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Message: <blockquote data-quote="NotAYakk" data-source="post: 7932371" data-attributes="member: 72555">Ah.  Then just use the pieces that Esker mentioned.1. adv/disadv on ability checks2. adv/disadv on attacks3. adv/disadv on attacks against you4. adv/disadv on a type of saving throw5. auto-fail a type of saving throw6. can't take an action7. speed halved8. speed reduced to zero9. close range hits against you become crits10. you can't see11. you can't be seen12. you can't hearNevermind the existing named conditions.  "speed halved plus cannot take an action", or "disadvantage on ability checks and you can't see" (but you don't have disadvantage on attack rolls).They are mechanical things with fixed effects on the game and no attachment to the "story" part of the game, and should be what you need.  With the story torn off, you don't need to give then names like "stunned" or "petrified" (which has little mechanical impact, other than some spells which target named conditions), nor do they have to be clumped in any way beyond your fiat.Dumb Looking Ice Boots: Target has its speed reduced to zero and auto-fails intelligence saving throws.Chicken Drumstick: Target has its speed halved, has advantage on attacks against you, and disadvantage on wisdom saving throws.Full Body Camo Paint: You cannot be seen, you cannot see, and you have disadvantage on all ability checks and advantage on all attack rolls.The existing named conditions only exist in order to hook them into the narrative fiction of 5e.  Keeping them together when you want to discard the connection to the existing fiction of 5e is not needed.Btw, that list is missing "cannot move towards you" (from frightened).</blockquote>

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