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Is it just me or is the intentional design choice of setting the average hitpoint at ~50% making combats very swingy? I didn't really notice it when 4e first came out, but after a few weeks of running it the problem seems to be quite severe. PCs rolling badly or NPCs rolling well tilts...

So how do you DMs out there run passive perception and insight? Many times people from my group would try to actively spot something and roll below a 10. Do you just describe things as though they had rolled a 10 in that case or do you use the active search and treat it as though the PCs had a...