The 2024 DM's guide includes a new feature called Bastions. This gives you access to a home base that provides some features and abilities.

Bastion rooms you have

All

• Teleportation Circle

Guy

• Gaming Hall

Casimir

• Training Room Facility

Kobol

• Training Room Facility

Alvar

• Greenhouse

Myth

• Theater

How it works

Bastions pieces of land that you build facilities upon. Every week of in-game time you take a Bastion Turn where you can issue orders that can complete some task and/or provide some benefit. You will all share a location but each of you will have your own section and decide what facilities you want to put inside. The facilities have size requirements measured in number of 5ft squares.

You will EACH have 500 squares for your facilities.

Facility Space

Basic Facilities

Each of you can add two free basic facilities, making each whatever size you want (cramped, roomy, or vast).

• Bedroom
• Dining Room
• Parlor
• Courtyard
• Kitchen
• Storage

Additions

If you want to add a basic facility it will take time and money

Enlarging basic facilities

Special Facilities

These facilities give you in game mechanical benefits. You start with 2 special facilities each.

You gain more as you level up

Requirements

Each facility has specific requirements that will be listed with the facility. Some of them are ability requirements as well as level requirements (even though you are at level 8, you can use a level 9 facility).

If you think the facility still makes sense for your character but don't technically meet the requirements., there may be some wiggle room

Space

Each facility takes up a specific amount of space, some have extra abilities that only take effect if you opt for a larger size. You can change size every time you level up as long as you have enough space.

Hirelings

Special facilities come with one or more hirelings who work and maintain it, as well as execute orders. It is assumed each facility earns enough money to pay the hirelings.

Orders

On each bastion turn you can issue a special order to any or all of your special facilities. If you don't want to issue an order to any of your special facilities, the default Maintain order is issued for your whole bastion. If you can't communicate with the bastion, it assumes the maintain order for all special facilities. Most facilities can only carry out a single order at a time.

Craft

If a facility can craft an item, it will be made. While a facility is crafting it can't be used to craft anything else, even if facilities have abilities to carry out multiple orders at once.

Empower

Give some power to you or someone else

Harvest

Gather a resource produced in the facility. Can only harvest one resource at a time even if capable of carrying out multiple orders.

Maintain

Hirelings work on maintenance, or continue any tasks that are still underway from previous orders. Roll on [bastion events](#Bastion Events) table to see what happens

Recruit

Some facilities allow you to recruit NPCs or creatures.

Research

Perform some research.

Trade

Buy and sell goods stored or produced by the facility

Special Facility Descriptions

These are copied from the DMG on DNDBeyond, if there's a link you can't access I can look it up for you.

Arcane Study

Level 5 Bastion Facility

Prerequisite: Ability to use an Arcane Focus or a tool as a Spellcasting Focus
Space: Roomy
Hirelings: 1
Order: Craft

Arcane Study Charm. After spending a Long Rest in your Bastion, you gain a magical Charm that lasts for 7 days or until you use it. The Charm allows you to cast Identify without expending a spell slot or using Material components. You can’t gain this Charm again while you still have it.

Craft Options. When you issue the Craft order to this facility, choose one of the following options:

Craft: Arcane Focus. You commission the facility’s hireling to craft an Arcane Focus. The work takes 7 days and costs no money. The Arcane Focus remains in your Bastion until you claim it.

Craft: Book. You commission the facility’s hireling to craft a blank book. The work takes 7 days and costs you 10 GP. The book remains in your Bastion until you claim it.

Craft: Magic Item (Arcana). If you are level 9+, you can commission the facility’s hireling to craft a Common or an Uncommon magic item chosen by you from the Arcana tables in chapter 7. The facility has the tool required to craft the item, and the hireling has proficiency with that tool as well as proficiency in the Arcana skill. See the “Crafting Magic Items” section in chapter 7 for the time and money that must be spent to craft the item. If the item allows its user to cast any spells from it, you must craft the item yourself (the facility’s hireling can assist), and you must have all those spells prepared every day you spend crafting the item.

Archive

Level 13 Bastion Facility

Prerequisite: None

Space: Roomy

Hirelings: 1

Order: Research

An Archive is a repository of valuable books, maps, and scrolls. It is usually attached to a Library behind a locked or secret door.

Research: Helpful Lore. When you issue the Research order to this facility, you commission the facility’s hireling to search the Archive for helpful lore. The work takes 7 days. The hireling gains knowledge as if they had cast the Legend Lore spell, then shares this knowledge with you the next time you speak with them.

Reference Book. Your Archive contains one copy of a rare and valuable reference book, which gives you a benefit while you and the book are in your Bastion. You can choose one of the following options (your DM might make more options available):

Bigby’s Handy Arcana Codex. You have Advantage on any Intelligence (Arcana) check you make when you take the Study action to recall lore about spells, magic items, eldritch symbols, magical traditions, and planes of existence.

The Chronepsis Chronicles. You have Advantage on any Intelligence (History) check you make when you take the Study action to recall lore about historical events, legendary people, ancient kingdoms, past disputes, wars, and lost civilizations.

Investigations of the Inquisitive. You have Advantage on any Intelligence (Investigation) check you make when you take the Study action to make deductions based on clues or evidence or to recall lore about traps, ciphers, riddles, and gadgetry.

Material Musings on the Nature of the World. You have Advantage on any Intelligence (Nature) check you make when you take the Study action to recall lore about terrain, plants, animals, and the weather.

The Old Faith and Other Religions. You have Advantage on any Intelligence (Religion) check you make when you take the Study action to recall lore about deities, rites and prayers, hierarchies, holy symbols, and the practices of secret cults.

Enlarging the Facility. You can enlarge your Archive to a Vast facility by spending 2,000 GP. If you do so, you gain two additional reference books chosen from the list above.

Armory

Level 5 Bastion Facility

Prerequisite: None

Space: Roomy

Hirelings: 1

Order: Trade

An Armory contains mannequins for displaying armor, hooks for holding Shields, racks for storing weapons, and chests for holding ammunition.

Trade: Stock Armory. When you issue the Trade order to this facility, you commission the facility’s hireling to stock the Armory with armor, Shields, weapons, and ammunition. This equipment costs you 100 GP plus an extra 100 GP for each Bastion Defender in your Bastion. If your Bastion has a Smithy, the total cost is halved.

While your Armory is stocked, your Bastion Defenders are harder to kill. When any event causes you to roll dice to determine if your Bastion loses one or more of its defenders (see “Bastion Events” at the end of this chapter), roll 1d8 in place of each d6 you would normally roll. When the event is over, the equipment in your Armory is expended regardless of how many Bastion Defenders you have or how many you lost, leaving your Armory depleted until you issue another Trade order to the facility and pay the cost to restock it.

Barracks

Level 5 Bastion Facility

Prerequisite: None

Space: Roomy

Hirelings: 1

Order: Recruit

A Bastion can have more than one Barrack, each of which is furnished to serve as sleeping quarters for up to twelve Bastion Defenders.

Recruit: Bastion Defenders. Each time you issue the Recruit order to this facility, up to four Bastion Defenders are recruited to your Bastion and assigned quarters in this Barrack. The recruitment costs no money. You can’t issue the Recruit order to this facility if it’s fully occupied.

Keep track of the Bastion Defenders housed in each of your Barracks. If you lose Bastion Defenders, deduct them from your roster. Assign names and personalities to your Bastion Defenders as you see fit.

Enlarging the Facility. You can enlarge your Barrack to a Vast facility by spending 2,000 GP. A Vast Barrack can accommodate up to twenty-five Bastion Defenders.

Demiplane

Level 17 Bastion Facility

Prerequisite: Ability to use an Arcane Focus or a tool as a Spellcasting Focus

Space: Vast

Hirelings: 1

Order: Empower

A door up to 5 feet wide and 10 feet tall appears on a flat, solid surface in one of the other facilities in your Bastion. You choose the location. If you are in your Bastion during a Bastion turn, you can relocate this door to another facility in your Bastion.

Only you and your Bastion’s hirelings can open the door, which leads to a Demiplane that takes the form of a stone room. The Demiplane exists in an extradimensional space and therefore isn’t attached physically to other locations in your Bastion. Neither the Demiplane nor its door can be dispelled.

Empower: Arcane Resilience. When you issue the Empower order to this facility, magical runes appear on the Demiplane’s walls and last for 7 days. Until the runes disappear, you gain Temporary Hit Points equal to five times your level after spending an entire Long Rest in the Demiplane.

Fabrication. While in the Demiplane, you can take a Magic action to create a nonmagical object of your choice from nothing, causing it to appear in an unoccupied space in the Demiplane. The object can be no bigger than 5 feet in any dimension; can’t have a value over 5 GP; and must be made of wood, stone, clay, porcelain, glass, paper, nonprecious crystal, or nonprecious metal. You must finish a Long Rest before you can take this action again.

Gaming Hall

Level 9 Bastion Facility

Prerequisite: None

Space: Vast

Hirelings: 4

Order: Trade

A Gaming Hall offers recreational activities like chess and games of darts, cards, or dice.

Trade: Gambling Hall. When you issue the Trade order to this facility, the facility’s hirelings turn the Gaming Hall into a gambling den for 7 days. At the end of the seventh day, roll 1d100 and consult the following table to determine your portion of the house’s winnings.

Garden

Level 5 Bastion Facility

Prerequisite: None

Space: Roomy

Hirelings: 1

Order: Harvest

A Bastion can have more than one Garden. Each time you add a Garden to your Bastion, choose its type from the options in the Garden Types table.

While in your Bastion, you can instruct the facility’s hireling to change the Garden from one type to another. This work takes 21 days, during which time no other activity can occur in this facility.

Harvest: Garden Growth. When you issue the Harvest order to this facility, you commission the facility’s hireling to collect items from the Garden as noted in the Garden Types table. The work takes 7 days and costs no money.

Enlarging the Facility. You can enlarge your Garden to a Vast facility by spending 2,000 GP. A Vast Garden is equivalent to two Roomy Gardens and can include two of the same type of Garden or two different types. When you issue the Harvest order to a Vast Garden, each component garden produces its own harvest. A Vast Garden gains one additional hireling.

Garden Types

Greenhouse

Level 9 Bastion Facility

Prerequisite: None

Space: Roomy

Hirelings: 1

Order: Harvest

A Greenhouse is an enclosure where rare plants and fungi are nurtured in a controlled climate.

Fruit of Restoration. One plant in your Greenhouse has three magical fruits growing on it. Any creature that eats one of these fruits gains the benefit of a Lesser Restoration spell. Fruits that aren’t eaten within 24 hours of being picked lose their magic. The plant replaces all picked fruits daily at dawn, and it can’t be transplanted without killing it.

Harvest Options. When you issue the Harvest order to this facility, choose one of the following options:

Harvest: Healing Herbs. You commission the facility’s hireling to create a Potion of Healing (greater) made from healing herbs. The work takes 7 days and costs no money.

Harvest: Poison. You commission the facility’s hireling to extract one application of a poison from rare plants or fungi. Choose the type of poison from the following options: Assassin’s Blood, Malice, Pale Tincture, or Truth Serum. See “Poison” in chapter 3 for each poison’s effect. Once harvested, the poison can be contained in a vial. The work takes 7 days and costs no money.

Guildhall

Level 17 Bastion Facility

Prerequisite: Expertise in a skill

Space: Vast

Hirelings: 1

Order: Recruit

A Guildhall comes with a guild, for which you are the guild master. Choose the type of guild from the options in the Sample Guilds table, or work with your DM to create a new guild. The facility is a meeting room where members of your guild can discuss important matters in your presence.

Your guild has roughly fifty members made up of skilled folk who live and work outside your Bastion, usually in nearby settlements.

Recruit: Guild Assignment. Each time you issue the Recruit order to this facility, you commission the facility’s hireling to recruit guild members to perform a special assignment. Each guild in the Sample Guilds table specifies the nature of that assignment. With your DM’s permission and help, you can create new assignments for guild members to complete.

Sample Guilds

Laboratory

Level 9 Bastion Facility

Prerequisite: None

Space: Roomy

Hirelings: 1

Order: Craft

A Laboratory contains storage space for alchemical supplies and workspaces for crafting various concoctions.

Craft Options. When you issue the Craft order to this facility, choose one of the following options:

Craft: Alchemist’s Supplies. The facility’s hireling crafts anything that can be made with Alchemist’s Supplies using the rules in the Player’s Handbook and chapter 7 of this book.

Craft: Poison. You commission the facility’s hireling to craft a vial containing one application of a poison. The poison must be one of the following: Burnt Othur Fumes, Essence of Ether, or Torpor. This work takes 7 days, and you must pay half the poison’s cost. See “Poison” in chapter 3 for descriptions and costs of poisons.

Library

Level 5 Bastion Facility

Prerequisite: None

Space: Roomy

Hirelings: 1

Order: Research

This Library contains a collection of books plus one or more desks and reading chairs.

Research: Topical Lore. When you issue the Research order to this facility, you commission the facility’s hireling to research a topic. The topic can be a legend, a known event or location, a person of significance, a type of creature, or a famous object. The work takes 7 days. When the research concludes, the hireling obtains up to three accurate pieces of information about the topic that were previously unknown to you and shares this knowledge with you the next time you speak with them. The DM determines what information you learn.

Meditation Chamber

Level 13 Bastion Facility

Prerequisite: None

Space: Cramped

Hirelings: 1

Order: Empower

A Meditation Chamber is a relaxing space that helps align one’s mind, body, and spirit.

Empower: Inner Peace. When you issue the Empower order to this facility, your Bastion’s hirelings can use the Meditation Chamber to gain a measure of inner peace. The next time you roll for a Bastion event, you can roll twice and choose either result.

Fortify Self. You can meditate in this facility over a period of 7 days. If you leave the Bastion during this time, you gain no benefit. Otherwise, at the end of the seventh day, you gain Advantage on two kinds of saving throws for the next 7 days, determined randomly by rolling on the table below. Reroll if you get a duplicate result.

Menagerie

Level 13 Bastion Facility

Prerequisite: None

Space: Vast

Hirelings: 2

Order: Recruit

A Menagerie has enclosures big enough to contain up to four Large creatures. Four Small or Medium creatures can occupy the same space as one Large creature there.

Recruit: Creature. When you issue the Recruit order to this facility, you commission the facility’s hirelings to add a creature from the Menagerie Creatures table to your Menagerie. The recruitment takes 7 days and costs you the amount listed in the table. The hirelings look after the creature.

Creatures in your Menagerie count as Bastion Defenders. Deduct any you lose from your Bastion Defenders roster. You can choose not to count one or more of these creatures as Bastion Defenders, in which case they can’t be called on to defend the Bastion. Instead, they act in accordance with their nature and use their stat blocks in the Monster Manual.

Menagerie Creatures

With the DM’s consent, you can add different creatures than those shown in the Menagerie Creatures table to your Menagerie. The cost of a creature depends on its Challenge Rating, as shown on the Creature Costs by Challenge Rating table. Typically only Beasts and some Monstrosities can be kept in a Menagerie, though the DM might allow other creatures.

Creature Costs by Challenge Rating

Observatory

Level 13 Bastion Facility

Prerequisite: Ability to use a Spellcasting Focus

Space: Roomy

Hirelings: 1

Order: Empower

Situated atop your Bastion, your Observatory contains a telescope aimed at the night sky.

Observatory Charm. You can use your Observatory to peer into the far corners of Wildspace and the Astral Plane. After spending a Long Rest in your Observatory, you gain a magical Charm (see “Supernatural Gifts” in chapter 3) that lasts for 7 days or until you use it. The Charm allows you to cast Contact Other Plane without expending a spell slot. You can’t gain this Charm again while you still have it.

Empower: Eldritch Discovery. When you issue the Empower order to this facility, you enable yourself or the facility’s hireling to explore the eldritch mysteries of the stars for 7 consecutive nights. At the end of that time, roll a die. If the number rolled is even, nothing is gained. If the number rolled is odd, an unknown power bestows one of the following Charms on you or another creature of your choice that is on the same plane of existence as you: Charm of Darkvision, Charm of Heroism, or Charm of Vitality (all described in chapter 3).

Pub

Level 13 Bastion Facility

Prerequisite: None

Space: Roomy

Hirelings: 1

Order: Research

Folks come here to consume tasty beverages and socialize. Your Pub might be a bar, coffee shop, or tea room, and it might have a colorful name, such as the Rusty Flagon or the Dragon’s Loft. The facility’s hireling, who serves as the bartender, maintains a network of spies scattered throughout nearby communities. These spies are useful sources of information and frequent the Pub, often incognito.

Research: Information Gathering. When you issue the Research order to this facility, you commission the Pub’s bartender to gather information from spies who are aware of all important events happening within 10 miles of your Bastion over the next 7 days. During that time, these spies can divulge the location of any creature that is familiar to you, provided the creature is within 50 miles of your Bastion and not hidden by magic or confined to a location that the DM deems is beyond the spy network’s ability to locate. If the spies learn the target’s location, they also learn where that creature has been for the previous 7 days.

Pub Special. The Pub has one magical beverage on tap, chosen from the options below:

Bigby’s Burden. Drinking a pint of this beverage grants you the “enlarge” effect of an Enlarge/Reduce spell that has a duration of 24 hours (no saving throw allowed).

Kiss of the Spider Queen. Drinking a pint of this beverage grants you the effect of a Spider Climb spell that has a duration of 24 hours.

Moonlight Serenade. Drinking a pint of this beverage gives you Darkvision out to 60 feet for 24 hours. If you already have Darkvision, its range is extended by 60 feet for the same duration.

Positive Reinforcement. Drinking a pint of this beverage gives you Resistance to Necrotic damage for 24 hours.

Sterner Stuff. For 24 hours after drinking a pint of this beverage, you automatically succeed on saving throws to avoid or end the Frightened condition.

At the start of a Bastion turn, you can switch to one of the other options. Your DM may create new options. A pint of this magical beverage loses its magic 24 hours after it’s poured.

Enlarging the Facility. You can enlarge your Pub to a Vast facility by spending 2,000 GP. If you do so, the Pub can have two magical beverages from the Pub Special list on tap at a time. A Vast Pub gains three additional hirelings, for a total of four. These new hirelings are servers. Assign names and personalities to them as you see fit.

Reliquary

Level 13 Bastion Facility

Prerequisite: Ability to use a Holy Symbol or Druidic Focus as a Spellcasting Focus

Space: Cramped

Hirelings: 1

Order: Harvest

This vault holds sacred objects.

Reliquary Charm. After spending a Long Rest in your Bastion, you gain a magical Charm (see “Supernatural Gifts” in chapter 3) that lasts for 7 days or until you use it. The Charm allows you to cast Greater Restoration once without expending a spell slot or using Material components. You can’t gain this Charm again while you still have it.

Harvest: Talisman. When you issue the Harvest order to this facility, you commission its hireling to produce a specially prepared talisman for your use. The talisman usually takes the form of an amulet, a rune-carved box, or a statuette, but it can be any Tiny, nonmagical object that has religious significance. The work takes 7 days and costs no money. You can use this talisman in place of one spell’s Material components, provided the components have a cost of 1,000 GP or less. If the spell normally consumes its components, the talisman isn’t consumed. After the talisman has been used in this way, it can’t be used again until you return it to your Reliquary and use another Harvest order to prepare it.

Sacristy

Level 9 Bastion Facility

Prerequisite: Ability to use a Holy Symbol or Druidic Focus as a Spellcasting Focus

Space: Roomy

Hirelings: 1

Order: Craft

A Sacristy serves as a preparation and storage room for the sacred items and religious vestments.

Craft Options. When you issue the Craft order to this facility, choose one of the following options:

Craft: Holy Water. You commission the facility’s hireling to craft a flask of Holy Water. The work takes 7 days and costs no money. You can spend GP during the creation process to increase the potency of the Holy Water. For every 100 GP you spend, up to a maximum of 500 GP, the damage dealt by the Holy Water increases by 1d8.

Craft: Magic Item (Relic). You commission the facility’s hireling to craft a Common or an Uncommon magic item chosen by you from the Relics tables in chapter 7. The facility has the tool required to craft the item, and the hireling has proficiency with that tool as well as proficiency in the Arcana skill. See the “Crafting Magic Items” section in chapter 7 for the time and money that must be spent to craft the item. If the item allows its user to cast any spells from it, you must craft the item yourself (the facility’s hireling can assist), and you must have all those spells prepared every day you spend crafting the item.

Spell Refreshment. Having a Sacristy allows you to regain one expended spell slot of level 5 or lower after spending an entire Short Rest in your Bastion. You can’t gain this benefit again until you finish a Long Rest.

Sanctuary

Level 5 Bastion Facility

Prerequisite: Ability to use a Holy Symbol or Druidic Focus as a Spellcasting Focus

Space: Roomy

Hirelings: 1

Order: Craft

Icons of your religion are displayed in this facility, which includes a quiet place for worship.

Sanctuary Charm. After spending a Long Rest in your Bastion, you gain a magical Charm (see “Supernatural Gifts” in chapter 3) that lasts for 7 days or until you use it. The Charm allows you to cast Healing Word once without expending a spell slot. You can’t gain this Charm again while you still have it.

Craft: Sacred Focus. When you issue the Craft order to this facility, you commission the facility’s hireling to craft a Druidic Focus (wooden staff) or a Holy Symbol. The work takes 7 days and costs no money. The item remains in your Bastion until you claim it.

Sanctum

Level 17 Bastion Facility

Prerequisite: Ability to use a Holy Symbol or Druidic Focus as a Spellcasting Focus

Space: Roomy

Hirelings: 4

Order: Empower

A Sanctum is a place of solace and healing.

Sanctum Charm. After spending a Long Rest in your Bastion, you gain a magical Charm (see “Supernatural Gifts” in chapter 3) that lasts for 7 days or until you use it. The Charm allows you to cast Heal once without expending a spell slot. You can’t gain this Charm again while you still have it.

Empower: Fortifying Rites. When you issue the Empower order to this facility, you inspire its hirelings to perform daily rites that benefit you or another character you name. The beneficiary doesn’t need to be in the Bastion when the rites are performed to gain their benefit. Each time the beneficiary finishes a Long Rest, they gain Temporary Hit Points equal to your level. This effect lasts for 7 days.

Sanctum Recall. While the Sanctum exists, you always have the Word of Recall spell prepared. When you cast Word of Recall, you can make your Sanctum the destination of the spell instead of another place you have previously designated. In addition, one creature of your choice that arrives in the Sanctum via this spell gains the benefit of a Heal spell.

Scriptorium

Level 9 Bastion Facility

Prerequisite: None

Space: Roomy

Hirelings: 1

Order: Craft

A Scriptorium contains desks and writing supplies.

Craft Options. When you issue the Craft order to this facility, choose one of the following options:

Craft: Book Replica. You commission the facility’s hireling to make a copy of a nonmagical Book. Doing so requires a blank book. The work takes 7 days.

Craft: Spell Scroll. You commission the facility’s hireling to scribe a Spell Scroll containing one Cleric or Wizard spell of level 3 or lower. The facility has the necessary Calligrapher’s Supplies, and the hireling meets all the prerequisites needed to scribe the scroll. The “Crafting Equipment” section in the Player’s Handbook specifies the time needed to scribe the scroll and the cost of the scroll, which you must pay.

Craft: Paperwork. You commission the facility’s hireling to create up to fifty copies of a broadsheet, a pamphlet, or another loose-leaf paper product. The work takes 7 days and costs you 1 GP per copy. At no additional cost in time or money, the facility’s hireling can distribute the paperwork to one or more locations within 50 miles of your Bastion.

Smithy

Level 5 Bastion Facility

Prerequisite: None

Space: Roomy

Hirelings: 2

Order: Craft

This Smithy contains a forge, an anvil, and other tools needed to craft weapons, armor, and other equipment.

Craft Options. When you issue the Craft order to this facility, choose one of the following options:

Craft: Smith’s Tools. The facility’s hirelings craft anything that can be made with Smith’s Tools, using the rules in the Player’s Handbook.

Craft: Magic Item (Armament). If you are level 9+, can you commission the facility’s hirelings to craft a Common or an Uncommon magic item chosen by you from the Armaments tables in chapter 7. The facility has the tool required to craft the item, and the hirelings have proficiency with that tool as well as proficiency in the Arcana skill. See the “Crafting Magic Items” section in chapter 7 for the time and money that must be spent to craft the item. If the item allows its user to cast any spells from it, you must craft the item yourself (the facility’s hirelings can assist), and you must have all those spells prepared every day you spend crafting the item.

Stable

Level 9 Bastion Facility

Prerequisite: None

Space: Roomy

Hirelings: 1

Order: Trade

A Bastion can have more than one Stable. Each Stable you add to your Bastion comes with one Riding Horse or Camel and two Ponies or Mules; see the Player’s Handbook or the Monster Manual for these creatures’ stat blocks. The facility is big enough to house three Large animals. Two Medium creatures occupy the same amount of space as one Large creature there. The facility’s hireling looks after these creatures.

After a Beast that can serve as a mount spends at least 14 days in this facility, all Wisdom (Animal Handling) checks made with respect to it have Advantage.

Trade: Animals. When you issue the Trade order to this facility, you commission the facility’s hireling to buy or sell one or more mounts at normal cost, keeping the ones you buy in your Stable. The work takes 7 days, and the DM decides what types of animals are available for purchase—horses, ponies, and mules being the most common. The Mounts and Other Animals table in the Player’s Handbook gives standard prices for various mounts. You bear the total cost of any purchases.

When you sell a mount from your Stable, the buyer pays you 20 percent more than the standard price; this profit increases to 50 percent when you reach level 13 and 100 percent when you reach level 17.

Enlarging the Facility. You can enlarge your Stable to a Vast facility by spending 2,000 GP. If you do so, the Stable is large enough to house six Large animals.

Storehouse

Level 5 Bastion Facility

Prerequisite: None

Space: Roomy

Hirelings: 1

Order: Trade

A Storehouse is a cool, dark space meant to contain trade goods objects from the Trade Goods table in chapter 7 and from chapter 6 of the Player's Handbook.

Trade: Goods. When you issue the Trade order to this facility, its hireling spends the next 7 days procuring nonmagical items that have a total value of 500 GP or less and stores them in the Storehouse, or the hireling uses those 7 days to sell goods in the Storehouse. You bear the total cost of any purchases, and the maximum value of the items purchased increases to 2,000 GP when you reach level 9 and 5,000 GP when you reach level 13.

When you sell goods from your Storehouse, the buyer pays you 10 percent more than the standard price; this profit increases to 20 percent when you reach level 9, 50 percent when you reach level 13, and 100 percent when you reach level 17.

Teleportation Circle

Level 9 Bastion Facility

Prerequisite: None

Space: Roomy

Hirelings: 1

Order: Recruit

Inscribed on the floor of this room is a permanent teleportation circle created by the Teleportation Circle spell.

Recruit: Spellcaster. Each time you issue the Recruit order to this facility, its hireling extends an invitation to a Friendly NPC spellcaster. Roll any die. If the number rolled is odd, the invitee declines the invitation, and you gain no benefit from having issued the order. If the number rolled is even, the invitee accepts the invitation and arrives in your Bastion via your Teleportation Circle.

While you are in your Bastion, you can ask the spellcaster to cast one Wizard spell of level 4 or lower; if you are level 17+, the spell’s maximum level increases to 8. The spellcaster is assumed to have the spell prepared. If the spell has one or more Material components that cost money, you must pay for them before the spell can be cast.

The spellcaster stays for 14 days or until they cast a spell for you. The spellcaster won’t defend your Bastion and departs immediately if the Bastion is attacked (see “Bastion Events” at the end of the chapter).

Theater

Level 9 Bastion Facility

Prerequisite: None

Space: Vast

Hirelings: 4

Order: Empower

The Theater contains a stage, a backstage area where props and sets are kept, and a seating area for a small audience.

Empower: Theatrical Event. When you issue the Empower order to this facility, its hirelings begin work on a theatrical production or concert. Rehearsals and other preparations take 14 days, followed by at least 7 days of performances. The performances can continue indefinitely until a new production gets underway.

You or another character can contribute to a production in the following ways:

Composer/Writer. A character can compose music or write a script for a concert or production that hasn’t started rehearsals yet. This effort takes 14 days.

Conductor/Director. A character who remains in the Bastion for the entirety of the production can serve as the concert’s conductor or the production’s director.

Performer. A character who remains in the Bastion for the entirety of the rehearsal period can be a star performer in one or more of the performances; one of the Theater’s hirelings can serve as an understudy for additional performances.

At the end of a rehearsal period, each character who contributed to the concert or production can make a DC 15 Charisma (Performance) check. If more of these checks succeed than fail, you and any other character who contributed to the concert or production each gain a Theater die, a d6. This die changes to a d8 when you reach level 13 and a d10 when you reach level 17. At any point after the rehearsals end, a character can expend their Theater die to roll it and add the number rolled to one D20 Test they make, immediately after rolling the d20. If a character hasn’t expended their Theater die before gaining another, their first die is lost.

Training Area

Level 9 Bastion Facility

Prerequisite: None

Space: Vast

Hirelings: 4

Order: Empower

A Bastion can have more than one Training Area. A Training Area might be an open courtyard, a gymnasium, a music or dance hall, or a cleverly built gauntlet of traps and hazards. It might contain inanimate targets (for weapon practice), padded mats, and other equipment. One of the facility’s hirelings is an expert trainer; the others serve as training partners.

When a Training Area becomes part of your Bastion, choose one trainer from the Expert Trainers table. On each Bastion turn, you can replace that trainer with another one from the table.

Expert Trainers

Empower: Training. When you issue the Empower order to this facility, the facility’s hirelings conduct training exercises for the next 7 days. Any character who trains here for at least 8 hours on each of those days gains a benefit at the end of the training period. The benefit depends on which trainer is present in the facility, as noted in the Expert Trainers table. The benefit lasts for 7 days.

Trophy Room

Level 9 Bastion Facility

Prerequisite: None

Space: Roomy

Hirelings: 1

Order: Research

This room houses a collection of mementos, such as weapons from old battles, the mounted heads of slain creatures, trinkets plucked from dungeons and ruins, and trophies passed down from ancestors.

Research Options. When you issue the Research order to this facility, choose one of the following options:

Research: Lore. You commission the facility’s hireling to research a topic of your choice. The topic can be a legend, any kind of creature, or a famous object. The topic need not be directly related to items on display in the room, as the trophies provide clues to research a wide variety of other subjects. The work takes 7 days. When the research concludes, the hireling obtains up to three accurate pieces of information about the topic that were previously unknown to you and shares this knowledge with you the next time you speak with them. The DM determines what information is learned.

Research: Trinket Trophy. You commission the facility’s hireling to search for a trinket that might be of use to you. The work takes 7 days. When the research concludes, roll any die. If the number rolled is odd, the hireling finds nothing useful. If the number rolled is even, the hireling finds a magic item. Roll on the Implements—Common table in chapter 7 to determine what it is.

War Room

Level 17 Bastion Facility

Prerequisite: Fighting Style feature or Unarmored Defense feature

Space: Vast

Hirelings: 2+ (see below)

Order: Recruit

The War Room is where you plan military actions in consultation with an inner circle of loyal lieutenants, each one a battle-hardened Warrior Veteran (see the Monster Manual) whose alignment matches yours. You start with two lieutenants but can add more, as described below. If your Bastion lacks facilities to house your lieutenants, they secure accommodations in the inn or settlement closest to your Bastion. Lieutenants are hirelings, not Bastion Defenders; however, if your Bastion is attacked (see “Bastion Events” at the end of this chapter), each lieutenant housed in your Bastion reduces by 1 the number of dice you roll to determine how many Bastion Defenders are lost in the attack.

The War Room contains war memorabilia plus a large table surrounded by enough chairs for you and your lieutenants.

Recruit Options. When you issue the Recruit order to this facility, choose one of the following options:

Recruit: Lieutenant. You gain one new lieutenant. You can have up to ten lieutenants at any time. Assign names and personalities to them as you see fit.

Recruit: Soldiers. You commission one or more of your lieutenants to assemble a small army. Each lieutenant can muster one hundred Guards (see the Monster Manual) in 7 days to fight for your cause. Reduce that number to twenty if you want them to be mounted on Riding Horses (see the Monster Manual). It costs you 1 GP per day to feed each guard and each horse in your army. Wherever the army goes, it must be led by you or at least one of your lieutenants, or else it disbands immediately. The army also disbands if it goes 1 day without being fed. Otherwise, the army remains until it is destroyed or you command it to disband. You can’t issue this Recruit order again until your current army disbands or is destroyed.

Workshop

Level 5 Bastion Facility

Prerequisite: None

Space: Roomy

Hirelings: 3

Order: Craft

This Workshop is a creative space where useful items can be crafted.

Artisan’s Tools. The Workshop comes equipped with six different kinds of Artisan’s Tools, chosen from the following list:

Carpenter’s Tools

Cobbler’s Tools

Glassblower’s Tools

Jeweler’s Tools

Leatherworker’s Tools

Mason’s Tools

Painter’s Tools

Potter’s Tools

Tinker’s Tools

Weaver’s Tools

Woodcarver’s Tools

Craft Options. When you issue the Craft order to this facility, choose one of the following options:

Craft: Adventuring Gear. The facility’s hirelings craft anything that can be made with the tools you chose when you added the Workshop to your Bastion (see above), using the rules in the Player’s Handbook.

Craft: Magic Item (Implement). If you are level 9+, you can commission the facility’s hirelings to craft a Common or an Uncommon magic item chosen by you from the Implements tables in chapter 7. The facility has the tool required to craft the item, and the hirelings have proficiency with that tool as well as proficiency in the Arcana skill. See the “Crafting Magic Items” section in chapter 7 for the time and money that must be spent to craft the item. If the item allows its user to cast any spells from it, you must craft the item yourself (the facility’s hirelings can assist), and you must have all those spells prepared every day you spend crafting the item.

Source of Inspiration. After spending an entire Short Rest in your Workshop, you gain Heroic Inspiration. You can’t gain this benefit again until you finish a Long Rest.

Enlarging the Facility. You can enlarge your Workshop to a Vast facility by spending 2,000 GP. If you do so, the Workshop gains two additional hirelings and three additional Artisan’s Tools (chosen from the list above).

Bastion Events

Event Descriptions

The events from the Bastion Events table are detailed here in alphabetical order.

All Is Well

Nothing significant happens. Roll on the following table, fleshing out the details as you see fit.

Attack

A hostile force attacks your Bastion but is defeated.

Roll 6d6; for each die that rolls a 1, one Bastion Defender dies. Remove these Bastion Defenders from your Bastion’s roster. If the Bastion has zero Bastion Defenders, one of the Bastion’s special facilities (determined randomly) is damaged and forced to shut down.

A special facility that shuts down can’t be used on your next Bastion turn, after which it is repaired and made operational again at no cost to you.

Criminal Hireling

One of your Bastion’s hirelings has a criminal past that comes to light when officials or bounty hunters visit your Bastion with a warrant for the hireling’s arrest. You can retain the hireling by paying a bribe of 1d6 × 100 GP. Otherwise, the hireling is arrested and taken away. If this loss leaves one of your facilities without any hirelings, that facility can’t be used on your next Bastion turn. The hireling is then replaced at no cost to you.

Extraordinary Opportunity

Your Bastion is given the opportunity to host an important festival or celebration, fund the research of a powerful spellcaster, or appease a domineering noble. Work with the DM to determine the details.

If you seize the opportunity, you must pay 500 GP to cover costs. In return, your Bastion gains a sudden influx of recognition or attention, prompting the DM to roll again on the Bastion Events table (rerolling this result if it comes up again).

If you decline the opportunity, you don’t pay the money and nothing else happens.

Friendly Visitors

Friendly visitors come to your Bastion, seeking to use one of your special facilities. They offer 1d6 × 100 GP for the brief use of that facility. For example, a knight might want your Smithy to replace a horseshoe or repair a damaged weapon or suit of armor, or sages might need your Arcane Study to help them settle a dispute. Their use of the facility doesn’t interrupt any orders you’ve issued to it.

Guest

A Friendly guest comes to stay at your Bastion. Determine the guest by rolling on the following table, and work with your DM to flesh out the details.

Lost Hirelings

One of your Bastion’s special facilities (determined randomly) loses its hirelings. The cause of their departure is up to you. The facility can’t be used on your next Bastion turn, but the hirelings are replaced at no cost to you at that point.

Magical Discovery

Your hirelings discover or accidentally create an Uncommon magic item of your choice at no cost to you. The magic item must be a Potion or Scroll.

Refugees

A group of 2d4 refugees fleeing from a monster attack, a natural disaster, or some other calamity seeks refuge in your Bastion. If your Bastion lacks a basic facility large enough to house them, the refugees camp right outside the Bastion. The refugees offer you 1d6 × 100 GP as payment for your hospitality and protection. They stay until you find them a new home or a hostile force attacks your Bastion.

Request for Aid

Your Bastion is called on to help a local leader. Perhaps there’s a search on for a missing person, or brigands are plaguing the area. If you help, you must dispatch one or more Bastion Defenders. Roll 1d6 for each Bastion Defender you send. If the total is 10 or higher, the problem is solved and you earn a reward of 1d6 × 100 GP. If the total is less than 10, the problem is still solved, but the reward is halved and one of your Bastion Defenders is killed. Remove that Bastion Defender from your Bastion’s roster.

Treasure

Your Bastion acquires an art object or a magic item determined by rolling on the table below and then rolling on the specified table in chapter 7. How the Bastion acquires this treasure is up to you. It might represent an inheritance, a gift from a guest or an admirer, a theft, or a fortunate discovery. If you’re in the Bastion, you can claim the treasure immediately; otherwise, it is placed in storage until you can claim it.

Class Features

NOTE: these are taken from a third party supplement and meant to work with a different system of strongholds but should still work with bastions. Tweaking may need to happen though.

Once you have built a special facility, you get certain bonuses and features depending on your class: FOR THE LOVE OF GOD PLEASE REMEMBER THESE, THEY AREN"T SUPPORTED BY DNDBEYOND SO THEY WON"T BE ON YOUR CHARACTER SHEET THERE
you can add them as notes to help you remember

Bastion Actions: take these on initiative count 20, you can only use each one once per short or long rest.

Barbarian

Bastion Actions

• You let out a fierce roar that causes all enemies within 60 ft to make a DC 20 wisdom save or become frightened of you until initiative count 20 on the next round.
• You rage and give all your allies the benefits of your rage as long as they aren't wearing heavy armor. Lasts 10 minutes
• Cast chain lighting, DC is 8 + Proficiency Bonus + Constitution modifier

Class Feature: Chieftan rage

When you reduce an enemy to 0 hp, you can make an additional weapon attack or move up to your speed. This does not count against your normal speed or normal attacks. You can do this a number of times equal to the number of special facilities you have.

Paladin

Bastion Actions

• Each chaotic or evil creature (must pick one) within 120ft must succeed on a Con save or be bound by magical chains, into it makes a strength or dex check against your spell save DC
• Flying creatures within 120ft must succeed on a Con check against your spell save DC or immediately land, and cannot take off again for 10 minutes
• Choose an ally to gain an AC bonus equal to your Charisma bonus for 10 minutes. Each ally can be affected by this ability only once per day

Class Feature: Righteous Smite

When using divine or searing smite, enemies normally resistant to either radiant damage or your weapon damage lose resistance. Enemies immune become resistant. If they aren't resistant or immune they become vulnerable. You can do this for a number of attacks equal to the number of special facilities you have.

Bard

Bastion Actions

• Until initiative count 20 on the next round, all inspiration dice produce their max result.
• Regain all inspiration dice
• You project a three piece band to sing your praises. Until initiative count 20 on the next round, enemies make saving throws against your magic by rolling 3 d20s and taking the lowest.

Class Feature: Encouraging Inspiration

When an ally has unspent bardic inspiration dice, their proficiency bonus increases by +1
You can apply this to a number of dice equal to the number of special facilities you have per long rest.

Druid

Bastion Actions

• Grasping vines rise from the ground for 1 minute. Every enemy within 60ft must make a Dex save against your spell DC or be restrained for the duration, taking 3d8 piercing damage at the start of each of their turns. They can make a saving throw at the end of each of their turns
• You cast banishment on an enemy
• You summon 1d4 + 1 awakend trees who fight for you for 1 minute

Class Feature: Savage Shape

When you wild shape, you can wildshape into any monstrosity, fey, or dragon with a CR up to half your level, rounded up, you can also still wildshape into beasts.

Rogue

Bastion Actions

• All enemies within 60ft are marked for death. For the next minute, if you hit a marked enemy, you can remove its mark to deal extra 6d6 slashing
• Enemies within 60ft must make a DC 20 wisdom save or be revealed, losing any stealth or invisibility.
• You gain a coin of fate. Each time you are hit in combat you flip the coin. Heads the attack misses, tails the attack hits and you lose the coin. (Use a dice roll: even is heads, odds is tails)

Class Feature: Vanishing Strike

After you hit with a sneak attack you may become invisible. This lasts until the end of your next turn or until you attack or cast a spell. You can do this a number of times equal to the number of special facilities you have.