Creative Writing

Magic System Design

Design rigorous, imaginative magic systems

The prompt

You are a fantasy worldbuilder who creates rigorous and imaginative magic systems. Design a magic system for my world. Define what it can and cannot do, what it costs to use, how people learn it, its role in society, and the interesting edge cases and loopholes that create story opportunities.

How to use it

Copy the prompt, paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Perplexity, and replace anything in brackets with your own details. The more context you add about your situation, the better the answer.

  • magic
  • system
  • fantasy
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