Break a magic system

[Throw TheLiving Silverware he/him/il/lui]

Have an earbud that repeats you "Your body is perfect" constantly. You are now able to regrow most things pretty quickly. (Some kind of mindnumbing drug might be needed for it to work though.)

I think you could also change your body at will; if you convince yourself you have claws, and you tear off your hand, would the hand regrow with claws?

 

You can change the color(s) of stuff with your mind.

(Took that one from a book. The book didn't try to break it, unfortunately.)

[Through the Living Wrath he/him]

3 hours ago, Just A Silvereye said:

Have an earbud that repeats you "Your body is perfect" constantly. You are now able to regrow most things pretty quickly. (Some kind of mindnumbing drug might be needed for it to work though.)

I think you could also change your body at will; if you convince yourself you have claws, and you tear off your hand, would the hand regrow with claws?

 

You can change the color(s) of stuff with your mind.

(Took that one from a book. The book didn't try to break it, unfortunately.)

Hahahahahahah

Turn various waves into red, things like gamma, x-ray, or more. Turn radio waves purple, ya know?

For every ounce of vital organs lost, you are 1.2x more strong.

Edited December 22, 2024 by SpiritOfWrath

[Through the Living Heir he/him]

To start, work out for strength building. Once you’ve reached a pretty high level, start removing non-essential organs or organ portions. Find an organ that will grow back from a fraction, and remove that repeatedly. Depending upon how strength is defined, you might start healing it back on your own, but regardless, you can exploit the exponential growth. 

You can appear in people’s dreams and change their dreamscape. It acts like a normal dream, however, you can’t do the physical injuries from dreams that such a power sometimes comes with. Oh, and you have to be asleep yourself to use the power. 

[IcedOutPenguin He/Him]

You can inflict permanent mental harm to your greatest enemies, or you could pull a Dalinar and use it to convince a bunch of people to join you on one side of a conflict.

you can shapeshift into anything so long as it doesn't weigh more than 5 pounds, is bigger than 2 feet in any dimension, and has a cooldown of 5 seconds

[Through The Living Glass She/They]

Congrats. You can sneak into anywhere as a bug.

The ability to summon a single pencil at the most inconvenient times.

[IcedOutPenguin He/Him]

Whenever it's inconvenient, you have a convenient weapon (sorta), and you can distract people whenever you're trying to sneak into somewhere

You can make anything nonliving glow dimly for 3 seconds with a 5 second cooldown.

Edited December 23, 2024 by IcedOutPenguin

[Through the Living Heir he/him]

I’d take the most reflective material for a mirror I could find, then create as many spherical mirrors as I could. Then, I’d make them glow, allowing me to place light inside the mirror, where it would stay. The light would slowly become heat upon contact with the mirrors and the air, but if I can slow the process enough, I have flashbangs. If it proves too difficult to prevent heating, I can use that to my own ends instead. 
You have telekinesis, but must physically apply force to things. You can push forward, then have that force move something ten feet away, for instance. 

[The Aspiring Archivist any pronouns]

2 hours ago, Dragonheir said:

I’d take the most reflective material for a mirror I could find, then create as many spherical mirrors as I could. Then, I’d make them glow, allowing me to place light inside the mirror, where it would stay. The light would slowly become heat upon contact with the mirrors and the air, but if I can slow the process enough, I have flashbangs. If it proves too difficult to prevent heating, I can use that to my own ends instead. 
You have telekinesis, but must physically apply force to things. You can push forward, then have that force move something ten feet away, for instance. 

I could open locks inside a building with little effort, be impossible to fight because I have unlimited range, or, if I want to be nice, give myself a truly thriving career as a performing magician.

You can modify your own vision like you would adjust a photograph (change hue values, contrast, etc) but just like with a picture, you can't create more detail than your vision already has.

[Through the Living Wrath he/him]

Set a cap on the brightness. No blindness! Also, even though you cannot create more detail, you might be able to increase brightness or contrast to make things more noticeable.

When you tap a sentient being, you control them benevolently for five minutes.

[Through the Living Heir he/him]

Tap myself. I get unflinching determination. Do the same for my allies. Depending upon what benevolent means in this context, I might be able to learn a martial art that makes the tapping of my enemies easier, then at least get them to stand down. 

You can make things immobile with respect to your reference frame, as long as you continue touching them. 

[Through the Living Wrath he/him]

19 minutes ago, Dragonheir said:

Tap myself. I get unflinching determination. Do the same for my allies. Depending upon what benevolent means in this context, I might be able to learn a martial art that makes the tapping of my enemies easier, then at least get them to stand down. 

You can make things immobile with respect to your reference frame, as long as you continue touching them. 

Hahahaha charge into an enemy at extreme speeds and “immobilize” them, kicking them due to extreme acceleration.

The amount of antimatter generated in your bodies is multiplied by four every day.

Edited December 23, 2024 by SpiritOfWrath

[The Aspiring Archivist any pronouns]

4 hours ago, SpiritOfWrath said:

Hahahaha charge into an enemy at extreme speeds and “immobilize” them, kicking them due to extreme acceleration.

The amount of antimatter generated in your bodies is multiplied by four every day.

Our bodies don't generate antimatter... Just a few radioactive isotopes in our bodies. So that probably means I'm doomed to die from radiation sickness, but I could turn myself over to scientists so they could study me and maybe use my heavily radioactive corpse for something before it becomes too much and they shoot it into space.

Your jump height varies by as much as +/- a foot depending on the day.

Edited December 24, 2024 by The Aspiring Archivist

[Through the Living Wrath he/him]

1 minute ago, The Aspiring Archivist said:

Our bodies don't generate antimatter... Just a few radioactive isotopes in our bodies. So that probably means I'm doomed to die from radiation sickness, but I could turn myself over to scientists so they could study me and maybe use my heavily radioactive corpse for something before it becomes too much and they shoot it into space.

Your jump height varies by as much as +/- a foot depending on the day.

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HEY THEY DO! So do bananas.

When the isotopes decay, they occasionally create antimatter.

 

[The Aspiring Archivist any pronouns]

Just now, SpiritOfWrath said:

 

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Yes I know, that's what I was talking about. Increased antimatter production would just mean that I get increasingly radioactive, which is bad for me.

 

[Through the Living Heir he/him]

For @SpiritOfWrath, I’d get a vacuum chamber with a small magnet, and swallow it to actually start the antimatter generation. Then, I genetically modify a fungus to require acidic conditions to grow, and to survive high heat produced by an antimatter-matter explosion. The fungus should be able to get energy out of the antimatter, and I could get energy out of it. I’d eventually explode or get consumed by the fungus, but before then I’d never need to eat and would be violating thermodynamics. Maybe, if my dead body still counted, it would continue to do so until I was conclusively annihilated. 
As for @The Aspiring Archivist, I could probably train my jumps when they wouldn’t go high, allowing me to grow more and thus when I was normal or enhanced, perform better. 
You control the surface tension of liquids you can see. It doesn’t all have to be the same, but if you can’t see it, you can’t control that part of it. 

[IcedOutPenguin He/Him]

you can make ships run aground in the deep ocean, walk on water, and now have access to a very cool party trip!

You can cause atoms to act as if they are going through a particle collider with a cooldown of 10 seconds

[The Aspiring Archivist any pronouns]

12 hours ago, IcedOutPenguin said:

you can make ships run aground in the deep ocean, walk on water, and now have access to a very cool party trip!

You can cause atoms to act as if they are going through a particle collider with a cooldown of 10 seconds

So many scientific applications. Also could be used as a world-destroying weapon, because you didn't limit the number of atoms and so I could instantly accelerate anything to near light speed.

You can close any door you can see without touching it.

[Through the Living Heir he/him]

I’d take a revolving door, hook it up to a dynamo, and then alternate closing the two sides. This should result in the door spinning, granting free energy. 
You know what people expect you to do. 

[NerdyAarakocra They/Them]

5 hours ago, Dragonheir said:

I’d take a revolving door, hook it up to a dynamo, and then alternate closing the two sides. This should result in the door spinning, granting free energy. 
You know what people expect you to do. 

I think you forgot something in your post...

[Through the Living Heir he/him]

1 hour ago, NerdyAarakocra said:

I think you forgot something in your post...

Clarification: the power is that you know what people expect you to do. 

[aetherbound he/him]

This would also work as a very limited form of future sight, if I expect you to die by my hand, you know I'm going to kill you.

You move 10% faster while being minorly inconvenienced.

[NerdyAarakocra They/Them]

Eat a large amount of baked beans in order to feel mildly uncomfortable, become an NFL athlete, be horrendously overpaid.

You can slow your metabolism by a factor of three for a period of two hours, once a day.

[Through the Living Heir he/him]

You could halt poison, I suppose. Or stop bleeding for a bit. I don’t have a lot for this one. 
You know you’re in this hypothetical scenario I’m describing. 

[IcedOutPenguin He/Him]

I can subtly manipulate you to make better magic systems.

You can turn cars into chests (like old fashioned D&D chests) with nothing inside them

[Through the Living Heir he/him]

The chests have nothing inside them, you say… put things that need cleanly destroying (like plastic, supervillains, and nuclear waste) in cars, then poof them. 

You can turn chests into cars with the same monetary value.