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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Atridis" data-source="post: 2467024" data-attributes="member: 13919">I once had an idea for a kingdom which had fought a tremendous war against dragons several generations before the PCs' adventures would have begun. Similar to what you describe, the war seriously depleted the population of fighting men. So the kingdom was forced to "think outside the box", and thus, some of the women who were capable of it began to take up arms to fight off the dragons. I had an ulterior motive for this bit of background - it was my method of forcibly injecting some 21st-century gender equity into my campaign world - but in answering your question about your kingdom, it illustrates that the people & rulers don't necessarily have to choose to precisely reconstruct their old army. In fact, some may even question the inherent value of fielding an army of their finest men (or women) as a viable means of protecting the kingdom. In a sword & sorcery milieu, they might take a greater interest in magic, or the followers of a previously obscure god, one with a different approach to things, might find a lot of people suddenly interested in their message.</blockquote>