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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sacrosanct" data-source="post: 6952884" data-attributes="member: 15700"><p>Yeah it did.  Everyone I played with during TSR era D&D played that way (not limited by monster stat blocks, but by DM creativity).  Even in many of the official adventures, there was plenty of monster variation going on.  From the goblins partnering with the Ogre in Caves of Chaos to the various clans in ToEE to pretty much every humanoid having variants that were heavily armored to the lightly armored ranged scout.  The core stat blocks were all the same, but what the monster was equipped with, and how it interacted with the area it lived in and other inhabitants all varied.  And that's not even factoring in the plethora of dragon magazine articles on the subject, or books like Creative Campaigning or Complete guide to villains.   Sorry, but you're simply wrong here.  Not only with my own experience, but with official published material as well.  It did happen, and we can point to objectively provable sources to show as such.</p></blockquote><p></p>