Monster Stats

[Parasyn]

in the game i am running the PCs rolled stats using 4d6 - the lowest dice 7 times garbaging the lowest total as i am hoping to have a pretty high powered campaign. I have a question about monsters, should i be using the same way to determine their stats or should i just use the stats in the MM? what do you do?

[Allanimal]

I think rolling for each monster would be very time-consuming for little benefit. You should generate a high-powered stat array and give that to all monsters.

Even that can be a lot of effort if you have a large variety of monsters. The simplest way would be to use the MM stats and up the HP, for example.

[Thurbane]

Rolling monster stats would be very time consuming, as noted above.

It might be worthwhile for a couple of unique specimens or bosses, however.

[Savannah]

Use the MM stats. 4d6b3x7 isn't different enough from 4d6b3x6 (the standard) to make the characters significantly higher powered.

Even when I run games with higher stat generation than yours, I use the standard ability scores for monsters and it's fine.

[Crossblade]

Just take the max amount for the monster's hp.
Example:
Ogre's Hit Dice is listed as: 4d8+11 (29hp)
The Ogre will have 4x8+11= 43hp.