#269: Strongholds and the D&D Bastion System Playtest - a podcast by Morrus

This week, Morrus, Peter, and Jessica talk about player strongholds and the new Bastion D&D playtest. In the news, more Planescape previews, algorithmic art controversy, Penguin Random House dropping Dungeons & Dragons, and more! Plus a brand new sketch about not disparaging the sponsor of the Great Race competition!

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News

Planescape Table of Contents: https://www.enworld.org/threads/check-out-planescapes-table-of-contents-more.700206/

Planescape adventure Turn of Fortune’s Wheel Table of Contents https://www.enworld.org/threads/take-a-peek-at-fortunes-wheel-table-of-contents.700229/

Let’s Catch Up With The D&D Planescape Videos! https://www.enworld.org/threads/lets-catch-up-with-the-d-d-planescape-videos.700295/

Jess Plays Baldur’s Gate 3 on Twitch starting Thursday October 11 at 8 PM GMT (4 PM Eastern) https://www.twitch.tv/enpublishing

Planescape Disclaimers https://www.enworld.org/threads/planescape-here-are-the-disclaimers.700230/

Planescape IS D&D Says Jeremy Crawford https://www.enworld.org/threads/planescape-is-d-d-says-jeremy-crawford.700207/

Worlds to-go! The Elysians by PJ Coffey on Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/homebrewandhacking/worlds-to-go-the-elysians

Level Up: Advanced 5e Starter Box on Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/enworld/a5e-starter-box

Multiple “AI Art” Updates and Controversies in Tabletop Gaming https://www.enworld.org/threads/multiple-ai-art-updates-and-controversies-in-tabletop-gaming.700279/

Margaret Weis tweet in reply to author Troy Denning about the Dragonlance books being scraped for a generative algorithm database https://twitter.com/WeisMargaret/status/1707841604172611940

Penguin Random House to Stop Distributing D&D https://www.enworld.org/threads/penguin-random-house-to-stop-distributing-d-d-updated.700259/

PlusOneExp Zine https://plusoneexp.com/

Freebies, Sales, and Charity Bundles for October 1, 2023 https://www.enworld.org/threads/freebies-sales-and-charity-bundles-for-october-1-2023.700179/

Sol: Beyond Earth on Itch.io https://zeruhur.itch.io/sol-beyond-earth

Our Fantasy Town from Adam Hancock coming soon to Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gnomemadegames/our-fantasy-town

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Player Strongholds and the Playtest Bastion System

Bonus Unearthed Arcana Reveals the Bastion System EN World news story and discussion thread https://www.enworld.org/threads/bonus-unearthed-arcana-reveals-the-bastion-system.700264/

D&D Beyond playtest document https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/ua/bastions-and-cantrips

D&D Companion Set BECMI (from the product description: “OD&D had short sections on ruling baronies and constructing castles. It was clearly intended as a successful end point for high-level characters. The idea carried into AD&D (1977-1979), where higher level characters could build strongholds (or towers), but by this point the rules were vestigial: the concept of characters settling down to rule was largely outside the norm of D&D play as the game entered through the '80s.”) https://www.dmsguild.com/product/17165/DD-Companion-Set-BECMI-Ed-Basic?affiliate_id=36142

Stronghold Builders Guide (3e) https://www.dmsguild.com/product/25107/Stronghold-Builders-Guidebook-3e?affiliate_id=36142

Matt Coleville’s Strongholds & Followers https://shop.mcdmproductions.com/products/strongholds-followers-pdf

Level Up: Advanced 5e Stronghold Builder Rules https://a5e.tools/rules/building-stronghold

Level Up: Advanced 5e Stronghold Builder Tool https://a5e.tools/node/2286

Texts from Superheroes Metallo figures out Superman’s secret identity https://textsfromsuperheroes.com/post/178298646777/metallo

Green Ronin’s A Song of Ice and Fire Roleplaying https://greenronin.com/sifrp/

Free League’s Forbidden Lands https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/258593/Forbidden-Lands-Core-Game?affiliate_id=36142

Blades in the Dark https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/170689/Blades-in-the-Dark?affiliate_id=36142

Traveller https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/171643/Traveller-Core-Rulebook?affiliate_id=36142

The Walking Dead Universe RPG https://www.thewalkingdead-rpg.com/

Not DnD - The Walking Dead (live on Monday, October 9) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2MVYXH05_U

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