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<blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 6806025" data-attributes="member: 6787650">[Posting the following caveat to be scrupulously analytically honest and placate Richard Feynman's ghost]By the way, I think my analysis above may exaggerate the differences between the editions at levels 8-10. That is because in AD&amp;D, there is no HD = level equivalency. Typically monsters would scale both in terms of actual HD and effective HD (due to high-damage attacks, low AC, or whatever), so I think you could very well argue that an &quot;equivalent&quot; 5E CR is lower than (level - 2) at high levels and that the values in Table 5 are therefore inflated at high levels. But I think they are good(ish) up through at least level 7.If you wanted to recreate the 2nd edition feel I would recommend just using the 2nd edition tables instead of trying to create some kind of conversion between them via &quot;monster equivalency.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FormerlyHemlock, post: 6806025, member: 6787650"] [Posting the following caveat to be scrupulously analytically honest and placate Richard Feynman's ghost] By the way, I think my analysis above may exaggerate the differences between the editions at levels 8-10. That is because in AD&D, there is no HD = level equivalency. Typically monsters would scale both in terms of actual HD and effective HD (due to high-damage attacks, low AC, or whatever), so I think you could very well argue that an "equivalent" 5E CR is lower than (level - 2) at high levels and that the values in Table 5 are therefore inflated at high levels. But I think they are good(ish) up through at least level 7. If you wanted to recreate the 2nd edition feel I would recommend just using the 2nd edition tables instead of trying to create some kind of conversion between them via "monster equivalency." [/QUOTE]

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