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You may find that overall there are less (official) conditions in 4e. It seems the focus is to make descriptions of things be self-contained. In doing so, there may be very few official conditions but rather have an effect that's included in a description. Maybe this'll lead to some...

I believe "healing surges" to be the amount healed in a surge. Under this theory, the per level change is 10% of the hit points gained. This means that at high levels, the healing surge approaches 10% of the character's hit points, washing out a large part of con-based effects. I suspect this...

The vampire lord seemed specific to both tier and role. I expect other templates to follow this. These extra details may lead to a number of variations on a single basic template (such as vampire lord instead of just vampire). Below is a list of candidate items. I would not expect to see all...

That tells me that the designers intend for monsters to get only one template. Some of the nastiest monsters I faced as a 3E player had several templates applied to them. Can a bullete (already elite) have templates applied to it? I'd hope there's templates that change normal creatures into...

I agree. That's totally reasonable. I'd bet that to be a solo monster, a creature must be able to (mostly) fill all enemy roles. Any serious deficiencies and it's probably more fun to fight them as part of a group. It seems like most solo monsters are iconic monsters (to me). I know of very...

Personally, I'm a big fan of this style of hit points. As a GM, and a math geek, I offer players a simple choice: A: Do not roll the dice and take the average amount (rounded up) B: In front of me, roll the die. Re-roll all 1's. Re-rolling 1's makes the players feel like I'm being a nice...

Reflex or Initiative I'm going to guess that 4E reflex defense is much different than 3E reflex saves. I think you're thinking in terms of 3E... Touch AC has been replaced with the reflex defense. Does it make sense for a pit trap to make a touch attack? To me, combining them makes little...