Marvel 1950 - d100 Weird Investigations & Mysteries

In my Marvel 1949 game we advanced to 1950 - thinking each real-world month would be a game year. As the 50s roll in there are more aliens, monsters, weird creepy killers and fighting communism features than prior eras/ This table includes more occult and storage stuff for heroes to investigate. As im simulating an era of hero comics in decline vs romance, horror and true crime I will probably try to use my romance tables. Possible remaining sidekicks and child gangs might hijack their heroes in the comics as goofy kid gangs and teen romantic comedies. This table should cover more weird non supr hero adventures of 1950s pulp and cinema.

d10 Quick Types
1 Strange signs

2 Strange powers

3 Weird creatures

4 Mysterious deaths

5 Wild science

6 Mutant horrors

7 Alien visitation

8 Haunted place

9 Secret Cult

10 Ancient mystery

d100 Weird Investigations & Mysteries 
01 People hearing weird sounds along the water ways

02 Dead cattle found with missing brains

03 Man shot by police vanishes before witnesses eyes

04 Weird lights seen in the sky over an area recently

05 Kids report a local ruined mansion has strange lights inside

06 Several coffins have been robbed from the city morgue

07 People have seen a strange figure walking at night

08 People having strange dreams about evil underground derro race

09 Strange person walking at night seen and locals report feeling weak

10 Strange voices more and more reported coming from the sewers
11 Faith healers claim to perform miracles but have a secret cost

12 Visionary has had strange dreams and has retired from performances and readings

13 Children with weird psychic powers born in a village  

14 Invisible person causing havoc in a university

15 Psychic woman has become remarkably wealthy with her predictions

16 Excorcist found dead in own home impaled on sculpture

17 Arrested criminals say they paid a psychic for their heist plan

18 Several people report having seen people with strange powers living among us

19 A new crime boss is said to have supernatural powers

20 Someone has been killing people with a strange death touch say witnesses

21 Locals say a water monster lives in the harbour and it snatches dogs and homeless

22 The marshes near town they say a humanoid think has been seen lurching on misty nights

23 Something strange rumoured to be living in the city sewers and making noises 

24 Laboratory creatures escaped and has grown larger from eating stray pets

25 Mutated dog has been spotted and growing bigger and weirder each sighting

26 Glowing creature seen at night by power lines

27 Strange clouds have been seen moving together and changing directions 

28 After a recent UFO sighting people report some creature in the area scaring people at night

29 People report a slimy thing crawling around city storm drains and docks

30 Polic had a gun battle with a giant insect that escaped
31 Corpse found trampled by something that weighed tons

32 Corpse found glowing in river mysteriously by water police

33 Charred body found in apartment. Spontaneous human combustion?

34 Human silhouettes of fine ash have been found around city

35 Corpse was found of a man with gills floating in the water

36 Scientists recover unusual prehistoric remains of humanoids in a train tunnel

37 Corpses found drained of blood in homes

38 Corpses found torn apart by apparently wild dogs

39 Someone has been stealing body parts and organs from bodies

40 Victims have been found dead alone aged with white hair

41 Scientist develops super evolution ray process and makes an idiot a super genius

42 Laboratory has had a robot escape and is roaming the city 

43 Scientist missing from the lab has been seen glowing strangely and feeding witnesses

44 Gang has been making a crude super serum to make huge monstrous goons

45 Accident at a local lab killed a scientist but people have seen a strange ghost since

46 Unknown company dumping toxic slime-producing mutant creatures

47 Testing of an incredible vehichle threatened by saboteurs

48 World-leading scientists to work on a new energy project 

49 Radio space observation station detects numerous UFOs in the area

50 Government lab studying strange artefacts is under attack
51 Mutant scientist leaves victims a husk of dried skin while eating them

52 Cosmic rays from space struck scientists and turned them into a hideous creature

53 Mad scientist has been accused of testing a formula to create mutant monsters

54 Mutant fish caught in river by locals, fishing now banned 

55 Experimental industrial animal feed creating giant animals

56 Scientist irradiating spiders found dead in lab an emaciated husk

57 Giant mutant ant colonies being searched for by millitary

58 Secret gang of mutant teens living in the sewers and performing petty crimes

59 New research lab for people developing strange new mutant powers 

60 Mutant locusts from the millitary nuclear laboratory hunted by millitary
61 Experimental radio telescope looking for signals from mars 

62 Flights of glowing lights over the area alarming locals and missing persons reported

63 Something landed in a field and left radioactive traces

64 Strange men were in the area asking questions about a UFO sighting

65 Madman screaming in the city about aliens replacing people and now in hospital

66 UFO investigators found dead and house ransacked and police baffled

67 Teens with hotrods report strange creatures in hill roads since a meteor crashed

68 Strange coloured lights have been seen in the foothills and plants and animals seem to be affected by some strange influence

69 People have been disappearing in recent unseasonal heavy mists 

70 Strange radio signals nobody can understand detected recently
71 Old insane asylum had some teenage explorers vanish

72 A run down mansion used as a place to stay for homeless squatters for years has suddenly been shunned

73 Strange noises heard from the old murder house

74 Expert claims ghost sightings are increasing

75 Scientists plan to apply advanced science to solve the mysteries of Hell House

76 Phantoms seen in the old monastery in the hills

77 Blood-curdling screams are heard in the old city graveyard increasingly often

78 Locals immigrants in poor areas are afraid to go out late because of wild rumours about a witch. Some say she lives in the old shunned house

79 Famous mystic vanishes exploring a haunted house known locally as House of the Damned

80 Collection of tribal relics has had items stolen and mysterious noises heard at night
81 Abandoned old mansion of a demon cult has made the news again since a recent disappearance in the area some say that when the cult was active

82 Remains of a cult sacrifice have been found by police

83 Police have put a cult compound under siege

84 Cult leader has taken followers to an old coastal mansion and families are concerned why

85 Renowned cult leader vanishes from cell leaving only some strange slime behind

86 Museum has been robbed by masked robed men

87 Man claims a painting by a famous occultist has somehow trapped victims inside

88 Cult announces doomsday and calls the faithful to their property to prepare. Police and locals wary

89 Police raided a swamp cult near the coast and found strange inexplicable idols that puzzle experts

90 Cultist shot stealing a book from a university. Strange body left police coroner baffled
91 Archeologists digging native sites vanish

92 Mysterious stone door found by miners

93 Strange mummified bodies found baffle scientists

94 Strange writing in stone found on rural property and experts looking for more 

95 Antarctic expedition return with samples which are promptly stolen, scientists tight-lipped about what was taken

96 Someone has been breaking into the Egyptian exhibit moving objects and even injuring a guard

97 Discredited scientist claims to have found a strange ruined city under the desert

98 Meteor crater found with strange artefacts buried, thousands of years old

99 Scientist claims prehistoric life forms might still live in underground lake

100 A second murder has taken place in a museum in front of an ancient idol found in deserts of the Near East during the war

d100 Village Weirdos

These are for padding out any boring village on a trek. 

d10 Quick Types
1 Criminals

2 Drunks

3 Perverts

4 Maniacs

5 Gossips

6 Agents

7 Hermits

8 Cultists

9 Witches

10 Non-human

d100 Weird Villagers
01 Danny Fletcher - a compulsive thief who loves the thrill and adventurers are too tempting, squeals if caught and begs mercy. Locals think he is harmless

02 Morgan Seaman - spy for a smuggling guild buying up cheap weapons to sell to frontier monsters. Has other interests and used to be a "sailor" but was a pirate

03 Portia Salt - adventures thief makes a living from the generosity of dumb letters she can rob, some she even likes if they are pretty enough. She thinks adventurers are rich enough

04 Penny Bodlock - and her pet gremlins watch for well-off targets to rob while she keeps people busy. She keeps the gremlins an a bag and they love her dearly as she raised from babies and has a colony in her basement who have domesticated rats as pets in turn

05 Fanny Arbuckle - Likes to get adventurers drunk and intimate so she can beat them up and rob them and leave them tied up. Other than that she is loads of fun as a tavern companion

06 Billy the Knife - got a fever as a kid and now is paranoid and loves knives. Locals say he is harmless but he has stabbed a few strangers who he thought looked funny. The mayor claimed all the treasure and covered it up

07 Goran Bladaghast - spies for local bandits and he keeps messenger pigeons and has extra pigeons belonging to the gang. Will inform them of rich prey like adventurers

08 Stinky Pete - has been secretly robbing drunks at night especially ones who wont remember. Has a pile of purses under porch hidden. A rich outsider might tempt him to kill

09 Vilan Podgeglump - a depressed jealous sod who wants nice things for his cottage so steals from outsiders who clearly don't deserve it. Likes to meet strangers in tavern to case them out

10 Mirram Vordrank - often works in bars but does cheap card readings and crystal orb work. If she has rich clients she tries to draw a map the spirits sent her for you and then tells her monster allies in the dungeon to be ready via her friendly Imp Mr Globbo
11 Argyle Richmond - former noble brat turned adventurer and then murder hobo and now a horrible potentially violent drunk if confused enough. Has some stories that make modern young adventurers cringe

12 Bodunk Goreman - jolly drink who lives in a shack where he brews grog when not in tavern or staggering about on business. Sees lots of odd things and often invites others for his homebrew rotgut. The good stuff he sells for a living

13 Old Meg - pipe-smoking old woman with missing teeth who loves gin and fighting other drunks and abusing the rich by imitating them

14 Polly Lambswool - drinking since her sweetheart left her and drinks to forget. Lots of locals keep an eye out for her and help her home. Some even try to get her to meet new people. Really she knows her lover is living with monsters in a dungeon by choice and is angry at him

15 Old Pat - the charcoal man has started a few fires drunk on the job but everyone thinks he is lovable and knows stories of the faeries he will share for bottles of grog

16 Danny Potter - a bitter old drunk writing plays and poems for bards and city theatres. Lives out here to get away from the public but sometimes likes to overhear people talk and put into his plays. A few found their conversations or even caricatures of them in city plays and had to change their looks and style. He hates fame and bards unless drunk enough to deal with them

17 Marebelle Otterskin - a tanner with stained hands and ailments from handling poisons drinks alcohol to ease her pain. She also knows how to mix various poisons for plants and to put in food. Dreamed of being an alchemist or herbalist once

18 Beevar Knortenborg - former barbarian who likes drinking and fights and can go berserk but will only do this if really drunk. Will hire himself out and if required drinks heavily and constantly to keep his fighting edge. Sure its his right to drink always  like he will in heaven

19 Marigold Porter - likes to drink and play cards and smoke and vile jokes after a hard day of being polite to strangers in her village shop. She is very offensive and likes to shock people and has several violent sons who protect her honour

20 Ainsbury Pickle - a sodden old drunk who drinks to forget the old days when a cult controlled the village by secret tunnels and murder. He knows where the tunnels are and possibly they have new occupants. He is a bailiff for the local judge when sober

21 Karl Gruberhole - loves feet and thinks adventurer feet stepping in foul things is very exciting so he will crave their boots for his unspeakable lusts

22 Tammy Potwrinkle - Keeps a shrine of attractive adventurers in her room and is a skilled artist. Some of her illustrated erotic fan fiction is copied in the bigger towns where pervert adventurer fans salivate over them. These fans will chase adventurers for scraps of hair and memorabilia. Newer fans think her fiction is real 

23 Jarrar Torken - likes to tell people wild tales of local ruins and if people investigate he follows at a distance so he can watch them fight monsters and pleasure himself

24 Rodbar Falcon - friendly dandy and self-proclaimed duelist on vacation who tells duelling stories that are all lies. He is also perpetually horny and lascivious especially to pretty adventurers. If humiliated he will try to murder any who slander him and avoids fighting for free in a backward hovel

25 Tabitha Spugnort - has a thing for demihumans and throws herself at them. She even wears fake pointy ears and locals are sure elves will take her away one day

26 Clapathia Thimblesnort - a mature widow who likes to invite lone men in so she can charm them. She even has cells in her basement with several of her boys already

27 Eric Pontangourd - puppeteer offers adventurers a chance to see his adult-only shows

28 Herngan Bollard - desperately wants various potions for his experimental sexual practices. Invites adventurers to watch while trying to buy them or even join him

29 Palindram Fugnord - Peeping tom and exhibitionist, looks through windows while pleasuring themself and exotic adventurers are more exciting than locals who just throw food scraps at him

30 Marjar Winkle - convicted horse molester will see new livestock at the stables and try and get to them at night. He thinks the horses wink at him as a come-on 
31 Magnard Seaward - an old sea captain who lived with cannibals and found it to his taste. He sometimes has secret hybrid fish folk staying with him in secret 

32 Varlen Banderfolly - likes to snatch lone travellers for his basement laboratory but has been getting bored and more ambitious. Always wanted to work with Demihumans  

33 Emert Gunderfelch - loved a goblin killed by adventurers and now he longs to stab them and keep some of their skin in his diary

34 Peebles Ballangorp - started drilling holes in things to spy on people, moved up to kidnapping people and drilling holes in them while alive

35 Cebellina Jallorp - was in a demon cult and murdered the rest. She now wants to capture and sacrifice more victims to her demon patron of betrayal. She will lie to adventurers to get in her home to cast sleep on them

36 Mackin Dorset - has a collection of occult books and will invite people to see them If they approve of the cannibalism in them will offer them real meat, if they look shocked he attacks them

37 Sablanna Portchuckle - believes an imp who advised her to use human blood to keep herself young. She butchers bodies and fills her basement bath then feeds the rest to pigs

38 Makin Praline - a locally famous cook who offers to cook strange dungeon beasts brought to him. He will also ask for intact humanoid corpses in good condition. People come to his monthly feasts mostly for rich outsiders who can afford it

39 Pablo Klambara - has several underground cold stores full of barrels of fish and pickles. One store is closed as unsafe and he puts the corpses of his victims in barrels of brine and ships them to necromancers. He kills people sometimes by hiring humanoids he gets through an evil cult he pays lip service too

40 Brinora Veldagort - has a collection of erotic dark elf furniture she offers to show lone magic-looking visitors to the town. Her idiot brother Norman who sleeps in the cellar to hide his hideousness will ambush and kill guests together for the loot. If asked where victims went she says "They said something about meeting a cult and a portal when they left"

41 Glinga Grimble - loves to spy on adventures often while walking her pig George. Anything she sees especially expensive or foreign will get her tongue waggling

42 Pa Griddle - silently watches while collecting sticks in his basket. Goes home and spreads to quarter town by dawn who he is related to

43 Barnaby Pecker - Likes to loiter about town with his fancy clean clothes and swagger. He will try and talk to strangers and offers to help guide them. Will tell locals all about his new friends and spreads lies about their backstories for attention 

44 Granna Og - grumpy old matriarch who claims her vast experience lets her read stranger's truths with her wide range of prejudices and bigoted senss. Local law are sick of her wild accusations but she might convince people who don't know her. She has many locals who listen to her even if they don't quite believe in her "readings"

45 Gladstone Vandervaal - offers to read strangers astrology signs and if he can't will wildly speculate by making cranial measurements. Will learn what he can about strangers and then gossip to his regular clients

46 Merri Windsop - is a terribly excitable bored literate girl who likes exciting stories of adventure. If she sees adventurers she will stalk them and get other youths involved. She will be sure adventurers are on a case in secret and need to be watched, Every unmarried youth in town will know by dawn

47 Nora Kettle - loves her sheep and she loves coming to town to sell wool and knitted items. If adventurers come she offers custom woolen ware or sword cosies. She will blab to them every suspicious thing she knows about for this village and the closest ones by the road

48 Vorgan Habbock - the gossipy old farmer has no family so instead he eavesdrops on others and gossips about it wildly with anyone who asks. Knows all kinds of stuff

49 Kirus Blaine - a poetic youth getting into the divination business through religious-based divination. When see someone interesting will learn some facts about them with magic and then try to impress them with their mysterious all-knowing wisdom for cash. they have piles of divination manuals

50 Makkabus Brindlethorn - a gossipy wizard who likes walking around the country and staying in pubs. Will send magical messages to the city magic school and friends about anything interesting he sees. Locals say he is a harmless well paying seasonal regular
51 Varnae Bloodwulf - agent of the secret police who is known by locals as a bounty hunter who spends weeks away on missions. Sees anyone suspicious or strange will put in the report

52 Lucinda Porgbukket - has an elf lover and she spies for him and works with magical animals and pixies to send messages. She reports on certain enemies of the elves or anything they might be interested in. If She meets you expect local elves to know

53 Delan Fargenpickle - mild local scholar and teacher who serves a dark mysterious lord and he aids humanoids and cults but in secret so nobody but he and the master know. He likes to meet adventurers for the dark master

54 Arge Baconridge - local scribe who works for local magistrate keeping an eye out for criminals, armed strangers and trouble makers, Keeps abreast of local bandits and gangs. Might mention some gangs to adventures and hint of rewards

55 Bezan Grumblehog - a local craftsman and secret spy for tax collector who keeps an eye out for travellers in need of an emergency audit. WIll be chummy and friendly praising adventurers then report by pigeon any information they have

56 Burgen Blargeblust - local member of regional crime guild keeping an eye out for rich victims

57 Somatha Crimble - barmaid who reports details of adventurers to local dungeon boss in return for jewellery. She may slip them a map she "found left in a room" locating the dungeon that is really a trap run by monsters

58 Crossilda Battenthwaite - a mature woman often in taverns drinking and smoking her pipe and called "the Dame" by locals for her uppity snooty ways. She was a noble maid but she still serves them tracking the locations of persons of interest to them

59 Pepper Vagenjak - works on a local temple restoration and is actually a spy for the church who spends a few months or even a year in each location working on buildings and reliquaries. Will mingle with locals and watch for cults in the village or on the road 

60 Biram Crimpbek - a spy for the secret police looking for troublemakers like adventurers. Will try and befriend them to file a good report and assess their loyalty to the realm
61 Arple Spigknot - an old man who lives in a old boat and mutters about the weather, once an adventurer who saw a storm giant and still scared of lightning

62 Margo Prunewax - lives in a grotto under a cliff wall and makes potions from local ingredients. Some say she has secret non-human lovers and has unnatural powers

63 King WIlly - sits in rags on a carved wooden throne in a tree by the stream and mutters about the secret undersea fairyland he says enslaved him for decades

64 Morton Polywinkle - Jolly friendly drunk and well-liked, despite sometimes saucy antics with neglected housewives. Used to be an adventurer and knows several small sites good for an afternoon's adventure. Sleeps all over town or on temple porch if cold 

65 Parquin Vanleather - used to be rich now a worthless wretch begging for food, it is forbidden to employ him or pay him money or take it by local judge decree for his fraud. Some say he upset the nobility with his rapid wealth. He has lots of bitter slanderous stories about local nobility possibly some are true. Lives in an abandoned shack

66 Old Meg - lives in an old dolmen of the ancients and some say she is secretly a witch or has a stash of gold. She just wants to be left alone but can speak with dead and other miracles 

67 Poppa Greenshins - wild naked man seen by locals hairy all over and seven feet tall. Sometimes he steals crops and fruit or pig feed. Green skin furry over body, has become a wild man of the forest

68 Panwald Dirgbarg - wildman in rags once a craftsman now with long hair, fingernails and shredded clothes. He acts like a beast and steals garbage and lives in a hole. Nobody knows what happened to him

69 Crapathia Womblewort - former high priestess now lives silently in a stone hermit hut on the moors. She has lived there as long as anyone remembers and knows lots of holy lore if only people could get her to talk 

70 Cynebriya Torthek - once a famous wise woman who fled home to escape witch hunters gone mad. Now lives quietly and helps heal a few people in need and tells little of herself
71 Arnold Bean - local cult killer who longs to sacrifice to his dark demon patron. Other cultists watch him as he threatens to expose hem all

72 Nikkad Florx - barmaid and cultist may invite some people to a private party in the forest in daytime. The cult and aroused satyrs with be waiting with jars of oil

73 Pirian Snide - total merchant and user of inhaled drugs from local alchemists. Members of a cult seeking some adventurers they can deceive into clearing out their old temple of monsters. Pirian offers a map and some stories of treasure  

74 Morgo Queever - is a cult assassin on the lookout for victims for the local cult. Spends time in taverns and seems independently wealthy enough to not work. Reports to masked cult masters daily at secret meeting place

75 Borgan Vinslan - local tavern goer whose whole family are in the cult takes notes of possible witch hunters or inquisitors  or other zealots who might be after them

76 Henghast Pindarsnatch - cultist looking for victims for master a demon. If he decides to risk with adventurers he will call on his fellows to ambush them with a possible ruse at night

77 Abelina Chattlesworth - the maid who likes a drink from time to time hates adventurers and if she sees any will panic her cult into activity assuming the gig is up

78  Glorban Bugwamp - a farmer who worships old ways of human sacrifice and keen to mark some outsiders for the cult spirit to help capture them

79  Meerka Thanderglang - local amateur bard wants to meet adventurers so she can send them to the local old tomb to be ambushed by her murder cult to appease a monster

80 Plumbus Queefla - leads a local cult and is often in the tavern boasting of his farm success. He is easy to anger and use cult for hasty revenge schemes
81 Nonna Clegg - a grumpy old herbalist, healer and midwife some think is a witch. If she hears anyone say that she will curse them to break their limbs like twigs so people keep quiet

82 Portense Bellephron - wealthy widow, still looks young and well-liked by the community for her charity. She operates an outpost for a large sophisticated city cult to hide and store goods at. She has many unusual guests who bring wealth to the village

83 Mastella Proudhorn - respectable village woman and herbalist with her large silent husband John a hunter. She is always looking for a leg up in the cult and may use adventurers to kill some rivals if she can with lies that hide her involvement, perhaps a secret note or forged letter

84 Prunella Pumblejock - has the finest flower garden in the village and makes the best pies. She will ofter adventurers over for tea to assess if they are loaded with magic items and spellbooks and if her coven can take them. Most think well of her except if sho loses a pie contest 

85 Vanya Dritcripol - Works on commissioned embroidery for rich clients and secretly she has evil gnomes followers a reward form her dark god. The gnomes love magic items and might steal some

86 Hordra Malag - Affiliated with large regional coven in service to living hag ancestors in a secret cave. Her spineless drunk husband has no idea why he is successful at finding old coins but it is the coven robbing adventurers and merchants on the road with allied beast folk

87 Lorang Bean - once innocent and driven from town for some petty magic she used on a bully now she lives in woods causing problems for townsfolk who shunned her when orphaned and grabbed her family land. They try and trick adventurers into hunting her for a reward while she wants justice

88 Glorinda Pebbledrake - a famous good witch who has forsaken casting harmful spells and heals locals. All the locals swear by her and protect her for saving so many locals and they don't welcome witch hunters here

89 Breena Klarg - a mean old lady people fear and say she is a witch. She will offer spells and help for money and sells some potions and remove curses. She cast a spell on the mayor once and is not allowed on the main village street anymore 

90 Morgan Zoran - an assassin for a witch cult with some strange magic items and powers, spends lots of his time in tavern and looking for lovemaking opportunities until called on
91 Cinnella Mako - is a were cat who lives as a humble gardener but she likes to lure lone victims to her home. Once in her cat-filled home, she captures them. Then she lets them loose in the wild to hunt them for sport. Sometimes she invites a sister to join her or several

92 Barranbar Bellows - angy grumpy lone hunter who is also a werewolf. Comes to town to look for travellers he might want to ambush and eat later. He likes to meet them as a human first in a friendly manner 

93 Zobek Kastigan - a doppelganger who lives in the village as a merchant who is away often. May use its ESP powers to get the information it can sell and look for threats to itself. May even use powers to pretend to be a friend to get close and eat someone occasionally

94 Minba Klorax - a spirit folk really a tree buy longed to live among humans and sleeps in tree form in a private garden. Knows of other spirit folk in the region including some evil ones

95 Gobbog Kogbar - really a shapeshifting spider spirit whose home is full of webs and spiders and web sacks of bones. She will try and use illusions to trick good people especially priests into her home so she can eat them

96 Plurinda Dorkenward - rabbit spirit whose human form is a potter well-liked in the village.Locals speak of a were-rabbit creature over the years but they don't have a clue. She secretly protects the village from other spirit people and goblins  

97 Voightram Spordenward - a recluse under a curse becomes undead at night and travels to find weekly victims in other villages. Keeps to self as a tailor mostly

98 Bilsby Claghole - found a jar while digging his fields and became possessed. Has driven family away and continues digging for some other treasure the spirit desires

99 Menork Bunerp - secretly a half-demon and a known bully. Picks on strangers to provoke them so he can beat and rob them. More wary of dangerous groups 

100 Bunart Glogenspurt - a jeweller known in taverns and bathhouses but is really a dragon trying to get rid of stolen gems from another dragon's horde. Every century he does this a decade or so to launder his loot into guilt-free gold. Quite enjoys talking to adventurers and is interested in wild treasure schemes

Marvel 1950 + More Crime & Problems

Had a game and decided to advance year to 1950

Featuring
Stetcho a public hero but also a lady agent dealing in the paranormal 
Blackjack a mysterious trenchcoated figure who fights crime like a shadow
Ace of Aces famous war hero and air adventurer with own island airbase
Digger a aussie war hero starting to have some alien flashbacks

While waiting for everyone Ace of Aces and Stretch battled one of city gangs robbing a payroll with a robot in a truck as backup. Once Digger arrived on field and helped finish they went to their mission to a secret nazi clone lab where all the staff were hitler clones and Ace got stunned and shot by a hitler gardener while rest of team destroyed a lab as some scientists had the DrStrong mk1 formula so a few super adolfs to smash also. Digger threw a grenaide at the scientist responsible and ace when he got rid of the hitlers shooting him stopped the scientist's escape, All the hitlers were rounded up and sent to a secret internment camp. None were killed and they were all less old than 2 years.

Later they went after some more gangs and were joined by blackjack. They saw the gang before who use robots raid a rival butcher gang who all were jacked up on DrStrong formula. While heroes busy with temporarily strong muscles. Even boss one who stuck many syringes into themselves and kept growing muscles. Blackjack cleaned up all the normal gangsters easily.  

Was an incident transporting the clone scientist to Europe and a enemy clone of a nazi villain dressed as an American hero tried to intercept them but they got away by going to sonic speeds.

As it's now heading into the 50s more monsters, aliens and communists will feature, Sir Reginald Styles of the Department of Superhuman Affairs is gone. Now they will have Australian Paranormal Intelligence Service which doesn't want to chase nazis to bring them to justice but recruits them to fight Russia. Odds are now industrial or millitary espionage is Russia or aliens or some of the new secret societies emerging.

The superhuman test treaty bans will be signed by the world
The Superhero code of conduct is being prepared
Trials for unheroic activities have destroyed the reputations of many heroes and will probe every hero.
Most heroes are millitary agents and some quit over this.


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More encounters with less crime but the possibility to insert contacts, meet people, earn karma or popularity. 

Replace any innocents with a hero's contacts for extra excitement to make it personal.

Yes this is utterly cynical awful pulp city stuff.


d10 Quick Types
1 Drama

2 Traffic

3 Subversive

4 Street crime

5 Local colour

6 Cops & Crimes 

7 Disturbances

8 Corruption

9 Big crime

10 Weird

d100 Petty Crime & Problems
01 Kitten in a tree with weeping children and media 

02 Lost dog and weeping child 

03 Elderly persons trapped on a traffic island

04 Viscious stray dog snapping at children (or replace with billygoat or turkey)

05 Kid being chased by a goon on foot

06 Neighbours are fighting over who stole pies cooling in window

07 People fighting in street and public moving away in fear

08 Students in team colours with rival sport teams mascot

09 Seven-foot-tall scary hobo intimidating money from people but is just an idiot who wants icecream

10 Carny grifter with card table and a card or dice or shell game
11 Car collision, one injured other flees the scene

12 Car collisions and help cant free person from the wreckage

13 Train about to collide with old lady in car on the track

14 Bridge collapses with a bus precariously hanging from it

15 Car chase in progress with police after a gang car

16 Delinquents racing cars in a dangerous location (find a new sidekick?)

17 Dangerous drunk rich driver damaging cars and property (I was drugged!)

18 Car thieves at work

19 Gang stealing car parts or petrol

20 Stolen car joyrider endangering public, a youth on drugs with switchblade

21 Weirdo with sandwich board sign and leaflets about how superheroes are a menace

22 Workers protesting at a worksite battling d4 1=cops 2=mobsters 3=hired thugs 4=company security in uniforms

23 Patriotic marchers shouting mean-spirited slogans under lead of a zealot

24 Performer doing magic tricks and offering to show real magic at a secret location d4 1-creepy clown 2=mime 3=top hat magician 4=halequin 

25 Man on a soapbox yelling hateful stuff blaming someone for everything, claims to be a member of a secret society

26 Creepy priest offering street kids drugs to come back to his church

27 Robed secret society with banners marching with band and strange hats

28 Creepy guy selling weird comic books with lewd and vulgar content and some with unauthorised slanderous versions of local heroes

29 Weird man with electrical apparatus with headphones walking around in odd patterns

30 Guy selling workers paper full of communism and articles about cities mob links to government and unionist deaths
31 Mugger with pistol holds up old people

32 Teens with knife hold up someone for groceries

33 Punk kids brawling and drinking

34 Punks loitering in alleys with an entrance to a clubhouse

35 Biker runs down someone in a gang hit and flees 

36 Kids picking pockets while crowd is watching a busker

37 Young and mature sex workers loitering and gossiping  

38 Guy selling stolen watches from trenchcoat (or guns from his car)

39 Creepy drug dealer talking to some runaway teens just off a bus 

40  Newstand selling off-the-counter banned goods in brown paper bags

41 Busker without a permit singing pro-worker songs

42 Priests begging people to do better before the world ends

43 Politicians with crowds and press declaring will clean up this city

44 Carnival stalls with fraudulent contests normal people couldn't win

45 Newboy selling paper yelling lurid headlines

46 Artist painting or drawing a picture of street and locals

47 Cultists chanting with droning instruments and cymbals (Hare Hastur)

48 Charismatic psychic villain creepily looking for exploitable sad people 

49 Enormous swarm of pigeons if disturbed fly everywhere shitting on everything

50 Beatnick poets selling poems and possibly weed
51 Police escort arrested a person while angry friends follow yelling abuse

52 Cops with dogs beating up camped homeless shelters for loitering

53 Cops chasing a photographer at a protest turned into a riot

54 Biker gang and police riot squad brawling in street

55 Four cops beating a screaming person in a foetal position begging them to stop

56 Cops grabbing random immigrants for crimes still on the books needing closure

57 Cops in gun battle with gangsters in street

58 RIot squad come to break up protesters 1=workers 2=homeless 3=imigrants 4=poor

59 Police turn up with armoured car and riotsquad to some immigrant festivities on basis of false complaints but ready to start a fight

60 Beatnicks throw caltrops underfoot of police horse patrol
61 Bus of convicts from criminally insane hospital crashes and got loose

62 One of the colourful new theme costumed gangs in several cars has been causing property destruction and harassing locals

63 A drug lab fire starts with fire and police and fleeing criminals

64 Lion or other dangerous animal escapes from a truck and crowds panic

65 SInkhole collapses in road where some gang was digging a tunnel for a crime

66 Gangster trying to hijack orphanage bus and fighting a nun

67 Small plane crashes into a building and nobody knows why as pilot died

68 Riot starts over a sale in a department store when rationing rumours abound

69 Horse and cart runaway from a gunshot or tire bursting

70 Old man sick of local gangs brings out a tommygun and goes on shooting spree
71 See city official with a notorious gangster who might be displeased

72 Dog catchers selling dogs to a butchers shop or factory

73 Man working on phone lines has dated ID and logos

74 Fake phone company worker scoping out houses for burglary

75 Arsonist tries to burn down run-down squatted flats for insurance

76 Politician promises to bring back good old days and replace corrupt officials, then gets an envelope of mobster money for campaign

77 Casino has secret black book accounting records stolen and seng gangsters to get it back as messily as possible to scare people away from future problems

78 Corporate head who said no to working with mob crushed by fallen I beam from a crane in his limousine 

79 Gangsters kidnapping child in school uniform as hostage for d4 1=police prosecutor 2=property owner 3=media boss 4=millionaire

80 Mob attack on a judge "just to scare them a bit"
81 Carjacking gang robbing armoured car which defends itself with a machinegun

82 Scared man drops off bag in a bin, kids grab it and a gangster chases them

83 Man with a van selling guns to gang members, works for a syndicate

84 Hobos cooking and eating burned body on a spit of some guy who came down here to mess with them

85 Beatnik party with art, drugs and nudity out of control and the vice squad raid it

86 Building explodes in a mob effort to destroy rival gang business and staff or possibly to not pay them back the money they owe

87 Huge drug bust with customs and police and well-armed syndicate gangsters ends up worse than anyone thought. Very flammable docklands factory or warehouse

88 Ship on docks raided for smuggling by rival gang or police

89 Cult sacrifice victim in robes flees an old abandoned mansion lodge hall, robed goons follow and some prestigious cars flee the scene  

90 Sailors have been kidnapping victims to sell to a mad scientist and they ship them when they have enough somewhere
91 Kids fled old abandoned manor house screaming, saying they saw something

92 Murder victim discovered by method of a secret society

93 People have seen strange lights at night in a suburb and pets and some homeless have vanished

94 Several boats found all hands missing with no explanation

95 Homeless people reported strange creatures in the sewers and claimed some are missing

96 Giant crustacean humanoid found rotting in sewerage plant

97 Famous magician missing and signs of a struggle in his house and loose rope

98 Ghosts have been seen in old town ghosts, are they real?  

99 Cultists seen in robes in abandoned apartment blocks

100 People report seeing strange creature stalking the streets

d100 Ways for villagers to react to armed adventurers

When travelling far from home there is in civilised lands a village at least every days travel and there are too many to name or remember. (I do have a village book on patreon somewhere but i have lots of tables for villages to spice them up - also see my angry mob generator). 


Maybe next time they can choose 2 roads they might ask about villages before they pass through them. Should be roleplaying opportunities.

Maybe the village has had murder hobos visit and they stabbed an innkeeper who turned out to be a spy for the Barron and got locals into lots of trouble.

d12 What would villagers do with captives
1 Send to prison
2 Sell to slavers
3 Sell to humanoids or demihumans
4 Sell to a cult to sacrifice
5 Rob them and feed corpses to pigs
6 Kill them and claim bounties on wanted posters with them
7 Perform bloody ritual torture and sacrifice
8 Marry them and make them join the local cult

9 Give local monsters a charming local custom

10 Eat them in a glorious feast thanking the cannibal gods for the bounty

11 Send them on a mission with followers or items as hostages

12 Build a wicker man with local druids and burn them

d12 Why would villagers hate adventurers
1 Spend time around inhuman beings and cursed folk
2 All murder hobos who may kill in a moment without remorse
3 All are witches who use magic to make people thrall and cursed

4 Local adventurer drunks killed everyone in tavern once

5 Deadbeat parents were adventurers who abandoned them here

6 All adventurers are members of evil cults its common knowledge

7 Adventurers are really faerie folk in disguise here to kidnap, steal and play tricks

8 All adventurers are members of brutal guilds and worse than mercenaries and theives

9 Adventurers will rob your graves and steal anything of value

10 Adventurers came here and killed lots of family members

11 Adventurers are corrupted by demons through touching forbidden things

12 Adventurers carry cursed weapons that make them mad killers

d12 Why would villagers love adventurers
1 Saved by a hero and band years ago and many remember
2 Adventurers spend good coin here and help the local economy
3 Adventurers help colonise the frontier and fight the good fight
4 Long ago adventurers saved the village from a monster, you can see artworks of this event and they know the creature's lair a few miles away
5 Adventurers are so fabulous if only we were related to them somehow, gosh i love them
6 Beleive adventurers will keep away bandits, crime and troubles from the area
7 Hopeful adventurers can deal with a local supernatural mystery
8 They have been attacked by humanoids and bandits often so adventurers seem better
9 Some of the founding villagers were adventurers and a few have trinkets and memorabilia and old maps and books
10 Adventurers stopped a wicked cult a few years back and it was better than an inquisitor visit
11 Villagers discovered caves under the village and drove away monsters, now we use as storehouses and have sealed-off tunnels
12 A cursed evil noble ruled us but adventurers came and killed them and we don't have problems now. Some day the king will send a new one i guess 

d10 Quick Ways
1 Overjoyed & welcoming

2 Friendly & kind

3 Indiferent & bored

4 Needy & desperate

5 Caution & alarm

6 Hustle & grift

7 Suspicious & alert

8 Lie & decieve

9 Abusive & mean 

10 Hostility & anger

d100 Ways for villagers to react to armed adventurers
01 Welcome visitors with flowers and cookies and singing

02 Offer them a barn or abandoned house to stay in

03 Villagers perform a celebratory traditional dance

04 Mayor presents them with a wreath of peace and welcomes

05 Sherrif (and deputies close) welcomes and offer directions

06 Locals all gather in the street to cheer the arrival and wave

07 Children follow adventurers with great excitement growing in numbers

08 Ecstatic villagers scream with delight on all fours about the arrival of saviours

09 Enthusiastic thirsty unwed youths appear to squeal and follow adventurers

10 Villagers keep offering their children as servants or to marry
11 Exited gossips get active speculating on adventurers and mutterings spread

12 Friendly local offers welcome and direction

13 Pleased local tells you to see local sheriff for available bounties on lawbreakers

14 Sherrif welcomes and asks if you would join as deputies for a raid on a gang

15 Pushcart trader wheels up to uo to offer bargains for visitors 

16 Saucy attractive mature person hanging out a window wolf whistles strangers

17 Giggling gaggle of youths come to look at outsiders and their fashion styles

18 Farmer walking his pig says hello and offers discount produce from his farm

19 Maid with a bucket of water and a cup offers you all a drink

20 Local bard appears and offers to take you to the pub

21 Surley locals look bored and barley move to acknowledge your indifference

22 A farmer looks up at you but then goes back to attending his flatulent donkey

23 A three legged dog runs up with excitement but stops when it sees strangers and walks away

24 Several drunks on a porch belch loudly

25 A black cat walks across the road

26 Grazing goats chewing cud seem more interested in newcomers than locals

27 Villagers look away grimacing and go back to chores to avoid looking

28 Drunken elderly lovers laughing and cuddling on a porch gets more attention

29 Locals are busy talking and don't want strangers to interrupt

30 Boy from tavern sees travellers, he stops then flees to get tavernkeeper out of bed
31 Beggers asking for food or money or grog swarm at new arrivals

32 Exited villagers gather and the mayor requests help with a local monster

33 Nervous villager passes a note that says the village is under the control of a cult

34 Humanoids in town are abusing people who look pleadingly at adventurers

35 Sherrif asks for assistance with local bandits who have kidnapped victims

36 Weeping parents beg for help for children taken by slavers or humanoids

37 Come across sheriff and men whipping bound peasants

38 Villager warns of an angry mob started by a local that has been killing people the leader slanders

39 Robed cultists and soldiers are collecting babies from locals for sacrifice

40 Horrible drooling monsters and humanoid followers are demanding food from the village

41 Peasants close windows, go inside and lock doors

42 Sherriff, bailiffs and beadles gather to warn adventurers to behave

43 Millitia gather and surrounds adventurers demanding to know why they are 

44 Villagers watch party suspiciously and a mob gathers 

45 Villagers make religious hand gestures and secure children

46 Villagers seem to not be about then a mob with burning torches appears to demand your reason to visit

47 Locals start to pick up weapons and look wary

48 Villagers grab holy symbols, icons and lucky charms and look terrified

49 Villagers come out in the street and glare sternly and encourage strangers to leave 

50 Hungry skinny villagers in rags come out and look with desire on visitors' rich goods and plumb bodies
51 Villager offers local dungeon maps all real!

52 Offer to mind your animals and take care of them and will run to a bigger town market

53 Villager offers cheap second-hand adventurer gear in a trunk

54 Local offers cheap potions packaged very prettily and in lots of colours

55 Local offers drugs and forbidden naughty parchments

56 Man offers to clean all your weapons properly and will flee town if gets any

57 Offer to read your fortune inside a shack close by

58 A villager who wants to stir up trouble tells a lie to encourage strangers to beat up someone 

59 Villager gives map to a monster lair but really they serve a dungeon boss and it is really a vast murder maze of monsters

60 Villagers offering cheap magic items (all fake or with a temporary spell on them to detect as magic or even cursed if they are evil)
61 Villagers scream and scatter in fear mistaking the party for local bandits or a band of adventurers who came recently

62 VIllagers sure outsiders are demon cultist perverts up to no good

63 Locals are all wary any adventurer might start stabbing people at the slightest provocation

64 Concerned visitors are plague carriers like a recent band they drove away

65 Suspicious party work for some local villain or evil boss

66 Villagers throw rotten turnips and eggs and warn that your kind not welcome

67 VIllagers look alarmed, old woman with pitchfork tells "your kind should git outta here"!

68 Angry villagers hurl abuse and slander

69 Villager spits on a traveller and walks away, other locals look furious at the party

70 Villagers cower and expect violence to break out, some sob in fear
71 Pretend to be charming and announce a festival with the party as honoured feast guests who they will drugged, tortured and sacrificed, the rest of the year they are lovely people

72 Villgaers tell of a nearby dungeon in hopes adventurers enter. Once inside doors the villagers shit the doors trapping them inside. It is just an old cold store under a hill

73 Villagers welcome them and offer cheap grog. Later the monsters who rule the town with villager assistance try to capture the party

74 Villagers try to be friendly and encourage visitors to stay while someone contacts the local evil lord who sends riders and a carriage to fetch them

75 Villagers warn of a supernatural evil and advise adventurers to stay here several days or a great beast or evil spirit rampaging the area may stop them. The villagers are really sure it cant be killed. Its just a tourist scam for money

76 Villagers tell stories of local ruins hoping adventurers are curious and stay a few days

77 Villagers declare a festival feast and travellers are invited as guests of honour. At the party climax, robed cultists arrive demanding sacrifices. Maybe villagers just wanted someone to kill the cult or maybe they were the cult, whatever story stops you from getting killed is fine

78 Welcomed in and villagers keep buying drinks and hearing adventurer stories. After light out cultists and monsters use secret doors to capture guests

79 Villagers claim to have amazing bargains and have lots of adventurer supplies second hand maybe they recognise some

80 Invited to the temple by priest for a meal and once inside doors are shut and strange black knights of a mystery order command adventurers surrender
81 Villager yells as approaches and locals scramble to get weapons and even grab rocks to defend their village

82 Angry villagers block the path and declare adventurers are not welcome

83 Angry mob gathers in response to one party member of a type they all hate and get ready to riot

84 Villagers bring out illegitimate children and demand payment from male adventurers, locals start gossiping and gather as a mob forms. An elder demands someone get married or hanged

85 Villagers have barricaded roads with carts and erected a thicker fence. Angry locals from over the fence demand strangers state their purpose

86 Villagers insist a priest evaluate newcomers to see if they are evil witches who must be burned

87 Signs leading up to the village say no adventurers. They had problems and militia or sheriff or angry mob would form quickly

88 Gibbets hanging with rotten corpses of the last adventurers who caused trouble. Locals all glare suspiciously and are ready to form an angry mob to refresh the gibbets

89 Locals look unhappy and worried and if adventurers stop local authorities want to put them in stocks for a d4 days for being adventurers. They will also rob travellers and turf them from town when finished mistreating them in stocks. The local mob will have mob support from any locals

90 Villagers assemble banging pots and pans and present effigies of adventurers that they burn while screaming abuse
91 Villagers and local authorities surround and capture adventurers 

92 Villagers commanded to aid bandits to capture the party with a trap

93 Villagers need sacrifices or else tonight so are happy to see travellers. Will be welcoming and invite them in to be served by attractive youths and drugged or poisoned. Perhaps they are being coerced or perhaps it's just the old ways or a monster 

94 Village flee then later militia, local sheriff and bailiffs and beadles return with a shield wall and slings or bows with an irregular mob of angry villagers behind them. They are sure adventurers are wanted criminals because an enemy who came here to slander the party

95 Priest and some templars lead a mob with holy symbols demanding they test party for signs of evil and that they surrender themselves for investigation or be outlawed 

96 An angry local was harmed by adventurers and will try and poison adventurers with a free beer and if they get a chance stab them. Everybody else is normal but may side with the locals they know who will lie about party and invent crimes

97 A knight staying here leads a mob and he offers a duel with armed travellers. The mob love the entertainment of watching rich people fight but wont let the knight die

98 Locals all hide in ambush with slings, rocks and bows awaiting the signal to attack

99 Locals dressed in frightening bestial costumes and stay in character refusing to speak normally and managing to make do best they can

100 Villagers are infiltrated by shapeshifters like lycanthrope or spirit folk wh as humans bully locals into forming a mob to capture adventurers. Villagers believe adventurers to be baby eating cultists and outlaws who must be stopped

Dungeon Non Combatants in and out of Combat

 

Here are options for all those old dungeons where the lady monsters and children and elderly are defenceless and don't fight or just make you wonder if you are the baddies. There is also a table for high level oath locations and antics for the prisoners your keep.

Morale can be effected for warriors by family reaction.
You can also test morale of your own hirelings to make sure they treat prisoners how you want rather than they just wing it.

d12 What do most non-combatants do in battle?
1 Scream abuse at enemies and cheer on their own warriors +1 Morale

2 Abuse their warriors for every mistake -1 morale

3 Hurl rotting food, body parts, bones, dung at enemies -1 morale for enemy

4 Form a defensive wall with furnishings and any possible weapons around children +1 morale

5 Form a defensive wall using their children as shields -1 enemy morale

6 Form a defence around the treasure hoard +1 morale

7 Use slings, even old and kids +2 morale

8 Elderly charge into battle then parents then children +1 morale

9 Threaten themselves with knives unless left alone -1 morale

10 Try to sacrifice a person or pet for divine aid or summoning

11 Prepare to all drink poison if battle goes badly for their side -2 morale

12 All drink berserker potions if battle goes badly for their side +2 morale

d12 What do the non-combatants do after they lose?

1 Line up expecting to be murdered or tortured

2 Present all their possible wealth and point to treasure they know of

3 Offer to be your thralls if you spare them

4 Wave a white flag and call for end to hostilities

5 Beg to be allowed to flee if prevented from doing so

6 Denounce their fallen dead and claim to be on your side all along

7 Prey to their god 1% chance per HD any slaughtering them is cursed +1 morale

8 Ask for permission to save dying and bury their dead

9 Offer themselves to your every desire but will try and murder you later

10 Highest ranking surviving boss declares they are in change now and desire peace

11 Sob and beg for mercy, wailing and weeping loudly and writhing on the floor like worms

12 Cheer their new leaders and explain you can choose survivors to marry and unite our clans, 

d12 What do the elderly do in combat

1 Sheild children with bodies sobbing and begging for mercy

2 Slowly hobble to attack as best they can with improvised weapons

3 Prey to their gods for help begging for mercy and victory

4 Busy having naps, complaining about noise, snore

5 Rally the family pets for defence

6 Try and lead children to exit and sacrifice self if needed while children flee

7 Complain about failing young warriors not as tough as their day

8 Eat all the best food, drink all the grog and eat all the magic fungus

9 Hug each other shaking, if approached some feint, die or shit themselves

10 Take medicine and have a nap and feel no pain and fear no death

11 Pretend to be harmless idiots while moving in for ambush with poison 

12 Take berserk potions but die when they expire (or worse lycanthropes)

d12 What do the kids do in combat

1 Use slings and throw rocks

2 Charge with improvised weapons or toys

3 Try to flee in blind panic -1 morale

4 SIt and cry loudly, wet themselves if touched -1 morale

5 Try and hide anywhere even under a blanket and don't watch -1 morale

6 Sing beautiful choral inspiring folk song +d3 morale

7 Throw faeces, garbage and old bottles of fermented piss +1 morale

8 Work together to throw or sling burning oil or boiling water +1 morale

9 Charge forward with an iron grenade with a lit fuse tied on

10 Older children hurl babies at anyone who looks good -1 morale

11 Blow a whistle they use to tease local angry monster that hates them +1 morale

12 Watch excitedly and munch on toasted acorns and dried toadstools +1 morale

d12 Prisoner Conduct

1 Gloomily march to fate singing gloomy songs about being oppressed

2 One prisoner knows a guy who will buy all the survivors for cash for own freedom

3 Complain lots, don't like to march and will refuse to move if not promised food

4 Plot to escape using teamwork possibly dogpiling masters and taking their weapons

5 Prey for divine aid constantly and moan about unfairness and injustice

6 Insist they perform lots of sacred rites when they need a break or gods will kill them

7 Now they are your slaves you must teach them your magic and arts

8 Drop beads, hair or markers during transport for kin to rescue them

9 One has a poisoned knife they have hidden and will come up with an escape plot

10 Copy everything humans do for the approval of the strong who defeated them

11 Caught eating rats and giant bugs, gambling and petty vice rackets

12 Keep having babies constantly as cursed with fertility

d12 What survivors do if released
1 Flee to relatives and tell them of humiliation and murderous killers
2 Flee to allies and warn them of dangerous murder hobos razing everything
3 Flee to traditional enemies because they are better thralls with them than too weak to live
4 Flee to an evil temple that takes them in and teaches them new spells and secrets
5 Flee to slavers and sell children then pay mercenaries to kill adventurers
6 Flee to the garden of an evil hag who teaches them new oaths and provides new allies
7 Flee to a wizard who summons monsters to aid revenge in return for survivors thralldom

8 Visit a terrible monster and tell a lie about adventurers so it attacks them
9 Flee to another country and never seen again or went to ancestral burial grounds to die of sadness

10 Flee and all are killed tragically by another enemy (perhaps now angry undead)
11 Hire some monsters by offering children and elderly as food to kill adventurers

12 Join a demonic cult offering means of vengeance against their enemies

d12 What lazy and brutish hirelings would like to do to prisoners
1 Let them go and claim they couldn't catch them but really tried hard
2 Want to get to civilisation fast for sweet gold reward and booze, kill any stragglers to keep up the pace. just take their heads or ears or hands if easier and employers let them
3 Use as hostages and demand money from their ruler or kin
4 Torment prisoners while drinking as "its only fair they would do it to us"
5 Sell them to a dungeon boss needing minions and servants used to the lifestyle
6 Sell them to slavers needing extendible slaves for mines and muckraking
7 Sell them to a press gang needing ship crews and rowers
9 Kill them all as quickly as possible and dump corpses and get out of the area
10 Kill them and sell corpses and parts to the necromancer
11 Kill them and give them a decent pit burial nobody can find and wolves cannot dig up

12 Kill them and sell hair, leather, cloths, teeth and bones and scraps as dog meat

Your own followers won't suggest these unless they are crooked lazy murder hobos but the common hireling or mercenary or non-good adventurer might. Good people will object to many of these treatments and they are less likely to kill for money with adventurers than chaotic evil people. Good hirelings might have their own inappropriate behaviour but at least don't deliberately do dungeon crimes.

d12 What well-meaning hirelings would like to do to prisoners
1 Make them promise to abandon the area and not return
2 Give them some coins, rations and blankets so they can survive
3 Release them as soon as they get the chance if they promise to not seek vengeance
4 Take them to civilisation to get jobs and training in a poor workhouse for monster widows and children
5 Make them swear to join a good church and release them on conversion
6 Take them to a village or estate where they can live in peace in a diverse community
7 Have them sent to the colonies for a new life away from bad influences
8 Some volunteer to marry willing prisoners and retire to work on land or a trade
9 Give them a stern talking to about their wicked ways, perhaps a long sermon and free them
10 Take prisoners to civilisation to the court system to deal with them
11 Hand them over to a temple mission to help care for and convert prisoners
12 Take them to city and help them get jobs and accommodation

Anytime prisoners change hands with new npc's they might be treated differently so beware. You cant not expect people you hand prisoners to will do the right thing. Thats why the best thing to do is to go through the whole process of making sure your captive goblins are not just killed and sold to the rag-and-bone dealer for 1c. Good people worry about unreasonable cruelty for prisoners after all you might end up someone's prisoner one day.

More of finding Oath Givers and Cults

I thought i would add to my last post.

So one specification Ive changed is going from you can have a oath per level once to each level is  a slot you can clear and refill as it gives the possibility of traitors and people turning evil without crippling themselves and never recovering. Its obviously easier to trade towards chaotic evil. Plus integrate clerics and alignment and oaths all closer and to make him features of the campagn.

As anyone could make oaths to law and good they could get various gifs including magic, powers and items. So I've never needed a paladin class or a ranger class in my game because a wizard could do this and gain various holy spells and doodahs (Gandalf Dunnit).

The mechanism of finding a oath/gift path and patron power means if you decided to fill all your oath slots at once at the tenth level you might take a long time so its a bit of a bottleneck and possible. Even your traitors and villains might take some time. If they survive meeting adventurers they might make a bunch of oaths to evil to help get revenge.

The most common oaths are from the most popular deities. 
Maybe powerful gods have sub-cults with different benefits
Like Ishtar could have separate temples for love and war specialists
A god might have sub cult shrines for their weapons

In my current game, at least half a population at least follows the patron deity of their nation or city or tribe

Many of the remaining are other popular deities or local powerful spirits. These gods will usually be from other pantheons and gods in other close regions or kingdoms. Each pantheon usually has a preferred element also

A small percentage follow obscure unpopular beliefs for aid. Witch cults use illegal spells on law-abiding citizens and worship in secret. There are other less illegal mostly unknown spirit cults or those who serve petty gods or immortals but also more abstract  

Oath-givers per Settlement
Small VIllage of 50pop typically has one
Medeum Village of 100 pop has d3
Large Village 0f 250pop has d4+1
Town  500-1000 has 2d4
Small City 2000 has 3d4
Medeum City 5000 has 4d4
Metropolis 10k plus 5d4

So you can generate a bunch of religions/oath types in an area and players can consider which to acquire and how to get them. They could make some funny errors looking or get into trouble or some side quests. Its a whole bunch of weird stuff to do and acquire in game andshould increase roleplaying possibilities and reasons to start fights. You can tease and distract players with offers of oaths and make them investigate the best options. It makes people get into your setting religion but without being a priest and still getting a benefit. There are options that are not traditional gods for people who don't want gods.

Priests are the most obvious people to be oath-givers or facilitate with an oath spell process with a person of the same oath type of higher tier level. Druids often employ and serve various nature spirits and land divinities and even various nature gods. Arcane powers are more abstract, alien and philosophical. They might be a demon or an archon or an outsider pretending to be a weird arcane patron or ancestor. Wizards hoard their secrets to trade of grant their students. Wizards might start a school or a fellowship to share magic and research. Sorcerers are very likely to run a cult and offer oaths to higher-ranking members or donors. (In my game sorcerers can choose any spell list so a divine one would be a non-combat priesthood but granted miracles. Nature magic with druid spells have patrons or bloodline of nature spirits or faerie,  Arcane are hedonistic pleasure cults who lazily use wizard like spells without study just talent. Mentalist sorcerers are mystics, illusionists or psions using powers of the mind over themselves or the universe or weaker willed people.

Tiers & 
Zero (0 Lv) holy symbol or a 1st Lv loner or initiate priest* 
First (1-4th Lv) local shrines or weird loners 5th+ Lv  loner or any common shrine priest
Second (4-8th Lv) small temple or a 9th+ Lv loner or a temple priest
Third (9-12th Lv) major temple or 13th+ Lv loner or a high priest
Fourth (13-16th) temple complex or a 17th+ Lv loner or a theocrat of the church
Fifth (17th-20th) monumental wonder of church of from divine patron in person or in a vision
*a zero level person has 1HD so can get one oath like a 1st Lv character

This lists what grade of holy location and and rank of priest is required for an oath
Loners are persons in the higher tier of an oath path. 
An oath spell is required but if the oath-giver can't cast it any priest will do 

Spell levels provided by cult max & size
Local spirits or Immortals 1st Shrine
Petty Gods 2nd Shrine
Great spirit 3rd Small Temple
Demigods 4th Small Temple
Lesser Gods 5th Major Temple
Major Gods 6th Temple complex or small ziggurat
Greater Gods 7th Monumental wonder like large ziggurat, pyramid, wall, etc

d10 Local Oath-Giver  Availability
1-5 Local popular religions like pantheon or patron deity and family of region, city, state or tribe
6-8 Other major religions and popular spirit cults
9 Obscure minor cults

10 Unpopular illegal witch cults

Searching for the last two types you can easily get the attention of the wrong type

d10 Other major religions
1 Patron god of city, kingdom or tribe, possibly the ancestor or creator 

2 Deity and their lover, possibly first ancestors or parents

3 Married pair of gods and their popular child 

4 Deity and their various servants and demigod children and pets and weapons 

5 Goddess and her lovers and children and sisters and spirits

6 God, their family and servants, pets and heroes

7 Worship demigod heroes who lived in old days and their distant divine parents

8  Small pantheon of several generations of gods, their parents, children, pets and servants 

9  Large pantheon of several united families of gods united in the past by war

10 Mega pantheon or a ruling pantheon with thousands of approved gods and spirits

d10 Other major religions
1 Beast cult with a totem beast, abhuman beast folk guardians and their pets

2 Elemental deity or the abstract elemental plane but believes it should rule over weaker elements

3 Elemental deity or the abstract elemental plane but harmonious with all other elements 

4 Elemental deity or the abstract elemental plane but opposed to all other elements

5 Ancestors worship of sacred forebears or a unique tribal ancestor god 

6 Demihuman cult - who follow the religion of one demi human population 

7 Foreign god from a nearby kingdom but possibly isolated from its pantheon

8 Spirit cult who deal with many local spirits, daimon and nature divinities

9 Nature cult who worship the abstract powers of nature

10 Demi god cult - a half-mortal god who lived in the world and has a cult

d10 Obscure minor cults 

1 Arcane cult - abstract unclassifiable beings beyond nature who teach alien occult philosophy, geometry, alchemy, astrology and mechanics. More likely wizards or mentalists

2 Petty god cult - a minor godling embodied in the mortal plane which you can even meet

3 Demi god cult - a half-mortal god who lived in the world and has a cult 

4 Immortal cult - perhaps you will gain the secrets of the immortal and join them in eternal life

5 Local spirit cult - with only part-time devotees of limited influence, possibly object of worship is a changeling with a human form that could be sincere or fraud 

6 Saint cult - associated with a larger religion but independent order not subject to greater church

7 Draconic cult - worship dragons and their ancestors who helped the gods against the enemy

8 Death cult - who contact dead, perform exorcisms and determine the fate of departed souls

9 Mentalist cult - who pursue strange disciplines and mystical methods to master the mind and dreams

10 Plant cult - worship a vegetal spirit of grain, vegetable, flower, fruit tree, forest tree or fungus 

11 Beast cult - worship a domestic animal spirit or divinity possibly part of a greater religion farming

12 Nature cult - worship a land divinity of a river, forest, spring, swamp, hill, mountain or sea

d10 Unpopular illegal witch cults 
1 Night cult - use powers of darkness, nightmares and shadows to seize power in secret

2 Petty god cult - a minor godling embodied in the mortal plane which you can even meet

3 Daemonic cult - swell the armies of the underworld and fill its vast prison of despair 

4 Demonic cult - serve one specific demon of varied rank. power and influence  

5 Diabolic cult - serves hell often devoted so a senior devil of the infernal hierarchy

6 Giant cult - worship giant gods who lost against the gods and seek the wisdom of giants

7 Draconic cult - worship dragons and their ancestors who warred against the gods and giants

8 Necromancy cult - where mostly priests and wizards gain power over forces of death
9 Humanoid cult - follow the religion of kobolds, orcs, goblinoids or abhumans (elemental or beast folk)

10 Outer darkness cult - alien gods live outside our world hungering, it's cold there in the eternal void so let them inside

All this offers quite a bit of non-deity-based options and quick power-grubbing cults for criminals and people who need revenge like that boss villain's lover. Perhaps they were only a bandit but after seeing heroes kill their gang buddies joined a death cult to get revenge and new gifts to help them win or survive. A few changes like an oath per level ever vs oath slots per level have loosened up dramatic villainy to rules.

Where do I find high Level oath-givers?
1 Largest temple complexes with increasingly complex bureaucracy and gatekeepers

2 A secret cult in the sewers that say has mysterious powers but nobody knows what they do really but they say they guard a secret portal to a world of strange alien deities

3 There is a secret school of wizards they say and you need to find an imp to show your the secret door location. they don't charge gold even and they want you to harm your enemies

4 A rancid corpse city of the dead appears in the southern sea once a generation and briefly you can comune with imprisoned alien gods, beware they warp your mind and reality

5 The hierophant of a great city has offered secret oaths to who can find lost relics

6 A foreign priest-king has offered heroes oaths if they aid them against their enemies

7 An isolated wizard in their tower can open planar portals that can take you to meet strange potential patron entities like alien wizards and prehuman immortals

8 Their is a crystal citadel in the sea that appears once a year where heroes of old made oaths

9 A great dragon in its vast lair will teach you but will make you swear to never interfere or harm it or its offspring

10 In the black city in the frozen north are the thousands of remains of prehuman wizards, some may know what you seek if you speak with the dead

11 They say at a certain mountain top you can see a god in their chariot pass often

12 Many beings living on the world tree or faerieland can teach you but beware they enslave you for centuries or make you a cruel plaything