D&D (2024) Dungeon Master's Guide Bastion System Lets You Build A Stronghold

The Dungeon Master's Guide's brand new Bastion System has been previewed in a new video from Wizards of the Coast.

Characters can acquire a bastion at 5th-level. Each week, the bastion takes a turn, with actions including crafting, recruiting, research, trade, and more.

A bastion also contains a number of special facilties, starting with two at 5th-level up to 6 at 17th-level. These facilities include things like armories, workshops, laboratories, stables, menageries, and more. In total there are nearly thirty such facilities to choose from.

 

[Micah Sweet]

It's not the first time ever, because it hasn't happened yet. When we see the actual text in the book, then it may or may not have happened. Until then, it's Schrödinger's DM-burn.

So you think the video is misrepresenting the rules? That's not great either, to be honest.

 

[Imaro]

As far as I know, this is the first time ever (outside of 4e maybe) that they have explicitly said something that exists in the world outside of the PC is off limits to the DM. And they out it in the DMG. You don't think that's going to raise some concerns?

What exactly are the concerns...seeing as the subsystem itself is optional?

 

[Micah Sweet]

What exactly are the concerns...seeing as the subsystem itself is optional?

Whose option? It's a player-facing mechanic.

 

[Imaro]

Whose option? It's a player-facing mechanic.

It's in the DMG so it's clear just like the classes found in optional sourcebooks... that this is somethig that the DM can institute or not in a campaign

 

[Hussar]

Again, you

It's in the DMG so it's clear just like the classes found in optional sourcebooks... that this is somethig that the DM can institute or not in a campaign

Again, you are doing it wrong. WotC hates DM's and hates D&D. Everything they do and everything they say is still more proof of how much they hate D&D and if they would only listen to me, then the game would be perfect and would appeal to everyone.

Stop trying to apply things like facts to the conversation.

 

[Imaro]

Again, you

Again, you are doing it wrong. WotC hates DM's and hates D&D. Everything they do and everything they say is still more proof of how much they hate D&D and if they would only listen to me, then the game would be perfect and would appeal to everyone.

Stop trying to apply things like facts to the conversation.

I try...lol!!

 

[Chaosmancer]

As far as I know, this is the first time ever (outside of 4e maybe) that they have explicitly said something that exists in the world outside of the PC is off limits to the DM. And they out it in the DMG. You don't think that's going to raise some concerns?

If this is literally the only thing to ever be called out as outside of the DMs control, including things like a PCs hair color and gender, then... no I don't think it should cause concern, because it clearly is not going to be what you are imagining it to be.

 

[Not a Decepticon]

Again, you

Again, you are doing it wrong. WotC hates DM's and hates D&D. Everything they do and everything they say is still more proof of how much they hate D&D and if they would only listen to me, then the game would be perfect and would appeal to everyone.

Stop trying to apply things like facts to the conversation.

All serious tho, the dmg was supposed to prove WotC doesn't consider 's obsolete, so having something written in a way to disempower the dm and seemingly make thing easy for ai to handle is not a good sign.

 

[Chaosmancer]

Whose option? It's a player-facing mechanic.

Well.. your option for one since you won't be playing the game, or running the game, and so have no invest in this mechanic beyond "I don't like that WotC did something I don't like in the game I don't like and refuse to play"

 

[Chaosmancer]

All serious tho, the dmg was supposed to prove WotC doesn't consider 's obsolete, so having something written in a way to disempower the dm and seemingly make thing easy for ai to handle is not a good sign.

This has nothing to do with AI. Stop trying to scaremonger people into that.