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• I one day wake up as the opposite sex and have to convince a random stranger (you) of my peril. What made me change, and will I be able to return to normal?
  
• The world is about to be swallowed by a natural catastrophe and there is no saving the planet. Without a way out, how will the last 21 days of our lives turn out?
  
• What looks like a regular excavation turns into the discovery of a long-time hidden and self-sustaining civilization deep beneath the earth. How will they respond to the first contact?
  
• A mutual friend goes missing under mysterious circumstances. Found tape recordings gradually reveal the horror this friend faced before their disappearance. Are you next, or can you stop what's hunting you down in time?
  Magic: 50%
  Tech: 50%
  Combat: 50%
  
• A princess (me) has been stolen from her home for ransom. Her father sends a brave hero (you) out to rescue her. On his way he will be deceived and manipulated by witches and demons. Will he be able to rescue her in time?
  Magic: 100%
  Tech: 0%
  Combat: 70%

With the exception of the last two, the others can have any sort of setting in terms of magic/tech/combat.

Characters meet and get to know each other, becoming close friends. One day, one of the characters finds out that their whole life is a lie. What happens now?

(This works for any time period, any genders, any setting I was just using this kind of RP starter with my friend and it is great! The players could even start at the beginning when the characters meet.)

Well here goes nothing, I'm going to load up as many as I can on this post.

1. The world seems to be encased in literal darkness. It remains night time at all time and not even the scientists know why, but a group of students just might know what went wrong.

2. Explorers uncover an ancient ruins in the jungle filled with more treasure than they have ever seen! Will they keep their sanity or will this shiny finding turn into a bloody gold rush?

3. You and a friend find a dusty old fairy tale book, upon opening it you are sucked in! What tale are you in? How will you influence it? But most importantly, how will you get out?

4. You and a friend are messing around in your house when you accidentally break your mom's good china! Uh-oh! However will you get out of this situation?

5. A small asteroid mining operation goes terribly wrong when they find out that their abandoned little asteroid is actually infested with hungry mutants!

6. A hostage situation breaks out in the first ever sky casino. It is up to you and your group (or partner) to neutralize the situation at all costs. This flight must be successful.

7. When a young man/woman falls into a secret piece of machinery with magic runes in his pocket, they are trapped inside the body of a clockwork man. Only their friend is willing to help them figure out what is going on.

8. Guests at a house are shrunken by an odd machine that arrives at the door. The only way to return to normal is to journey through the house to find it again.

9. A victim (you or I) tries running from the cereal killer (you or I) that is hunting them. Can they escape? Or will the killer claim another victim?

10. The animals at a small pet shop can suddenly all speak! And man do they have some bones to pick with the staff, but what will they make of this phenomenon?

1: You and your party have become trapped within an old ruin that is laden with traps. The room that you met in is slowly filling up with water.

Magic: Any
Combat: Any
Tech: Any

2: Water has become a scarce resource for a desert kingdom. Civil conflict has erupted, a small charm given by one [player's] grandmother may be the key to it all.
Magic: Any
Combat: Any
Tech: Any

3. The oceans begin to mysteriously receed, allowing for some exploration to it's mysterious depths.

Magic: Any
Combat: Any
Tech: Any

All these prompts really make me want to RP.

I apparently really like water.

edit: Hope I did those right, btw.

More from me!

11. Players try to escape from prison after being put there for a crime they may or may not have committed!

12. A nice visit to the museum turns to chaos when everything comes to life!

13. A prince (or a heroic party) tries to save a princes high-up in a well fortified tower!

14. A firework show turns deadly when a firework explodes in the audience! What will happen? Who is hurt? Will they survive?

15. Lego people come to life in their lego build scenario!

Round two, baby!

1. You've witnessed a murder! But there appears to be something deeper here as well... Will you report it, or will you investigate further on your own? (This is good for any setting. You can play anyone, the killer, their possible accomplices/allies, the investigator/s, their friends...)

2. All power has suddenly disappeared. No electricity, no lights, no phone service, nothing. How do your characters react? (This is more for a modern/futuristic setting, but the sliders can be adjusted to fit role playing needs.)

3. You find yourself(ves) trapped inside a cave! You start noticing strange things. This cave might not be just a cave... Do you investigate? (Good for almost all settings.)

4. A group of astronauts that have been out of contact for the past 48 hours suddenly reappears, and lands safely. Something about them is... Different, however. They just don't seem like their normal selves. Investigate. (Anyone can be played here, from the astronauts to the people at HQ scratching their heads. Players can even RP what's going on during the radio silence on one or both ends.)

5. One of you can see Death, predict where he's going. You know where he is. But now he's coming for you and your friends. (Good for any setting with a slightly religious/mythological/superstitious undertone. Anyone can play anything here again: Death, the psychic, and their friends.)

6. The apocalypse happened, and you survived. Nuclear fallout has hit much of the Earth, leaving drinkable water and food a valuable scarcity. You and the other survivors must work together... Or kill each other off.

More later. (I know. Gosh, Oaky. Why so many? But hey, the more I put in this thing the higher chance at winning I'll have! )

Also, maybe after this is all over we could archive this page so that if any of the RP prompts aren't appealing people can skim through all of the user-generated ideas? I dunno, just a thought.

~Oaky

People are vanishing, one by one! It's up to you and your partner(s) to find out who (or what) is taking them, and where! But when you find them, will you save them? Or join the other side?

It's a normal day, life going on as it usually does. Suddenly all the natural light of the sun goes out. What has happened? Can it be fixed? It's up to you and your partner(s) to find out!

Love it!

1. You and some friends are walking around your home town. You realize that something is up and happen upon dead body. Who is it? why were they killed? Was it one of your friends who did it? What will you do next? Will your friendship survive?

2. While walking along you find these tracks, much larger than your own. Do you follow them to see where they lead? Go tell a friend? or try to forget? although something that strange will never leave your mind...

3. (Magic/ fantasy- 100%) A young child befriends your world in which no human has laid eyes on. Do you let it go tell and risk exposure, or keep it and mold it to one of your own?

I'll Arr-Pee wif ya! But only if you got the guts.

More prompts!

1⃣ You've been kidnapped! You wake up to see you are in a room with others like you... How do you escape? Why were you kidnapped?

2⃣ You recieve a message from a friend claiming that he has found the secret to the universe! He invites you to meet him at your secret spot that night, but when you arrive, he doesn't. Your other friends arrive as well, and you start to smell something fishy about all of this... Find your friend.

3⃣ You've been arrested for a crime you didn't commit and thrown into the mines to work just like the rest of the criminals. But as time goes on you realize that none of the others deserved their punishments either: Or at least, they say they don't. Figure out what is going on.

4⃣ Your boring day to day drone gets a whole lot more exciting when aliens appear. (Who's to say aliens can't visit medieval folk?)

And my creativity has been sapped. Wow that was fast.

More to come! I enjoy writing these.

A child's dream come true... literally. Party of inner city teens find themselves trapped world of mythical creatures and magical mayhap. They would be armed with their modern scientific knowledge, if only this reality followed the Universal Laws we know to be true. It is not until later that this fantastical wonderland is merely a rather powerful child's imagination gone awry.

I love writing prompts. Used to do them in an academic program in middle school, called Power of the Pen. ^^

After a mage visited the local tavern, a couple of heroes found their drinks to be spiked by some magical potion. The day after, the (un)fortunate souls find their bodies to have gone severe transformations. Young people have turned into elders, and elders into children! The heroes still have their wits about them, though, and should they wish to turn back, they must venture forth on a quest to find the culprit who did this to them, all while adjusting to their new bodies.

Magic: 100%
Tech: 30%
Combat: 30%

A mysterious force has brought people from all corners of the galaxy, from different times and even other dimensions, for a purpose currently unknown to any of them. Doc is working on trying to figure out how to get home, not for anyone else, who he couldn't care less about, but so that he can return to his beloved Keera. Poor Doc can become very hostile if he doesn't have his fox...

A groundbreaking discovery has been made in the Himalayan mountains. A tomb made entirely out of smoothed obsidian. However, a few people(Protagonists) across the planet know that inside this tomb is a seething evil hatred willing to wreak havoc apoun the Earth. But there is someone else who knows. (Antagonists) They want to open it and use the power for themselves, underestimating their own power to control the force.

Magic: 80%
Tech:60%
Combat:60%

Something interesting lands in the backyard of character A. It's a piece of alien technology! Upon touching it, it attaches itself to character A and won't come off! Character B comes to the help of character A. Will they destroy the piece of technology, or use it for humankind?

An underwater realm has been discovered, rising to the surface! The underwater folk crawl from the seas, a disaster having fallen on their home, to bring it rising up to float as it did. This new species of people may or may not be civilized...only confrontation with them would tell!

In this world, card of games decides a lot of things and each card is absolutely unique. One day, these cards come to life. But there is more to it and the players are drawn into a new game - of life and death.

Magic: 80-100%
Tech: 50-70%
Combat: 60%

After catastrophe, a group of survivors is stranded on an island, but it seems it's more than unlucky event and someone's got a cruel experiment in store for them.

Magic: 0-30%
Tech: 20-40%
Combat:; 50-60%

Looking for crew to join or a ship to hitch a ride on to the next big planet, a young navigator gets drawn into a deal with someone/something that could change their life forever... For better or for worse.

Tech: 100%
Magic: 0-50%
Combat: 30-60%

Fun fun. My Entrys:

1.) A large geyeser of water appears in the near distance! From where your party stands it seems to be several stories high and there is a wave of water rushing towards you with what appears to be dark creatures swimming underneath the serface! What do you do?

2.) For several days people have gone missing, and it always seems to happen at night. Rumor has it the dark is eating people, and the sun is setting while you and (others) are caught outside. Better keep your flashlight handy! This could get scary...

3.) You and your friend(s) are walking along when you see a strip of very reflectant glass. You giggle and make faces at your reflections until they start moving completely different! In a moment everyone is pulled into the glass while the duplicates are now free in our world- the complete opposite of you! How will you and your friends get everything back to normal?

Lol, had some inspiration and will try this.

-The end of the world is near and character A from the future is told to go and warn character B from the past that he has to do (insert super awesome quest here) in order to save it, but they end up working together.
(sort like terminator)