Hey, friends who play D&D, question for you: Has anyone developed a system that can adapt existing D&D settings and characters with radically simplified rules?

I've been DMing for a quarter century now, and I'm getting increasingly exhausted by the complexity of the rules and the time I have to devote to them. I'm increasingly drawn to games like Dread with very simple rules. But my current campaign has been going for well over a decade, so my players have a lot invested in their characters--spells, gear, all of that--that I don't want to take away for them. Also I'm not done with the story yet so I don't want to just end the game.

Some kind of "instead of this, do that" rules document would be brilliant, if it exists.

Boosts welcome.

#dnd

@morganth Maybe this one by @Seba fits your bill? Or any number of OSR retroclones...
https://sebahahn.itch.io/mini-d20-easy-osr
MINI D20 - easy OSR RPG by Seba

Very easy OSR/NSR fully compatible with OSR-games

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@Rackhir @Seba Thanks! Not familiar but I’ll check it out.