Tyson of the Northwest

@tysonnw.bsky.social

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Writer, DM, and general creative. Short Stories and TTRPG products at https://doublecrescent.com/ Banging my head against a table to name my new d12 game.

Short Story Participant One Month. One short story. World Anvil and the Storytelling Collective
Pie graph of words by project - TysonWrites 47.7% - Poly Fantasy 41.5% - Dwarf Facists 8.1% - Life in Fairy 0.9% - Big City 0.1% - Shard 1.1%
Circle graph of minutes spend on different tags - Brainstorming 48.3% - Crap Draft 45.5% - 1st Draft 1.5% - 3rd Draft 3.4%
A tarnished metal blue inlaid D20 next to a silver metal red inlaid D12 on top of a page of text with chainmail peeking from the left side.
Cover of "A New Age Beckons" A Tyson Writes Shortstory showing standing stones drawn in blue light with a lens flare surrounded by encroaching circuit lines.
Metal D20 in a chainmail cage on a keychain.
A spread of the D12 Expeditions Zine components, a pencil, and two D12 dice.
A spread of gamebook zines and character sheets for d12 Expeditions
Cover to Automata Rebirth, a TysonWrites Short Story, depicting a porcelain woman in black and white.
The cover of Automata Rebirth featuring a porcelain female figure and the title in gold text with the subtitle A TysonWrites Short Story.
Combat Roles Each creature has a roll in combat that plays to their strengths. Roll Description Ambush Uses stealth and being hidden to gain advantage in combat. Base 3 HP. Bruiser Holds their own, but work best with followers and a leader. Base 5 HP Horde Horde creatures are designed to work in coordination with other horde creatures but are weak on their own. Base 1 HP. Leader Leads groups of adversaries. They enhance and amplify the abilities of their followers. Base 3 HP. Ranged Sits on the edge of the battlefield. Base 2 HP. Skirmisher Mobile and supporting other adversaries with a both ranged and melee. Base 3 HP. Solo Can stand on their own. Base 6 HP. Follower Filling up the ranks of Adversaries they work best backing a leader, solo, or bruiser. Base 2 HP. Combat Abilities Creatures should do more than just attack. They should have interesting Actions that work together with other adversaries. Actions that just do damage should set up the other adversaries to follow up with. Actions that follow up and give conditions along with damage or otherwise effect the battlefield. As for Reactions, they should dissuade characters from making a specific action, but not prevent that action. It should encourage the players to mix up their character's actions and inspire new tactics. Defenses and Stats Adversaries have the 6 stats, 3 Defenses, Deflect, and HP. They are not bonuses but Target Numbers. You can get the Target Numbers from the difficulty of the creature.
Crafting Adversaries When crafting adversaries keep in mind not just their combat capabilites, but their impact on the story. Motivation Everyone has a motivation. Be it a plan they are trying to execute, a thing they want to acquire, or an influence they wish to gain. Target Numbers The player needs to roll over the target number to succeed. Easy 5 Moderate 7 Hard 9 Adversaries should have strengths and weaknesses. Their Defense Target Numbers should reflect them. Acts Antagonists should have multiple actions to choose from. Actions should do 1 to 3 damage. Maneuvers should effect the battlefield or provide movement. Responses should interrupt player Actions in an interesting way. Exploiting attacks should do more damage or add an effect to the Act. Acts also have a target number associated with them that Players roll their Defenses to block. Complications Each act should have some sort of Complication associated with them that does something special when the Player rolls a 1 on the d12. These complications can move Characters, apply Conditions, or otherwise shake up the battlefield in a way that is thematically tied to the Act.
Fern from the Frieren anime casting a spell with a huge glowing arcane symbol.
Zathras saying "Zathras is used to being beast of burden for other people's needs." to Delen and Sheridan from Babylon 5.
Starfury spaceship against a star-field https://www.deviantart.com/oliverink/art/All-Alone-In-The-Night-813288817
Red headed anime girl A-Ko jusmping from missile to missile from Project A-Ko
An example screen shot of a character builder in godot.
A book cover titled "Unchosen" with the subtitle of "A TysonWrites Short Story" It depects a woman in a grey sweatshirt and jeans with her face in her hands and a spear leaning against her shoulder.