Hey, I love rustic art more than most, and the clothing and vegetation are nicely drawn, and the village is charming.
Of course there are questionable things here. I assume the bandits we see are supported by 2d6 others off screen, or else they are pretty stupid attacking clearly better armed...
Mike actually even turns around at the end of the segment on settings and says he would love to see more new settings from WoTC when they do a good job. His point is that people are often ignoring the 20+ settings that have come out in the lifetime of 5E from third parties and from Wizards...
Thanks for the great topic @talien ! I like that you have tips for those playing the long game about how to slowly firm up a nebulous player base into a reliable group. Excited to see how you handle when 11 people DO suddenly show ( secret reserve DM? ).
Most players want a simple, fast magic system rather than lots of subtle power interactions they have to memorize. There might be an audience for the type of complex & cryptic magic rules that you are touting, but it's a niche audience.
I feel the zero to hero thing is generally the most interesting part of D&D, and the first few levels have the richest source of this. I generally speed up leveling after 6, but take it nice and slow through levels 1-5.
A major thing keeping Roll20 VTT stuff out of bundles is that Roll20 had / (has?) a policy that a paid product cannot have a regular price less than $5. That keeps their Module ecosystem prices higher than the PDF ecosystem, and out of bundle territory. The other factor keeping them out of...
"Champions of Athas" is the obvious title if it is Dark Sun. Otherwise, it could well be a generic Martials book consonant with the Magics book in the fall.
I really hope this is adding all kinds of lore and narrative tools and is not a rehash of the domains / advice in the amazingly great Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft. I would NOT get excited to buy this just for the the addition of some darklord stat blocks, character options and new art.
Books --> A list of covers representing editions or milestones. Then you scroll looking for the rest of the books and suddenly you are in "movies / games". The content here is pretty thin. Basically a single page broschure site unless I missed something. While I think they needed another...