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<blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 8186040" data-attributes="member: 6801228">Which as I responded to Maxperson, really raises the questions of where they are getting the spices, wines, glassware, fruits, iron, and wood that they are using.Lot of things a tiny little group of less than a hundred farmers wouldn't be able to make that the Halflings seem to have access to.Well, I listed it out pretty comprehensively in my other post. The one you seem to have skipped.It is far from unreasonable that a village of 200 to 400 people could have a small defense force, with weapons and armor. Getting to a &quot;small town&quot; means there could be as many as 2,000 people.The point isn't that the commoners would be fighting, but that they get people whose job it would be to fight the threats. Something that they have the population and wealth to accomplish. Unlike the halfling thorps with their less than 100 members that now seems to be what I need to argue against.Also, looking at the maps you posted before, they were for Bremen and Easthaven. Quoting the FR wiki:&quot;Circa the Year of the Warrior Princess, 1489 DR, Bremen could rally a meager force of about 25 soldiers&quot; This was while they had a population of 150 souls. Five years prior they had double that, so I would assume 50 soldiers back then, not sure when your map was from.Had to go to the Legacy of the Crystal Shard Wiki to find a population for Easthaven, seems it was 850 souls. Which, if I apply the same percentage that Bremen had of 16% of their population being soldiers they can muster, would give them a fighting force of 140 people. Not a number supported by anything I could find listed, but they are both part of the Ten Towns, and Easthaven does have a Temple to Tempus and a dedicated armor shop, so I assume that a decent population of people who fight is present. I mean, Rurden's Armory likely doesn't sell pitchforks to the followers of Tempus.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chaosmancer, post: 8186040, member: 6801228"] Which as I responded to Maxperson, really raises the questions of where they are getting the spices, wines, glassware, fruits, iron, and wood that they are using. Lot of things a tiny little group of less than a hundred farmers wouldn't be able to make that the Halflings seem to have access to. Well, I listed it out pretty comprehensively in my other post. The one you seem to have skipped. It is far from unreasonable that a village of 200 to 400 people could have a small defense force, with weapons and armor. Getting to a "small town" means there could be as many as 2,000 people. The point isn't that the commoners would be fighting, but that they get people whose job it would be to fight the threats. Something that they have the population and wealth to accomplish. Unlike the halfling thorps with their less than 100 members that now seems to be what I need to argue against. Also, looking at the maps you posted before, they were for Bremen and Easthaven. Quoting the FR wiki:"Circa the Year of the Warrior Princess, 1489 DR, Bremen could rally a meager force of about 25 soldiers" This was while they had a population of 150 souls. Five years prior they had double that, so I would assume 50 soldiers back then, not sure when your map was from. Had to go to the Legacy of the Crystal Shard Wiki to find a population for Easthaven, seems it was 850 souls. Which, if I apply the same percentage that Bremen had of 16% of their population being soldiers they can muster, would give them a fighting force of 140 people. Not a number supported by anything I could find listed, but they are both part of the Ten Towns, and Easthaven does have a Temple to Tempus and a dedicated armor shop, so I assume that a decent population of people who fight is present. I mean, Rurden's Armory likely doesn't sell pitchforks to the followers of Tempus. [/QUOTE]

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