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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 4368825" data-attributes="member: 996">He probably will be.  The Dwarf will be channelled into using hammers, which work well with high CON and benefit from a racial feat, the human will be stronger, but the dwarf will have higher CON & WIS.  But, humans are notoriously versatile and could be pretty close to a dwarf.  Compare a dwarf fighter to an elven one.  The elf will gravitate to blades, which benefit from good dex.  A dwarf greatweapon fighter with a maul and an elven gaurdian fighter with sword & shield would be quite different. 4e's 'treadmill' character keeps racial abilities from fading away quite as dramatically as they did in 3e.  A +2 to your primary stat means you hit better and harder than the guy who didn't get a +2 to that stat, from level 1 through 30.  There's no 'catching up' in 4e:  stat boost and attack boosts are few and tightly structured.  Many racials simply never go out of style.  With something around a 50/50 shot at your best attack hitting throughout your carreer, elven accuracy or tiefling infernal wrath (& hellfire bloodline) never go out of style.  As a human, using your action surge will make as must sense to hit with a daily at epic as it did at heroic; and as with attack, the defense 'treadmill effect' means your +1 racial to REF/FORT/WILL never gets overshadowed, either (and an extra at will when you only ever get 2? nothing to sneeze at, especially if you go for paragon multiclassing).</blockquote>

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