The Dungeon Master’s Guide has some great rules for attracting followers and building a castle.
Unfortunately, it has no advice on how to DEFEND that castle from the inevitable onslaught of your DM’s jealousy-filled rage.
Well the Dungeon Bastard is here to help.
LOAD THE GNOME PRISONERS INTO THE TREBUCHETS!!
the obscure but official term for gnomes used as ammo in a siege weapon is “gnomeshot.”
example: “Load the halfling cannon with gnomeshot!”
The halfling cannon, of course, is exactly what it sounds like; potato smell and all