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<blockquote data-quote="TheAlkaizer" data-source="post: 8155627" data-attributes="member: 7024893">As I'm slowly preparing for my next campaign with some coworkers, I've began digging in some 3rd party books to expand my roster of monsters; mostly products from Kobold Press. But I will probably also buy the Monster Manual Expanded PDFs.I've had a couple of issues with WotC's monsters being not so challenging (CR being a bad measure of challenge), but with time I got to know most monsters in the official books and I developed a feeling for what's challenging or not at certain levels. But at a quick glance, I feel like the monsters in these 3rd party books seem to be stronger than the original ones.My question is quite simple. Without going into the case of specific monsters, would fellow DMs that had experience with 3rd party products be able to chime in and indicate how close 3rd party monsters tend to be close to the original ones in power level? What should I keep an eye out for?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TheAlkaizer, post: 8155627, member: 7024893"] As I'm slowly preparing for my next campaign with some coworkers, I've began digging in some 3rd party books to expand my roster of monsters; mostly products from Kobold Press. But I will probably also buy the Monster Manual Expanded PDFs. I've had a couple of issues with WotC's monsters being not so challenging (CR being a bad measure of challenge), but with time I got to know most monsters in the official books and I developed a feeling for what's challenging or not at certain levels. But at a quick glance, I feel like the monsters in these 3rd party books seem to be stronger than the original ones. My question is quite simple. Without going into the case of specific monsters, would fellow DMs that had experience with 3rd party products be able to chime in and indicate how close 3rd party monsters tend to be close to the original ones in power level? What should I keep an eye out for? [/QUOTE]

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