Conditions Appendix

While adventuring, characters (and sometimes their belongings) are affected by abilities and effects that apply conditions. For example, a spell or magic item might turn you invisible or cause you to be gripped by fear. Conditions change your state of being in some way, and they represent everything from the attitude other creatures have toward you and how they interact with you to what happens when a creature drains your blood or life essence. Conditions are persistent. Whenever you're affected by a condition, its effects last until the condition's stated duration ends, the condition is removed, or terms dictated in the condition itself cause it to end. Death and Dying Rules The doomed, dying, unconscious, and wounded conditions all relate to the process of coming closer to death. The full rules are found here. The most significant information not contained in the conditions themselves is this: when you're reduced to 0 Hit Points, you're knocked out with the following effects. You immediately move your initiative position to directly before the creature or effect that reduced you to 0 Hit Points. You gain the dying 1 condition. If the effect that knocked you out was a critical success from the attacker or the result of your critical failure, you gain the dying 2 condition instead. If you have the wounded condition, increase these values by your wounded value. If the damage came from a nonlethal attack or effect, you don't gain the dying condition—you're instead unconscious with 0 Hit Points. Groups of Conditions Some conditions exist relative to one another or share a similar theme. It can be useful to look at these conditions together to understand how they interact. Detection: Observed, hidden, undetected, unnoticed Senses: Blinded, concealed, dazzled, deafened, invisible Death and Dying: Doomed, dying, unconscious, wounded Attitudes: Hostile, unfriendly, indifferent, friendly, helpful Lowered Abilities: Clumsy, drained, enfeebled, stupefied Redundant Conditions You can have a given condition only once at a time. If an effect would impose a condition you already have, you now have that condition for the longer of the two durations. The shorter-duration condition effectively ends, though other conditions caused by the original, shorter-duration effect might continue. For example, let's say you've been hit by a monster that crushes your arm; your wound causes you to be enfeebled 2 and off-guard until the end of the monster's next turn. Before the end of that creature's next turn, a trap poisons you, making you enfeebled 2 for 1 minute. In this case, the enfeebled 2 that lasts for 1 minute replaces the enfeebled 2 from the monster, so you would be enfeebled 2 for the longer duration. You would remain off-guard, since nothing replaced that condition, and it still lasts only until the end of the monster's next turn. Any ability that removes a condition removes it entirely, no matter what its condition value is or how many times you've been affected by it. In the example above, a spell that removes the enfeebled condition from you would remove it entirely—the spell wouldn't need to remove it twice. Redundant Conditions With Values Conditions with different values are considered different conditions. If you're affected by a condition with a value multiple times, you apply only the highest value, although you might have to track both durations if one has a lower value but lasts longer. For example, if you had a slowed 2 condition that lasts 1 round and a slowed 1 condition that lasts for 6 rounds, you'd be slowed 2 for the first round, and then you'd change to slowed 1 for the remaining 5 rounds of the second effect's duration. If something reduces the condition value, it reduces it for all conditions of that name affecting you. For instance, in this example above, if something reduced your slowed value by 1, it would reduce the first condition from the example to slowed 1 and reduce the second to slowed 0, removing it.