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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Starglim" data-source="post: 2134652" data-attributes="member: 17011">The DMG will tell you what classes and levels of NPCs make up the town. You could use whatever method seems best to get numbers by race and alignment, then ask the players what methods and slogans they are using to recruit troops, and judge how many of the NPCs will be swayed by such arguments.Don't forget that essential services and food supplies will start to suffer if they recruit too many of the Experts and Commoners. A certain percentage of the population will be too young or too weakened by age to be part of an army, pregnant or nursing (if the society and their recruitment methods would otherwise encourage all women to fight). If they can get 2-5% of the population to train as professional soldiers, 15-20% to defend the land as a militia when called out, or 50-60% to provide any effective support to the army at all when invaded, they will be doing better than most historical army-builders.If they are in charge of more than a single unplanned siege or border raid, you'll need to know their tax base, where they are getting weapons and horses, who's going to feed the army, and what the neighbouring landholders and the local ruler think of this new military power.</blockquote>