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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snarf Zagyg" data-source="post: 9561119" data-attributes="member: 7023840">Also also, the more I have been combing through the bastion facilities and the way they work, the more I think that this is a good idea, but truly half-baked in execution (and I am being generous).Some issues-1. The level-gating occurs both for facilities and within facilities (so some facilities are gated by level, but then other facilities have commands gated by level).2. The nature of the facility and the level you can get it make no sense. The canonical example is the pub (13th level, really???) but it's really all of them; the problem is that they are trying to gate the benefits gained, not the nature of the facility. Why is a pub brewing magic beverages, anyway?3. The benefits of different facilities in terms of play are wildly disparate. Let's be honest- if you were choosing facilities for optimizing, why would you ever pick a gambling hall (one order, variable return of money) as your ninth level facility? IME, by ninth level most 5e players have so much money they are using gold pieces as beer coasters and gems to decorate their cocktails. I picked it because ... OF COURSE DOC WOULD! But it wouldn't be a good choice for most. Or imagine waiting until 17th level to build a guildhall, and you choose brewers or bakers, so you can get 500gp of beer or fancy cake every week? 4. The event economy for bastions doesn't make sense? My reading of the event table is that there are only two events that use bastion defenders (Request for Aid and Attack) and only one hurts the bastion (Attack). But attack can't make the bastion fall, it can only cause one special facility to shut down for one turn and then become operational again at no cost? And there is only a 5% chance of that each bastion turn. So Armory and Barrack are flavorful but as written almost never useful- even if you didn't have either, that would just mean that every turn, there would be a 5% chance of having one of the other facilities knocked out for a bastion turn.And so on. I really love the kernel of this idea, but the more I was playing with it, the more it looked like this was the sketch of the idea, and it might be developed in some future supplement(s).</blockquote>

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