As a D&D player I have a hard time reading this.
Imagine you get back home and everything is just slightly off. Maybe you left your clothes there, and maybe your ceiling always was a bit low, and maybe... but as those slight differences start piling up you feel repulsed by this place that clearly isn't your home.
Isekai Munchkin takes a lot from D&D. As in, 5e character sheets are on display. It's not sword world or something else, it even uses feet to meassure things which you only see in D&D outside of the US. But half the spells are original, and most things are either extremely nerfed or turned OP to a level that wouldn't pass the first playtest. Obviously, what the main character does is OP and what everyone else does is nerfed to dead.

And that doesn't matter. It's awkard because you can tell the author didn't get why the game was a certain way, but that's minor. Isekai based on videogames rarely reflect games properly. The issue is that they don't get why D&D's system appeal to players. The titular munchkin isn't a munchkin under any definition of the word, the rules of the world are vague and while they use the language of chance games they follow what's best for the plot with no value in negative outcomes, the setting exists to serve the plot and lacks any kind of weight.

As a generic fantasy isekai it's fine. A 6/10 held up by the art. But if you play D&D it's just gonna feel like the cliche kid who can't manage to read the manual but it's sure they can do a better job without any experience. It's like being 13 and trying to play the game by ear with a railroady DM who has clear favoritism.

If you want an isekai by an author who took the best elements from their TTRPG experience and is still working the genre go read Faraway Paladin. If you want a D&D campaign turned into a story go watch Lodoss War. The only value here is if you really need your isekai fix and nothing else updated that day.

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