Other conditions simply say you can’t act. Some conditions prevent you from taking a certain subset of actions, typically reactions. For instance, the action gained from haste lets you only Stride or Strike, so if you need to lose one-action because you’re also slowed, you might decide to lose the action from haste, letting you keep your other actions that can be used more flexibly. If you have conflicting conditions that affect your number of actions, you choose which actions you lose. These conditions alter how many actions you regain at the start of your turn thus, gaining the condition in the middle of your turn doesn’t adjust your number of actions on that turn. Some conditions (like quickened, slowed, and stunned) allow (or cause) you to gain or lose actions on a turn. The overridden condition’s duration continues to elapse, and it might run out while suppressed. When this happens, all effects of the overridden condition are suppressed until the overriding condition ends. This is always specified in the entry for the overriding condition. If a condition value is ever reduced to 0, the condition ends. These values can often be reduced by skills, spells, or simply waiting.

This value conveys the severity of a condition, and such conditions often give you a bonus or penalty equal to their value. Some conditions have a numerical value, called a condition value, indicated by a numeral following the condition. 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.

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.Ĭonditions are persistent. For example, a spell or magic item might turn you invisible or cause you to be gripped by fear.

While adventuring, characters (and sometimes their belongings) are affected by abilities and effects that apply conditions.

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