Quick Monster Builder For Revised 5e

(Can't link the image here directly, so here's a link to a version I posted on Bluesky)

I spent some time this week taking the monsters from the new MM and compiling their stats into a quick monster builder like what we had in 2014.

It's not perfect, due in part to some tiny sample sizes at the higher levels, and because of the weird way the official numbers step (the average numbers actually decrease as the CR increase at various points).

But I'm confident this table will make a monster that is consistent with published stuff in the MM. Doesn't mean it will be "balanced" against your party, but it will perform as well as any other creature in that CR.

Wherever possible I used the median numbers pulled from across the whole CR band to try and eliminate outliers, but there is some adjustment made to the numbers in the chart, again in part because of small sample size at the higher levels, but also to make the numbers move somewhat linearly.

I've included the number ranges from the book in parentheses so you can see what the official numbers are and make adjustments which still fall in line with the official monsters.

When the SRD drops I plan on releasing my full data set so people can get under the hood, see all the math etc, but until then I think this will do a perfectly serviceable job as a starting point!