Well technically you get all the Pathfinder monsters converted to OSR stat blocks. Except that you don't, really. The issue is that they aren't actually direct conversions most of the time. So you're usually getting really watered down versions of the monsters with limited abilities and often far fewer hit dice. To give one example, in PF the Balor Demon has 20d10+260 HP and an AC 36. Obviously much more powerful than it's original AD&D equivalent, but based on 3e. But here you get 4 balor variants ranging from 4-7 HD worth a measly 175-900 xp. So I guess these are babies? This is pretty much true for everything in the book; you just get low-mid-level variants, often with little correlation to original power levels. On top of this, attacks are not always clear (though you can figure it out) and the aligments are off in the sense that because they just use Law, Neutrality, and Chaos, that supersedes good & evil. All the devils, for example, are listed as Lawful. Again, an experienced DM can figure this out, but it's lazy, poor design that feels like a Bot created it. I wanted stats for all the Pathfinder fiends & Celestials to port over to Castles & Crusades. But this is basically useless as is so I'll just convert them myself from the originals. The biggest shame is I forked out big cash for the massive hard copies. Had they been legit conversions, I'd be delighted. But these are effectively worthless for my purposes.
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