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<blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 7063428" data-attributes="member: 20323"><p>To be honest, I'm not sure about that answer. I no longer own any AD&D books besides a few Al-Qadim and Planescape books/boxes, maybe one or two more, but I gave most of my gaming collection to my friend's younger brother when I moved to Colorado for college in '98. These days, my gaming library is more digital than physical.</p><p></p><p>I know what you're talking about, however. Generally later books superseded older books, so the AD&D 1e <em>Monster Manual</em> (1977) was superseded by the AD&D 2e <em>Monstrous Compendium</em> (1989). Then there was the <em>Outer Planes Monstrous Appendix </em>(1991) but I can't recall if there were XP discrepancies there. And then all of that was superseded by the AD&D 2e <em>Monstrous Manual</em> (1993), which I thought would have been the same as Planescape (released in 1994).</p><p></p><p>I'd need to see the stats side by side to figure out the rationale. AD&D usually was a bit more opaque but there was some reasoning behind the XP values.</p><p></p><p>EDIT: To be clear, for the planar monsters I used the <em>Planescape Monstrous Compendium Appendix</em> (1994) for their AD&D 2e XP values.</p><p></p><p>EDIT EDIT: Also, it's worth mentioning that I made that thread BEFORE the 5e Monster Manual was released. What I use it for is when converting a monster from AD&D 2e > 5e, it gives me a sense of the ballpark destination CR for that monster.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Quickleaf, post: 7063428, member: 20323"] To be honest, I'm not sure about that answer. I no longer own any AD&D books besides a few Al-Qadim and Planescape books/boxes, maybe one or two more, but I gave most of my gaming collection to my friend's younger brother when I moved to Colorado for college in '98. These days, my gaming library is more digital than physical. I know what you're talking about, however. Generally later books superseded older books, so the AD&D 1e [I]Monster Manual[/I] (1977) was superseded by the AD&D 2e [I]Monstrous Compendium[/I] (1989). Then there was the [I]Outer Planes Monstrous Appendix [/I](1991) but I can't recall if there were XP discrepancies there. And then all of that was superseded by the AD&D 2e [I]Monstrous Manual[/I] (1993), which I thought would have been the same as Planescape (released in 1994). I'd need to see the stats side by side to figure out the rationale. AD&D usually was a bit more opaque but there was some reasoning behind the XP values. EDIT: To be clear, for the planar monsters I used the [I]Planescape Monstrous Compendium Appendix[/I] (1994) for their AD&D 2e XP values. EDIT EDIT: Also, it's worth mentioning that I made that thread BEFORE the 5e Monster Manual was released. What I use it for is when converting a monster from AD&D 2e > 5e, it gives me a sense of the ballpark destination CR for that monster. [/QUOTE]
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