I was curious if there was a formula for determing a monster hp from hit dice, becauses I tried doing math to come up with a goblin chieftains hit points but I couldn’t find a way to make it work?
No, there’s no formula for the various leaders and whatnot. I just picked values that had legacy playtesting (from BX) and “felt” right.
Good to know, for a while I thought I forgot how to do math.