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Yep. This. I've dumped all the monsters from the DM Basic stuff as well as all the preview releases thus far into a spreadsheet and that's what I'm seeing more or less. HP and CR have a correlation, while HD seem to be used only to get the monster to the "appropriate" hp range.

PHB says "Once per turn..." (page 96).

Might be. Imprisonment gives several options for trapping the target. The classic deep beneath the earth, chaining, hedged prison, slumber, and minimus containment. The last one seems closest to Trap the Soul in that it traps the target inside a gemstone. However, the target shrinks and is...

That does appear to be the way they are going. And I'm good with it. Makes it hella easier and quicker to build NPCs quickly when needed or desired.

Yep. I noticed this too. You could technically do away with HD for monsters and just assign them hp within a range based on the CR (as you said).

Disparity here comes about because HD type changes on size. Red dragon is bigger and uses d12. Green dragon is using d10. Also, red has 25 Con; green 17 Con. I am sure an Adult Green Dragon will be closer in CR and stuff to the Red (closer than the Young green anyway).

My players hit upper 20's/low 30's with a couple of PCs back in 1e/2e. Those PCs have since retired (long ago actually) and the players that originally played them (that still play in our game) are playing their sons/daughters in the current campaign, and in some cases will likely end up playing...

Use the older pre-3.x rule that players have to declare their actions before initiative is rolled.

Trap the Soul. (Though likely this will appear in errata.)

Plugging all the monsters into Excel (those from the DM Basic Rules and the Hoard supplement) yields this for average HD based on CR. Note some CRs only have a few (as in 1) we've seen so far (CR 9, 10, 16) so the numbers will likely change. Some monsters at certain CRs haven't been revealed...

Agreed. That's probably how I'd do it too.

It does when the wizard casts fireball in an enclosed space (like a 10x10 room or a small tunnel). This happened in a 1e game a long time ago.

Or maybe the new party isn't connected to the previous one at all, but are hired because "We sent a party out and they never came back." or "No one's ever returned from there." All the hooks used that mention things like that...the players can relate somewhat to the latest because they were one...

That doesn't really make it an unexpected TPK at that point. :)

African or European?

And see, the race table for my campaign would look like this: Races 60 Human (various human cultures/sub-races here) 15 Dwarf 15 Elf 5 Half-elf 5 Half-orc 0 Dragonborn 0 Tiefling -1,000,000 Halfling -1,000,000 Gnome

Yep. This. And the SW analogy is a bit weak as it's a story (movie, book) controlled by the author. I don't think Lucas (or most any other author) sits around rolling dice when combat happens. (Well, except maybe GRRM. Now that guy's a killer DM with DM vs. player issues.)

Or just ban wizards casting in armor.

Now this would be highly entertaining to see.

Agreed. Changing longsword to something other than 1d8 damage would be like removing the 3-18 ability range and just using modifier. Never happen. Sacred Cow.