Status Conditions

Status conditions, or Status for short, alter a creature’s capabilities in a variety of ways and can arise as a result of a spell, a class feature, a monster’s attack, or other effect. Most statuses, such as blinded, are impairments, but a few, such as invisible, can be advantageous.

A status lasts either until it is countered (the prone status is countered by standing up, for example) or for a duration specified by the effect that imposed the status.

If multiple effects impose the same status or kind of status on a creature, each instance of the status has its own duration. If two statuses are of the same group, you move to the next level of the effect until the duration wears off where you move back a level in that group or the effect ends.

Mental Statuses

These are statuses that are generally resisted by mental or magic defenses.

Entrancement

Entrancement statuses are any effects that would alter your choices.

Charmed

You can’t attack the charmer or target the charmer with harmful Abilities or Magical Effects.
The charmer has advantage on any ability check to interact socially with you.

Dominated

You are Charmed.
You must follow commands given by the charmer.

Possessed

You cannot make any actions or movements on your own.
As long as you remain possessed, you no longer control your character.

Fear

Fear statuses require line-of-sight, either from the target or from the source.

Shaken

You can move at half movement.

Scared

You have disadvantage on non-combat skill rolls.
You are Shaken.
You can move away from your source of fear at normal movement.

Frightened

You have disadvantage on all skill rolls.
You can’t willingly move closer to your source of fear.

Terrified

You can’t attack and have disadvantage on ability rolls and defense rolls.
You must move away from your source of fear or you cannot move.

Senses

These statuses affect your ability to perceive the world around you.

Blinded

You can’t see and automatically fail any Awareness or Acuity roll that requires sight.
All creatures are Unseen to you.

Deafened

You can’t hear and you automatically fail any Awareness or Acuity roll that requires hearing.

Invisible

You are Unseen unless a creature can somehow see you, as with magic or Blindsight.
You are impossible to see without the aid of magic or a Special sense.
You aren’t affected by any effect that requires its target to be seen.

Your location may still be detected by any noise you make or any tracks you leave.

Surprised

Once a creature gains the Surprised status, combat starts and all players roll for Action Points.

When you roll for Action Points, you gain 4 less Action Points.
You cannot take defensive reactions other than Dodge.
If a melee attack against you would be a critical hit, any extra damage from your Attribute ignores Vitality and does damage directly to Health.
If a ranged attack against you would be a critical hit, half the damage is done directly to Health.

You lose the Surprise status if:

You are attacked with an attack that costs more than 4 action points, or a spell that costs more than 3 action points
You take any damage
It is your turn

Misc

These effects affect you mentally or magically but don't necessarily correspond to each other.

Doomed

You have disadvantage on death save rolls.
When rolling vitality dice you roll at disadvantage.

Despondent

You have disadvantage on speechcraft and performance skills.
You do not add your skill bonus to your attack or ability rolls.

Cursed

You have disadvantage on Spirit and Mental defense rolls.

Dazed

You have disadvantage on Spirit and Mental attacks and skill rolls.

Physical

These are status conditions that impair your movement or ability to act.

Stunned

Stunned statuses reduce your movement and actions as they progress.

Fatigued

The cost of movement and defense rolls are doubled.

Staggered

You are Fatigued.
Your attack and defense rolls have disadvantage.
You cannot make reactions to an attack.

Incapacitated

You are Staggered.
Your Action Points are halved and you cannot attack.
You cannot maintain concentration.

Stunned

You are Incapacitated.
You cannot move and cannot speak.
You automatically fail Body and Mobility rolls.

Paralyzed

You are Stunned.
Attack rolls against you have advantage.
Any attack that hits you does damage to your health directly.

Sleep

Sleep effects put you to sleep or slow you down.

Tired

You move at half movement.
Any action you take costs 2 extra Action Points.

Drowsy

You are Tired.
Your attacks have disadvantage.
Any damage you take moves you from Drowsy to Tired.

Unconscious

You are considered Paralyzed.
You are unaware of your surroundings.
You drop whatever you are holding and fall Prone.
Any damage you take wakes you up and you become Drowsy.

Comatose

You are Unconscious.
You are not woken up from taking damage or being shaken awake.

Strength

Strength effects weaken you and reduce your ability to do physical damage.

Weakened

You deal only half damage with weapon attacks that use Strength.
You have disadvantage on Strength rolls.

Enfeebled

You are Weakened.
Your movement is reduced by half.
You make attacks at disadvantage.

Drained

Your movement is reduced to 0.
You are Incapacitated.

Combat

Combat status conditions are designed to give an edge in combat and may not all be directly related.

Restrained

Your movement becomes 0, and can’t be increased.
You have disadvantage on attack and active defense rolls.

Grappled

You are Restrained.
You can be dragged or carried, but the Grappler’s movement is halved unless you are two or more sizes smaller than the grappler or Tiny.
You can spend 4 Action Points to make a Body (Strength) defense roll or an Escape (Agility) - physicality roll to escape from the grapple.

The condition ends if the Grappler is Incapacitated or if the distance between you and the grappler exceeds the grapple’s range.

Pined

You are Grappled.
Your Grappler's movement is also 0.
Attacks against you have advantage.
You can spend 4 Action Points to make a Body (Strength) defense roll or an Escape (Agility) - physicality roll to move from Pinned to Grappled or to escape from the pin.

The condition ends if the Grappler is Incapacitated or if the distance between you and the grappler exceeds the grapple’s range.

Prone

Your only movement option is to crawl at half your movement unless you stand up, spending half your movement, and remove the status.
You have disadvantage on attack rolls.
Attacks against you have disadvantage unless it is made within 5 feet of you, where the attack has advantage.

Unbalanced

The next attack made against you is made with advantage.
Your next action in combat costs double the Action Points.

Once either effect is trigged you are no longer Unbalanced.

Misc

These are status conditions that have no growth or correlation to each other.

Disoriented

You have disadvantage on Body and Mobility attack and skill rolls.

Poisoned

You are Dazed and Disoriented.

Disabled

You immediately fall Prone and cannot end the status condition.
You are Staggered.
You cannot maintain concentration.

Petrified

You are Transformed, along with any nonmagical object you are wearing or carrying, into a solid inanimate substance (usually stone). Your weight increases by a factor of ten, and you cease aging.
You are Stunned.
You are unaware of your surroundings.
You have resistance to all damage.
You are immune to poison and disease, although a poison or disease already in your system is suspended, not neutralized.

Health

Health status conditions show your state of health.

Bloodied

You are bloodied when your Health is half of its total maximum or less.

Winded

You are winded when your vitality is equal to or less than one-half your maximum Vitality.

Exhaustion

Some Special Abilities and environmental Hazards, such as starvation and the long-term effects of freezing or scorching temperatures, can lead to a special status condition called exhaustion. Exhaustion is measured in six levels. An effect can give you one or more levels of exhaustion, as specified in the effect’s description. Some effects specify a penalty, these penalties are equal to your exhaustion level.

If you are already exhausted and suffer another effect that causes exhaustion, your current level of exhaustion increases by the amount specified in the effect’s description.

You suffer the effect of your current level of exhaustion as well as all lower levels. For example, if you are suffering from level 2 exhaustion, your movement is reduced by 2 and you have -2 on skill rolls.

An effect that removes exhaustion reduces its level as specified in the effect’s description, with all exhaustion effects ending if your exhaustion level is reduced below 1.

Finishing a long rest reduces your exhaustion level by 1, provided that you have also ingested some food and drink.

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