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I do different things depending on the individual NPC, the situation and the degree to which the PCs are interacting with them. I certainly don't invest equal amounts of time and energy in all of them. I don't do voices. Since I'm Indian and my players are American, whatever voice I do they'll...

*raises hand* Oh, wait - was that rhetorical?

Yes, I do. I have no problem with it whatsoever. As Jeff Wilder and others have noted already, the fact that damage caused will be variable and healing will be variable means there's more than enough randomness to what the fixed hit points mean when one gets into a fight.

Too late. D&D PCs in 3e certainly are very akin to superheroes, and I'd argue that they always have been, to a significant extent. Or mythological hero, for that matter, which is pretty close to superhero. And I'll be damn glad if 4e just explicitly recognizes that and runs with it.

Of course. But Sektat's question was about using Dispel Magic to target specifically the effect of a Power Word Stun.

When casting a targeted Dispel Magic, you can choose to target a single spell. So yes, you can target the stun effect specifically.

If you want to be taunting them, Sending is a pretty basic way to go.

I am Paladin. And so can you!

I am honored. The attention of the vampire mouse is beyond all reward :)

You clearly have not spent enough time on the Rules Forum here :D

Clearly he is not going to grow up to be the next Hitler if you're able to kill him. And yeah, in our game, that would likely drop Gareth right on his shapely but non-paladin ass :) I'm so going to have to put a pregnant Daelkyr in our game now. I wonder if Luna counts? Note to self: Clearly...

The only problem with "hit points as a per encounter resource" is that WotC isn't explicitly making it a rule that PCs start all fights at 100% of hit points. But luckily I can achieve that with an easy house rule, as noted above. Of course, people who DM with kid gloves and run low-risk...

Now the important question is, if enemies move below you and ready spears, how much damage do you take on the way down :]?

You old fogey! You need to upgrade. It's called the Wand of Lesser Vigor now :) I assume that PCs have enough of those to heal themselves and I don't even charge them for the wands right now.

I've never had this problem in 3e/3.5e, partly because I don't run dungeon crawls and usually only have 1 encounter in a given day and maybe 2-3 at most. I also do something which will obviate the problem you expect in 4e. I've completely divorced XP gain from combat and encounters (or anything...

Oh, sure - they can sacrifice themselves heroically to prevent failure if they want. That's mostly in theory, however, since they haven't yet actually managed to do so. In most of the dire situations they've experienced, they've had to suck it up and survive. Anyway, I kinda prefer it that way...

I'm glad it works for you, but I just can't be that kind and gentle as a DM, and I refuse to use kid gloves on my PCs. So I've mostly taken death out of my game. That way, there's no real way for the PCs to escape their suffering and torture, and when they fail, they have to live with the...

Precisely the same here. It doesn't actually matter so much in my game since I don't run dungeon crawls and I rarely have multiple encounters in a day, so the PCs would have been able to heal up after a fight easily enough anyway, but even when I do have multiple encounters, having automatic...

Panacea from the Spell Compendium will do it.

Yes, you activate it when making the saving throw.