I haven't had the time, or drive lately, to do a full rules primer. However, skimming over everything, I had a few things pop out that I wanted to make sure I understood correctly and/or didn't have the time to research, so this is more of me asking the question and/or open discussion as to how something works.

The way I see it, even if you moved or were placed, you can still 'use' Poison and therefore damage characters with his Diseased tokens.
I don't believe this is restrictive to characters with 0 action tokens, so I think you would just take 'up to 2' action tokens. Also, the placement would be adjacent to Amelia's square, not the given character's square.
The entire move must be within a direct path to be considered moving in a 'direct path', therefore, you can't move straight 5 then over 1 and trigger that effect.
Using his FREE to destroy an object does not trigger the effect to remove an action token.

Also, I noticed a few of the Colossal Retaliators that don't mention not being able to attack smaller characters. Is that just missing in the evidence thread, or is this a new boon to some of the CRs?

1) I'm not sure how Grayden uses Poison without being given the free action to use Poison.

2) I'm not sure about this one. If it said "up to" there would be no question. But to gain the benefit it says, "you may give that character 2 action tokens..." so if you cannot meet that part of the deal you can't use the effect.

Agreed the figure is placed adjacent to Amelia.


3) I don't recall the direct path rules so you may be right. The power says 5 squares must be in a direct path so I'd say that is the requirement - 5 in a direct path. Otherwise it should say, "moves in a direct path at least 5 squares..."


4) Correct. Range Destroy is a specific action and not the same as Free or CLOSE Destroy.


5) Some figures with Colossal Retaliation do not have Colossal Indifference (like, say, Dark Phoenix) so they can attack anyone at any time. I think it is worth mentioning many are unable to use Colossal Retaliation if any friendly figure has been placed this turn - so if you TK a figure or carry someone out before declaring CR you will not be able to use it that turn.

For Amelia, giving the character 2 tokens is a "cost", so if you can't give them both tokens, it doesn't work. This is a "do X to do Y" effect, not a "do both X and Y" effect. I'm honestly not sure when they last used this wording, though. I think they've been pretty good about wording these types of things as "Do X. If you do, do Y", and this is exactly why they had moved to that type of wording. Kinda makes me wonder if this was an error somewhere along the line. Should probably be addressed officially.

Correct on the rest, though.

He doesn't? Sassamo is pointing out that you can always be given the FREE action to activate Poison, which is what triggers Graydon's effect. Poison just doesn't do damage if you've been moved/placed, but you are still "using" Poison by giving the FREE action.

Having now taken the time to look into it, I think Golden Rule 3 handles this :

Indeed it does. Slipped my mind that they tacked that onto that section.