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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 8872584" data-attributes="member: 6801845">The point with English bowmen is that they had reason and motivation to ensure that a large portion of the populace was well equipped with weapons.  The reasons and motivations for fantasy kingdoms is going to be different, but IMHO being regularly invaded by monsters is reasonable justification.There are better examples, it was just the one that popped to mind because I think if a dragon becomes too much of an issue a kingdom that can gather together 5,000 longbow archers would be a significant threat to the dragon.  While a dragon demanding tribute is a well worn trope of fantasy fiction, so is the trope of that dragon going too far and being killed off.  While typically the dragon is killed by a small heroic contingent or even a brave individual, an army could also do the job.  Probably one with a large contingent of, say, 5,000 archers armed with longbows.Could a dragon take out villages and small towns? Sure.  But push for too much, make it too costly, and the dragon will be hunted.  To paraphrase an old saying, in my campaign world there are old dragons, there are bold dragons, there are no old bold dragons.</blockquote>