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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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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What mechanical effects govern smoke emitted from a torch accumulating in a dungeon?
I am looking for Pathfinder 1E or D&D 3.5 rules that govern at what rate smoke is emitted from a flame, specifically a torch. I want to know how long it takes for a 5 foot cube of space to fill ...
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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 Shadow's Draining Swipe last?
The Shadow's Draining Swipe states that on a hit:
[...] the target’s Strength score decreases by 1d4. The target dies if this reduces that score to 0. [...]
There are many monsters with similar ...
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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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How long do the effects of the Fomorian's Warping Hex last?
The Fomorian's Warping Hex reads:
[...] Failure: 21 (6d6) Psychic damage, and the target gains 1
Exhaustion level. [...]
There are many monsters with similar actions or traits, affecting your ...
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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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Can a character speak while engulfed by a darkmantle?
The darkmantle’s Crush attack has the following effect:
it attaches by engulfing the target’s head, and the target is also blinded and unable to breathe while the darkmantle is attached in this way
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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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Does the Invisible condition mean you cannot be seen?
Wild question, I know.
Of the rules that dictate whether or not something can be seen, there's only two places where it's explicitly discussed. Heavy Obscurement (which grants Blinded) and the Blinded ...
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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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Is there an error in the new Carrion Crawler stat block?
I just received my copy of the new MM the other day. The new Carrion Crawler stat block has this ability
Paralyzing Tentacles. Dexterity Saving Throw: DC 12, one creature the carrion crawler can see ...
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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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When does the Confusion effect from a Spectator end?
In tonight's session, the warlock got hit with a Confusion Ray from a Spectator and failed her save. I am not sure when the Confusion effect ends. The ray, in its entirety, says:
Confusion Ray. The ...
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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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