As someone who just handed out to their party a Bastion I am glad it was at level 5. One I aligned the story so that they reached level 5 and got the Bastion at the same time, so ergo no issue with the whole "middle of dungeon" but also now they have access to resources to better utilize during downtime. I am usually bad about downtime, but with this, my players can have more time to research or build things and learn proficiencies like the rules dictate, without me having to come up with rules to do it.
Ergo, playing within the constraints of the system as is.
That's why people may not like an auto-Bastion, among other changes brought up as a result of 10 years of feedback of mixed quality.
Those people will have already laid the groundwork for receiving their Bastions before level 5 then, as outlined in the rules. There is no problem except where some insist on creating one.
As someone who just handed out to their party a Bastion I am glad it was at level 5. One I aligned the story so that they reached level 5 and got the Bastion at the same time, so ergo no issue with the whole "middle of dungeon" but also now they have access to resources to better utilize during downtime. I am usually bad about downtime, but with this, my players can have more time to research or build things and learn proficiencies like the rules dictate, without me having to come up with rules to do it.
Those people will have already laid the groundwork for receiving their Bastions before level 5 then, as outlined in the rules. There is no problem except where some insist on creating one.
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