Familiar Ground

The site is undergoing some changes.  Please be patient.
Something happened (not quite sure what exactly) when my hosting site reset their servers and it broke something in my old site (?).  I’m going to take this opportunity to finally do some tweaks to the site that I’ve been meaning to do in CSS.  It’s going to [...]

Hello folks.  Some have noticed that I haven’t been updating the blog as much as I used to.  I’ve been rather busy with various things lately.  Unfortunately that trend looks to continue for the next few weeks (this weekend is Pacificon, so I’ll be doubly busy).   However, the strip currently has a fair amount of [...]

I’ll be at Pacificon Game Expo on Labor Day Weekend, Sept 4-7.
Look for me at the RPGA area in the gaming rooms.
Drop on by and enjoy four days of table top RPGs, card games, miniatures, board games, LARPs and all sorts of geeky endeavors.
I won’t have any books or real merchandise to sell, but I’ll still [...]

It’s a new month here at Familiar Ground.  Time to go over some news about the strip.
*  I’ll be attending at least two conventions:  Pacificon in Santa Clara, the first week of September, and APE in San Francisco, the first week of October.  I won’t have stuff to sell yet, so I’ll be attending mostly [...]

So I saw the new Harry Potter movie last week.  Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6)
I’ve got mixed feelings about it.
On the one hand, the movie went by really fast for me, and losing track of time like that usually means I was entertained.
But I had a bigger problem in that I read [...]

Sorry for the late update today.
I have the strip on automatic updates, so it’s supposed to load future strips on a regular schedule, but it had some sort of hiccup today for some reason.  I didn’t know until I got an email from a reader.
I still don’t know what’s wrong, so I just uploaded the [...]

WotC has updated some much needed items from the Player’s Handbook, Forgotten Realms Player’s Guide and Martial Powers.
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/files/UpdateJuly2009.pdf
A few of the changes include:

Rain of Blows – two attacks at 1[w] with a third attack if you meet the prereqs (no need to hit).
Righteous Rage of Tempus – only adds the crit bonus damage rather than [...]

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I actually want to watch the Teddy Ruxpin one.

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