Pathfinder question about Monster Descriptions

[Peppwyl]

I just got into Pathfinder about a month ago. I DM'd our first session last week and it went good, but I don't feel like I'm 100% prepared yet.

We're doing the Rise of the Runelords, and for the most part I just need to dive into the material and learn everything I can about everything. Then I hope to have a good answer for when one of the players asks some crazy question that I never thought of.

The one thing I can't find is about the monster descriptions. Generally they look like this;

Vargouille
hp5; (MM 254)

I have looked everywhere, and a search of the forums or guides for "MM" is a pretty futile effort. So I hope that someone will be able to help me out with what the MM stands for.

Thank you for your time.

[Mihajlo Velickovic]

I belive it stands for Monster Manual, page 254. Hope that helps ;-)

[Noncanonical]

Rise of the Runelords was originally written for Dungeons and Dragons 3.5, so it's designed for books and mechanics from that system. In this case, MM is "Monster Manual". You can use the equivalent monsters in the Pathfinder Bestiary, in the cases that they appear there, but the page references will be off (and other mechanical changes will have occurred.)

[Peppwyl]

Ah ok, thank you very much. I thought it meant monster manual, and checked the pathfinder Beastiary books, but nothing matched up. I didn't think to check the D&D books thinking that they wouldn't reference a different companies books, but I was wrong.

Thank you again.