Questions tagged [conditions]
For questions about conditions suffered by a creature, typically negative and as a result of an enemy's actions during combat.
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How to remove a generic compulsion effect, such as Divine Inspiration, most easily?
Compulsion by Divine Inspiration
The salient divine ability Divine Inspiration can impose any of four apparently instantaneous mind-affecting compulsion effects (frenzy, rage, love, or desire), and no ...
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How to start a campaign with the PCs exiting a stasis effect?
I want to start a new campaign with the player characters (who don't know each-other) awakening from a Stasis effect or similar, unaware of how they got there, where they are, or why they're there.
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What happens when a creature with the See Invisibility spell is blinded?
Lets say a character has cast the See Invisibility spell on themself. If they become blinded, would they still be able to see their invisible target?
See Invisibility:
For the duration, you see ...
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Blinded despite Blindsight?
From the Rules Glossary (emphasis mine):
Blindsight
If you have Blindsight, you can see within a specific range without relying on physical sight. Within that range, you can see anything that isn’t ...
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Dying Condition and Death Effects
I had a situation come up in a game and need some guidance. I had an Alchemist get knocked down to 0HP and gain Dying 1. He did his saving throws and went to Dying 2. One of the other characters ...
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How long do the effects of the Specter's Life Drain last?
The Specter's Life Drain says:
[...] If the target is a creature, its Hit Point maximum decreases by
an amount equal to the damage taken.
Many monsters have similar actions or traits that affect ...
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Does a souless cloned body meet the definition of the Dead condition?
A clone effect generates "an inert duplicate of a creature"... "a soulless bit of inert flesh, which rots if not preserved."
The Dead condition is defined in part as, "The ...
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With the wording of Sanctuary, can you grapple while warded?
With the new wording for Sanctuary in the 2024 Player's Handbook it states that "the spell ends if the warded creature makes an attack roll, casts a spell or deals damage." With the idea of ...
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Can a water elemental attack you while you are whelmed?
The water elemental has a Whelm action that says:
Whelm (Recharge 4–6). Each creature in the elemental's space must make a DC 15 Strength saving throw. On a failure, a target takes 13 (2d8 + 4) ...
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Faithful hound vs Mind Blank
Mind blank
Until the spell ends, one willing creature you touch is immune to psychic damage, any effect that would sense its emotions or read its thoughts, divination spells, and the charmed ...
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Animated object subject to petrification
During our last session the Wizard cast the Animate objects spell on 10 Electrum coins. A few rounds later, one of those coins was petrified by a Gorgon (the DM pointed out that for the duration of ...
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Is grappling an incapacitated or prone target easier?
Grappling and Shoving are no longer initiated with contested ability checks. Instead, they require a strength or dexterity saving throw. Intuitively, I might imagine that certain conditions would ...
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Using masterwork transformation spell on broken non magical items
I am playing Pathfinder 1e and i had this thought...
If I have a non magical tool, armor or weapon and it has Broken condition. Is it possible to cast Masterwork Transformation spell on it to remove ...
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Is removing the frightened condition the same as making a successful saving throw when it comes to immunity from the effect?
The party is fighting a narzugon. In addition to the three attacks per round that it makes, its statblock states that it also uses its Terrifying Command ability:
Each creature within 60 feet of the ...
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Would Lesser/Greater Restoration be able to cure a mental illness?
In a one-shot my DM ran, one of the other players decided to play as a high elf that thought they were a cat and ended up being a drunk 'cat'. I asked if I could use Lesser Restoration to cure the ...
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It is possible to cast the homebrew spell "Breath of the Last Love" on myself if I have the "stunned" condition?
I have the homebrew spell "Breath of the last love".
I was given the status of "stunned" for 1 turn.
Can I remove the status of stunned using this spell, or can I use it again?
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Going prone whilst climbing [duplicate]
Recently I was running a game and my players were in a fight with a Young Red Dragon that was climbing a wall. One of my players was able to inflict the prone condition on it. We then had the ...
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Can you use the Major Image spell to replicate/cause other conditions?
I wonder if, within RAW, Major Image could replicate/induce following effects:
Blinded (all you see is white emptiness around you or dense fog or pure darkness),
Deafened (you hear noise so loud, ...
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Is there any way to get immunity to unconsciousness?
Preferably permanently and without losing class abilities.
I tried searching for this immunity, through races, feats and backgrounds, but so far only found the moon druid's transformation into an ...
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Are non-damaging effects obvious in combat without a check?
This question came about in response to a debate relating to this answer, wherein I stipulated that the effects of the Warp Mind spell are not immediately obvious to your allies.
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Can a creature restraining someone also be restrained?
If a PC is being “restrained” by a creature - could the restraining creature also in turn be “restrained” by a different PC / creature? And, would doing so break the initial restraint on the PC, or ...
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How does the poisoned condition affect the challenge rating?
I am planning an encounter against different Ogres (Half-Ogre, Ogre, Ogre Battering Ram...). During the fight, the Ogres are drunk and suffer the poisoned condition (disadvantage on attack rolls and ...
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Is a Stone Giant immune from Petrification?
Can a Medusa's Gaze attack, say, petrify a Stone Giant?
For example a Fire Giant is immune from Fire, the same for Frost giants for cold etc. It seams to follow that a stone giant should have immunity ...
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Homebrew Review: exhaustion and "dying"-Condition
This is a homebrew review request for the "dying"-condition, but the different exhaustion plays a part in that.
Exhaustion: There are 10 levels of exhaustion, each level of
exhaustion a ...
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When/How do conditions end when not specified?
Player spells or abilities that cause conditions always have a duration or cure style attached - poison and disease have their own rules, or casting Befuddle to cause the target to be clumsy & ...
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