Magic Systems Writing Prompts

Everyone talks about horrible people being reincarnated into animals, no one talks about amazing animals being reincarnated into people

You have been turned into "the snail" and the only way for you to turn back is to touch the immortal

You have a strange power: When you yell ’Cut!’ from the top if your lungs, everyone presents turns into ’actors’, ’crew’ with ’equipment’ pops into existence and the area you are in turns into a set. Usually you do this when you’re bored but this time you do it to avoid an unwanted marriage.

Pyromancy is ridiculously dangerous. Most pyromancers die before they turn 20 and 25 is considered ancient by their standards. You have reached 30 and show no signs of slowing down.

You are transported into another world where dragons rule with magic. Humans are treated in low regard as they don't have anything special in them. Everybody speaks in a language you don't understand. To your surprise, Dragons speak English to use their magic spells.

A stranger comes up to you and says “I’ve finally found you!” Apparently, you two are part of a reincarnation cycle that has spanned a millennium in which you two always fell in love. However, this time you aren’t really into them.

The power of a spell is inversely proportional to the amount of words in its name. You, hated and exiled, invented the first single word spell:

Healing spells can be very terrifying if done incorrectly. It was only a matter of time until somebody weaponized these flaws to make some truly horrendous attack spells.

You teach at a magic school, but you do not teach any magic. In fact, you are not even a mage. Yet your classes are among the few that *every* student has to take, no matter what kind of magic they are studying.

The mountain will grant any wish if it has the mana to do so. If not, the wisher becomes mana for the next wish. Wishing small is usually safe, especially after a failed wish. Wishing large is always a gamble. A community has formed around the mountain, giving advice and selling memorabilia.

You were shamed for having a weak power called Fabric Manipulation. However it didn't exactly specify which fabrics you can manipulate.

As the newly summoned entity turned towards you it grinned malevolently and reminded you that you should never summon anything you can’t put down yourself. You demonstrate that you can, in fact, put the entity down yourself.

“The anti-technology spell stops technology from working. What’s so confusing about this?”

Magical incantations are actually insults in the arcane language; sicker burns mean stronger effects. You are about to be first person in history to cast a "yo momma" spell.

You've just flubbed a summon spell however, you still got *something*. But would someone please explain what an "Nanite Enhanced Semi-Biological Forge-Integrated Combat Android" is....

One would think a healer would the the weakest of the party, but when a powerful healer is alone, all their magic is focused on themself, and boy you better hope you can hurt them faster than they can regenerate the damage.

Immortals get only one billion words to speak, after which they immediately die. You've gone centuries in silence, as you have only twelve words remaining.

Whenever someone is buried in your town, plants grow and surround the grave, representing what sort of life they lived. When a pillar of the community dies, their grave is covered in thick, gnarled brambles.

When you are born, your parents gave you a very unique name. This has caused you many annoyances over the years, but you feel that the demon that keeps getting summoned every time the teacher calls on you has it worse.

You started a young hero with bright eyes full of hope. Decades have left you with nothing but cold, cruel logic. It has gotten you here to the last moment of your last battle with the final evil. Here, with a last desperate spell, the villain forces you to recognize what you've become.

Being immortal, I started realizing that my spouse was the same person being reincarnated over and over again.

Being a magical girl is an extremely dangerous and short lived calling. Due to your horrific injuries on the job, you're retired. You're trying to teach the next generation of magical girls, but feel they don't trust you due to your physical disability.

When extrademensional aliens invaded Earth to steal slaves for their empire, they unwittingly brought magic with them. Combat medics were first to discover it with the phrase, "You don't have permission to die!"

Due to a curse placed upon your bloodline, you're invisible. You've been married to your blind wife for 25 years and she's just gotten surgery to recover her vision

In a world full of magic and mystery, you are confronted by a 'blocker' who nullifies your each and every magical power. In an attempt to combat them, you pull out your final gambit.

"You're a healer. Actually, you're the best healer in the world... so how do you have more kills than everyone else in your party combined?" "Simple. I heal."

Chaos Magic is the hardest to learn but the easiest to master. All it requires is the abject belief that your ritual will have an effect, despite all evidence to the contrary, and then it will.

Suddenly politicians start dying for an unknown reason, seemingly at random. The reason is discovered - something or someone has cursed them to die if they tell a lie

"Pick a god and pray" they said, and you did, praying to every god you knew. And as you did this a name popped into your mind, one you didn't recognize, yet you prayed to them all the same. In response the air stood still, like even the world had forgotten their name.

"You mages could never even begin to understand the wonders of technology-" "I cast Reverse Engineering."