Conditions

Conditions in Cybercore are organized into three categories that mirror the stat categories: Physical, Mental, and Metaphysical. Each category affects different aspects of gameplay.

The Three Condition Categories

Quick Reference: When applying conditions, ask "What does this affect?"

• Body hurt? → Physical
• Mind scrambled? → Mental
• Soul shaken? → Metaphysical

Saving Throws

When resisting conditions or effects, you make a saving throw using one of three saves:

Making a Save

Roll d100 + Save Value against the source's TL. Every creature, hazard, and environmental threat has a TL; that is the number you roll against. No conversion, no formula.

Example: A Zod Warrior (TL 40) uses a fear-inducing roar. Characters must make a Metaphysical save against TL 40 or become Shaken. Later, a Medic treating wounds inflicted by the same Warrior rolls Triage against TL 40 or the wound-count TL, whichever is higher.

Stacking Conditions

The three primary conditions use the same dice progression as Boon/Bane:

Physical Conditions

Physical conditions affect your body's ability to fight, defend, and move.

Affects: Attack rolls, Defense rolls (AF, Dodge, Evade), Speed, Actions

Note: The Exhaustion metric is a Physical tracker that negates Energy and applies Hindered when it exceeds available Energy. Physical saves resist gaining Exhaustion.

Hindered (Stacking)

Your body is impaired - injured, poisoned, or physically compromised.

Sources: Injuries, poison, physical impairment, or Exhaustion exceeding available Energy.

Removal: Medical treatment, rest, or specific abilities.

Slowed

Your movement is impaired.

Effect: Your Speed is halved (round down, minimum 1).

Removal: End of encounter, treatment, or specific abilities.

Staggered (Stacking)

You've taken a physical hit that disrupts your actions.

Removal: Automatic after losing the actions.

Prone

You're on the ground.

Effects:

• Attackers in melee gain Boon(1) against you
• Standing up costs 1 action
• You may have cover against ranged attacks (GM discretion)

Removal: Spend 1 action to stand.

Restrained

You cannot move and are physically compromised.

Effects:

• Your Speed is 0
• You are Hindered(2)

Removal: Escape the restraint (Might or Agility check vs restraint TL).

Incapacitated

You cannot take physical actions.

Effects:

• Cannot take any physical actions (attack, move, use items)
• You may still speak and think
• Automatically fail physical saves

Removal: Specific treatment or abilities.

Mental Conditions

Mental conditions affect your ability to think, focus, and perform skilled tasks.

Affects: All Skill checks

Rattled (Stacking)

Your concentration is broken - confused, distracted, or mentally strained.

Removal: Rest, successful Willpower check, or specific abilities.

Confused

Your mind is scrambled - you can't think clearly.

Effect: At the start of each turn, roll 1d6:

Removal: End of encounter, successful Willpower check (TL 15), or specific abilities.

Stunned (Stacking)

Your mental faculties are disrupted; confusion, sensory overload, or neural shutdown.

Note: Stunned is the Mental counterpart to Staggered. Both cost actions, but Stunned also shuts down skilled tasks and is resisted by Mental saves rather than Physical.

Removal: Automatic after losing the actions, or specific abilities.

Metaphysical Conditions

Metaphysical conditions affect your Psych (stress level). Since Psych gives -2 (Bother) per point to ALL rolls, these conditions create cascading effects.

Affects: Psych accumulation and recovery

Shaken (Stacking)

Your spirit is rattled - fear, horror, or existential dread weighs on you.

Note: Roll the dice and add the result to your current Psych. Remember, each Psych point gives -2 to all rolls.

Removal: The Psych gained must be recovered normally (rest, treatment, etc.).

Terrified

You are gripped by overwhelming fear.

Effects:

• You must flee from the source of your terror
• You cannot willingly move toward the source
• You gain +1 Psych each round until you are secured

Secured: You are considered secured when the source is out of sight AND one of the following:

• You are behind a closed door or barrier
• An armed ally is positioned between you and the source's last known location

Removal: Reach a secured location, successful Metaphysical save (vs creature's TL), or specific abilities.

Unhinged

Your mental stability is compromised - you cannot recover from stress and your grip on reality is slipping.

Effects:

• You cannot reduce your Psych by any means until this condition ends
• You must make a Metaphysical save (vs the source's TL) or become Confused
  • In combat: Make this save at the start of each of your turns
  • While exploring: Make this save each time you experience stress (as determined by the player or Game Master)

Removal: Extended rest (8+ hours), therapy, or specific abilities.

General Modifiers

These are not conditions but modifiers that can be applied to any roll.

Boon / Bane

Dice modifiers that add or subtract from rolls.

After 1d20, the chain wraps: Boon(7) = 1d20+1d4, Boon(8) = 1d20+1d6, and so on.

Boons and Banes cancel each other out (Boon(2) + Bane(1) = Boon(1)).

Boost / Bother

Flat modifiers to rolls.

• Boost: +5 to the roll (stacking)
• Bother: -5 to the roll (stacking)

Boosts and Bothers cancel each other out.

Advantage / Disadvantage

Affects the number of d100s rolled.

• Advantage: Roll additional d100(s), take the highest
• Disadvantage: Roll additional d100(s), take the lowest
• Maximum of 4 dice total

Damage-Related Conditions

Suffering (DOT)

You take ongoing damage at the start of each round or Sweep.

Examples: Bleeding, Burning, Poisoned, Corroding

Effect: Take the listed damage (e.g., 1d6 Bleeding) at the start of each of your turns in combat, or at the start of each Sweep while exploring.

Removal: Appropriate treatment (medical attention, fire suppression, antidote, etc.).

Wounded

You have sustained significant injury. Gained when all your HITS boxes are marked and you go DOWN.

Effect: Bane(1) to all attack and skill checks per Wound. Stacks. Grind can be burned to ignore 1 Wound penalty per check.

Max Wounds: Fortitude + Willpower + Mass. When Wounds = Max Wounds, you are Comatose (dying). When Wounds > Max Wounds, you are Dead.

Recovery from DOWN:

• With Medic (Stabilization Protocol): Return at 1/4 MAX HITS (round up)
• Without Medic: Must use a consumable; recover only what it provides. No consumable = stay DOWN.

Removal: Medic with Trauma Surgeon (Rank 8+) during a Lockdown, medical facility, or between missions.

Vulnerability and Resistance

Vulnerabilities (take MORE damage)

Resistances (take LESS damage)

Sensory Conditions

Blinded

You cannot see.

Effects:

• All targets are Concealed from you, so you attack and defend against them at Disadvantage
• You defend at Disadvantage against any attacker you cannot perceive
• Move carefully or risk falling Prone
• Automatically fail sight-based Perception checks

Deafened

You cannot hear.

Effects:

• Perception and related checks are Hindered(2)
• Cannot respond to verbal commands or warnings

Dazzled

Your vision is impaired by bright light or visual interference.

Effects:

• Perception is Hindered(1)
• Targeted attacks suffer Bane(1)

Special Conditions

Dead

You have died.

Effects:

• You cannot benefit from healing
• Also, you're dead

Removal: A Medic with Advanced AED (Rank 10) can attempt revival within 1 round of death; target returns at 1/4 MAX HITS with Wounds at Max (cannot recover HITS until a Wound is treated). Once per mission.

For species with Mindshard backup (Humans, Rodi, Kanarie, Sketh, Junkers, Zetas, partial for Bohecs and Cyborgs), death is a setback rather than an ending. If a current Mindshard imprint exists, the character can be restored at an Om facility into a clone or Android host. Memory loss, Tag loss, and Psych consequences apply, see the Mindshard rules for details. If no imprint exists: rolling a new character.