Given how many people post questions about how to handle parties losing conflicts, I’d say yes.

Also it operates at the out-of-chatacter level. It’s not the character conceding, it’s the player. This allows for solutions like “they shoot me and I fall into the river, where I’ll wash up somewhere by evening”. It’s not always an in-character surrender.

You can’t really surrender to all things, too, such as wolves, zombies, or an avalanche.

Whenever it came down to “your character might die” I’d roll on the table. I don’t want anyone to think I’m fudging.

I also really like Fate’s “concede” rule. A player (not the character!) can concede at any point in a conflict before dice are rolled. They don’t get whatever they wanted out of the conflict, but they get to negotiate where the story goes. Maybe the bandits decide to take you alive for ransom. Maybe they take your stuff and leave you to tell their tale. It’s whatever the table thinks is best.

If they instead tough it out and let the dice fall, whoever took them out has the final say in what happens.

Right? It’s so coarse. You can’t take wild shape without also getting full spell casting. The game is full of stuff like that. No fine control. Also huge opportunity costs. Dip into another class? Enjoy not getting your second attack for weeks of real life time.

The coarse bundling probably good for some kinds of beginner players, but it’s really restrictive.

Or just… Email.

My parents just email me pictures of stuff. It’s fine.

I agree, play the class how you want, it’s one of the major appeals of the game

I remember the first time I encountered systems that aren’t strict class + level, and realizing I had so much more freedom to make the ideas I had. D&D (and close relatives) are surprisingly anti-creative.

The biggest problem is most players aren’t paying attention and won’t remember everything.

If you do elves and dwarves, they’ll have some idea of what’s happening.

If you do the Wilfren and the Senderri, they won’t. Even if you explain it a dozen times. Even if you show them in a dozen scenes.

I may just have trauma from being in poorly fitting groups, but I think getting people to learn a bunch of your custom lore is always going to be a long shot.

If you make the world collectively, you’ll have a better chance of it working. But some players hate being creative like that.

There are other games than DND. Play more of them and steal ideas from them.

That’s too much money. Especially for a company that kind of sucks and is succeeding largely on inertia.

I like the idea. I don’t want to use facebook or similar, but that’s where stuff like “BuyNothing” is most active.

Unfortunately, I don’t know much about self hosting (beyond what I’ve picked up working in software development) so I don’t see myself running one of these myself. I’d probably use it if it came to my neck of the woods (NYC)

Most developers I’ve looked at would happily just paste the curl|bash thing into the terminal.

I often would skim the script in the browser, but a. This post shows that’s not fool proof and b. a sufficiently sophisticated malicious script would fool a casual read