Conditions & temporary effects

Official conditions

The fixed list is the fifteen from the rules — Blinded, Charmed, Deafened, Exhaustion, Frightened, Grappled, Incapacitated, Invisible, Paralysed, Petrified, Poisoned, Prone, Restrained, Stunned and Unconscious — and nothing else can be added to it. That’s deliberate: a condition is a rules object with a fixed meaning, and the chip carries that meaning with it. Hover any chip on a card and the full rules text appears; the Reference tab (⌘5) has the same text for reading at leisure.

To put one on a character, press the card’s number (1–9) and then C. A picker opens on the card itself with every condition as a chip; click to toggle. The same picker sits in the profile drawer, if you’d rather mouse. Exhaustion is the one condition that carries a level: adding it starts at 1, and a row of buttons steps it from 1 to 6. A second dose of exhaustion updates the level rather than stacking a duplicate chip.

Temporary effects

Everything that isn’t an official condition is a temporary effect: Rage, Bladesong, Bless, a Haste that will drop the moment the wizard takes a hit. These are the gap the app exists to fill. No sheet tracks them, they change every round, and the only place they have ever lived is in your head or on a sticky note.

An effect is free text plus one checkbox: conc., for anything that needs concentration. Type the name, tick the box if it applies, press Add. A concentrating effect renders as “Concentrating · Bless”, and because a creature can only concentrate on one thing, adding a second concentration effect quietly replaces the first. Click a chip to end the effect.

Why they’re coloured differently

You should be able to tell the two kinds apart without reading. Official conditions are amber, and the five that take a creature out of the fight — Incapacitated, Paralysed, Petrified, Stunned, Unconscious — are red. Temporary effects are the accent cyan. Each wash carries a border in the same hue, so the chips read at a glance even on a shared screen.

Switch to encounter mode (⌘E) and the order flips: effects come first, conditions after, with a dot on every concentrating effect. That’s the question you’re actually asking during a fight — “is she still concentrating?” — put ahead of the one you’re asking less often.

Clearing them

Nothing clears on its own. The app has no clock of its own and no idea when your combat ended, so a condition stays until you take it off. Click a chip in the picker to toggle it, or click an effect chip to end it.

After a long rest, Clear all conditions at the top of the Players tab wipes every condition from every card. It leaves temporary effects alone: a rest doesn’t tell the app whether the Bladesong was still up, and ending those is one click each.