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Message: <blockquote data-quote="caudor" data-source="post: 6329821" data-attributes="member: 8367">I started looking a monsters today with intentions of creating my own adventure.  I noted the Starter Set has about 24 monsters (leaving out named NPCs).  The first thing I looked at was the Legacy of Crystal Shard monsters.  I compared the Orc, Goblin, Giant Frog, and several other monsters to the Starter Set.  Not only is the math different, but things that used to be Level 1 (a different terminology) are now listed as CR 1/4 or CR 1/8.  This threw me for a loop because I cannot figure out how to translate this to current math.Looking onward, I found that Murder In Baldur's Gate and Ghost of Dragonspear Castle also use Level 1 as a minimum.  The same monsters in the Starter Set not only have a fractional CR, but the actual XP award is significantly higher.Scourge of the Sword Coast doesn't appear to have any CR or XP values listed at all.So while there appears on the surface that there a lot of monsters, only 24 are really game ready.  Perhaps there is a simple way to adjust these monsters to approximate the Starter Set math and I'm not clever enough to find it.  I'm certainly not a math wiz.  Your thoughts?I should add the I know I can add 1 AC, 1 Damage, and +50% HP, but this does not give me any clue how to assign an appropriate CR and XP award.  That's the specific thing I'm stuck on.</blockquote>