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People seem to be complaining about series, rather than individual books, so I'll second the Harry Potter opinion. I enjoyed the first four books (without ever seeing what all the fuss was about) but I found book 5 infuriating so I had to stop reading. A friend of mine who is a big fan of the...

I'm working my way through 30 Rock, which is about 135 episodes. I wouldn't call it a commitment though; if it stops being funny then I'll stop watching it.

I don't spend much on D&D, just getting the odd PDF here and there when the mood takes me. In theory I buy the hardback books, but the last one that interested me was Tomb of Annihilation. I did back the Empire of the Ghouls kickstarter, but that was because it was Empire of the Ghouls, not...

I'm enjoying this thread. I've gone from thinking a conversion couldn't be done, to thinking it would be a lot of work, to now thinking it could be a lot of fun. It does if you want it to! Maybe the volcano has always been there, maybe it appeared as a side effect of one of Eberron's many...

Last November was the 10th anniversary of the due date of the second Kickstarter I ever backed. The last update was in 2014. I'm starting to lose faith in the project :) Having said that, the last item I was waiting for from the Kaiden kickstarter (due date October 2013) did finally arrive in...

That's easy enough to pronounce as a Welsh word, although I'm not used to seeing an M followed by an N, so I'd split it into Cwlwm Nwm. Is it from somewhere?

Are you familiar with the Pathfinder Beginner Box? I thought it did a very good job of getting across game concepts in an easy-to-follow way e.g. when we say Constitution we mean the actual contitution score, when we abbreviate it to Con we mean the constitution modifier. I had hoped that...

I love Red Dwarf (well, seasons 2 to 6 anyway, although the much-maligned season 7 also had its moments) but it's nothing like Farscape so I can see why you might not like it. And being "forced" to watch comedy is probably not the best way to enjoy it. It's also very British (which you appear...

I'm currently working my way through Babylon 5, having never seen it before, and I'm enjoying even the bad episodes. Seasons 3 and 4 (so far) have been really good. (Although, from things I've read I have fairly low expectations for season 5.)

It starts at level 1 and ends up around 15th / 16th level (although I have a feeling we might have ended up a bit higher when we played it).

I always seem to be defending poor old HAL on this site. He wasn't malicious, he was just trying to carry out the mission in the face of conflicting instructions. Clearly he needed to be destroyed, but he was as much a victim as anyone else.

The way Pathfinder replaced 3.5 edition shows it can be done, but it remains to be seen whether Pathfinder 1st edition was the result of a perfect set of circumstances which are unlikely to be repeated. If someone brings out a Pathfinder version I think is better then I'll play that instead. If...

However, for some reason I get fairly annoyed if that's all they do. There always seem to be references in the text to the old monster which don't match the new one, tactics which no longer make sense, or spells/rituals which don't exist in the new version. (Which is not usually the fault of the...

I'm glad the adventure paths are being made available to a wider audience. Hopefully it will be more than a straight conversion, for the reasons you give. (Maybe one day I'll get to see Zeitgeist converted to Fate; I find the idea of doing it myself fairly daunting.) Pathfinder adventure...

Except, of course, you also need to know what was written in the 8 paragraphs describing the "polymorph" subschool of spells. In fairness, most of which says what you'd expect e.g. you gain the base speed and natural attacks of the creature. However, I don't think you could avoid looking those...

I don't smoke, but nobody I know who does smoke would dream of smoking indoors in someone else's house. (I don't mean they'd ask first, I mean they'd go outside without even asking, unless the host had already made it clear smoking indoors was fine.) Most of them don't smoke indoors in their own...

I seriously doubt it was just the Scottish doing it, and Wikipedia seems to back me up. Seems like both the Scottish and English reivers weren't too picky about the nationality of their victims.

Some friends and I went to the theatre to see a Hitchhikers play, and afterwards they started complaining about how the play had changed some of the plot of the book. I had to explain to them that the play was based on the script of the radio play, which predated the book. Although, give that...

I'd like to see an adventure set in the Dalelands. I never thought I'd say it, but they seem a bit under-exposed at the moment.

Yes, it could be more like: GM: No Vowels in this campaign, it's Consonants only One week later GM: So what's everyone playing? Player: I have a Y GM: I said no Vowels! Player: Y isn't a Vowel GM: It can be, or at it's least similar to a Vowel, why are you trying to subvert my campaign...