Domain of Many Things

By JimmiWazEre Opinionated tabletop gaming chap with a Yellow belt in Wado Ryu Karate.

By JimmiWazEre Opinionated tabletop gaming chap TL;DR: A backend database developer takes a work Python course, then runs with it — building two free games from scratch: Meteor Blast (a top-down shooter with custom pixel art and powerups) and P0N6 FL1P!

By JimmiWazEre Opinionated tabletop gaming chap TL;DR: Quinn's Quest season two covered Stonetop, a fantasy TTRPG that tackles the classic lore-gap problem where GMs know everything and players know nothing by baking collaborative world-building directly…

By JimmiWazEre Opinionated tabletop gaming chap TL;DR: Woodes Rogers was a Bristol merchant captain turned privateer who circumnavigated the globe, captured a Manila galleon, and still ended up bankrupt and imprisoned.

By JimmiWazEre Opinionated tabletop gaming chap TL;DR: An ancient Abyss awakens the drowned dead of the Caribbean.

By JimmiWazEre Avast, ye scurvy opinionated tabletop gaming chap TL;DR: Blackbeard’s career lasted barely two years, but in that time he captured a slave ship, blockaded Charleston, outplayed governors, accepted a royal pardon, and died in a last stand at…

By JimmiWazEre Opinionated tabletop gaming chap, who’s having to write this on his wife’s laptop because his broke :( TL;DR: Lost Mine of Phandelver gives you dungeons but no guidance on how to run them well.

By JimmiWazEre Opinionated, and ‘whelmed’ tabletop gaming chap TL;DR: GM burnout isn’t laziness or loss of passion, it’s a signal that something in how you’re running games is draining you.

By JimmiWazEre Opinionated tabletop gaming chap who desperately needs to put out this 52nd post.

By JimmiWazEre Opinionated tabletop gaming chap TL;DR: I posted (approx) once a week for all of 2025 and Domain of Many Things pulled in 35,000 visitors.

By JimmiWazEre Opinionated tabletop gaming chap TL;DR: Most D&D problems aren’t rules problems.

By JimmiWazEre Opinionated tabletop gaming chap TL;DR: Nemesis Retaliation isn’t simply more Nemesis.

By JimmiWazEre Opinionated tabletop gaming chap TL;DR: 5e works best when players feel real pressure on their resources, but several rules quietly remove that tension.

By JimmiWazEre Opinionated tabletop gaming chap TL;DR: Whether you play TTRPGs or miniature war games, sooner or later you might want some fantasy terrain.

By JimmiWazEre Opinionated tabletop gaming chap TL;DR: A core dice roll is a bundle of variables that shape how a game feels, how players assess risk, and how much work the GM has to do.

By JimmiWazEre The fiercest opinionated tabletop gaming chap to sail the seven seas TL;DR: I visited London’s National Maritime Museum to see the pirate exhibition, and I brought a bunch of pictures and piratey facts for my readers to enjoy.

By JimmiWazEre Opinionated tabletop gaming chap TL;DR: Every tabletop RPG needs a way to decide if an action succeeds; that’s its core dice mechanic.

By JimmiWazEre Opinionated tabletop gaming chap TL;DR: Lies by Omission is a rules-lite, tarot-driven horror RPG steeped in the mood of 1960s–70s Italian Giallo cinema.

By JimmiWazEre Opinionated tabletop gaming cowboy chap.

By JimmiWazEre Opinionated tabletop gaming chap who’s been exceptionally busy this month.