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That's kind of how I did it for the Apparition I converted (from 1e Fiend Folio and Tome series we did).

I am thinking you are correct. Honestly for all the stuff I didn't like about 4e, monster design was one I thought they got right (when it came to figuring baseline numbers like attack and AC and defenses and such).

Could also be a range based around CR. Most follow 10 + ability mod for example, but can be tweaked +/- a few points in either direction. So, if you have a CR 3 monster, it's attack rolls can fall between xxx and yyy. Same for damage. Same for AC. (Kinda like the Pathfinder chart for monster...

They will when i houserule multiattack onto the ghoul. :)

Reddit's cool. (It's where I spend downtime sometimes when servers aren't blowing up at work.) Ya gotta have thick skin sometimes though, lest ya not survive. :) And I vote more frequent as to your question(s)?

Yeah, I may drop Dex mod to lightning damage. It does seem weird. The other....I don't know. The original volt attached and stayed attached until it was killed or the victim died. We shall see after some playtesting this weekend.

Yep. It is. I got the same average 8 or so damage crunching the numbers from the Starter set (and I probably do need to drop it since it can do that each round as well as drain blood while attached; either that or bump CR to 1 maybe). AC average is 13.5 (if you toss out the one AC 18 monster)...

Might need a little tweaking, but I'm throwing a pack/flock/whatever of these guys at my players this weekend... VOLT Small aberration, unaligned Armor Class 14 (natural armor) Hit Points 13 (3d6 + 3) Speed 10 ft., fly 30 ft. Str 8 (-1) Dex 17 (+3) Con 12 (+1) Int 2 (-4) Wis 10 (+0) Cha 6 (-2)...

Mine arrived. Waiting for me at home. Got notification not too long ago. Time to convert some monsters from other editions and the Tome books and see what the PCs can do.

Probably how I'd do it. And stronger poisons require two saves maybe (or could just deal more damage upfront I guess)?

Yep. I definitely remember those days. Much fun to be had.

The guys that have been playing for over 30 years should be used to an ability score cap. It was 25 in AD&D (18 or 19 without magic). :)

Yep. And up to a certain point way way back, only articles written by Gygax were considered official. I believe this was even stated once in the magazine way back in the early 80s (obviously before he left).

So do we. Matter of fact, we rolled some 1st level PCs last night using 3d6, reroll 1's. Here's the results (before racial modifiers). 14, 11, 8, 14, 12, 12 8, 12, 12, 13, 12, 9 13, 8, 10, 13, 11, 13 11, 13, 13, 18, 15, 13 12, 13, 12, 14, 10, 14

Same here. We've never used point buy and likely never will. We actually use a few dice rolling methods that vary from time to time...just depends on what peeps are feeling at the time. (3d6 just like the old days, 4d6 drop lowest, or 3d6 and reroll any 1s). We will likely adjust the racial...

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Agreed. Dont' like it. Ignore it. No harm no foul. We haven't allowed gnomes or halflings in probably 20+ years. They just don't exist in the campaign world. No dragonborn or tieflings either. None fit the style or feel we play; so we ignore them.

They actually began before FR. They appeared in the 1e MM2 (1983).

Your group should call themselves "The Breakfast Club".