Why not generate it in your target’s bloodstream?
The random super powers I got offered were pretty shit, so I’ll take the cash.
Give me flight, super strength or telekinesis, I’m onboard.
I’d choose the powers, because I figured there’d be something among them to turn into a significant and low-effort stream of income. So I got:
Probability Manipulation
(The power to manipulate probability.)Oil Vision
(The power to project oil beams/blasts from one’s eyes.)Social Cloaking
(Power to instantly assimilate into any society or social group.)
The first one alone seems like I should be set. If I can make any outcome happen, I can just play the lottery; if I can effect only subtle changes, there’s any number of games of chance that would end up making a profit long-term. If I can influence the stock market, I can perhaps even do some good in the process!
Oil vision is a bit bizarre. Does the oil just spontaneously materialize, or is it produced in my body? Anyway, I suppose I could sell the oil if all else fails, but that would be something I’d want to avoid.
Social cloaking would’ve been useful back in school, maybe. But I guess I could infiltrate secret societies or something…
Wait a minute, isn’t that a power already possessed by everyone, except me?
Yeah, a million isn’t that much, so I’d take the superpowers. And apparently I become something from a hentai:
Vacuum Adaptation
(The power to adapt to the vacuum of space unaided.)
Tentacle Manifestation
(The power to possess or generate tentacles and tentacle-like appendages.)
Omnilingualism
(The power to speak, understand and decipher any and all languages.)
Truthfully not that bad. Vacuum Adaptation will never be relevant unfortunately, but Omnilingualism is still quite good (translators and such are still needed in a lot of fields) and tentacle manifestation, besides the hentai implications, is pretty useful.
Two thoughts.
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Speaking solely for myself, it’s not that I’m sure I’ll do no harm. It’s that I don’t greatly care that I’ll do some harm along the way to having world-class fun while it lasts. Even with super powers, it’s unlikely I’ll wreck the world worse than the asshats with ordinary mortal power are already doing now. And as you might imagine, smiting a couple dozen of those folks is Job #1. Then I’ll start in on my own projects (see below).
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“Turpitude”. You keep using that word; I do not think it means what you think it means. In fact I think it means rather the opposite.
You say that like it’s a bad thing. 
This. So much this. Great power can be used with great wisdom. Or not.
Actually my ambitions aren’t to rule the world. I’ll settle for ruling a harem. And occasionally bestirring myself to put my thumb on the scale of ongoing history as it emerges. As one of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour (Jeff Foxworthy(?)) said so eloquently: He needed killin’.
I’m 70. A million bucks would make a nice supplement to my annuities and pension, thanks. I’m too old and tired to deal with superpowers.
My thought was to take the money, but I was tempted so I tried making a roll and I seem to have hit the supervillain trifecta:
Death Inducement
(The power to cause death, either instantly or after a certain time.)
Psychic Constructs
(The power to create constructs out of psionic/psychic energy.)
Enhanced Breath
(The ability to exhale/inhale with superhuman power.)
Superpowers.
I’m already comfortably retired. I rolled the superpower dice for a few groupings of three, and usually got more than one that was better than the million. Often a superpower would facilitate more than a million in additional wealth, anyway.
But, the million would be very nice, too.
It offered me omniscience first. You might think that would be the best superpower of them all. I mean, think of what you could do with omniscience, both selfishly and altruistically. But then I thought, gee whiz, it would become an unbearable burden, probably fairly quickly.
Give me the money.
I got “Portal Awareness”, “Invisibility Awareness” and “Neon Vision”
I hope I can make a million bucks doing planetarium light shows with my eyeballs.
Based on the generator in the OP it appears to be more like Extraordinary. The powers seem to range from minimal use, to dangerous only to great. Also no indication of what level they’re at.
I would probably take the powers, but Murphy would probably saddle me with 3 duds.
But it could mean enough extra to allow for early retirement for those that have already been investing well. If you have over $2,000,000 put away, that extra million can mean early retirement fairly easy. If you’re at $3,000,000, that extra million should make the decision easy, even in an expensive state.
My random powers (set to unique)
Graphic Vision (The ability to view things in a dimensional form (e.g 2D, 3D).). Not sure how often this would be useful. Seems a little weak to me, so good thing getting more than 1.
Muscle Manipulation (The ability to manipulate the muscular structure of oneself or others.) This sounds like it could help with some health issues I have and accelerate my getting to a weight I should be at. Sounds pretty good. Probably be able to walk & run faster and have a greater lift would be nice benefits.
Helicopter Propulsion (The power to achieve a form of flight by achieving a helicopter-like effect.) Weird but useful power I guess. Make it a lot easier to get on the roof too. No idea of eventual speed or lift capacity.
I assume this is a power that Snoopy has.
This feels like the sort of power someone would have in a comic book, the writers would quickly run out of ideas and then it would become “They can see things in 4D with the fourth being time so they can see the future with this!”
Gimme the money — the way my luck runs, I’d get Super-nose-blowing, Super-throat-clearing and Super-hearing so I could listen to the entire world bitch about the nose blowing and throat clearing.
I’d definitely take the superpowers. It wouldn’t even be a close contest unless you were talking real money, like a billion dollars. Even then, I’d likely still take the superpowers. No amount of money can buy something like that.
So with that said, I got:
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Enhanced Wits (The power to have wits that are far beyond other members of one’s species.)
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Jet Propulsion (The power to move via energy expulsion.)
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Self-Spawn (The power to transform others into exact replicates of oneself.)
The first two powers sound awesome. The latter doesn’t sound too useful unless I get important enough to need body doubles to deter assassination attempts.
Actually, reading a more detailed description of self-spawning indicates there is a lot more to it than just physical duplication, but also memories. And the effect is permanent and irreversible. So there is opportunity for immortality here, but with real moral quandaries, since you essentially take over another person’s body. Yeesh. 
Not sure I want to deal with that.
All in all, this sounds like way too much power for one person to have, including me. I’d be afraid I’d turn into a supervillain.
Let’s assume, for the sake of argument, that you’re right about whether it’s too much power for yiu or any other person to have. But what about someone with, say, wits that are far beyond other members of one’s species?
Dimensional Storage
(The power to store anything in a fold of dimension/space and re-materialize at will.)
Cosmic Manipulation
(The power to manipulate cosmic forces.)
Claw Retraction
(The power to possess or generate sharp claws/talons.)
The first one is incredibly lucrative with just a little imagination.
The second one seems galaxy destroying powerful even though im not entirely sure what it means.
The third one will… really scratch that itch i guess. I could really surprise a mugger i suppose.
Climb trees! Catch mice! Ruin the leg of the coffee table!
As you already could, by materializing some claws from dimensional storage.