There's nothing in there about break away, so he has to roll it. (He doesn't even get the normal giant reduction or ignorance of Plasticity.)

Yay obscure rules question!

I wonder why this question came up, anyway.

Unless you have Groot using the Force Field Generator he's got no use for any move actions that don't move him.

Ooh, is that the Joeldad that invented LAMP, or the one that invented the Revengers, or just some poser. Some poser, probably. You go to any forum and you find a dozen Brad Pitts, a few Sates and a Joeldad or 2. It's the burden of celebrity.

Wait, Barrier isn't a move action any more, is it? Yeah, I declare the question, "can I give a figure that cannot be moved a move action?" answered. This thread is now closed.

Because Groot only has a range of 4 when he is Colossal.

If he can't move, all your opponent has to do is move 5 squares away and then take your time blasting him without fear.

And if there is nothing to attack within 4 squares (no walls, no objects, no blocking terrain, etc), you can't even assign Groot combat actions to push him and maybe get him to a click where he can move again and get back into battle.

The whole issue of "0 move" versus "no movement" was a possible remedy to that situation. If Groot can't even be assigned a move action at all, he's completely hosed in the situation I described above. If, however, you can assign him a move action (even a move action that doesn't do anything), you could potentially push him.

I am the one and only joeldad I know of.

I didnt invent Lamp, but I did invent the old JokerLAMP/ Sentinel combo and the Suicide Squad/pog combo right after Legacy.

I cant take credit for the revengers as a whole, Vaultis_Drude, Wildonion, TheBoyBlunder , and others helped.

Although can Groot (colossal) even be given a move action?

Or is the issue still unresolved?

I believe it is still unsolved, last time i looked we had the dupties having conflicting statements.

The Players GD says  Parasite can not be given a power action to activate Defense Drain. but you can Give him a power action to do nothing and activate Defense Drain seems to be against the intent of the PG clarification.

Harpua stepped back from that later in the discussion (post 45).

Have we come to a conclusion on this>? I saw another discussion on this today where there is no clear cut decision.

The issue has been resolved. Groot cannot be given a move action when he can't be moved.

From the Player's Guide:

So if Groot can't attack an adjacent figure because they roll shape change he 'doesn't do anything' but still is considered to have taken an action and therefore tokened?

If he can't take any action at all, it seems he wouldn't get a token and wouldn't be considered to have taken a non-free action.

He could take an action to use magic missile to attack the darkness.

LOL.

What is the real answer though? If Groot can't take another action, does he have to take one or can he take one?