Conditions Reference

Conditions alter creature capabilities in defined ways. They end when the triggering effect ends, when removed by a remedy, or when specified.

Blinded

• A blinded creature can't see and automatically fails any ability check requiring sight.
• Attack rolls against the creature have advantage; the creature's attack rolls have disadvantage.

Charmed

• A charmed creature can't attack the charmer or target them with harmful abilities or spells.
• The charmer has advantage on ability checks to interact socially with the creature.

Deafened

• A deafened creature can't hear and automatically fails checks requiring hearing.

Exhaustion

• Measured in six levels. Each level has a cumulative effect:
  • 1: Disadvantage on ability checks
  • 2: Speed halved
  • 3: Disadvantage on attack rolls and saving throws
  • 4: Hit point maximum halved
  • 5: Speed reduced to 0
  • 6: Death
• Finishing a long rest removes one level of exhaustion (provided you have food and water).

Frightened

• A frightened creature has disadvantage on ability checks and attack rolls while the source of fear is within line of sight.
• The creature can't willingly move closer to the source.

Grappled

• A grappled creature's speed becomes 0, and it can't benefit from bonuses to its speed.
• The condition ends if the grappler is incapacitated or the creature is moved out of the grappler's reach.

Incapacitated

• An incapacitated creature can't take actions or reactions.

Invisible

• An invisible creature is impossible to see without magic or special sense.
• Attack rolls against the creature have disadvantage; the creature's attack rolls have advantage.
• The creature still makes noise and leaves tracks.

Paralyzed

• A paralyzed creature is incapacitated and can't move or speak.
• The creature automatically fails Strength and Dexterity saving throws.
• Attack rolls against the creature have advantage.
• Any attack that hits is a critical hit if the attacker is within 5 feet.

Petrified

• A petrified creature is transformed into a solid inanimate substance.
• The creature is incapacitated, unaware of its surroundings, and can't move or speak.
• Attack rolls against have advantage; Strength and Dexterity saves are automatic failures.
• Resistance to all damage; immunity to poison and disease (existing effects suspended, not removed).

Poisoned

• A poisoned creature has disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks.

Prone

• A prone creature's only movement option is to crawl (costs 1 foot of speed per foot traveled) unless it stands up.
• Standing up costs half the creature's speed.
• Attack rolls against a prone creature have advantage if the attacker is within 5 feet of the creature. Otherwise, the attack roll has disadvantage (this applies to ranged attacks and melee attacks from beyond 5 feet, such as with reach weapons).
• The creature's own attack rolls have disadvantage.

Restrained

• A restrained creature's speed becomes 0.
• Attack rolls against the creature have advantage; the creature's attack rolls have disadvantage.
• The creature has disadvantage on Dexterity saving throws.

Stunned

• A stunned creature is incapacitated, can't move, and can speak only falteringly.
• The creature automatically fails Strength and Dexterity saving throws.
• Attack rolls against the creature have advantage.

Unconscious

• An unconscious creature is incapacitated and unaware of its surroundings, dropping everything it holds and falling prone.
• The creature automatically fails Strength and Dexterity saving throws.
• Attack rolls against the creature have advantage.
• Any attack that hits is a critical hit if the attacker is within 5 feet.