Reddit Writing Prompts

You wake up with what feels like a terrible hangover, the dilapidated room around you is unfamiliar and you are chained to the bed, written on the ceiling is the message "If you can read this you're human enough to use the key on the nightstand"

Due to a glitch in the system, whenever you lift a heavy object you gain 1 point in Intelligence instead of Strength. Reading a book, however, gives you 1 point in Intelligence as well.

You were born without powers, which made you the black sheep of your superhero family. Eventually, you became the director of an agency that deals with superheroes (a la Nick Fury), and now you are the boss of the family that shunned and picked on you.

"A human body's chemicals for fear and excitement are identical. A human that experiences the effects of that chemical and does not think they are in danger will conclude that they are excited. I believe this explains certain species' rising popularity with humans."

You're an enchanted suit of armor, completely hollow on the inside. After gaining sentience, you left your haunted keep & began to adventure. As you gain notoriety across the land, making friends & connections, it gets harder to keep it a secret that there's nothing behind your visor.

When the king's army drafted you, you planned on faking your death in battle and waiting for a chance to return home. You were so good at fighting that you never got the chance and just kept getting promoted.

Long ago, a young elf met a young human in the forest of Eternia and they became best friends. Now, a millennium later, that same elf faces his old friend, the now terrible lich lord, in the same forest.

You were pleasantly surprised that the dragon was actually rather delighted to see your party enter their cave. Turns out that dragons have phases in regards to what they hoard and this dragon was keen on letting you take what you want to clear up space for their new obsession.

"I am sorry, he named it WHAT!?" Said Oedipus before storming towards the afterlife that houses Sigmund Freud

You are a bartender in a fantasy tavern. Different races have vastly different tolerances for alcohol, so you need to make your drinks have different potencies depending on who you are serving. You just unknowingly served a shot meant for an orc to a changeling disguised as an orc.

An enemy nation has come to steal the royals child as ransom. Here’s the thing, they got things mixed up and stole your kid… you’re the royal necromancer.

You are an Orc soldier seeking to fight the greatest warriors of the different species. The first one you choose to face is a human warrior that has claimed many lives. You find him now running a vineyard. He refuses your challenge and says to you, "Vietnam was no glorious adventure"

You're offered a deal, push the button and you get 100k, but the person that hates you the most gets double. As far as you know no one actually hates you so you push it. 10 minutes later you get a text from the person you love most that they just got 200k deposited into their bank account...

You know your dog is anything but a dog, but you don’t mind since you both agree that it’s better than whatever’s in the basement.

'When you get to hell, tell them I sent you!' And when you come to in the fiery wastelands, you tell the bored demon at the gate exactly who killed you. He drops his drink and sputters. All the other demons gasp. Somewhere in the distance, an alarm sounds

Rule 12 of the Official Evil Villain Rulebook™ states that "One of my advisors will be an average five-year-old child. Any flaws in my plan that they spot will be corrected." You, as the local villain you decide to do just that. It soon turns out your plans have quite a few flaws in them.

You have been abducted by a UFO. After you slowly regained your senses, you thought that the alien would dissect, torture or experiment on you, instead they are talking about saving you and others from that oppressive and hellish planet called Earth.

“you do realize you’re just a trophy husband right?” “I’m married to a deity why the hell do you care?” You responded.

The secretary at the law firm gasps, then shakes her head. "That's the name of the hotel that was here before this building. It burned down, sixty years ago, killing dozens of people. Every year, someone shows up, somehow having made a reservation..."

All of your siblings, papart from you, have attended a prestigious wizarding school. Now, after all these years, they're back in your "regular" world... and don't even know how an oven works.

You give the weird kid from school a chance, many years later you both are married on the couch watching a news broadcast. The broadcast is about a young boy who vanished with no trace. What struck you as odd was that the boy looks identical to your husband when you met all those years ago.

Prisons designed to hold magic users force inmates to wear muzzles so that they cannot cast spells, mealtimes being heavily monitored. You've just been arrested and are sentenced to one such prison.

Your teachers always warned you to never, under any circumstances, cast a resurrection spell on someone still alive, but refused to elaborate why. Today your curiosity got the better of you.

"Father, if Necromancers are evil and all get hunted down, why is the court wizard allowed to be one?"

An orphan is adopted by the local Witch that raises them lovingly all to feast on them once they've grown. The Witch and her fellow supernaturals are starting to have second thoughts.

It turns out hell isn’t just for humans.. it’s for all species across the galaxy. Fortunately for you, it seems they have no idea how humans work, or what they find painful.

You are attending a school for wizards, where they learn to do magic. You are terrible at doing the steps to cast spells, but to everyone's anger it keeps working and you can spell cast no problem. Unknown to you, and everyone else, this is because you are actually a sorcerer

Humans were just discovered by the intergalactic community right after they defeated the Maw, a terrible species fueled by hunger. No one knows how they did it. That is why they called you to the gathering of great species, to explain how the humans defeated those terrible monster.

The world's most powerful superhero have gone rogue. All the remaining heroes and villains are helpless on their own. So they must free the hero's greatest enemy, who is sealed away in a supposedly impenetrable prison.

"Sir I must inform you that you are in possession of an illegal and forbidden item. Please hand it over immediately." You look around your storage room filled to the brim with illegal and forbidden items from all sorts of dimensions and realities.