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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 9253584" data-attributes="member: 23751">No, it's not. It's logic based on a percentage of a town being part of a militia.  There are no rules for this, so the DM has to make them up.  You can't claim that because there are no rules for a militia, I am somehow suping up a town by including one and using circular logic to do so.Having towns with a 10-30 percent militia rate is not unreasonable and in fact conforms to the suggestions in the DMG.The most common citizens of the town. Not all the citizens.  If there are 1000 people in a town and 300 are militia and the rest are commoners, the 700 are the common ones.  That means that I can have 10 merchants, 7 of whom use the commoner statblock and 3 of whom use the militia stat block(or just commoner statblock with proficiency with shortbow and spear), and be right in line with the game.It's not half a year of labor.  That's the arbitrary PC price.  John the Hunter with  his bowmaking proficiency could pump out shortbows at a pretty decent rate for just the price of a bow string. And someone can probably make those for free as well.But yes, if for some bizarre reason the population had to run to the store to buy shortbows whenever a dragon attacked, it would be very expensive.Call it what you will, it's what the game designers put there.  It's also why elves have proficiency with certain weapons.  There's zero reason why citizens of a town can't be trained to use short bows as part of their background like elves do.  None. It's part of the game. It's not some magic "I win button" or "suping up" the citizens. It's part of being a militia.By the by, what is listed in the MM has never been the end all be all of what those NPCs/Monsters could use.  They were simply the easy aid by the designers.  The "Hey, let's just shove a spear in the hands of this orc to make things easier on the DM." not "By giving them a spear, DM's who arm orcs with anything else are attempting to win by fiat!!!!"   I reject your argument that I have to arm all bandits with scimitars and light crossbows or I am cheating the discussion.</blockquote>

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