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Joke aside, by the rules, you will be able to have long rests before midnight again. Just not tomorrow. So in D&D, if you go to bed too late, your next night might not finish a long rest if you have to get up early. You’ll have the benefit of a short rest, but not a long one. In short in D&D...

As I tend to dial down to a 6 or 7 what I often feel D&D has cranked to 11, I often reduce the size of giants. An 8-foot dude weighting close to a ton and wielding the equivalent of a 10-inch diameter baseball bat should be f*****g terrifying, there is no need to go all the way to 15-20 feet...

From a player perspective, I’m willing to track two types of coins (usually silver and gold). Everything else is just a value of silver and gold. Now, i like when the DM colours the world with electrum and copper and platinum but ultimately, they are just X silver or gold on my character sheet...

Since updated rules for downtime and crafting in Xanathar, I don’t think I even opened it. I read it through and trough when I first got it, used it a bit for magic items. It was definitely a useful book but it lost its relevance as more and more supplements got published.

That's one of my preferred takes on high-level play. I don't think that that alone is enough to solve the OP's issues, but I know it partially solves mine (although so far it my solution has been simply not to play at levels where PCs have spells 6th-9th level...)

As said earlier, a lot of players come to 5e for all its bells and whistles for their characters; so knowing what your players think of all this is crucial to the conversation. otherwise the easiest and least disruptive way to power down 5e is to keep to low and low-mid levels. Limiting...

Not sure how it really went, but this looks to me like a good example of a respectful comment/disapprobation on the DM's world-building. I hope the DM was able to be a good sport about it and either a) change his views or b) accept that there won't be cleric PCs (and not punish the players for...

A character can have an adversarial relationship with their patron god/goddess - that's an interesting (if potentially disrupting) RP avenue - but as long as I don't perceive animosity from the player I don't see it as an affront to my work (when we can call it as such). That implies that the...

A comment/disapprobation isn't necessarily disrespectful but otherwise yes, as a DM I tend to see a player going against the tenets of a religion (as opposed to a character going against those tenets) as a comment/disapprobation on my world-building. Sometimes I got to agree with the player in...

Also, an easy non-rule to make D&D gritty is simply to keep it at levels 1-7 (ish) without pulling punches from the opposition (in terms of CR). PCs don't always have to be the biggest captains in the sky...

That certainly is a technique to bring grit to the table... and to ensure the DM makes life more difficult for players thereafter!

... or don't do it for monsters... Personally I'm partial to regular HP up to level 5, then each level contributes to half up to 11 (inclusively), then each level contributes to a quarter up to level 17, then no hit points are given when gaining levels.

generic random maps are of no interest to me. An AI-style, prompt-based interface for quick battlemaps could be interesting, but battlemaps are not something I use. For world-maps, region maps, city maps? Prettiness is definitely important. For battlemaps, legibility and clarity trumps...

Of course the tarot deck isn’t found, you got a page 404…

Interesting, I wonder if Waterdeep is part of the Baldur's Gate microcosm and if not, why they are avoiding a city ten times it's size. Moonshea is a nice surprise; i didn't see that coming. Dalelands takes some distance from the Sword Coast, and Calmishan visits the said coast further south. Nice

As far as (medieval) anachronisms go, bread and cheese were among the main components of medieval cuisine across all social classes. Now, it will take a few centuries and voyages to America before we get tomatoes introduced in cooking (for people at any case), but variations of re-baked bread...

Interesting, do we know which ones?

[edit] Yikes, @Imaro , I grossly misunderstood your post. I'm not gonna remove it because you probably read it already, but take it with a huge grain of salt. My apologies Casual gamers don't get very invested in a game, or else they aren't casual. They don't spend much resources on it (be it...

I think it's a big mistake to equal "wanting less complex rules" with "casual gaming". You can be a hard-core gamer and want simpler rules. As a matter a fact, the more experienced the gamer, the more they know what they like, and "liking simpler rules" is a legitimate preference. D&D has a...

Arcane Magic: a magic that is not divine in nature. We barely escape circular logic by being able to define Divine Magic as "a magic originating from the realms of the gods", but even that is getting more and more wishy-washy as time goes...