Power Academy

What is it?

Power academy is an acting game where you act out what your character does with some guidelines from
the rules. You play a power user a person gifted with almost magical powers and use them to battle your enemies
and accomplish goals. Your character’s motivations, wants and goals are completely up to you, that is why this game
is great because, to a degree, you can play anything you want.

How do you Play?

You begin by choosing your Major Power, this is what you control and gain more control over as you gain
levels. Your Major Power can be anything from the ones in this paper to ones you made yourself (though those
powers may not be balanced). Next, you pick your Minor Power, your Minor Power is a small and simple thing you
can do. Your Minor Power cannot be the same as your Major Power so if you are a Fire User don’t choose Fire as
your Minor Power. Then, choose an Enhancement; Enhancements are defining characteristics of your character. You
do not have to choose an Enhancement, but it is useful for giving a quirk to your character (beware some
Enhancements require you to forgo your Minor Power). Finally, if you are level 3 or higher you must choose a path,
if your Major and Minor Powers are what your powers are your Path is how you use your powers. If you are unsure
about your Major or Minor Powers use the Quiz bellow to find one that best fits you.

Power Points

Power Points are the currency of sorts that lets you pay for the effects of certain levels. Most powers you
have a level set to them; you must pay the same amount of power points as the level of the effect you want.
Example: You have Water as your Major Power and you want to shoot a fireball at an enemy, fireball is level 3 so
you must pay 3 points to pay that cost. You cannot go negative points, share your points with others and you regain
all your Points after a long rest (not five minutes more like 3 or 4 hours).

Advancement

Level Benefits
Level 0 Minor Power, 0 Power Points
Level 1 Major Power, 5 Power Points
Level 2 10 Power Points
Level 3 Path, 15 Power Points
Level 4 20 Power Points
Level 5 25 Power Points

Health
The health system is changed from a point based system to a somewhat abstract system. There are five levels of
being damaged:

Healthy: You are at full health and you have not taken damage.
Damaged: You have taken some small injuries not enough to inconvenience you.
Bloodied: You have taken enough damage to be inconvenienced and slowed.
 Injured: You have been damaged badly and you may have a broken limb.
Unconscious/Crippled: You have been severely damaged and/or unconscious.

What Power User are You?

What is your strength?

A) I am strong
B) I am fast and quick thinking
C) I am smart

What is your weakness

A) I am overconfident
B) I am antisocial
C) I am weak

What is a characteristic that describes you best

A) You are easily angered
B) You are fluid in your actions
C) You are fast as the wind
D) You can survive lots of attacks
E) You are very tactical
F) You are very secretive
G) You can survive in the wilderness
H) You like solving puzzles
I) You can treat injuries

Answers:

Major power:
Fire: a, c
Water: b, c
Wind: b, a
Earth: a, a
Cold: c, b
Darkness: b, b
Plant: c, c
Mechanical: c, b
Healing: c, a

Minor powers
Fire: a
Water: b
Wind: c
Earth: d
Cold: e
Darkness: f
Plant: g
Mechanical: h
Healing: I
 Major Powers

Fire

“There is no problem you can‘t solve by blowing something up.”

Strength: You are very strong

Weakness: You are venerable to damage

0 Powers: sparks, small lights, light flammable material, dry objects and change fire’s color

1 Powers: small ball of fire, cover yourself in harmless fire, enlarge fire, dry small area and a small flair

2 Powers: average ball of fire, large ball of light, large flash of light and heat item/land

3 Powers: large ball of fire, ring of fire, fire snake and flame spiral

4 Powers: flame tornado, seeking fire ball, burn land and fire beam

5 Powers: column of fire, meteor and fire titan

Water

“Few creatures can survive the flowing power of the sea. “

Strength: You are physically fast and quick thinking

Weakness: You are venerable to damage

0 Powers: spray of water, moisten object, stay dry while submerged and enhanced breath

1 Powers: small ball of water, cover yourself in water, dampen small area and turn into water

2 Powers: average ball of water, soak object, water walking and water shield

3 Powers: large ball of water, water sphere, water blast and water fish

4 Powers: seeking water ball, soak land and hydro beam

5 Powers: waterfall, wave, sea gush.

 Wind

“The wind, the invisible king, ruler of the sky and I control him.”

Strength: You are physically fast and quick thinking

Weakness: You are overconfident

0 Powers: breeze and light levitation

1 Powers: Weak wind blast, levitation and heightened jumping

2 Powers: wind blast, air suck and heavy levitation

3 Powers: strong wind blast, air shield, air bird and weak fly

4 Powers: tornado, seeking wind arrow and air pushing

5 Powers: hurricane and wind explosion

Earth

“You take the earth for granted until it grabs you and you are buried under the earth.”

Strength: You are very strong

Weakness: You are overconfident

0 Powers: pebble spray, small stone shape and swim in earth

1 Powers: rock, cover yourself in stone and stone shape

2 Powers: large rock, large ball dirt/sand and large stone shape

3 Powers: boulder, earth wall, earth wolf and sand spray

4 Powers: sandstorm, seeking boulder, earth spikes and stone smash

5 Powers: earthquake, earth crush and stone titan

 Cold

“What? You say it’s impossible! I am the brains of this now follow the plan!”

Strength: You are very strong

Weakness: You are antisocial

0 Powers: cool object, snowball, freeze liquid, and change ice’s color

1 Powers: small ball of ice, cover yourself in ice and freeze small area

2 Powers: average ball of ice, hail blast, snow veil and freeze item/land

3 Powers: large ball of ice, ice wall, ice cat and snow drift

4 Powers: snowstorm, seeking ice ball, freeze land and freezing beam

5 Powers: winter explosion, freezing blast and ice mammoth

Darkness

“The shadows are feared by all but the bravest creatures and they are right to do so.”

Strength: You are fast and quick thinking

Weakness: You are antisocial

0 Powers: create shadow, darken object and shadow image

1 Powers: small shadow bolt, cover yourself in shadows, enlarge shadow and darken small area of land

2 Powers: average shadow bolt, shadow tackle, control shadow and blacken item/land

3 Powers: large shadow bolt, wall of darkness, fire raven and shadow teleport

4 Powers: darkness blast, seeking shadow bolt, blacken land and shadow transformation

5 Powers: shadow eruption, dark strike and assassination

 Plant

“Foolish humans!" Pollute the earth anymore and I might have to… deal with it.”
Strength: You are smart

Weakness: You are venerable to damage

0 Powers: create small plant, make fruit/vegetable and thorn vines

1 Powers: weak thorn bolts, cover yourself in plants, enlarge plants and grow small plants

2 Powers: average thorn bolts, vine grab, control plants and grow plants

3 Powers: large thorn bolt, wall of trees, and vine armor

4 Powers: plant blast, seeking thorn bolts, grow land and plant transformation

5 Powers: plant eruption and giant vine snare

Mechanical

“Life is like a machine, each piece has infinite importance and without one piece the whole would be useless.”

Strength: You are smart

Weakness: You are antisocial

0 Powers: create tiny mechanisms, understand machines and destroy small machine

1 Powers: small mechanical bomb, destroy average machine and create small machine

2 Powers: average mechanical bomb, create average machine and control small machine

3 Powers: large mechanical bomb, gear blast, create big machine and control average machine

4 Powers: seeking mechanical bomb, create huge/complicated machine and control large machine

5 Powers: gear rain, mechanical destruction and self controlled machine

 Healing

“Maybe if you weren‘t so reckless you wouldn‘t need my help!”

Strength: You are smart

Weakness: You are overconfident

0 Powers: weak heal small wounds, small shield and repair organic material

1 Powers: heal small wounds, shield, cure poison and sleep

2 Powers: heal wounds, large shield, cure weak disease and block attack

3 Powers: heal large wounds, shielding armor, cure disease, and block strong attack

4 Powers: weak heal group, weak group shielding armor

5 Powers: heal group, group shielding armor

Minor Power
Fire

0 Powers: sparks, small lights, light flammable material, dry objects and change fire’s color

Water

0 Powers: spray of water, moisten object, stay dry while submerged and enhanced breath

Wind

0 Powers: breeze and light levitation

Earth

0 Powers: pebble spray, small stone shape and swim in earth

Cold

0 Powers: cool object, snowball, freeze liquid, and change ice’s color

Darkness

0 Powers: create shadow, darken object and shadow image

 Plant

0 Powers: create small plant, make fruit/vegetable and thorn vines

Mechanical

0 Powers: create tiny mechanisms, understand machines and destroy small machine

Healing

0 Powers: weak heal small wounds, small shield and repair organic material

Enhancements

Rich

You have gain riches do to your own means, your parents or some other means.
Gain: You gain five times as much money as a regular person and/or more from your parents.
Lose: You skip the damaged stage and go to bloodied

Poor

You have lived in the hardest conditioned and have little money to spend, but you have become hardened.
Gain: You gain a stage between healthy and damaged called battered
Lose: You have three times less money than a normal person

Criminal

You have robed places and are running form the law and are good at not being noticed.
Gain: You either have the ability to hide in dark shadows or you can do one extra stage of damage when you are
unnoticed by the target of your attack.
Lose: You are being chased by the law and you must keep a secret identity.

Infiltrator

You are good at deception and can disguise yourself and infiltration a place
Gain: You gain the infiltrator powers
Lose: You can’t have a minor power

0 Powers: disguise yourself as someone else, open simple locks, chameleon and disarm simple traps

Energy User

You are good at controlling pure energy and damaging enemies with them.
Gain: You gain the energy powers
Lose: You can’t have a minor power

0 Powers: energy shards, energy blast, energy sword and energy shield

Path

Dueler

The dueler is a battle hardened power warrior using its powers to blast and destroy the enemies the stand in your
way.
 Level 3: You gain a health stage between bloodied and injured called scarred
Level 4: You attacks do one more stage of damage
Level 5: You may spend power points equal to the power’s level to either double attacks damage or do it to another
target.

Strider

The strider is a fast moving and fast thinking power user who can use their powers with finesse not know to normal
power user.
Level 3: You may move twice as fast as normal and can hide in shadows
Level 4: You gain the ability to dodge some attacks from power users or normal weapons
Level 5: You may spend one less power points to damaging effects

Scholar

The scholar studies the use of their powers and can use utility powers from their own studies and they are very
curious and constantly search for knowledge.
Level 3: You gain the scholar’s 0 powers
Level 4: You gain five power points
Level 5: You gain the scholar’s 1 power

0 Power: scry a person/object, shielding rune, copy script and remember thing, person or thought

1 Power: scry a place, trapping rune, create image of memory

Trickster

The trickster is a master of illusion and deception they can take on the appearance of anyone or hide from site or
even create illusions
Level 3: You gain the trickster’s 0 powers
Level 4: You may spend one less power point on powers that deceive
Level 5: You gain the trickster 1 powers

0 Powers: you disguise as another person, make a life-sized illusion, and lie very convincingly.

1 Powers: you may make a large illusion, you make anyone lie convincingly and moving illusions

Enemies
The Elemental Army

The elemental army is a large army of mercenaries that capture power users and force them to join. They are a large
and powerful force but they have not the force to attack the Power Academy.
Goals: They are looking for power users to make themselves more powerful so they are hired more often to make
more money.
Danger Level: 3

The Blue Fog

The blue fog is a group dedicated to finding and destroying all power users. Some have tried to infiltrate the power
academy, but none have succeeded yet.
Goals: They believe the world must be rid of power users, some are hired and some even have powers too.
Danger Level: 4
 The Avatars of Holy Gold

The avatars are a group of priests that worship the power user known as The Golden Emperor and he believes the
more power users are sacrificed or converted to worshiping him the more power he gains.
Goals: To capture power users to join the cult or be sacrificed
Danger Level: 3

Glossary
Power Points: The currency you spend to use power of increasingly powerful abilities.

Level X Powers: These are lists of powers you can use and they give an idea of what you can do and you must pay
power points of equal its level to use it.

Minor Power: The small power you choose as a small benefit to your character. (Cannot be the same as your Major
Power)

Major Power: The Power you have most control over and that becomes more powerful overtime.

Path: The way you use your power to effect yourself, your opponents or your friends/allies.

Enhancement: a defining characteristic of your character, they have a benefit and disadvantage.

Health: health is split up into stages of being hurt and when you get damaged distinctively you go down one phase.