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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Grainger" data-source="post: 6393355" data-attributes="member: 6779234">...but while the peasants are out in the fields, they're vulnerable. OK, they have farming implements to use as weapons (and if this is reasonably close to real medieval, farming implements is pretty much the best they have anyway), but they're dispersed, and without fortifications... unless they put palisades around all their fields. So I'd imagine they're toast, even to a small group of reasonably organised raiders.OK, some monsters might be active only at night, while the farmers are safe in their fortified farmsteads, but others could just as easily rampage around in the day when the peasants need to be out in the fields. If the people are scared to do the farming, they hide in their fortified farmsteads/towns, and the farming doesn't get done. And while they hide indoors, the enemies burn whatever crops they have planted. The people starve, including the Knightly class, and the medieval society collapses.It's true that a nation could survive this (large parts of medieval France were pillaged by wandering English armies in the 100 years war, and France survived), but not if it was sustained, and widespread, with groups of Kobolds, Orcs, Bugbears, Goblins, Hobgoblins, Ogres etc. all independently raiding the countryside, not to mention more bestial creatures such as Owlbears preying on farmers. Remember, we've got a whole Monster Manual of creatures to unleash on our poor medieval farmers. And that's before we even get to the lower medium-powered monsters...</blockquote>

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