Fantasy Writing Prompts
Search thousands of the most popular writing prompts from Reddit, and write a story from any of them with AI.
Search thousands of the most popular writing prompts from Reddit, and write a story from any of them with AI.
You thought feeding that Skinwalker some barbecue was fine maybe she would stop eating human flesh. but it seems she had spread the word and now all different types of monsters are at your door hungry.
The Fey was confident that they had the human now due to them eating their fey food, until the human pointed to the empty mint wrapper, "you just ate human food."
You misread the reward for the quest. You received a Dragon Bride, not a Dragon Ride, from the king.
You've been summoned to yet another world. While your summoners are busy figuring out what the hell your 'Speedrunner' class means, you prepare yourself for a sub 4 hour record.
You are a worker at a business named 'Sincorperation'. Recently you've been promoted into one of the 7 deadly sins at the top. It's your first meeting with the other six. Wait... Why is everyone nervous..?
Legendary heroes are won at auction to overcome a kingdom's latest threat from evil. Unable to afford the top dollar offerings, your kingdom was only able to win a hero on a clearance sale.
"Look, I can't be the chosen one! I'm a single parent! I've got two kids that need me, I can't be off saving the world, I'm barely making ends meet as it is! Give me ONE reason I should even consider this!" "... free childcare while you're gone?" "... Keep talking."
You haven’t been in a temple for years. Your prayers are usually lip service. You have been ostracized by your community and your family shuns you. You have helped heathens and enemies of the church find sanctuary. Yet the Gods still find you worthy of your Paladin abilities.
For the longest, you could see faeries, vampires, gods, ghosts, and other entities of the hidden world. However, you pretended not to see them because you just wanted to live a normal life. That was until they began noticing you.
“The Hero is a fraud! The Dark Lord resurrection is a lie! The Hero and The Pottery Guild are working together to take money away from you. Don’t let the Hero destroy your pottery!”
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
You are born with a large birthmark on the back of your hand that looks like an arrow. On your 18th birthday you notice that it starts pointing in one direction no matter which way you're facing. You decide to start walking in that direction.
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.
Humans have a reputation amongst the other sapient races. Not just for being ambitious and adaptable, but also for being monstrously disgusting. Most view them as lumbering hives of parasites, diseases, dead skin cells and bacteria. They are biological weapons; children of pestilence.
Nobody believes you. They all think you made some sort of bargain or deal. Maybe even consuming souls... but the truth is that you became the most powerful mage in the world by getting enough sleep, studying, and eating right.
"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."
The God of Knowledge has reincarnated, the scholars are celebrating. Problem is the small god floods those around it with an uncontrollable surge of eldritch knowledge that none amongst the scholars can withstand. You are the least-curious man in the world, and you've been called to babysit.
You have been chosen among others to become the gods of a more modern pantheon. After having been unknowingly teleported to some ethereal place, you see everyone else. Each person seems to represent the engraving in front of them perfectly; Gaming, Fast Food, Automobiles… yours reads Internet
"...and for my Third wish, I wish that there was no such thing as Math." The genie nodded, "Wish granted, Master!" I subtly asked, "how many more wishes do i have?" Perplexed, the genie replied, "I don't know anymore..."
You gave the last of your food to a poorly disguised mimic, but now it wont leave you alone. It's even turning itself into various items to help you.
All wizards use wands to cast their spells. As a wand maniac, you've stuffed your wand with all kinds of upgrades and now it's the size of a pillar.
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.
Ben could craft statues so lifelike that many were mistaken as living beings. Normally this wouldn’t matter but for the past week the Demon king has been in a staring contest with a toad statue. The prize the others soul.
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
You were once the Lord Lich, but after finding love you faked your death to settle down as a farmer. With your minions you can plow and sow many fields, after many years and burying your lover you’ve come to peace with the world and just in time for the heroes have finally found you.
An Eldritch horror hires a group of adventurers to destroy every cult that tried to summon it.
Instead of a random teenager, the hero summoned to a fantasy world was an engineer working at Lockheed Martin.
You never knew your birth parents, growing up across the country in orphanages. While alone you learned to cook and shared your meals across the world, eventually owning your own business. One day you suddenly find out what your parents were. They were Fae… you’ve fed thousands Fae Food.
You’re a Genie with thousands of years of bad luck. It seams that every time someone finds the lamp, they are evil or corrupt and you are bound to grant terrible wishes. One day an child in torn clothes finds you and begs for food.
You are a monster hunter, but unlike your colleagues you do not hunt them for glory, revenge or trophies. You hunt them because you made it your personal mission to eat at least one of every monster. Today you attempt your most anticipated kill.
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