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Mages and Wizards are very similar and play very similar. There is more difference between a PHB melee ranger and a PHB archery ranger than between a typical Wizard and a typical Mage. I'd say there's probably more difference between a Battlerager Fighter and a Tempest Fighter than between...

The intent is to keep the three Essentials Master Sets (Dungeon, City, Wilderness) in print, however.

As others have said, wizards can't keep up with rangers in damage, because damage is the ranger's entire job. Additionally, you seem to not be using the current version of the rules, as that's not how Magic Missile works anymore; it no longer has an attack roll or damage roll, and instead...

There's also a few feats like Barreling Charge, which now do literally nothing because of rules changes. (It's now just a restatement of part of the universal Charge rules.)

In 4E, at my local LFR group, we use the term Christmas Tree to refer to miniatures that are so festooned with colored pipe cleaner or plastic rings from various conditions that you can barely see the underlying mini any more. It's visually decorated like a Christmas Tree, which is a distinct...

Footwork Lure is pretty good. The problem with Luring Strike is that it's only [W], not [W]+Int. For a typical Swordmage (Longsword and 20 Int), that means it's doing less than half the damage of any other weapon-based at-will at level one, which is pathetic.

Seriously? It's a 3x3 non-movable zone. Just stay out of it, or move through it once and suck up the flat five damage if you have to. Flaming Sphere is way better because it's mobile and has a damage roll, even though it hits allies too.

I would say no one, as Unicorn Charge doesn't target any of your allies, so Mark of Healing wouldn't trigger.

Rangers have a second at-will? ;)

I prefer to approach it as a much more collaborative problem. In my game, I told my players that my version of the Nentir Vale was populated primarily by humans, dwarves, and tieflings, which are the cultural remnants of my Bael Turath, so they should consider those races in particular...

Agreed. The inability to browse things easily is terrible. I now find myself using the compendium to compare powers and such, and then only selecting them in the builder. The inventory browser in particular is a spectacular piece of crap. There's no global search, and you have to filter...

Speaking of failures of presentation, there's the issue of keywords with rules baggage. Nearly all the keywords of a power don't actually do anything on their own. If it's Divine, Radiant, & Healing or Arcane & Fire, that only matters for other other effects, mostly Feats, that look for...

Given that you can't understand how the power works without both the Range and Target entries, and given how many people manage to miss one when reading over powers, I think the current way of writing it is a clear failure of presentation. They should be combined into a single string, that way...

Yeah, even if you change this rule, skill checks are still different, because there's no auto-success on a 20 or auto-fail on a 1. Plus, requiring a natural 20 to get up, then putting an exception in every feat, power, or other rule that modifies it seems ridiculously inelegant. (Granted, if...

I'd say Leaders are completely indispensable. Not only are they the safety net that keeps people up, they're a powerful force multiplier for the rest of party when played well. Controllers are mostly extraneous. Actual control effects don't seem to be as effective in practice as simply...

Rapiers are a +3/1d8 Military Light Blade, and Light Blade Expertise is one of the best of the new Expertise Feats. They may not match up with the flavor experience you're looking for, but mechanically it's pretty far from hell.

I avoid that by just ruling that monsters in the thick of battle can't tell the difference between someone who's down and bleeding out and someone who went down and has been healed, but hasn't caught their breath and sprung back into battle yet. As long as you're still lying around prone...

You call repeatedly losing half the information you entered about a monster a "minor" bug? That's a completely broken, release-blocking, rollback-worthy bug that prevents you from actually using the damn program for its intended purpose. It was once a great program, back when it worked. Now...

Less than $10 a year is trivial for a company compared to even the barest glimmer of future value from a once-famous name. If even one person a year hits TSR.com because they vaguely remember playing D&D when they were young and goes on to buy just a single book, they're already profiting off...

All Attack Powers are exactly one of four types: Melee, Ranged, Close, or Area. It's not how I would have set things up, but there it is. (Frankly, Close and Area seem unnecessary, and you could work things just fine with Melee Burst, Melee Blast, and Ranged Burst, and it would be clearer for...