💫Status Effects

Asleep

Creature is knocked down, can take no actions and cannot be awakened unless they take damage, has a saving throw inflicted on it or an ally uses the aid action to awaken them. Also DD.

Affliction

A type of permanent debuff that can usually only be removed by returning to civilization and taking some time off to rest, recuperate and relax. Afflictions come in tiers from 1-3. Higher tier afflictions usually require more extreme forms of care to remove.

You acquire an affliction when you are defeated, or when you are unable to rest. Some monsters can also directly inflict afflictions.

Bleed

Bleeding creatures take a specified amount of dmg at the start of each of their turns for a specified duration. If no duration is specified, it lasts indefinitely. The DC to stop the bleeding (with medicine or magic healing with a CL check) is 12+the level of the inflicting creature.

Instead of taking damage, bleed prevents a creature from losing the defeated condition when healed (unless the healing removes the bleed).

Blurred Vision

Sighted creature takes a -2 penalty to perception and treats all creatures as though they had partial concealment (effectively -2 attack).

Blinded

Sighted creature takes a -4 penalty to perception and treats all creatures as though they had total concealment (effectively -4 attack). Creatures' vision range decreases to 10 ft. Creature is also DD.

Clumsy

Creature takes a stacking penalty to reflex saves equal to value. Creatures get a bonus to attack against a clumsy creature equal to value. Otherwise functions like shaken. A clumsy creature cannot ascend using flight, or things that function similarly to flight, such as a hover speed. Clumsy caps at 4.

Confused

You consider all creatures enemies. Every turn, roll a d10 to determine how you act. Many effects allow you to increase the dice roll with a will save. For confusion effects that last more than 1 round, each subsequent d10 roll gets 2 added to the result.

10+ - Act Normally. End confusion 8-9 - Spend standard action babbling incoherently 6-7 - Consume all movement to wander in a random direction 15 ft (speed boosts don't function) 3-5 - Spend standard action to harm self for 2d6 (7) crush damage 1-2 - Attack nearest non-companion creature with a simple attack

Charmed

Creature cannot attack the entity that inflicted this condition. Entity that inflicted this condition has a +4 bonus on charisma skills against this creature. Immediately ends if the creature that inflicted the condition harms the charmed creature.

Charmed creatures always interpret what the creature that charmed them is doing in the most positive light: Punches and sword swings are massages and surgeries. Charmed creatures are often willing to do things asked of them provided they don't put the creature in danger or clash with their ethos. After the charm ends, acts are seen for what they truly are.

Dazed

A more severe version of staggered. Creature cannot take a standard action and cannot make AoOs

DD

"Denied Dodge." Creature is unable to respond effectively to your attack, due to stealth, feinting or some other status effect. DD creatures cannot take immediate or instant actions in response to actions taken by creatures who treat them as DD. Attacks made against a DD creature get a +4 bonus.

Defeated

When a creature is defeated, they automatically become drained 1.

Creature can take no actions on their turn other than crawling at 15 speed. Combat maneuvers and attacks automatically succeed against a defeated creature. Defeated creatures automatically fail reflex saves. Unimportant creatures are assumed to die upon acquiring the defeated condition.

When you recover from being defeated through healing, you are dazed on your first turn back up.

Drained

A more severe status effect that persists through resting. Decreases current and max hp by 5. This penalty can stack similar to shaken (ie drained 2 -10, drained 10 -50). Requires 1 week of rest in civilization to remove per stack (or 3 days, see medicine).

Entangled

Creature's speed is reduced to zero. Creatures get a +2 bonus to attack against entangled creatures. Usually has a means to escape manually with athletics. Creatures without the entangled condition receive a +4 bonus on checks to untangle a creature.

Envenomed

Venom comes in 3 stages. In order to advance from one to the next, the afflicted creature must fail a fortitude save. The venom continues until they creature passes a fortitude save. Some creatures may have different effects for their venom, but this is the assumed default if no other details are listed.

Stage 1 - Creature is sickened 1, which cannot be removed until the creature is no longer poisoned. 1 minute after the creature fails its first save, it must roll again or hit stage 2.

Stage 2 - Creature is sickened 2, which cannot be removed until the creature is no longer poisoned. The creature also has disadvantage on skill checks. 10 minutes after the creature fails its second save, it must roll again.

Stage 3 - Creature is sickened 3, which cannot be removed until the creature is no longer poisoned. The creature gains the defeated condition.

In stage 3, a creature must roll a save every 10 minutes. Each failure adds a stack of drain.

Frightened

Creature cannot move closer to the source of its fear. It has disadvantage on attack rolls and opposed skill checks against the source of its fear.

Fatigued

Cannot charge, dash or jump. Disadvantage on athletics and acrobatics. Removed with 10 minutes of inactivity.

Fascinated

Creature cannot take actions other than watch the source of its fascination. Creature loses condition after it is aided by an ally, attacked, has a saving throw inflicted on it, or succeeds on a perception check to notice a creature in its pockets etc. If the source of its fascination is no longer visible (or able to be sensed for other types of fascination), the condition also ends. After this happens, temporarily become immune to fascination for 1 minute.

Grounded

Through bent wings, malfunctioning magic or disorientation the creature is unable to stay airborne. Creatures currently flying immediately plummet and provoke AoOs, but retain enough flight to avoid fall damage. Also effects hover speeds.

Knockdown

Typically only lasts 1 round. Creature has -30 movement. Attacks made against a knocked down creature get a +2 bonus.

Mana Burn

Abilities with the tag [mana burn] either reduce your max mana, or have an optional more powerful use case that reduces your max mana. Reduces by 1 unless stated otherwise. Usually goes away on rest.

Pacified

The creature cannot take aggressive actions against enemies with intent to inflict damage or assist its allies in inflicting damage.

Staggered

Creature can only take a standard action or swift action each turn. Movement -15. All multiattack options are disabled.

Silenced

Creature cannot or can barely speak, preventing them from casting spells.

Stunned

A more extreme form of being dazed. Creature cannot take any actions or movement. Also creature is DD.

Shaken

Creature takes a penalty to will saves and the their class/offense DC equal to shaken penalty (shaken now has a number value associated with it like shaken 1). Adding new stacks of shaken gives all stacks the longest duration of all the effects. Shaken caps at 4.

Usually shaken wears off after 1 minute of calm.

Sickened

Creature takes a penalty to fort saves and attack equal to sickened penalty. Otherwise functions like shaken. Usually sickened wears off after 1 minute of calm. Sickened caps at 4.

Taunt

Direct a creatures aggression at something. A taunted creature must use all their attacks on the target and must include the target in all of their special attacks (spells, Su etc.). A taunted creature can only move if the movement puts them closer to the creature that taunted it.

A creature who is taunted MUST take some type of aggressive option, and cannot use their turn to support allies, or heal themselves, unless such actions would also be an attack against the taunter.

A creature taunted by 2 or more creatures may decide between the 2 creatures which they'd like to attack.

More extreme forms of taunt may restrict the types of actions the creature can take while taunted.

Creatures not currently engaged in combat cannot be taunted.

Elemental Status

Ablaze

When a creature is set ablaze, it takes 2d8 (9) fire damage at the start of each turn. Attacks made against the target get a +2 bonus for 1 round. Before taking damage on the second turn, and every subsequent turn, roll a reflex save to end effect. A creature can choose to inflict knockdown on itself at the start of their turn for a +4 bonus to this save.

Being submerged in water, getting entombed or taking cold damage also removes this condition.

Bone Chill

Typically inflicted alongside necrotic damage. [Healing] effects that restore hp or grant temp hp are half as effective (minimum 1 healing).

Frosty

Creature is covered in ice. Creature has resistance to fire damage and -15 speed. Attacks made against a frosty creature get a +2 bonus. This status ends when they take fire, crush, slash or pierce damage.

Wet

Weakness 5 zap/frost. When a wet creature takes zap or frost damage, the condition ends.

Being wet is something that can come up often in the environment. Only by being drenched in rain, submerged in water or something similar can one be considered wet to the point where this has a mechanical effect. For primarily underwater focused missions, consider ignoring this.

Rare Status

Anchored

Creature cannot use [teleportation] effects. If it attempts to, the action (and mana) is wasted and the effect fizzles.

Dominated

A creature that is dominated is hit with a powerful charm effect, possessed or controlled by some other means. They are unable to control their own actions and are subject to the will of another creature.

Drained

A stacking debuff that decreases all d20 rolls by 1. Lowers your current and maximum hp by 5 each stack. Remove 1 drain per week of rest.

Entombed

The creature is encased in ice, stone etc. They have total cover, and cannot be targeted. Entombed creatures can only perform mental actions or try to escape (usually requiring an athletics check).

Stasis

Creature is frozen in time, or some other particularly powerful effect. They cannot be targeted by anything and they are immune to everything.

Siphoned

The creature is severed from its magic. It is not capable of casting spells or using its activated supernatural abilities. Constant effects, effects from items, or effects that were already cast remain in effect.

Time Out

A creature in time out has lost the will to fight. They cannot inflict harmful effects on anybody or anything. They also cannot cast spells without your permission. They meekly follow your commands (ex. follow me), but don’t do anything against their ethos (kick that puppy) or that is dangerous (jump off that cliff) without extreme circumstances.

If you or your allies attack the creature or cast a harmful spell on it, the condition ends. Treat it like a slightly more convenient form of unconsciousness if you want to interact with the creature after the combat. Many minion-type creatures will acquire this status effect when their leader is defeated.