The 2024 D&D Dungeon Master’s Guide includes new rules for designing Bastions, personal strongholds that allow players to reflect their character’s personality and ambitions through a uniquely created home base.
To celebrate the creativity you bring to your campaigns, we’re hosting a contest: Show us your character’s ultimate hideaway by using our free map-making tool, Dungeon Scrawl to design a Bastion floor plan, and you could win a Roll20 prize package!
Learn more about Bastions and Dungeon Scrawl below, and find out how to enter. Plus, join the Dungeon Scrawl Discord server for support!
What is Dungeon Scrawl?
Dungeon Scrawl is a free, online map-making tool designed for creating quick and easy battlemaps for any RPG that will soon be integrated with the Roll20 virtual tabletop!
Thanks to a user-friendly interface, you can export maps created on-site in multiple formats and and import them to the VTT as playable maps.
Bastion Quick Facts
- Getting Bastions: Players can gain a Bastion at level 5 or can be awarded one later, by earning it, building it from scratch, capturing it from foes, or rebuilding a unique location into their own.
- Combining Bastions: Each character can have their own Bastion, creating a network of strongholds for the party, or players can combine them into a single structure to allow shared defense during Bastion events.
- Bastion Sizes: Bastion facilities come in three sizes: Cramped (4 squares), Roomy (16 squares), and Vast (36 squares), which can span multiple floors and require specific costs and time to build or upgrade.
- Special Facilities: Special facilities offer unique benefits and are available at specific levels (5, 9, 13, and 17). They require no time or gold to build and provide hirelings and special orders.
If you want to know all of the details about Bastions, including how Bastion turns work, the sizes and specifications of Basic and Special Facilities and their special orders, and how Bastion events work, Chapter 8 of the 2024 Dungeon Master’s Guide has it all. For a limited time, if you order the complete 2024 Core Rulebook Bundle on Roll20, you’ll receive two exclusive bonuses: a free Eberron starting adventure from Imogen Gingell and Keith Baker, and a Fantasy Setting Starter Pack featuring seven dynamically-lit maps and pre-made characters.
Roll20 Exclusive: Bastion Tracker
We launched a brand new Bastion sheet for D&D 2024 that allows you to create your Bastions, track all their key details, and drag & drop facilities directly to your sheet!
- Create a new Character Sheet (D&D 2024), name your Bastion, and click Save
- In the Character Builder, select “Build a Bastion”
- Customize your Bastion by adding your Character details, creating your hirelings, and more.
- If you own the 2024 Dungeon Master’s Guide on Roll20, you can drag and drop any basic or special facility right onto your sheet. Otherwise, the tracker is free to use if you input the data yourself!
For all contest details, a full video tutorial for Dungeon Scrawl, and a video showcasing building a Bastion in real time, click HERE. We can’t wait to see what you create!