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Question
Why did you change [insert creature name]'s [insert ability score, hit points, power, attacks, or damage dice]?
 
Answer
I am going by what I can pull from the Monster Manual. There are no hard and fast rules for monster creation (though the Dragon #276 article is quite good at setting down the guidelines).

For example, the bulette in 1E and 2E had three different ACs (-2/4/6), yet in 3E it has one (22). This was most likely done for simplicity's sake I would imagine.

Take the Xorn. In 1E and 2E it is listed as having 7+7 HD, which would lead you to believe it should translate as 7HD with a Con score of 12-13 (to get the +1 hp bonus). Well, in the Monster Manual the Xorn has a higher Con and gains +2 hit points per level. I am sure this was done to show the toughness of the Xorn. So, keep this in mind when looking at my conversions or when doing your own. Outsiders (in most cases) tend to be hardier than those who dwell on the Prime Material.

Staying with the Xorn for a moment, look in the 1E Monster Manual or the 2E Monstrous Manual, the Xorn is affected in certain ways by certain spells (move earth stuns them, stone to flesh lowers their AC, passwall delivers 11-20 points of damage). Now, look in the 3E Monster Manual, the Xorn has no such vulnerabilities (except for the move earth spell that stuns it when it is burrowing).
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