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<blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 4094510" data-attributes="member: 710">I assume it was the general lack of guidelines then, but since I know next to nothing about AD&amp;D, it's hard for me to contribute something substantial here.The 3E approach was &quot;over-engineering&quot; this. I think their guideline was indeed: &quot;Everything should be created equal. Then we can balance stuff more easily&quot;. It didn't work out so well - neither was everything created equal (Compare Dragon HD benefits to Fey HD benefits), nor ended everything balanced out. (Templates can have awkward effect if you base stuff on HD, without linking HD and CR. See also Summon Monster and Polymorph Effects)It might be possible, but it is- not by the book- wonky. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />All your data points can only guide you in the right direction, but none of them will actually fit it. It's probably easier to start from the beginning and describe the &quot;power curve&quot; you want, and then make monsters that fit these data points. (Though instead of a curve, thanks to stuff like &quot;roles&quot; and &quot;minion/elite/solo notations&quot;, you might actually have something n-dimensional...)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mustrum_Ridcully, post: 4094510, member: 710"] I assume it was the general lack of guidelines then, but since I know next to nothing about AD&D, it's hard for me to contribute something substantial here. The 3E approach was "over-engineering" this. I think their guideline was indeed: "Everything should be created equal. Then we can balance stuff more easily". It didn't work out so well - neither was everything created equal (Compare Dragon HD benefits to Fey HD benefits), nor ended everything balanced out. (Templates can have awkward effect if you base stuff on HD, without linking HD and CR. See also Summon Monster and Polymorph Effects) It might be possible, but it is - not by the book - wonky. :) All your data points can only guide you in the right direction, but none of them will actually fit it. It's probably easier to start from the beginning and describe the "power curve" you want, and then make monsters that fit these data points. (Though instead of a curve, thanks to stuff like "roles" and "minion/elite/solo notations", you might actually have something n-dimensional...) [/QUOTE]

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