I have to tell you Wil! Fiasco was an unbelievably exciting internet experience, one of the most fun viewing experiences I have ever had online. I *loved* it. Especially the richness of the episode, with the full set-up and the two episodes for gameplay. It let me get a real sense for what the game felt like and provided ridiculously awesome entertainment as well. Then you mention Arkham Asylum. Wil. I understand the limitations of the Tabletop medium, and a four-hour game is just not plausible for what you're trying to accomplish with digestible half-hour episodes. But Wil. If you filmed you and friends playing Arkham Asylum I would buy a DVD of it on the spot. And I have to believe others of us would, too. Offer it as a special for diehard Tabletop fans! Please! The Fiasco episode has already been reviewed, in a few places I've seen, as the greatest RPG documentary ever made. If you did Arkham you'd blow it out of that water; it would be an enduring monument to the gamer world. Come on! How fun would this be?!

Yeah, I just checked and made a similar discovery, so I guess that rules out Eddings. What else is a major five-book saga from the Eighties? Prydain was a decade earlier. And of course Hitchhiker's Guide, though mostly an 80s phenomenon, was in audio before it even became a book. The Lost Years of Merlin is too late.

Okay I cannot offhand identify which 80s pentalogy he's citing but surely 95% of readers can; someone tell us! Edit: Oh snap is it the Belgariad do you think.