Confusion regarding Alu-Demons

[Midnight_Angel]

According to ToH (or PFSRD, which has a faithful copy of the creature), a vanilla Alu-Demon sports:

CR 5 (800 XP), Str 17, Dex 15, Con 15, Int 15, Wis 15, Cha 16.

Umm... unless my memory fails me, CR 5 equals 1600 XP, so lil' demoness will either need to be worth 1600 XP, or be dialed back to CR 3. (I assume CR 5 is correct, but it cannot hurt to ask)

Second, I remember Neil Spicer stating in one of his wall-of-text comments about Superstar monsters entries that a baseline monster should have 'three odd, and three even stats'. Umm... what I see are five odd stats, so huh?

So, let's attempt to do the math taking Alu-demons from canonical (i.e. Paizo) Adventures...

Spoiler:

The horde of vanilla Alu-demons in the Moonscar Adventure

is using a carbon copy of the ToH entry, albeit at CR 5.

Spoiler:

The quartet in Rise of the Runelords

can be derived from the ToH entry, as well.

Spoiler:

Ashamintallu, from the Shattered Star AP,

on the other hand, seems to have been derived from a 17 14 15 14 15 16 array. Which would comply with Spicer's rules.

Could anyone please shed some light on the matter?

[cmastah]

I think the CR is correct, he's extremely powerful and deserving of being a CR5 creature. The Mallor demon a few pages below that at CR3 with 217hp, 29AC and worth 25,600XP could never hope to compete in combat :P