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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Milieu" data-source="post: 9474879" data-attributes="member: 7041560">Detailed differences between the dndbeyond article and UA:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The UA says players get bastions at level 5, period. Talk about the narrative justification with the group. The article says, we assume you get them at level 5, but you could do it later if you want, or give it as a quest reward or something.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bastion points still completely absent, almost certainly gone completely.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">As mentioned in the video, characters can now issue orders to the bastion without being physically present, as long as they "can communicate with their hirelings in some capacity".</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Demiplane:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">is no longer scry-proof.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">They have given the empowerment effect a Capitalized Name.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The items you fabricate from it now have a monetary value cap of 5 GP (vs. no explict cap before).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The fabrication ability is no longer limited to once per long rest.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">(The UA explicitly listed out the "certain mundane materials" as wood, stone, clay, porcelain, glass, paper, nonprecious crystal and noprecious metal, presumably just omitted for brevity here.)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The UA also included 2 paragraphs talking about the door to the demiplane and how only you and your hirelings can open the door, and it can't be dispelled, and it's some special material as resiliant as stone, etc.</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Meditation Chamber:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Like the Demiplane, the empowerment effect now has a Capitalized Name.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">In the UA, this allowed you to immediately issue an order to another facility, even if you had already done so this turn.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Instead of that, it now lets you roll twice for your next Bastion event and choice which to use.</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Pub:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Now specifies that it might actually be an inn, tavern, or coffeehouse.</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Map of the Bastion:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">They claim the map shown would cost 6500 GP to build. Using the values in the UA, I get 5000 GP, but it would be 6500 if you ignore the rule that you get 2 basic facilities for free. (The article confirms this rule still exists, so it's probably just an oversight and the costs are the same.)</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Attack on the bastion:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The UA said to roll 6d6 but the article says "a number of d6s"<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">There is a rule in the UA that building defensive walls reduces the number of dice by 2, so maybe the wording is taking this into account and not actually a change?</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">In the UA, an attack always shuts down one random facility until after next turn, and shuts down a second if you run out of defenders or never had any to begin with. Now, you no longer shut one automatically.</li> </ul></li> </ul>I think that's it. There are some other minor wording differences, but they mean the same thing, just phrased a little clearer.In summary, yeah, it's the same as UA, except with bastion points completely excised and a few details tweaked.</blockquote>

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