Below, you will find a link to a cheat sheet to a spreadsheet that I created to assist in monster selection for open groups. I found that having all of this information in one place made it much easier for the OL when determining what open groups to employ in given encounters.

It includes all of the monsters from D2e base game, the D1e conversion kit, Lair of the Wyrm, and Labyrinth of Ruin. Since it took a bunch of time to create, I thought I would share it with all of you in case someone else would find it helpful. Enjoy.

Here is the link: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B1VdxSyVrikwRVZkSFprS25EaHM/edit?usp=sharing

Thanks for posting this. It is obvious it took a lot of time to complete.

Dan Howell

good work. you should post it on BGG

Wow. I love you forever! This will make planning so much lighter!

gods, i love u so much <3

Wow. I love you forever! This will make planning so much lighter!

gods, i love u so much <3

**** ... if I onlu knew that all I had to do was create this to have people fall in love with me ... I have been doing things so wrong up til now ...

I created this thing because when I played OL, and we got to a new encounter/interlude/finale, etc. I hated having to go through all of the monster cards to determine what was possible to use as an open group. Then, after being able to quickly identify the monster permitted, I wanted to know what attack dice they used, their defense dice, special abilities, etc.

It just kept growing, but now I have one place to look at for all of it. Saves me sooooooo much time.

I have used it for the base monsters and the conversion kit, and have verified everything on the spreadsheet for those. I ***THINK*** everything is also correct for Lair of the Wyrm and Labyrinth of Ruin, but I have not confirmed this yet. Just a fair warning.