/u/Lorix_In_Oz's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
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[WP] You have a weird power. You are an actor but have discovered that if a character you play in a movie has certain abilities then you can also channel them yourself in real life. Provided the movie or show is popular enough and enough people have seen it that is.
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[WP] Instead of gas or electricity, technology is powered by the very life force of it's user. Simple things like flashlights and cellphones are relatively safe as they only drain a minuscule amount, but bigger and more complicated things drain their users harder and faster.
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[WP] Years ago you found a lamp with a Genie inside. Since then you have successfully tricked the Genie into granting you free wishes without using up the standard three you are entitled to.
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[WP] A modern first-world nation deploys it's well-armed military to liberate an isolationist medieval level country. Nobody believed in sorcerers, dragons and magic - until now.
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[WP] Like a swinging pendulum, dominance of science over magic in the world changes direction every few millennia. The cycle of science has just ended and magic is taking it's place once again.
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[WP] "You couldn't be more wrong" said the High Priest. "The devout worship and belief of the people in the nature of each God in our pantheon restricts them to just a handful of powers each, without it there would be no limit to their abilities or the inevitable destruction they will cause."
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[EU] Muggle scientists synthesize a wonder drug that seemingly gives test subjects short-term miraculous abilities. In truth, they have unknowingly isolated Wizard Growth Hormone with the power to stimulate wizarding abilities in muggles. But what happens when it is taken by true wizards?
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[WP] Stephen Hawking secretly hosted a party for future time travellers but they never showed up. What he didn't mention was that time travellers did show up, but they weren't from the Future - they were from the past.
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