut came out like my flashbacks to my venusian amazon herteic Queen Bee who saved me with her alien bees. I dont mention her to earthlings, it feels like a dream. Has transatlantic accent but changes often from years undercover. Everyone has a cool car. Everyone has sidekicks to do errands. Started a group karma pool for future. I will try and get stunts for my power of mindlink to my swarm and regeneration when bees inside me. TSR Marvel turned out to be a great fit. 

Game toilet breaks are commercial breaks. We sometimes mentioned adventures in our characters' own comics. Trying to be generous and agreeing on difficulties for rolls and messing with powers rather than saying nope or capping power ranks. We probably could beat a street or lower rank mutant superhero. The rules we use mean you can get higher rank powers but more liabilities and we intend to use them in game. Enemies who get to know you will try to nerf your powers using Origin and power source against you.

Will play again and either of us can run it and will share NPCs and get a story bible set up like a TV show. Im all for having alt orgs like  SHEILD, UNCLE, SMERSH, HIVE, HYDRA, PAGAN, GALAXY, The Minastry, ZOWIE, SPECTRE, THRUSH, KAOS, Control, AIM, COBRA, SPHYNX, SHADOW, STRIKE, Taskforce UK/Cloud-9, OSI,  FLAG, WASP, Spectrum, WIN, BISHOP, EUROSEC, PATRIOT, SMASH, HAMMER, SABRE, ANVIL, JAWS, ITF, Team America, Department S, Nemesis, International Rescue 

Some npcs

from spyfi tv and film: Dr Quatermass, Steed, MsPeel, Adam Adamant, The Baron, The Saint, The Prisoner, DrWho 1-3, Flint, James Bond, Captain Scarlet, Commander Adam Straker, Danger Man, Matt Helm, Jason King, 

Books: Una Pearson, Jerry Cornelius, Diogenes Club,

UK Comics (some are minors): Robot Archie, The Steel Claw, Tim Kelly (and his Eye), The Spider, Modesty Blaise, Luther Arkright, Cat Girl, The Leopard of Lime Street, General Jumbo, Billie the Cat & Katie the Cat, Adam Eterno, TriMan, Atlanta The Girl from tommorrow, The Black Archer, Iron Man (UK Robot Agent), FEAR, Shadow Squad, Octobriana, The Human Magnet, Thunderbolt (super serum in his watch), Eric Dollman, Justice, Janus, King Cobra, Agents of UFO (smokeman)  

Maybe Challengers of the Unknown, The Phantom Stranger, DrOccult

Also characters and orgs from our marvel games since 1984 (was champions then superworld then tsr marvel).