Random Magic Systems

[Just_a_Fan he/him]

the dor, but itś a backpack instead.

 

A giant purple ostrich

[Through the living jeff he/him(straight)]

The more times you’ve seen it, the stronger you are. The ostrich is reclusive, and lives in an RV. 

Shoe Size

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Is this how you do it?

 

Edited March 26, 2024 by TwinSouls

[Gak he/him]

each size shoe grants a different power to its wearer, but while the shoe has to be worn correctly, it doesn't have to fit well, so people with small feet can access more powers than those with large foot. the smaller the shoe the more powerful, for example massive clown shoes just let you make rainbow bubbles, while baby shoes can let their wearer generate a near impenetrable shield. as a result of small shoes being more powerful people generally use young children as their apprentices to fight their battles for them, leading to the totally original series the shoe shop wars, by Brennen Mole.

the patterns on socks

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more or less, the main rule is have fun, followed by be creative and on occasion downright bizarre.

 

[Just_a_Fan he/him]

poka-dot socks grant you magic powers when you wear them. these powers are random.

 

cheese.

[Lego Mistborn he/him]

Cheeseplate, already nigh impossible to cut with a blade, now releases noxious fumes when cut, which the wearer is immune to, but none else. Don't cut the cheese.

Pinecone

[Gak he/him]

The less pinecones there are in the world the faster they grow when planted, leading to overharvesting and destruction of pine trees around the world. people use what cones there are as weapons, growing a entire pine tree in seconds, breaking through concrete walls, lifting a speeding car, or draining all the nutrients from the soil, all of these are things that can be done.

Rainstorms

[TheFrugalWizard he/him]

Rainstorms come at the exact same time every five days. The people of the land worship the rain because on every fiftyth (is that how you spell it?) day, the rains heal whoever is out in them. Healing rain can't be stored. As soon as it hits the ground or any other surface it looses its healing properties. Beyond that, rain is always pure, so you can take a shower in it if you want.

Twigs

[Through the living jeff he/him(straight)]

whenever a twig snaps, everyone on the planet gains a random magical ability for 20 minutes.

Star Wars LEGO sets

[NerdyAarakocra They/Them]

Lego® sets grant powers based on their complexity. Basic Duplo® sets barely restore any magical powers to their builder, while epic 50lb cities can give their builders the power to move mountains (the amount of power required to do something is relative to the amount of force required times the task's complexity). This also works for other crafty build kits, like ships in bottles. As such, the Lego® Group and other build kit people have control over all magic. A lone group of rebels, however, has started building their own craft sets. As tensions escalate, the two sides inch closer to war...

Reaction Images

[aetherbound he/him]

When someone uses a completely over the top reaction image, the thing they were reacting to retroactively becomes more worth that reaction. Four things influence how much the reactee is changed. 1: how disproportionate the reaction is, as it takes the average of what actually happened and what would justify that as a reaction. 2: how funny it is in context, this makes the magic more "solid," a non-funny reaction will only create a semitransparent illusion, while a hilarious reaction could level a small building. 3: how people perceive your reaction image, when people stop caring about your reaction image, the world changes back to how it was, if you turned a wall into cheese, it turns back into wall (though if you cut a hole in said wall, the hole would remain). 4: sub-reactions, from other people reacting to your reaction, which can empower or modify your image.

Papercuts

Edited May 31, 2024 by Aetherbound
Making this magic system more fleshed out

[BlueWildRye he/him]

Depending on the wood that the paper that cut you was made out of, you get different powers. (a sentence that is completely readable)

Mice.

[NameIess]

One day, it is discovered that due to some unusual occult circumstances, mice have become inundated with magical power such that eating a mouse gives humans an extra year of life as well as the ability to use their own vitality (aka their lifespan) to fuel magical powers. The more mice they eat, the more efficient these powers become and the easier it becomes to use greater portions of their lifespan. However, there are diminishing returns for both of these benefits, so eventually one will hit a cap on their magical powers and maximum lifespan.

As a result of this, mice are soon almost entirely eliminated in the wild, with industrial rat farming becoming the number one global industry. Mouse smoothies hit the tops of the charts, and magical researchers across the world work night and day to discern the best way to allow humans to harness the newfound potential of mice.

To their initial delight, the humans find that their bodies are in fact incredibly inefficient at harvesting the energy within mice, and if this inefficiency could be solved, humans could see benefits hundreds or even thousands of times greater than they currently experience.

Unfortunately, they realized too late that the perfect vessels of this power already existed: cats.

Jars of rocks.

Edited June 1, 2024 by NameIess

[The Assassin In Red Oh/no]

The system is called Continensomancy.

One can get a jar of special glass that can only be forged with the heat from a volcano. They can then fill it with specific rocks for it to radiate a passive magical effect in a variable radius.

The rocks that can be used are as follows: Diorite, Ignimbrite, Marble, Malachite, Obsidian, Quartz, Scoria, Wehrlite, Tephrite, and Sandstone. These are just the known magical rocks right now, more may be found. 

Some of the passive effects are as follows: Strength of body, Strength of mind, the ability to see only cheese, insanity, hunger, growth, and others on varying levels of usefulness.

Radiation