Shroomy said:
I'm just curious, how many have been officially updated by WoTC or officially licensed products like Dragon or Dungeon?
Hmm... let's see. Of the 6179 creatures that do have 3.X stats, 1765 are unofficial updates, so the other 4414 are from WotC or licensed sources.
silvermane said:
What is your definition of "distinct creature"? Are dragon age categories "distinct creatures"? What about sized versions of a monster (elementals etc.)?
Good question. The way I have them indexed in the spreadsheet, anything that has its own stat block counts as a separate creature, including all the different dragon age categories. However, to get 7856 I took the total number of "creatures" (8915) and removed 1059 dragon entries (leaving in only the oldest dragon as a "creature").
So that means different sized elementals are counted separately, but dragons of different ages aren't.
I actually did
start looking through all the non-dragon entries to check which ones should really count as "creatures", but that's surprisingly tricky. Are "Aarakocra, Athasian" and "Aarakocra, Malatran" different enough from a vanilla aarakocra to be counted as separate creatures? And what about the aartuks? Aartuks are nomadic vegetables that eventually go through a "blossoming" to become an "Aartuk, Elder", complete with a new stat block. (This, incidentally, takes an entire year, and many aartuks die in the process.) Should they count as two creatures, or just one?
And that's just the creatures starting with "aa".
Eventually I decided that for everything except the dragons, stat block = "creature" was good enough
