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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CapnZapp" data-source="post: 6809888" data-attributes="member: 12731">The reason for this is that players find hitting fun and missing unfun.Hence lower AC and more hit points.As an added benefit of this: plus bonuses to hit aren't as essential anylonger. This goes both ways: Players don't NEED to struggle on the treadmill for ever-better attack bonuses. On the other hand, handing out plus weapons is less of a big deal.First you should ask yourself if you and your players are really finding the game so full of unfun it's worth it to change this. My advice is to stick to the stat blocks as written, and get used to the easier hit chances.If you really must change it, you would lower HP to compensate for higher AC. But resist the temptation to make a maths problem out of it. That is, instead of trying to calculate how much a +2 AC change should change the monster, just shave off a few or many hp as you see fit. It's far from a controlled environment, so there's no need to get super-careful and spend a lot of time on calculations. Just shave off 10 hp from many monsters. Halve the hp of a particular monster but leave the hp as is for another monster. But as I said, think hard about whether this is actually worthwhile. I myself can find several other areas I would tweak before this "low AC" aspect of the edition.</blockquote>