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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Krachek" data-source="post: 7908900" data-attributes="member: 6811643">I went out of subject in another thread, but I  think this worth sharing.How do you imagine warfare and battle in your setting?In french historical medieval nobles train and equip themselves.When the king call them they form a huge unit of heavy cavalry composed of thousands of knights. In DnD we can use the Knight npc to recreate this.It can be fine to recreate historical battle or handle low magic setting.What if...Nobles train in magic and become potent mages, as the Mage npc?When the king call his nobles, he got an army of thousand of mages.What kind of battle and war would that create?What if...each noble house specialize in one class, and thus the king nobles army will be composed of potent npc around level 7-10 of diverse classes.The nobles will match themselves into small party and go to battle, to face horde of trolls, giants, dragons or demons.I can’t imagine those npc line up in rank waiting to be butchered. The war tactics will tend to match party’s tactics.It’s easy to me to imagine that the overall stability of such an army in war and after war can be a great problem. Historical king were having a great deal to control their nobles, imagine a nobility composed of wizards, rogue, fighter, ranger, warlock.... What if ...A democratic kingdom instead create academies to train potent npc of various classes. It will create a more focus and obedient army that can replace totally or partially the noble house power. It may look like actual military power.What if ...some classes regroup themselves to create additional structure.We can imagine paladin and cleric in a military order that create their own army and share a part of the military power. Druid can be pacifist and rarely participate in warfare.Some classes such as warlock and sorcerer may be considered too suspicious to be include in warfare. They train and work underground.Of course ...We can have fallen noble, fallen religious, fallen military that create ideal mercenaries and adventurers. Adventurer can also came from non military background,  but military background is too common to be ignore.</blockquote>

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