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Pretty sure they are moved, but no confirmation on whether they are in the MM yet.

Explains a lot about your views on D&D!

That's not what they're saying. I think we agree. Worldbuilding does not a fun campaign make. It's part of it, but your world only exists on the table by the ways the players interact with it. If you need lots of world building, go ahead, just don't expect your players to care about it all.

They’re saying that it is a mistake to view worldbuilding as more important than running a game your players enjoy. The players at your table are more important.

Good answer! But what makes each option good will depend on the player and the campaign, right? Sure, it is easy to measure damage, but how do you measure sky write?

What does balance look like?

For sure. At some point the only people who remain in a thread are the ones who thrive of disagreement. I see very little talk about their table.

Would take too much page space to do it justice. I think what we have is fine. I don't like the schools of magic in D&D anyway.

Whatever should or should not be possible with the bastion... talk about it with your group. You can figure it out together.

Most of these would just flat-out not be allowed at my table, since they rely on interpreting the rules in a wonky way. The real question is: do you really want to be such a poor sport to your DM?

Of course! But I have seen many people argue that D&D is out of its golden age, dwindling, losing touch with consumers, and more. Whatever WotC is doing wrong, they are clearly doing something right.

That's what I actually like about the hirelings. They don't have to be anything. The play test rules do tell the player to make them with the same tools a DM makes NPC's. Making 20 options of hirelings sounds like a total pain and a huge timesink for a DM. I just told my players they could...

The whole section.

Doesn't look like it if you read the whole section on opportunity attacks.

I get that losing the word hostile in the opportunity attack description feels intentional, but it's not more intentional than everything else in this passage. So if you fall past an ally, they still get to make an attack of opportunity? Whatever the case, you can run it that way at your...

To repeat the comment @Plaguescarred made, the full description is pretty clear: The very first sentence gives the intent.

Yeah I am fine with letting a lot of details fade into the background. I'm not interested in using gold, because D&D economies never made sense to me anyway. Why the issue with Bastion turns? They are a week by default, you can just change them to your liking. The level gating? Yeah I already...

Well, the Bastion rules are pretty simple when it comes down to it. I can recommend the play test rules! I haven’t heard any other option being used successfully. I personally cannot recommend Strongholds & Followers.

Have you ever used a base building ruleset? I am using the Bastion play test rules with great success, and I wonder why you feel like these are such issues.