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Build a Bastion

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!

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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 import them to the VTT as playable maps.

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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.

Learn More

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.

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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!

  1. Create a new Character Sheet (D&D 2024), name your Bastion, and click Save
  2. In the Character Builder, select "Build a Bastion"
  3. Customize your Bastion by adding your Character details, creating your hirelings, and more. 
  4. 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!


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Video Tutorials

EncounterSmith's 6-Minute Guide will walk you through all the tools you need to start Scrawling.

Watch Ginny Di make a Home Base and learn about the choices you can make as you build.

Contest FAQs

  • Use Dungeon Scrawl to create a floor plan for your Bastion - the design and level are up to you. We want to see your creativity at work! (One entry per person will be accepted.)

  • Yes, although there is a vast library of assets available within Dungeon Scrawl, you are more than welcome to utilize the upload functionality to include custom assets, so long as you have the rights to them.

  • No, we'd prefer to limit the scope to what can be created and exported from Dungeon Scrawl without post-processing to keep it a more even playing field.

  • There are two ways to submit your map to our contest:
    1. Join the Dungeon Scrawl Discord Server (click here) and post your Bastion in the #mapmaking-challenge channel.
    2. or, submit your entry using our Google Form (click here) - note: requires a Google account for validation purposes. If submitted this way, we will post your image on Discord on your behalf to share with the community.

  • Winners will be announced on Discord and Roll20's Twitter by December 19, 2024.

  • You retain ownership of your map, and Roll20 reserves the right to use it for promotional, advertising and other commercial uses. Please see Terms and Conditions for details!

  • Full Terms and Conditions are below.

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