The Palisade

A palisade, sometimes called a stakewall or a paling, is typically a row of closely placed, high vertical standing tree trunks or wooden or iron stakes used as a fence for enclosure or as a defensive wall. Palisades can form a stockade.

Typical construction consisted of small or mid-sized tree trunks aligned vertically, with as little free space in between as possible. The trunks were sharpened or pointed at the top, and were driven into the ground and sometimes reinforced with additional construction. The height of a palisade ranged from around a metre to as high as 3–4 m. As a defensive structure, palisades were often used in conjunction with earthworks.

Palisades were an excellent option for small forts or other hastily constructed fortifications. Since they were made of wood, they could often be quickly and easily built from readily available materials. They proved to be effective protection for short-term conflicts and were an effective deterrent against small forces. However, because they were wooden constructions they were also vulnerable to fire and siege weapons.

Often, a palisade would be constructed around a castle as a temporary wall until a permanent stone wall could be erected.

Balduran's

Palisade

"Sharpened wooden stakes or tree trunks set close side by side and sealed together with pitch surround the entire town."

Few things sap the enthusiasm of an invading horde like a sharp wall of pointed stakes.

Prerequisites. In order to build a palisade, this settlement must have a Military score of 5 or higher.

Industry Score Increase. This settlement's Military score increases by 1.

Wooden Walls. This settlement gains half cover from overland military attacks.

Table 2–6: Freestanding Walls

Material	Thickness	Hardness	HP	Break DC	Climb DC	Cost per Section	Notes
Earth, packed	3 ft.	2	30	19	15	10 gp	-
Masonry	2 ft.	8	180	35	15	250 gp	-
Masonry, superior	2 ft.	8	180	35	20	300 gp	-
Masonry, reinforced	2 ft.	8	360	45	15	450 gp	-
Stone, hewn	6 ft.	8	1,080	164*	22	600 gp	No cost if below ground; –5% cost in mountain terrain
Wood	1 ft.	5	120	26	21	100 gp	No cost for ground floor; –10% cost in forest terrain.

*Note that this is different from the values listed in the DUNGEON MASTER’s Guide. These statistics use the guidelines for stone walls given in the wall of stone spell.

Wooden Palisade

Argol's

Type	GP Cost	Maint	Units P/Week	Tot. Employment	Influence	Repair Cost	Construction Time
Wall Section	100 GP 30'x1'x30' section	1 GP	-	-	+4 Security	50 GP	1 Day (192men)

Plot Name	Size of Plot	Cost for Plot	Maintenance	Units P/Week	Tot Employment	Influence	Time to Clear the Land
Wall Plot	30'x1'x30'	-	-	-	-	+4 Security	1 Day

Clearing the land assumes a group of 10 men working on the site.

Purchasing Land

Construction

Construction time is found by multiplying the production time by a PM (Production Modifier) that takes into account workforce and location. This gives you a figure that is in man/weeks. This figure can be divided by 7 to get the total weeks and the number is also used to reveal the men needed to do the job.

For an example we use a small stone building with the time of 64. If the modifier is 1 which is a prime site then no change in time and we divide 64 by 7 for 9 weeks. This assumes our workforce is 64 men involved in the stone building.

Use the Castle on the Moors example for a breakdown of the math.

Stronghold Space: An abstract measure of volume within a building. While stronghold spaces don’t have a fixed size, an average stronghold space is equivalent to a 20-foot-by-20-foot room with a 10-foot-hugh ceiling.

GREYHAWK PLOTS

Although there is no standard definition, the typical plot of land in Greyhawk stands at around 100 ft x 100 ft = 30 m x 30 m = 10,000 square feet = 900 square meters. In this case, a half plot can be considered to be 50 ft x 100 ft = 15 m x 30 m = 5000 square feet = 450 square meters.

Depending on the states in question, there can be variations to the sizes of a plot: 18 m x 30 m (540 sqm) and 18 m x 36 m (648 sqm; Lagos) are also common plot sizes. This is why it is essential that you always request sizes in square meters, for such things as ease of comparison.

So a Stronghold Space at 20ft x 20 ft = 400 sq feet or 25 SS per plot of land.