Halfling Caravan Games

Escaping Melon recycling the shit ideas of his 20s brain… I do TTRPG, repost stuff that tickles my aesthetics, and sometimes will rant heterodox macroeconomics just cause… also machine generated art or text gets you blocked… this Halfling supports artists not Techbros. A husband, dad of 2, living on Dharug Land (Sydney).

[halflingcaravan]

Well folks, I’m basically abandoning the BirdFire to come to this spot. So I might as well explain what this Halfling does…

I am a TTRPG cliche: a technically trained, white, middle class, cis-het male, with a wife (Mrs Halfling) and 2 kids (Halfling A & Halfling M). I’ve been playing TTRPG since school, I’ve done my time with MtG, and Warhammer, then started making TTRPG because I saw a big name game that had a dumpster fire book and thought “Yeah, I could do that or better on my own…”

I’ve made my own base system when I made my first TTRPG, a scifi and cyberpunk game, and then rebuilt it to do a slasher horror game, a cosmic horror/pulp adventure game, and then a heist game.

Separately to that I’m working on a kids TTRPG which is broadly PbtA inspired about being the little animal friends of a young kid witch learning to be an adult witch ready to go out and help everyone on her own.

If you want to find the things I’ve made, you can check out my Itch.io and some of it is up at DriveThru but I’ve been letting that slide a bit.

If you’re in Australia, you can find me at some conventions typically those not regularly attended by neonazis (yes, that has been a thing and it would be great if it wasn’t).

[estro-boi]

I've been thinking of nothing but the harris campaign for days and I still can't fully comprehend that it was real

[estro-boi]

i ran some numbers last night and they spent 9.5 million dollars a day to tell everyone that dick cheney was brat. one billion dollars spent in 107 days and they still ended up twenty million in debt by the end. they could have paid each person who actually voted for them 14 bucks and it would have been over fourteen million dollars cheaper. they sent skeletal pedophile bill clinton to michigan to tell arab muslims that palestinians brought this on themselves. they tried to court black voters by talking about cryptocurrency(?!). everyone involved in that campaign needs to be in fucking prison.

[estro-boi]

if anyone tries to tell you that wokeness lost this election then morally speaking you can drag them into the street and beat them to death in front of their families

[halflingcaravan]

I’m just waiting for the ALP here in Australia to learn the wrong lesson from the Harris campaign… and the rusted on ALP TrüBelievers go about berating everyone who says “Hey ALP… you could try being leftist if you want votes from left voters… and this policy set is… not… left leaning. Being ‘not Fash’ doesn’t make you left…”

Of course the Greens will likely do that just as much and lurch into Bland Status White Centrism with a Green Tie and Queer Pin.

[halflingcaravan]

[tecnobabushka]

Russian handwriting

[notcrazyiswear]

I’ll forever be amused at the Russian word “deprived” (лишили) in cursive, which looks like

[esoanem]

for people wondering how the hell that works

[shieldfoss]

I still don’t know how the hell that works.

[counterclockworkminds]

See, to me it looks a lot like ‘minimum’ in English cursive:

Ok not so bad right? But it gets worse…

Like… what even is this?

Can’t tell me that’s a word right? But it is! Sure you could dot the i’s, but would it really help?

source here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Handwriting/comments/1hgsc8/write_minimum_in_cursive_without_dotting_the_is/

[shieldfoss]

Yes. Yes it would.

[squareallworthy]

Wikipedia: Minim (palaeography)

[nid--hogg]

Why the fuck would language evolve in such a completely illogical way like this

[kyraneko]

fuck every last bit of this

[tuulikki]

Humans invented writing as a way of communicating information and it’s pretty great on the whole but we maybe did not adequately prepare for depreciation in legibility

[pudimdosubmundo]

@official-linguistics-post ?

[sztupy]

[halflingcaravan]

Pharmacist: Of course it says Paracetamol. What else could it say?

*Other people stare at pharmacist like they are a wizard or deranged or both*

[sabrsiren-deactivated20250418]

[halflingcaravan]

Been working more on “Neon City” 🌃 and making card art. I’ve got a full base set people could #playtest but that set is built to work with LackeyCCG which is… well… gosh damned niiiiiiiiiiiiiche.

But yeah I’ve been making these character designs in Secondlife because Budgets are Real…

[halflingcaravan]

Would having safety things tell a parent a TTRPG convention is dangerous?

You know what has had content warnings, and safety ratings, for longer than you ever care to remember?

Home Cinema. VHS, DVDs, BluRays, all of that... the ones you bought had a Safety Rating, and Content warnings.

Go check out that stuff on your streaming platform or DVD. The box will give an age rating, and tell you in short broad terms why it has that age rating.

My shelf has "Spirited Away" by Studio Ghibli. It is a PG movie here in Australia. The reason it has the PG rating is... Supernatural Themes.

My home movies have age recommendations and content warnings.

Grow the fuck up TTRPG chuds.

[halflingcaravan]

Merry Halloween to you all…

[txttletale]

wizard who's too lazy to name things properly and so can't ever find the incantation she's looking for bc her spellbook is full of spells called shit like 'aaaa1' and 'asdfghjk'

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[halflingcaravan]

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[halflingcaravan]

There’s a thing about CCG and game design that few people tell you about… the spreadsheets. Oh the spreadsheets.

Especially when you make your game a bit complicated.

I am currently trying to ensure an even distribution of skills and a particular distribution of types… and dear reader…

The…

Spreadsheets…

[psychotic-gerard]

love seeing revisionism in the wild “free the nipple never meant you can walk around topless every where that’s still sexual harassment it just meant for like breastfeeding and stuff”no it literally means you should be able to walk around topless anywhere because get this. breasts aren’t fucking sexual organs.

[roguebombshell]

I remember when I was about 12, I watched a show on TLC that followed people as they got somewhat uncommon medical procedures.

There was one episode with a trans woman getting different gender-affirming operations, including breast implants. It showed the procedure, and (what I found so fascinating that it's stuck with me for decades), as soon as the doctor put the implant in, a censor blur popped up on the nipple.

And you just know there was a meeting between the TLC lawyers and the editors and producers of the show to discuss what the difference was between a "man nipple" (can be shown) and a "woman nipple" (no no must obscure, 'tis naughty). And they decided that as soon as the implant goes in and the nipple has more mass behind it, that's the moment when it becomes a woman's nipple and must be hidden to comply with TV rules.

But it's the same nipple. On the same person. I know what it looks like; I just saw it. But TV and obscenity rules are rules, and the rules say woman nipple = sexual and therefore explicit, but man nipple = neutral, just fine.

"Free the Nipple" was calling out arbitrary bullshit like that, because someone just existing with their body parts should not be considered obscene, and the double standard that men can be topless but women can't is so blatantly ridiculous. All nipples are just nipples. If you get turned on or bothered by them, that's on you.

[halflingcaravan]

People don't blink when I walk around only in swim bottoms at the pool. It's stupid that people blink if anyone else did. Either make me wear something that covers the chest, or stop giving a shit people...

[halflingcaravan]

And with that news, I hope that every VFX company that can, and every writer refuses to work for Lionsgate forever…

[corsairesix]

There's an interesting alchemy by which, for certain TTRPG fans, WotC's misbehavior makes it more moral to play D&D if you're broke.

The logic goes something like this: WotC is bad, and therefore it is good to steal from them. Indie creators are good, and therefore it is bad to steal from them. Therefore, if you don't have money to spend on games, it is moral to play D&D and immoral to play indie games.

For some reason, the fact that this unimpeachable logic only benefits WotC and only harms indie creators is not relevant.

[halflingcaravan]

If you can’t afford a Wizbros TTRPG then you’ll be stunned… floored… to find out that games by lots of indies are priced so low by comparison you could have 2+ games instead of a PHB, and maybe 8 games instead of a DMG+PHB+MM set.

[imsobadatnicknames2]

This is something I and other tabletop bloggers like thydungeongal have said repeatedly in the past, but I think it bears repeating.

If you don't like WotC due to the recent scandals they've been involved in (such as the OGL thing and sending the Pinkertons to someone's house) and you are serious about disrupting the economic and cultural stranglehold they have over the entire tabletop hobby, pirating D&D products is infinitely less important than exploring, discussing and platforming games and creators outside of the D&D 5e ecosystem.

A person who pirates every single D&D product but continues to exclusively play, discuss, talk, and blog about Dungeons and Dragons Fifth Edition is not doing as much as someone who religiously pays for every D&D product but also gives some of their precious time and attention to games that aren't D&D, especially if they have any sort of platform or audience.

[halflingcaravan]

You are disrupting them while you keep promoting them by playing their games.

Just play another game, tell event organisers you don’t want to play D&D, jump on any old random TTRPG at a convention.

[halflingcaravan]

Been working on more of these Agent portraits for use in the game I am working on called “Neon City”

It was kind of fun to realise that Secondlife would basically let me do these relatively easily for someone with zero-people-drawing skills.

[watcherstcg]

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[halflingcaravan]

Been doing some more work on the layout and graphic for this #ccg I’ve been working on.

Still not yet figured out how I want to do the card backs… I will ostensibly want 3 kinds… maybe 2…

And I can’t find a “Wild brush” style typeface I like… trawled all the usual freebie places and still discontent…

[halflingcaravan]

Made more of these… and tweaked a little thing… but here’s the base artwork….

Enjoy peeps.