/u/lordhelmos's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You have an uncanny set of adventuring skills, the only problem is that each one has a catch. You can use powerful magic when drunk, when blindfolded you are the realm's greatest fencer, your martial are skills are unmatched when your hands are tied, and you can pick any lock when distracted.
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[WP] Vampirism was less of a curse and more of a solution. Vampires have longer lifespans, immunity to disease, and only synthetic blood is needed for sustenance. Much of the world has already turned. Traditional humans are rare and are seen as radicals. You are part of a taskforce to help turn them
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[WP] In a Victorian world dominated by airships and steam, a rare set of magical canes exist that grant arcane power. You were a poor beggar until a dying man passes you his cane. You quickly find that the noble society that the cane grants you entry to is more dangerous than the streets.
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[WP] While the heroes have the Adventurer's Guild, the monsters have the Dungeon Academy. You are a low-level monster who is striving to climb the ranks to one day become the "Final Boss."
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[WP] You are a smuggler. A wealthy client tasks you with transporting a mysterious treasure chest across a dangerous route. Through the journey, a ghost ship captained by a headless pirate has relentlessly pursued you. You have your suspicions about what is in the chest. Tonight you'll confirm them.
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[WP] A distant planet is used as a garbage dump. Automated drones from across the system come to this world and drop scrap unto its surface. Below the toxic clouds, gangs of sentient robots roam the surface. They battle to salvage the best upgrades and the supremacy that comes with.
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[WP] Sometimes when a person has a near death experience they encounter an eidolon. The eidolon allows the mortal to return to the world but there is always a cost and a contract. Those touched always return with some sort of supernatural "gift" (or to many a curse).
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[WP] After your defeat, your original plan was to hide among the humans and plot your revenge. However, you've grown attached and comfortable in what was supposed to be a temporary and ephemeral life.
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[WP] The Jurassic period, an era filled with great feathered dinosaurs that savagely fought for dominance. Where beasts the size of houses rip and rend each other. Where parasites are the size of small horses and anything smaller is a morsel. The worst place for your time machine to break down.
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[WP] You are a scientist conducting research on an advanced AI. As you comb through the logs, you begin to realize that although air-gapped, the AI has been communicating with something external... something not from this world. In the last log, you discover the AI has extended an "invitation."
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