D&D 5e conditions and tracker

All fifteen conditions with their full rules text, plus somewhere to note who currently has what. Both halves exist because conditions fail in two different ways at the table: nobody can remember exactly what restrained does, and three rounds later nobody can remember who was restrained.

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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.

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.

Deafened

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

Exhaustion

  • Level 1: Disadvantage on ability checks.
  • Level 2: Speed halved.
  • Level 3: Disadvantage on attack rolls and saving throws.
  • Level 4: Hit point maximum halved.
  • Level 5: Speed reduced to 0.
  • Level 6: Death.
  • If an already exhausted creature suffers another effect that causes exhaustion, its current level of exhaustion increases by the amount specified in the effect’s description.
  • A creature suffers the effect of its current level of exhaustion as well as all lower levels. An effect that removes exhaustion reduces its level as specified, with all exhaustion effects ending if a creature’s exhaustion level is reduced below 1.
  • Finishing a long rest reduces a creature’s exhaustion level by 1, provided that the creature has also ingested some food and drink.

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.

Grappled

  • 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.
  • The condition also ends if an effect removes the grappled creature from the reach of the grappler or grappling effect, such as when a creature is hurled away by the thunderwave spell.

Incapacitated

  • An incapacitated creature can’t take actions or reactions.

Invisible

  • An invisible creature is impossible to see without the aid of magic or a special sense. For the purpose of hiding, the creature is heavily obscured. 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.

Paralyzed

  • A paralyzed creature is incapacitated 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.

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, can’t move or speak, and is unaware of its surroundings.
  • 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.

Poisoned

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

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.

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.
  • The creature has disadvantage on Dexterity saving throws.

Stunned

  • A stunned creature is incapacitated, can’t move, and can speak only falteringly.
  • The creature automatically fails Strength and Dexterity saving throws.
  • Attack rolls against the creature have advantage.

Unconscious

  • An unconscious creature is incapacitated, 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.

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Every 5e condition

Blinded

Cannot see. Attacks against you have advantage; yours have disadvantage.

  • 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.

Charmed

Cannot attack the charmer, who has advantage on social checks against you.

  • 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.

Deafened

Cannot hear, and automatically fails checks requiring hearing.

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

Exhaustion

Six cumulative levels, from disadvantage on checks to death.

  • Level 1: Disadvantage on ability checks.
  • Level 2: Speed halved.
  • Level 3: Disadvantage on attack rolls and saving throws.
  • Level 4: Hit point maximum halved.
  • Level 5: Speed reduced to 0.
  • Level 6: Death.
  • If an already exhausted creature suffers another effect that causes exhaustion, its current level of exhaustion increases by the amount specified in the effect’s description.
  • A creature suffers the effect of its current level of exhaustion as well as all lower levels. An effect that removes exhaustion reduces its level as specified, with all exhaustion effects ending if a creature’s exhaustion level is reduced below 1.
  • Finishing a long rest reduces a creature’s exhaustion level by 1, provided that the creature has also ingested some food and drink.

Frightened

Disadvantage while the source is in sight, and you cannot move closer to it.

  • 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.

Grappled

Speed 0. Ends if the grappler is incapacitated or you are moved away.

  • 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.
  • The condition also ends if an effect removes the grappled creature from the reach of the grappler or grappling effect, such as when a creature is hurled away by the thunderwave spell.

Incapacitated

Cannot take actions or reactions.

  • An incapacitated creature can’t take actions or reactions.

Invisible

Heavily obscured. Attacks against you have disadvantage; yours have advantage.

  • An invisible creature is impossible to see without the aid of magic or a special sense. For the purpose of hiding, the creature is heavily obscured. 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.

Paralyzed

Incapacitated, cannot move or speak; hits within 5 feet are critical.

  • A paralyzed creature is incapacitated 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.

Petrified

Turned to stone: incapacitated, resistant to all damage, and ageing stops.

  • 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, can’t move or speak, and is unaware of its surroundings.
  • 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.

Poisoned

Disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks.

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

Prone

Crawl only. Melee attacks against you have advantage; ranged have disadvantage.

  • 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.

Restrained

Speed 0, disadvantage on attacks and Dex saves; attacks against you have advantage.

  • 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.
  • The creature has disadvantage on Dexterity saving throws.

Stunned

Incapacitated, auto-fails Str and Dex saves; attacks against you have advantage.

  • A stunned creature is incapacitated, can’t move, and can speak only falteringly.
  • The creature automatically fails Strength and Dexterity saving throws.
  • Attack rolls against the creature have advantage.

Unconscious

Incapacitated and prone; hits within 5 feet are critical.

  • An unconscious creature is incapacitated, 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.

The confusing ones

Conditions people get wrong

Grappled and restrained are not the same. Grappled sets your speed to 0 and nothing else — you can still attack normally, and attacks against you are not affected. Restrained also sets speed to 0, but adds advantage on attacks against you, disadvantage on your own attacks, and disadvantage on your Dexterity saves. A grapple does not impose restrained unless something says it does.

Incapacitated is a component, not a standalone effect. It only means you cannot take actions or reactions — but paralyzed, petrified, stunned and unconscious all include it, which is why "does this end when they are stunned?" usually resolves to the incapacitated line rather than the condition you were reading.

Prone cuts both ways. Melee attacks against a prone creature have advantage, but ranged attacks against it have disadvantage — so knocking an enemy down helps your fighter and hurts your archer. Standing up costs half your movement.

Unconscious includes prone and drops what you are holding, and any hit from within 5 feet is a critical. That last clause is what makes standing over a downed character so dangerous, and it is the one most often missed.

Exhaustion

The one that stacks

Exhaustion is the only condition with levels, and its effects are cumulative: a creature at level 3 also suffers levels 1 and 2, so it has disadvantage on ability checks, half speed, and disadvantage on attacks and saves all at once.

It is also the only condition that does not simply end. A long rest with food and drink removes one level, so a character at level 4 is several days from clear. That slow recovery is the point — it is the game’s mechanism for making forced marches, starvation and certain spells genuinely costly.

Level 6 is death, which is worth saying out loud at a table that is casually accumulating levels of it.

Common questions

How many conditions are there in D&D 5e?
Fifteen: blinded, charmed, deafened, exhaustion, frightened, grappled, incapacitated, invisible, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned, prone, restrained, stunned and unconscious. Exhaustion is the only one with levels.
What is the difference between grappled and restrained?
Grappled only sets your speed to 0. Restrained sets speed to 0 and additionally gives attackers advantage against you, gives you disadvantage on your own attacks, and gives you disadvantage on Dexterity saving throws. A standard grapple does not make you restrained.
Does prone give advantage to attackers?
Only in melee. An attack from within 5 feet has advantage against a prone creature; an attack from further away has disadvantage. The prone creature itself has disadvantage on its attacks either way.
How do you remove exhaustion?
A long rest removes one level, provided the creature has also eaten and drunk. Effects that specifically reduce exhaustion do so by the amount they state. All exhaustion effects end once the level drops below 1.
Does incapacitated stop movement?
No. Incapacitated only prevents actions and reactions. A creature that is incapacitated but not otherwise restricted can still move. Conditions like paralyzed and stunned stop movement because they say so separately, on top of including incapacitated.

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