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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 9871987" data-attributes="member: 4937">I've decided to put this down for now, on the grounds it's a ton of work and I feel I've learned what I intended to learn from the exercise.  Since I don't have any intention of running 1e AD&D any time soon, the work isn't immediately useful to me.  Also, publishing "to hit" tables for monsters, while interesting and necessary (so that I can really observe the results of my choices) is brittle in as much as if I was going to modify anything at this point it would probably be further modifications to the "weapons vs. AC modifier" table itself.I did make a start at annotating MM2, but the monsters in that book are a good deal more advanced and complicated than the MM1 monsters, reflecting maturing design.  So the write up would be a good deal more complex.If anyone is interested in seeing more work particularly if they plan to use it, that might perk up my interest again.The very observant may have noted that the only monsters in the MM I didn't annotate where the dragons.  That's because for my purposes, I'd always use the revised 1e Dragons that I wrote up in a different thread, and that thread for the most part already specifies enough information you can work out pretty quickly how to apply the table.</blockquote>