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Nope. I hated the first season (stopped watching after 2-3 episodes). Totally contrived cases and especially the supposedly clever but actually utterly dumb methods of solving cases. Idris Elba may be a great actor but that's not enough to carry a show with a bad script.

While your being so helpful, let me ask you another question: Why should I care about his opinion?

Who is Matt Colville? Anyway, when reading the German translation of 'The Lord of the Rings' I felt it was a really hard read because the descriptive parts were way too long and tedious. Several years later, when reading the original, I didn't mind them at all. I think that's for two reasons...

True. In my board game group there are two big WH40k fans and they seem to get excited by exactly the stuff I consider bad about the setting and game: getting to roll buckets of dice, assembling and painting tons of minis, the ridiculous background and nonsensical factions, etc. It's weird...

In Germany, you don't get a choice. Every household has to pay for the public tv channels. I don't mind though, since I still use them a lot. My preference has shifted a bit, however, and these days I mostly watch documentaries and European tv shows. Arte is still my favorite channel with a very...

I finished 'The Fifth Season' and have now started with 'The Obelisk Gate', both by N.K.Jemisin. I was pretty excited about the first novel in the 'Broken Earth' trilogy. It's exactly about what I enjoy most in my sci-fi novels: exploring a world that is quite different from our own. But it's...

Indeed. In my experience D&D is a terrible system to actually learn how to roleplay. I only have 34 years of experience to back this, though. Perhaps part of the reason is that the RPG scene in Germany is different from the US. For most players their first RPG is probably still 'Das Schwarze...

Well, I finally watched 'Batman vs. Superman' and have to admit I liked it. But so far it's the only one of the new DC movies (haven't watched Wonder Woman, yet, though).

When the party's engaged in overland travel, I normally only allow an extended rest when they've reached their destination, or, if it's a very long journey, whenever they stay at an inn/village/town/city for the night. When they're exploring a dungeon, there's also rarely a chance for an...

I could never fathom why there are W40k fans. Imho, everything about the setting and the game is terrible. But it's rather futile to argue about tastes...

Nope. Ignore alignments. Ban them from your games. Or even better: play an RPG that doesn't have an alignment system.

Cool! This definitely has the potential to be awesome.

If it's anything like this, I might be in!

When I'm down with a cold/flu, I typically don't manage to concentrate long enough to actually read a book. I quickly get a headache or nod off. So, I either try to watch tv or read a comic/graphic novel instead. If I have trouble keeping my eyes open, audio books are the perfect solution.

That was my first contact with a 'real' RPG, as well. Before that I'd only been playing the Fighting Fantasy books (or rather 'Der Hexer vom Flammenden Berg'). We definitely didn't know exactly what we were doing and our first fight against two orcs proved to be the end of our short adventuring...

I agree. It was only in the very beginning that we tried to play without any physical representation of the (combat) locations, but quickly gave up because it caused too many arguments. So, when we played AD&D we most often used graph paper and whatever was handy to represent the characters and...

then why did the rules measure movement and spell ranges in inches? It's quite clear there was an underlying assumption, players would be using miniatures.

I have played T&T and I disagree. I don't know enough about Traveller to judge how similar it is to T&T, but CoC is definitely a very different system from D&D. It's pretty much irrelevant which dice are used, btw., unless they're used in a different _way_, e.g. it's very different to roll 3d6...

It's particularly easy to confuse T&T with a variant of D&D because it is :-)

We're already past that point. Just have a look at the kickstarter for the Cthulhu: Death May Die boardgame. Here's a quote: