Many Spells, Traps, and Abilities can inflict Status Conditions. When you are hit by something that says it "Inflicts" something, you will need to Pass a Save Test or become afflicted by the Status Condition listed. Saves are also used in a few other ways, like helping you avoid traps determining Turn Order in combat, or maintaining your Concentration on an Abilities.

Your Saves and current Status Conditions can be found on the left side of your Character Sheet in the "Condition" box.

Saves

Your saves Saves help you avoid Status Conditions and some damage.

When rolling one of the Saves, you will perform the usual d10 Test. If an Ability is what triggered the Save, you can roll with an Advantage if your opponent's Ability Score was a [..6] Low Score. Conversely, you will need to roll with a Disadvantage if your opponent's Ability Score was a [10..] High Score. If your opponent got a [7..9] Mixed Score, you make the Save unchanged.

The Saves and their use cases are as follows:

Grit

• Use your fortitude and determination to save yourself from poison, exhaustion, cold, blunt trauma, grapples, getting knocked back, getting knocked down, being swept downstream, etc.

Edge

• Use your foresight and cunning to save yourself from projectiles, traps, attacks targeting weak-points, sudden environmental dangers, tricky illusions, etc.
• Also used to determine turn order at the start of an Encounter.

Focus

• Use your mental fortitude and tuning to save yourself from psychic attacks, magical charms, magical fears, possession and more.
• Also used to maintain spells that require Concentration.

Each Save is based on a different Exploration Stat and can be Improved through various Perks (which will be discussed in 2.9. Tracker Boxes.) You may also be granted bonuses to these Saves through other Abilities or Items.

Status Conditions

Learning the Status Conditions will help you overcome your enemies and avoid situations where your enemies will try to weaken and overpower you. Most Status Conditions have two levels represented by "Stacks". For each Stack of a Condition, the Condition's effect becomes stronger or lasts longer.

Whenever you gain a Status Condition, it will, by default, be considered a "Fleeting Condition". Having a Fleeting Condition means that you will lose one Stack (or level) of the Fleeting Condition at the end of each of your Turns, provided that you did not gain the Stack on your Turn.

Some Status Conditions will specify that they are not a Fleeting Condition, but are instead a "Persistent Conditions". A Persistent Condition retains its Stacks until certain ending conditions are met. For example, when you lose a Vitality and gain a Wound, you will gain a randomized Status Condition as a Persistent Condition that will only go away once you Heal Up your lost Vitality.

Fleeting Conditions and Persistent Conditions work in the same ways for all NPCs as well.

The Big 3 Status Conditions

This Condition limits how many active Concentration Abilities you can have going at any one time. The more you have active, the more Disadvantages you have on starting a new one. If you even Fail a Test, then all active Concentration Abilities come to an end, you lose your Concentrating Stacks, then you finish evaluating the Failed Test of the Ability that broke the camel's back.

This Condition effectively limits how many times you can perform your most powerful Abilities. Since the Stacks of this Ability only go away upon ending an Episode, you may only be able to cast a few Exhausting Abilities before too many Disadvantages stack up and the risk begins to outweigh the reward. Most Exhausting Abilities have a steeper cost of Failure, so take care when choosing to use one.

This Condition works much like Exhausted, but it is a Fleeting Condition instead of a Persistent Condition. This makes it hard to use Straining Abilities back-to-back, but giving yourself a Round or two to recover means your Stacks of Strained will wear off and you can use another Straining Ability without a Disadvantage on the Test.

Core Conditions

Of the Status Conditions, there are ten Core Conditions. A summary of each can be found on your Character Sheet.

The Core Conditions in more detail are:

Wounds

Whenever you take Damage directly to your Vitality, you will gain a Wound. When you gain a Wound, you will have to roll a d10 to randomly gain a Core Condition as a Persistent Condition. Whenever you regain a Vitality, you will be able to choose one Wound Condition Stack to remove. If someone else healed you, they can choose which Wound Condition Stack to clear.

The Wound Test is also used by a few Abilities that can randomly inflict or alter your Status Conditions, though those Abilities will usually only inflict the Conditions as a Fleeting Condition instead of Persistent Conditions like a Wound does.

The Wound Test is made with no Modifier:

• [0!] Gain a stack of Bloodied.
• [1] Gain a stack of Blunted.
• [2] Gain a stack of Charmed.
• [3] Gain a stack of Dazed.
• [4] Gain a stack of Frightened.
• [5] Gain a stack of Restrained.
• [6] Gain a stack of Choked.
• [7] Gain a stack of Slowed.
• [8] Gain a stack of Susceptible.
• [9] Gain a stack of Vulnerable.
• [10!] No Effect.

Grappling Conditions

There are several Status Conditions that will always be applied as Persistent Conditions, and those are the Conditions centered around the Grapple Ability. Any character can attempt to Grapple another creature. The conditions are as follows:

!Grappling

!Held

Other Status Conditions

There are many other Status Conditions. Some of the supplemental Status Conditions will simply be defined as a combination of Status Conditions. In these cases, you will simply mark each listed Status Condition with the number of stacks described. The stacks of each of these child Status Conditions will share the Fleeting or Persistent status of their parent, though they may be affected by Resistances, Immunities, and Weaknesses separately.

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