Status Conditions

Advantage and Disadvantage

Sometimes a special ability, spell, or status condition tells you that you have advantage or disadvantage. When that happens, you roll two d20s instead of one for an ability check, a saving throw, or an attack roll. Use the higher of the two rolls if you have advantage, and use the lower roll if you have disadvantage. For example, if you have disadvantage and roll a 17 and a 5, you use the 5. If you instead have advantage and roll those numbers, you use the 17.

If multiple situations affect a roll and each one grants advantage or imposes disadvantage on it, you don't roll more than one additional d20. If two favorable situations grant advantage, for example, you still roll only one additional d20.

If circumstances cause a roll to have both advantage and disadvantage, you are considered to have neither of them, and you roll one d20. This is true even if multiple circumstances impose disadvantage and only one grants advantage or vice versa. In such a situation, you have neither advantage nor disadvantage.

In-Combat Status Effects

These effects are lifted from D&D, and have been modified to suit Ilisara. The original rule text can be found on [5thSRD].

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Blinded

• A blinded creature can't see and automatically fails any ability check that requires sight.

• Attack rolls against the creature have advantage, and the creature's attack rolls have disadvantage.

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Charmed

• A charmed creature can't attack the charmer or target the charmer with harmful abilities or magical effects.

• The charmer has advantage on any ability check to interact socially with the creature.

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Deafened

• A deafened creature can't hear and automatically fails any ability check that requires hearing.

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Exhaustion

Some special abilities and environmental hazards, such as starvation and the long-term effects of freezing or scorching temperatures, can lead to a special condition called exhaustion. Exhaustion is measured in six levels. See the Rest and Recovery page for more information.

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Frightened

• A frightened creature has disadvantage on ability checks and attack rolls while the source of its fear is within line of sight.

• The creature can't willingly move closer to the source of its fear.

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Grappled

Grappling requires an opposed Strength check between two characters, or a Strength check made against a DC of the DM's choosing. Retaining a Grapple requires a Minor Action each turn. The grappled creature can make a Dexterity or Strength check with a relevant skill to try and get free. Subsequent checks after being grappled are either opposed checks, or checks made against a DC (DM discretion).

• A grappled creature's speed becomes 0, and it can't benefit from any bonus to its speed.

• The condition ends if the grappler is incapacitated (see the condition).

• The condition also ends if an effect removes the grappled creature from the reach of the grappler or grappling effect.

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Incapacitated

• An incapacitated creature can't make Minor or Major actions

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Invisible

• An invisible creature is impossible to see without the aid of magic or a special sense. The creature's location can be detected by any noise it makes or any tracks it leaves.

• Attack rolls against the creature have disadvantage, and the creature's attack rolls have advantage.

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Paralyzed

• A paralyzed creature is incapacitated (see the condition) and can't move or speak.

• The creature automatically fails Strength and Dexterity saving throws. Attack rolls against the creature have advantage.

• Any attack that hits the creature is a critical hit if the attacker is within 5 feet of the creature.

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Petrified

• A petrified creature is transformed, along with any nonmagical object it is wearing or carrying, into a solid inanimate substance (usually stone). Its weight increases by a factor of ten, and it ceases aging.

• The creature is incapacitated (see the condition) and can't move or speak.

• Attack rolls against the creature have advantage.

• The creature automatically fails Strength and Dexterity saving throws.

• The creature has resistance to all damage.

• The creature is immune to poison and disease, although a poison or disease already in its system is suspended, not neutralized.

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Poisoned

• A poisoned creature has disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks.

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Polymorphed

• A Polymorphed creature cannot speak or make Major actions

• Attack rolls against the creature have advantage.

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Prone

• A prone creature's only movement option is to crawl, unless it stands up and thereby ends the condition.

• The creature has disadvantage on attack rolls.

• An attack roll against the creature has advantage if the attacker is within 5 feet of the creature. Otherwise, the attack roll has disadvantage.

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Restrained

• A restrained creature's speed becomes 0, and it can't benefit from any bonus to its speed.

• Attack rolls against the creature have advantage, and the creature's attack rolls have disadvantage.

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Slowed or Crippled

• Reduces movement speed by one level.

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Stunned

• A stunned creature is incapacitated (see the condition), can't move, and can speak only falteringly.

• The creature automatically fails Strength and Dexterity saving throws.

• Attack rolls against the creature have advantage.

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Unconscious or Asleep

• An unconscious creature is incapacitated (see the condition), can't move or speak, and is unaware of its surroundings

• The creature drops whatever it's holding and falls prone.

• The creature automatically fails Strength and Dexterity saving throws.

• Attack rolls against the creature have advantage.

• Any attack that hits the creature is a critical hit if the attacker is within 5 feet of the creature.

• If the creature takes damage, it usually wakes up