Basic prompts are open-ended art prompts or character development questions that give extra Gold bonuses upon completion. Basic prompts have a minimum word count or art requirement that must be met in order to earn the bonus.

The prompt bonus should be added to your work's regular gold count for big rewards!!

Basic prompts must be completed by one player, and each can be completed once per character, in any order, at any time. Multiple prompt responses can be uploaded together, if you so choose, but every prompt should have its own unique response. Prompts can feature a character's animal form or human au!

To get your bonus, list the Prompt number (e.g. Basic Prompt A1) in your gold tally in your submission, and submit to the gold claim like usual!

Character Development Prompts

• A1: What does your character think of magic? Have they ever seen it in action? Do they know any mages?
  → Reward: +5 gold. Minimum: Colored bust or 200 words.
• A2: What is your mage's familiar's (or non-mage's pet's) personality like? Do they complement or contrast your mage? What is their relationship to your mage or people close to your mage? (can be completed once per familiar or pet)
  → Reward: +5 gold. Minimum: Colored bust or 200 words.
• A3: What does your mage's familiar (or non-mage's pet) look like? Did your mage design them to look that way, or was it chance? (can be completed once per familiar or pet)
  → Reward: +10 gold. Minimum: Colored fullbody or 400 words.
• A4: What is your character's occupation? What tasks are they responsible for? Do they like their job?
  → Reward: +10 gold. Minimum: Colored fullbody or 400 words.
• A5: What's an average day for your character? What do they do for fun? What places do they go?
  → Reward: +10 gold. Minimum: Colored fullbody or 400 words.
• A6: What does your character wear? Do they dress for fashion or function? Show off some styles!
  → Reward: +6 gold per outfit. Minimum: Colored outfit (can be on an existing fullbody) or 300 words per outfit.
• A7: What is your character's worst fear? Where did their fear come from? Have they ever faced it?
  → Reward: +5 gold. Minimum: Colored bust or 200 words.
• A8: What does your character’s home look like? How do they decorate their living space?
  → Reward: +10 gold. Minimum: Colored background or 400 words.
• A9: Does your character have anything to hide? What might happen if it got out?
  → Reward: +5 gold. Minimum: Colored bust or 200 words.
• A10: What does your character deny themself? What makes them do this? What do they think would happen if they didn't deny themself?
  → Reward: +5 gold. Minimum: Colored bust or 200 words.
• A11: How does your character sleep? Are they a light or heavy sleeper? Do they dream?
  → Reward: +5 gold. Minimum: Colored bust or 200 words.
• A12: What's your character's favorite food? Is it something they eat often, or a dish they only had once? Something from their childhood, or a new experience?
  → Reward: +5 gold. Minimum: Colored bust or 200 words.
• A13: What are your character’s thoughts about the current political climate? Are they pro or anti mage? What do they think about the monarchy, or Archon Miriam?
  → Reward: +10 gold. Minimum: Colored fullbody or 400 words.
• A14: What is your character’s relationship with music? Do they have a favorite song, or do they play an instrument themselves?
  → Reward: +5 gold. Minimum: Colored bust or 200 words.
• A15: Does your character celebrate their birthday? If so, how? Or maybe they don't—why?
  → Reward: +5 gold. Minimum: Colored bust or 200 words.

Character History Prompts

• B1: Who took care of your character when they were young? Are they still alive today? What was their relationship like?
  → Reward: +5 gold. Minimum: Colored bust or 200 words.
• B2: How did your mage learn that they were magical? Or, how did your non-mage realize someone they knew was magical? Was it one moment, or did they realize over time? How did others react?
  → Reward: +10 gold. Minimum: Colored fullbody or 400 words.
• B3: Where is your character from? Did they like growing up there? What was it like?
  → Reward: +10 gold. Minimum: Colored fullbody or 400 words.
• B4: Has your character ever seen a monster? What happened? Were they hurt? How did they survive?
  → Reward: +10 gold. Minimum: Colored fullbody or 400 words.
• B5: What was your character like growing up? Draw or describe them (as they were or could one day be) as a baby, child, teenager, young adult, middle aged adult, and elder!
  → Reward: +40 gold. Minimum: Colored fullbody or 400 words per life stage.
• B6: What was a difficult decision your character had to make? How old were they? What were the consequences?
  → Reward: +5 gold. Minimum: Colored bust or 200 words.
• B7: How much of the world has your character seen and travelled? Or have they never left home?
  → Reward: +5 gold. Minimum: Colored bust or 200 words.
• B8: Show us a time your character has had to deal with the effects of magic. This can be in the form of a monster hunt, a nonmage discovering a mage's powers, or mages dealing with the effects of their magic.
  → Reward: +5 gold. Minimum: Colored bust or 200 words.
• B9: Was your character ever truly scared of another person? Why? Do they still know that person?
  → Reward: +5 gold. Minimum: Colored bust or 200 words.
• B10: Does your character have any regrets? How do they deal with them? What would they do differently?
  → Reward: +5 gold. Minimum: Colored bust or 200 words.
• B11: Show us an embarrassing, shameful, or humiliating moment in your character's past. What is that memory that pops into their head at the worst of times?
  → Reward: +5 gold. Minimum: Colored bust or 200 words.
• B12: Has your character received some kind of education? If so, who taught them, and what were they taught? Were they naturally adept or did they struggle to learn?
  → Reward: +10 gold. Minimum: Colored fullbody or 400 words.
• B13: Has your character ever been injured? What type of injury was it, and how did it happen?
  → Reward: +10 gold. Minimum: Colored fullbody or 400 words.
• B14: Show us a time when your character had a bad start to their day. Everyone starts off on the wrong foot sometimes. What made your character's day worse?
  → Reward: +5 gold. Minimum: Colored bust or 200 words.

Just for fun 🤡

• C1: What would your mage would be like if they were a non-mage? What would your non-mage be like as a mage? How different would their life be? What would they look like?
  → Reward: +10 gold. Minimum: Colored fullbody or 400 words.
• C2: What is the worst curse that could be cast on your specific character? Why would it be so horrible to them? How would it change their life?
  → Reward: +10 gold. Minimum: Colored fullbody or 400 words.
• C3: The Centaur MemeTM: draw or describe your character as a Centaur!
  → Reward: +10 gold. Minimum: Colored fullbody or 400 words.
• C4: What would your character be like if they had a different Background? Draw or describe your mage character as they'd be with both of the backgrounds you did not choose for them (If your character is a non-Mage, choose any 2 Mage backgrounds).
  → Reward: +20 gold. Minimum: 2 Colored fullbodies or 800 words.
• C5: What would your character's monster form be? For mages and non-mages. What does the monster look like? What abilities does it have?
  → Reward: +10 gold. Minimum: Colored fullbody or 400 words.
• C6: What would your character be like if they were a different species? Draw or describe your character as they'd be if they were born as any/all of the other available species in Anathema.
  → Reward: +10 gold per species. Minimum: Colored fullbody or 400 words per species.
• C7: Draw your character in a modern times or other time period!
  → Reward: +10 gold. Minimum: Colored fullbody or 400 words.
• C8: Draw your character as an archetype from a different genre (sci-fi, horror, etc).
  → Reward: +10 gold. Minimum: Colored fullbody or 400 words.
• C9: If your character could completely start over with a clean slate in life, what would they do? Where would they go?
  → Reward: +10 gold. Minimum: Colored fullbody or 400 words.
• C10: If your character wasn't a hoofed animal, what kind of animal would they be? Draw your character as any animal not allowed as a player character in Anathema (no humans either!)
  → Reward: +10 gold. Minimum: Colored fullbody or 400 words.

🎲 d20 roll prompts

Stuck in a roleplay? Unsure what to draw? Head over to the #rolling channel on Discord to try out our new D20 Roll Prompts! You will get a randomly chosen prompt of a word or phrase that can be interpreted in whatever way you like! Literally or figuratively, as an overarching theme, or mentioned in passing—anything goes (as long as you can point it out to staff if we ask about it!)

Every work that contains a D20 roll prompt will earn +2 gold!