This was a particularly tough round for me. I really wanted to see new and different designs and I think I got what I was hoping for. I didn't want to see more of the same designs, standard castle, etc that we already have so many of. We need to expand our choices. What felt important to me was getting away from the stone castle look.
What surprised me was how interesting some of the towns/villages were. I would love the chance to be able to decorate one of these. For those that have townships these could be a wonderful addition. They were well done. Homewood was wonderful, it even had an outhouse! Vendortown was very similar in style and as good. I loved Japanese Chio-Toshi and felt like I was in an anime. It was so cool.
Other non-village designs that I loved were Neco-vani. A lot of thought went into that design. If I had a PK guild or Vampire guild or such that building would be the center focus. Pretty amazing. Glacial Palace I really love because it come closes to matching what I want personally, the Taj Majal.
There are so many more but if I can only list 5 I guess those would be them.
I ended up voting for Homewood as I feel it's time for a whole different option and that was, for me, the best choice for a medieval game. And no, it's not mine. I don't have any skin in this round. Good luck to all the builders and please save your designs for the next round because you all can't win this round. So many great ones and so hard to choose! ❤️