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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Haltherrion" data-source="post: 5130653" data-attributes="member: 18253">If I were roleplaying a lord, I would certainly make use of that. But they might be more simple walled forts. Depending on the threats, might also be interesting to make longer walls like Hadrian's Walls. Even for the Romans this was less about preventing armed folks crossing a frontier and more about controlling access across it and defining the "spine" of a frontier. Would likely be hte same in a fantasy world. Instead of heavy castles, I'd be more inclined to invest in a good aerial scout service and mixed defensive force that included some good combined arms strike teams. Depends what you are facing though- hordes of orcs or another realm that is a peer of your own. For fun I worked up my thoughts on how much it would take to feed a griffin for an aerial force. Lots of ways to estimate this but I came up with 15 to 30 cows per year per griffin. That could get very expensive so maybe you just keep a small scouting force if any at all. But on the other hand if circumstances demanded aerial forces for some reason, you might not have much gold left over for fortifications. My thoughts on feeding griffins are on my blog if anyone is interested.<a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/blogs/marcq/" target="_blank">EN World D&D / RPG News - World Design Notes</a></blockquote>