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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rkanodia" data-source="post: 4078132" data-attributes="member: 11681">I doubt that monsters have healing surges.  The DDXP reports seem to indiciate that Healing Surges are a strategic resource to be whittled down over the course of a day, with it being unlikely that you could go through all of them in a single battle.  Thus, monster healing will probably be constrained by the Shaman having a limited number of uses of his healing powers, not by the Skirmisher being able to receive a limited number of Healing Surges.As for your second point, I would surmise that the rules don't really handle 'monsters as PCs' very well.  They've said very explicitly that monsters are constructed around being interesting for one fight and then dying.  I believe it was mentioned at the seminar that the Monster Manual has 500 stat blocks, and 12 races that can be played as PCs.I suppose it could be the case that a monster, when he is a long-running character, has some number of Healing Surges that isn't included in the default statblock because of the assumption that it will never be expended during one fight.</blockquote>