It would be really nice if there was a single page for bastion facilities. Like how there is for things like species, feats and backgrounds, etc.
New facilities keep popping up in most every book (Yay!!) but then if we want to add one, we have to go hunting through every book to find what our options are. Any way we can get them all together?
+1 to this. It's not even something I use much at all but I can definitely see why it would be so much more useful to have consolidated in a single page as Xalthu mentioned.
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Adding to this - would be great to have. It can work like species/subclasses etc - the option only appears on the list if you have access. If you have no options it can display a message directing you to marketplace and the DMG.
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I'd like to see, essentially, a "character Sheet" for your bastion. A built-in user interface which collected all of the details of your bastion, its' defenders and hirelings, and all facilities and their mechanical effects. Attach it to the actual character sheet of the character the bastion belongs to, maybe as a sub-menu in the Extras tab. But if Bastions are going to be usable as part of D&D Beyond, we need some kind of tool to record and interact with the elements of a bastion for a given character.
I'd like to see, essentially, a "character Sheet" for your bastion. A built-in user interface which collected all of the details of your bastion, its' defenders and hirelings, and all facilities and their mechanical effects. Attach it to the actual character sheet of the character the bastion belongs to, maybe as a sub-menu in the Extras tab. But if Bastions are going to be usable as part of D&D Beyond, we need some kind of tool to record and interact with the elements of a bastion for a given character.
While I agree and would also like to see this, there’s a pretty long line of other similar features, animal companions, sidekicks, and such. And bastions would probably need to be at the end of that line.
But it seems like they’ve already got the architecture in place for just posting the names of the facilities, as they already do it with things like feats, species, etc. So I’d hope it would be fairly easy to add.
Now I just have to hope someone from beyond actually reads this.
I'd like to see, essentially, a "character Sheet" for your bastion. A built-in user interface which collected all of the details of your bastion, its' defenders and hirelings, and all facilities and their mechanical effects. Attach it to the actual character sheet of the character the bastion belongs to, maybe as a sub-menu in the Extras tab. But if Bastions are going to be usable as part of D&D Beyond, we need some kind of tool to record and interact with the elements of a bastion for a given character.
It's not the same thing, a sheet would be better, but you can add a container and customise weight/cost to 0 and in this add custom items to add headers and details. For example you can add the Study and in the description paste the study info and stuff like that.
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Adding my voice for having Bastion facilities broken up into listings like other modular game rules (weapons, items, spells, vehicles etc). This would make using the rules so much easier given we have bastion options spread across three books and (hopefully) that number will continue to grow.
If it were integrated into the character sheet too, I'd be happy with something along the following lines:
During character creation there is a toggle for "Use Bastion Rules", probably at the same point where you set options like progression mechanics, hit point type, etc
If you enable that option, you get a tab in the character sheet similar to the Spell or Item tabs. From that tab, you can Manage Facilities which will give you a list of facilities in a sidebar like when you go to manage Feats or Spells
Each Bastion facility would have a "Build" button (which turns into "Demolish" once added). Building a facility adds it to your Bastion tab
From the Bastions tab, you can see the rules for all the facilities you've built
Selecting a facility gives you some customisation options, such as facility name, hireling name, and a notes field
Adding my voice for having Bastion facilities broken up into listings like other modular game rules (weapons, items, spells, vehicles etc). This would make using the rules so much easier given we have bastion options spread across three books and (hopefully) that number will continue to grow.
If it were integrated into the character sheet too, I'd be happy with something along the following lines:
During character creation there is a toggle for "Use Bastion Rules", probably at the same point where you set options like progression mechanics, hit point type, etc
If you enable that option, you get a tab in the character sheet similar to the Spell or Item tabs. From that tab, you can Manage Facilities which will give you a list of facilities in a sidebar like when you go to manage Feats or Spells
Each Bastion facility would have a "Build" button (which turns into "Demolish" once added). Building a facility adds it to your Bastion tab
From the Bastions tab, you can see the rules for all the facilities you've built
Selecting a facility gives you some customisation options, such as facility name, hireling name, and a notes field
I agree with all of this. I think it'd also be nice if each of your facility entries (on the tab you describe in #4) had a button for the relevant bastion order (Recruit, Craft, Trade, etc.) to facilitate taking a bastion turn. Some of the things that facilities can do are fairly complex and so the functionality might need to be limited to just telling you what happens, but some have effects as simple as just adding items to the character's inventory, which the character sheet could just do when you click the button.
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It would be really nice if there was a single page for bastion facilities. Like how there is for things like species, feats and backgrounds, etc.
New facilities keep popping up in most every book (Yay!!) but then if we want to add one, we have to go hunting through every book to find what our options are. Any way we can get them all together?
Seconded, this would be a great addition.
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+1 to this. It's not even something I use much at all but I can definitely see why it would be so much more useful to have consolidated in a single page as Xalthu mentioned.
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Adding to this - would be great to have. It can work like species/subclasses etc - the option only appears on the list if you have access. If you have no options it can display a message directing you to marketplace and the DMG.
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I'd like to see, essentially, a "character Sheet" for your bastion. A built-in user interface which collected all of the details of your bastion, its' defenders and hirelings, and all facilities and their mechanical effects. Attach it to the actual character sheet of the character the bastion belongs to, maybe as a sub-menu in the Extras tab. But if Bastions are going to be usable as part of D&D Beyond, we need some kind of tool to record and interact with the elements of a bastion for a given character.
While I agree and would also like to see this, there’s a pretty long line of other similar features, animal companions, sidekicks, and such. And bastions would probably need to be at the end of that line.
But it seems like they’ve already got the architecture in place for just posting the names of the facilities, as they already do it with things like feats, species, etc. So I’d hope it would be fairly easy to add.
Now I just have to hope someone from beyond actually reads this.
It's not the same thing, a sheet would be better, but you can add a container and customise weight/cost to 0 and in this add custom items to add headers and details. For example you can add the Study and in the description paste the study info and stuff like that.
Something like this:
and clicking one can bring up details like this
Awkward to set up, a specific section or something is better, but might be easier than using the PDF sheet (linked here: https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/dnd/dmg-2024/tracking-sheets).
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Adding my voice for having Bastion facilities broken up into listings like other modular game rules (weapons, items, spells, vehicles etc). This would make using the rules so much easier given we have bastion options spread across three books and (hopefully) that number will continue to grow.
If it were integrated into the character sheet too, I'd be happy with something along the following lines:
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I agree with all of this. I think it'd also be nice if each of your facility entries (on the tab you describe in #4) had a button for the relevant bastion order (Recruit, Craft, Trade, etc.) to facilitate taking a bastion turn. Some of the things that facilities can do are fairly complex and so the functionality might need to be limited to just telling you what happens, but some have effects as simple as just adding items to the character's inventory, which the character sheet could just do when you click the button.
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