D&D (2024) Bastions in the 2024 DMs Guide

[Yaarel]

The cool thing about a bastion is, future characters can be characters that come from there. A bastion can be the home of generations of characters, all relating to each other in some way.

 

[ECMO3]

The cool thing about a bastion is, future characters can be characters that come from there. A bastion can be the home of generations of characters, all relating to each other in some way.

This would be cool. I would certainly flip the script though and play a dastardly betrayer who overthrows the previous PC ruling the bastion.

 

[MarkB]

I liked the comment that dungeons are just bastions gone wrong in a sense

Or, depending upon what they're going for, it could be a bastion gone right.

The Bastions video is scheduled for tomorrow (well, later today at this point) so we should soon see some more detail.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

They did say that the chapter on Greyhawk will include suggestions on where players could establish bastions, so definitely a possibility.

Real estate is always cheap in the Pomarj.

Just don't ask too many questions about why.

 

[Nightfly]

I'm reminded of the reward the party gets for completing their first major quest in

Spoiler

Dragon Heist

I found that really delightful. I hope that the bastion system can have some of that same mojo.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

I liked the comment that dungeons are just bastions gone wrong in a sense

I felt like that about Undermountain, like why wouldn't you claim it for your stronghold after winning or even just certain Lairs like the Mansion?

 

[kigmatzomat]

I have always liked property as rewards. I mean, if heroes are in a town, something bad likely happened and there are some empty homes. Odds are, they will dump some coin into making it nicer and, as a lord/mayor, if you can get the heroes to be around it may deter some BBEGs from showing up (again).

As a GM, it makes the often quite possessive PCs very protective, giving plot hooks.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I have always liked property as rewards. I mean, if heroes are in a town, something bad likely happened and there are some empty homes. Odds are, they will dump some coin into making it nicer and, as a lord/mayor, if you can get the heroes to be around it may deter some BBEGs from showing up (again).

As a GM, it makes the often quite possessive PCs very protective, giving plot hooks.

Heavily armed gentrification!

 

[Horwath]

I felt like that about Undermountain, like why wouldn't you claim it for your stronghold after winning or even just certain Lairs like the Mansion?

In one campaign we got ownership of a Tavern in Waterdeep.
In basement was a teleportation circle,
portal to Feywild,
portal to Undermountain,

I renamed the bar to "Quark's Bar"

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Bastions make more sense for adventures where there is a "home base". They might make less sense for adventures that sprawl endlessly across who-knows-where

Bastion is a ship?