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<blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 8871657" data-attributes="member: 6801845"><p>We can only imagine what a world would be like if there were real dragons, what I reject is this idea that no nation anywhere would arm and train their citizens. England has a ton of coastline and there was a long history of being raided, it makes sense that they would want most people to have an ability to defend themselves. Meanwhile France had relatively fewer threats from the outside.</p><p></p><p>So it really depends on campaign world assumptions. Is a nation constantly under threat from outside forces from dragons to invading armies of ogres? Then there are a lot of external threats, just like merry old England. That dragon been asleep for centuries, so long that only a few elves remember the threat? Then you potentially go a different direction. I don't think there is one answer here. Some nations will be more concerned with threats from dragons, some will be more concerned with threats from within.</p><p></p><p>There's a great deal of variation on armies depending on the country and time period. Some armies were largely conscripts, others were almost solely mercenaries as people were given the option to pay a special tax instead of fighting. The latter was how I justified my current group's initial scenarios, they were in a city state that gave people the option to fight or pay and they were put together as special forces team because of their unique abilities. </p><p></p><p>When it comes to dragons or other large threats, I can easily see mercenary groups dedicated to fighting them. It's one of the things I'm thinking of pitching for my next campaign when the current one ends. I think the whole area of defenses and armies is one area most people don't think about much, and it doesn't necessarily have to be about mass army combat in a world with as many dangerous monsters as D&D assumes as the default.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Oofta, post: 8871657, member: 6801845"] We can only imagine what a world would be like if there were real dragons, what I reject is this idea that no nation anywhere would arm and train their citizens. England has a ton of coastline and there was a long history of being raided, it makes sense that they would want most people to have an ability to defend themselves. Meanwhile France had relatively fewer threats from the outside. So it really depends on campaign world assumptions. Is a nation constantly under threat from outside forces from dragons to invading armies of ogres? Then there are a lot of external threats, just like merry old England. That dragon been asleep for centuries, so long that only a few elves remember the threat? Then you potentially go a different direction. I don't think there is one answer here. Some nations will be more concerned with threats from dragons, some will be more concerned with threats from within. There's a great deal of variation on armies depending on the country and time period. Some armies were largely conscripts, others were almost solely mercenaries as people were given the option to pay a special tax instead of fighting. The latter was how I justified my current group's initial scenarios, they were in a city state that gave people the option to fight or pay and they were put together as special forces team because of their unique abilities. When it comes to dragons or other large threats, I can easily see mercenary groups dedicated to fighting them. It's one of the things I'm thinking of pitching for my next campaign when the current one ends. I think the whole area of defenses and armies is one area most people don't think about much, and it doesn't necessarily have to be about mass army combat in a world with as many dangerous monsters as D&D assumes as the default. [/QUOTE]
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