So how many monsters are there?

[Echohawk]

As an aside to my indexing efforts, there are currently 7832 distinct creatures in the index. Factor in another thousand (at most) from the pages of Dragon, and a bunch more from original D&D sources, and my current estimate is that there have been a total of between 9000 and 10000 different D&D creatures published since the beginning.

3.X statistics exist for about 90% of these creatures, so relatively speaking, there aren't so many left to convert .

 

[Mortis]

3.X statistics exist for about 90% of these creatures, so relatively speaking, there aren't so many left to convert .

And as I've said in the past 4th ed will be out by then and we can start all over again.

Regards
Mortis

 

[Shade]

WOW! Not surprising, but still quite impressive to see it.

If you limit the statistics to WotC only updates, I'll bet it's closer to 50-60%. That's why MMV and beyond need more updated critters.

 

[BOZ]

yah, good point... there are at least hundreds, if not thousands, of unconverted critters out there.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

More than you can shake a World Tree at, no doubt.

 

[silvermane]

Many of the monsters are redundant, especially with animals, elementals, golems etc. There are only so many animal forms you can think of, after all.

 

[Shade]

But outsiders and aberrations are only limited by the imagination.

 

[BOZ]

well, really, the same holds true for any creature type. it's just that some take more thought than others because of the nature of one type vs. another...