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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Can a surprised creature fall prone voluntarily on their turn?
Suppose someone might want their character to drop prone while they're surprised. The relevant text from Being Prone under "Movement and Position" states:
You can drop prone without using any of ...
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How does the Gaseous Form spell interact with the grappled and restrained conditions?
Among other things, the Gaseous Form spell allows a creature to
pass through small holes, narrow openings, and even mere cracks
The spell does not explicitly make the creature immune to the ...
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Does a creature that is immune to all outcomes (conditions, damage, etc.) of an effect still make a saving throw?
Let's say a 5th level Lore Bard casts fear on a violet fungus not knowing that it is immune to the frightened condition.
Does the violet fungus still make a saving throw? In particular, is a saving ...
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Does Bleed damage break the Fascinate effect?
I'm running an arena combat game online with occasional PVP. One of my players just got hit by euphoric cloud and is fascinated. He is currently bleeding from a previous attack and wants to know if ...
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'Broken' condition in Chronicles of Darkness: should I note what I would have rolled without the penalty?
The text of the condition 'Broken (Persistent)' (Core rulebook, p288) reads (my emphasis):
Whatever you did or saw, something inside you snapped. You can barely muster up the will to do your job ...
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Does casting Light, or a similar spell, have any effect when the caster is swallowed by a monster?
So you've been swallowed by a Giant Toad. Oops. Your fellows are sure to kill it soon enough, but you want to do something in the meantime.
"Well," you say, "perhaps I'll attack the toad from the ...
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Does the Mind Blank spell prevent the target from being frightened?
Does the mind blank spell prevent the target from being frightened by magical means, such as from the effect of a spell, or by nonmagical means, such as from a monster's Frightful Presence? Do those ...
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Do perception checks to locate Invisible / Hiding creatures auto fail? [duplicate]
The Invisibility condition states:
For the purpose of Hiding, the creature is heavily obscured.
Rules for The Environment state:
A heavily obscured area—such as Darkness, opaque fog, or dense ...
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Can you take a “free object interaction” while incapacitated?
The incapacitated condition description (PHB 290) says:
An incapacitated creature can't take actions or reactions.
Meaning that you can still move. But what about "interactions"?
Page 190 of the ...
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Does your character possess a magic aura as a wizard while you are incapacitated? [duplicate]
My character was incapacitated (0 HP, passed my death saving throws). My party went on head to the next room without me after failing to revive me. Little did they know the next room was the boss room ...
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Can a Barbarian end his rage if he is paralyzed?
The situation came up last time we played, where the Barbarian has just began ragin and was then paralyzed. He asked if he could end his rage so as not to waste his rounds (and also eat up his fatigue ...
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How can a player character cause the stunned condition?
Besides the monk's class feature “Stunning Strike”, how can a player character cause the stunned condition? I am looking for a solution other than very rare or legendary magic items or any Unearthed ...
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If someone influenced by the Gray Wastes leaves do they return to normal?
When a person remains in the Gray Waste for too long all their colors get drained away and so do their hopes and dreams. They end up having no desire to leave the plane. There are plenty of ways they ...
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Can you be healed or stabilized (if downed) while petrified?
I just posted this question about whether you continue making death saving throws while petrified if you are at 0 HP. The answer was yes. But I thought of another question:
If you are downed and ...
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Do you continue making death saving throws while petrified?
Say you are playing a character, and they are downed (0 HP) and in that moment, they get turned into stone (petrified).
Does the character continue making death saving throws while petrified? Or do ...
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Can the versatility of Feign Death be increased by combining it with Lesser Restoration and/or Freedom of Movement?
Feign Death
put[s the target] into a cataleptic state that is indistinguishable from death.
For that purpose,
the target is blinded and incapacitated, and its speed drops to 0.
However, the ...
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Can staggered creatures still make extra attacks from the haste spell?
Let's suppose a player gets staggered just like being target of the staggering critical feat for 3 rounds. But then she is hasted by a party member.
The question is: could she make the extra haste ...
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Is there a way to stun a creature without using a Save DC?
A (homebrew) greatsword has this feature:
Heavy Blow. [...] If you hit with this very powerful attack, the target must make a contested Athletics check. If the target loses, it is stunned until the ...
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On a multiattack, if the first hit imposes a specific condition, is the second attack affected by that condition?
On a multiattack, if the first hit imposes a specific condition, does the second attack need to be adjusted based on the condition from the first?
For example:
A Carrion Crawler can make a multi-...
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If a creature is immune to being charmed, does it know an attempt to charm it was made?
If a creature that is immune to being charmed has a charm spell cast on them. Do they know that an attempt to charm them was made?
Can a creature immune to charm pretend to be charmed by a spell? Or ...
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Does moving a grappler away from its target break the grapple? [duplicate]
I had an unclear situation in one of my sessions. A monster grappled a PC adjacent to him. In the next turn, a PC cast Gust on the monster. After failing its strength check the monster was moved away ...
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When restoring a character's hit point maximum lost from exhaustion, does the character also regain hit points?
When restoring a character's hit point maximum lost from exhaustion, does the character also regain hit points?
For example, the fourth level of exhaustion reduces a character's hit point maximum to ...
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Do spellcasters know that the Lesser and Greater Restoration spells can cure madness?
The lesser restoration spell description states:
You touch a creature and can end either one disease or one condition afflicting it. The condition can be blinded, deafened, paralyzed, or poisoned.
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Can a cockatrice's severed head still petrify?
After killing a cockatrice, a couple of my players cut off its head and mounted it on a javelin. Obviously, they're going to try to use it to petrify something else.
Assuming realistic factors in ...
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How does one heal a creature that is petrified & made of stone?
Whilst in a petrified condition (i.e. 'turned to stone') how does such a creature heal? In 5e D&D this condition on creatures presents as 'target is incapacitated + stone-flavoured' (PhB '...
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Can staggered creatures use immediate actions?
The Staggered condition says (PHB p313):
[...] A staggered character may take a single move action or standard action each round (but not both, nor can she take fullround actions).
I know the text ...
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Can either flavor of Restoration remove the Frightened condition?
The characters in our party got a minor boon that allows us to cast either Minor or Major Restoration on ourselves once as a bonus action.
We're about to face off against an enemy that has Frightful ...
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Are enemies with immunity to the Poisoned condition unaffected by Contagion?
After the 2018 PHB errata, the spell contagion now inflicts the Poisoned condition upon a successful melee spell attack. The relevant spell text is below, with updated portions highlighted in bold:
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If you cast Blindness/Deafness on the same creature twice, what conditions are applied?
After researching into how spell effects stack, I find some ambiguity regarding certain spells that have multiple possible effects.
Notably, this answer regarding stacking spell effects contains ...
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Do attack rolls against a blinded character with the Alert feat have advantage?
Premise
A character with the Alert feat (PHB, p. 165) has been blinded and is being attacked.
One of the benefits of Alert is:
Other creatures don’t gain advantage on attack rolls against you
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Does a creature with blindsight have disadvantage on attack rolls while under effect of blindness spell? [duplicate]
Premise
Casting blindness-deafness on a creature with blindsight:
A monster with blindsight can perceive its surroundings without relying on sight, within a specific radius.
blinded condition:
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Can a paralyzed creature targeted by an Evocation Wizard's Sculpt Spells feature actually succeed a Dex save?
Say a friendly barbarian is currently paralyzed. Part of the description of the paralyzed condition says:
The creature automatically fails Strength and Dexterity saving throws.
Its friend, the ...
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Does the Umber Hulk's confusion attack break grapples?
A PC Barbarian Orc is grappling an Umber Hulk (MM. p. 292). The Orc fails at the Confusing Gaze saving throw, becoming confused. Does the grapple end because the Orc is confused?
Under a storytelling ...
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Can a Dazzled rogue Sneak Attack?
In Pathfinder 1st edition, Sneak Attack has the following condition:
The rogue must be able to see the target well enough to pick out a
vital spot and must be able to reach such a spot. A rogue ...
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Does the beholder's charm ray really take a PC out of the fight like this?
I was reading the Beholder's statblock (MM, page 28):
Eye Rays. The beholder shoots three of the following magical eye rays at random (reroll duplicates), choosing one to three targets it can see ...
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Does staggered also mean hindered?
Does staggered constitute as hindered for triggering to the Medusa's Wrath feat?
So I am playing a pathfinder game with some buds, and I made a monk (Core, not unchained). Under scorpion style there ...
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How would an Animated Armor knocked unconscious by Dispel Magic work in combat?
I'm in the process of preparing my first one shot as a way of trying DMing in a few weeks.
For one of the battles, I was thinking of having the PCs face an Animated Armor and a Flying Sword. ...
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Does a petrified creature stay conscious (and mentally sane)?
The next dungeon my party visits will contain some strange statues. Most of them are just Stone Golems, which will attack them. But near the end of the dungeon, the party will discover that one of the ...
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Do petrified characters lose their broken-off pieces when de-petrified?
In a recent session, one of our party members was petrified by a medusa and then kidnapped. When the rest of the party succeeded in fighting their way to rescue our party member, the statue had been ...
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Are there any cheap solutions to deal with Sickened condition?
Are there any mundane items that deal with sickened condition?
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Is there a counter to a wild-shaped Owl abusing the “fly-by” ability to blind an enemy and get away with no consequences?
One of the interesting parts of the owl is its flyby ability
Flyby: The owl doesn't provoke Opportunity Attacks when it flies out of an enemy's reach.
With this ability, could a druid wildshape ...
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What happens if a petrified creature drops to 0 hit points?
Like the title says. If a creature with the petrified condition is dropped to 0 HP, what happens? Does the petrified effect end, and they're globs of meat? Does the soul leave the statue at that point,...
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Can a restrained Sorcerer use the Subtle Spell metamagic to cast attack spells without disadvantage?
Just like it says. We have a Sorcerer who is under the Restrained condition, which says that attacks made by the Sorcerer are made with disadvantage. But the Sorcerer has the Subtle Spell metamagic ...
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Does fatigue condition affect spell casting?
Does anyone know if a spell caster suffers any penalties if he tries to use magic while fatigued? I can't find anything about this under conditions.
I just feel it's a bit odd that a fatigued player ...
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How can I have a Giant Spider cocoon a PC in web? [closed]
Giant Spiders have an ability to restrain their prey. I'm adding a custom ability (for the sake of the storyline) to wrap a player in web cocoon. Part of the storyline during the battle with the ...
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If I am attacked from an area of heavy obscurement, am I under the effects of the Blinded condition?
This is what the PHB (p. 183) says about Heavy Obscurement:
A heavily obscured area—such as darkness, opaque fog, or dense foliage—blocks vision entirely. A creature in a heavily obscured area ...
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Can you move a creature you're grappling but frightened of?
A situation came up in our game where a PC cast cause fear (Xanathar's Guide to Everything, p. 151) on an enemy that was grappling the PC and trying to push them towards a torture device. This made ...
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Is a creature immune to the prone condition also immune to being incapacitated by the Tasha's Hideous Laughter spell?
The Tasha's hideous laughter spell description states:
A creature of your choice that you can see within range perceives everything as hilariously funny and falls into fits of laughter if this ...
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How can I end the Stunned Condition?
The Stunned condition seems to be incredibly powerful.
Are there any ways to end it with magic, magic items, abilities, or prevent it from occurring in the first place?
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Is it impossible to escape the Rod of Lordly Might's paralysis effect early?
On a hit, the Rod of Lordly Might can:
...force the target to make a DC 17 Strength saving throw. On a failure, the target is paralyzed for 1 minute. The target can repeat the saving throw at the ...
