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Message: <blockquote data-quote="karlindel" data-source="post: 5343578" data-attributes="member: 27103">As has been mentioned, it depends on the terrain they will be travelling through, as well as the level of danger in the surrounding areas.  It's more likely to be an odd shape than a radius, really (as there will be safe areas farther away if they are closure to roads).  Also, it's not going to be a clear demarcation.From a quick search online, orses can walk about 3-4 mph, trot 8-10 mph, canter/lop 10-17 mph, and gallop 30-40 mph (varies widely depending on hte horse).  The Pony Express averaged 9 mph.  That is without an Elf with the feat that increases traveling speed, or magical assistance of some kind (such as the ritual Traveler's Chant).  Farmland close to the city should be very safe, as most attackers are not going to pass up the outer settlements to get into the nearer ones, and that is going to make it easier to focus protection on the outer areas.  Also, it sounds like the city might be large enough to keep an outpost or two (or at least a few watchtowers) just beyond the near farmlands to help keep the outlying farms safer.  A few men on fast horses signalled by a watchtower who started in town could get to a farm 10 miles away from town in about an hour moving at a trot.  If the men were stationed at an outpost 5 miles out of town, they can make it in less than half an hour.I would say that within a mile or two of town should be almost completely safe, 3-5 miles should be low risk, 6-10 miles should be risky, and 10-15 miles should be borderlands territory where the guards will do what they can, but will often come by after the main attack is over (i.e. if the attackers were successful the guards will try to stop them from moving on to the closer farms or warn the city if they can't, if the attackers were unsuccessful the guards will try to track them down and finish them off to make sure they don't come back).  Expand those numbers slightly if moving towards relatively civilized country, cut them down a bit when moving towards empty or monster-infested areas.  Also diminish them as you go farther from the road (i.e. a mile into the woods is equivalent to 2-4 miles of road, because it drastically reduces speed).</blockquote>

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