{ "debuffs": [ { "id": "tier1_mind_mark", "name": "Exposed Reasoning", "description": "Every move, every tell — catalogued. The pattern is clear now. There's a gap in their argument, and you know exactly where it is. When the strike comes, it's not luck. It's inevitability.", "type": "debuff", "category": "stat", "duration": 1, "stacking": "intensity", "payload": {}, "tier": 1 }, { "id": "debuff_all_stats_down", "name": "Heap's Collapse", "description": "One grain of weakness means nothing. But grain by grain, imperceptibly, you've ceased to be a heap of power at all.", "type": "debuff", "category": "stat", "duration": 3, "stacking": "intensity", "resistedBy": "heart", "resistDR": 13, "payload": { "statModifiers": [ { "stat": "body", "value": -3, "isMultiplier": false }, { "stat": "mind", "value": -3, "isMultiplier": false }, { "stat": "heart", "value": -3, "isMultiplier": false }, { "stat": "physicalSkill", "value": -2, "isMultiplier": false }, { "stat": "mentalSkill", "value": -2, "isMultiplier": false }, { "stat": "emotionalSkill", "value": -2, "isMultiplier": false } ], "rollModifier": -1 }, "tier": 2 }, { "id": "debuff_poison", "name": "Curry's Corruption", "description": "If this poison harms you, then it spreads. The conditional is vacuously true. The conclusion is inevitably, recursively toxic.", "type": "debuff", "category": "damage", "duration": 4, "stacking": "intensity", "resistedBy": "mind", "resistDR": 13, "payload": { "damageOverTime": { "damagePerRound": 4, "damageType": "body" } }, "tier": 2 }, { "id": "debuff_strong_poison", "name": "Yablo's Venom", "description": "Each moment of pain refers to the next: 'All pain after this will be worse.' No self-reference, yet infinitely escalating agony.", "type": "debuff", "category": "damage", "duration": 3, "stacking": "intensity", "resistedBy": "mind", "resistDR": 14, "payload": { "damageOverTime": { "damagePerRound": 5, "damageType": "body" }, "statModifiers": [ { "stat": "body", "value": -1, "isMultiplier": false } ] }, "tier": 2 }, { "id": "debuff_bleed", "name": "Theseus' Dissolution", "description": "Plank by plank, your ship comes apart. Drop by drop, you become less yourself. When does the bleeding stop being you?", "type": "debuff", "category": "damage", "duration": 4, "stacking": "intensity", "resistedBy": "mind", "resistDR": 12, "payload": { "damageOverTime": { "damagePerRound": 3, "damageType": "body", "tickPhase": "end" } }, "tier": 2 }, { "id": "debuff_burn", "name": "Olbers' Fire", "description": "If infinite stars fill the sky, why is it dark? Because their light is delayed. When it arrives all at once—you burn in accumulated radiance.", "type": "debuff", "category": "damage", "duration": 3, "stacking": "intensity", "resistedBy": "body", "resistDR": 13, "payload": { "damageOverTime": { "damagePerRound": 4, "damageType": "heart" }, "statModifiers": [ { "stat": "heart", "value": -1, "isMultiplier": false } ] }, "tier": 2 }, { "id": "debuff_frostbite", "name": "Boltzmann's Chill", "description": "Random fluctuations conspire against you—entropy arranges itself into impossible cold. Your movements slow toward heat death.", "type": "debuff", "category": "damage", "duration": 3, "stacking": "duration", "resistedBy": "mind", "resistDR": 12, "payload": { "damageOverTime": { "damagePerRound": 3, "damageType": "body" }, "rollModifier": -2 }, "tier": 2 }, { "id": "debuff_shock", "name": "Hardy's Discharge", "description": "Two particles that should never meet—do. The impossible measurement occurs. Reality contradicts itself through your nervous system.", "type": "debuff", "category": "damage", "duration": 2, "stacking": "intensity", "resistedBy": "heart", "resistDR": 13, "payload": { "damageOverTime": { "damagePerRound": 3, "damageType": "mind" }, "rollModifier": -1 }, "tier": 2 }, { "id": "debuff_curse", "name": "Grelling's Malediction", "description": "This curse is heterological—it does not describe itself. But then it does describe itself. The contradiction festers in your soul.", "type": "debuff", "category": "stat", "duration": 5, "stacking": "none", "resistedBy": "body", "resistDR": 14, "payload": { "statModifiers": [ { "stat": "body", "value": -1, "isMultiplier": false }, { "stat": "mind", "value": -1, "isMultiplier": false }, { "stat": "heart", "value": -2, "isMultiplier": false } ], "rollModifier": -2 }, "tier": 2 }, { "id": "debuff_disease", "name": "Inspection Sickness", "description": "You randomly sampled this moment—but longer illnesses are more likely to be sampled. Your disease will last longer than average, paradoxically.", "type": "debuff", "category": "damage", "duration": 4, "stacking": "duration", "resistedBy": "mind", "resistDR": 12, "payload": { "damageOverTime": { "damagePerRound": 2, "damageType": "body" }, "regeneration": { "healthPerRound": -1 } }, "tier": 2 }, { "id": "debuff_wound", "name": "Berry's Injury", "description": "The smallest wound not describable in fewer than eleven words. 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Unable to resolve your credence, you drift back to unconsciousness.", "type": "debuff", "category": "control", "duration": 2, "stacking": "none", "resistedBy": "heart", "resistDR": 13, "payload": { "actionRestriction": { "skipTurn": true }, "defenseModifier": -3 }, "tier": 2 }, { "id": "debuff_daze", "name": "Simpson's Confusion", "description": "Each part of your thinking is superior, yet combined they're inferior. Your mind's aggregation betrays its components.", "type": "debuff", "category": "control", "duration": 2, "stacking": "duration", "resistedBy": "heart", "resistDR": 12, "payload": { "rollModifier": -3, "statModifiers": [ { "stat": "mind", "value": -2, "isMultiplier": false }, { "stat": "mentalSkill", "value": -2, "isMultiplier": false }, { "stat": "mentalDefense", "value": -1, "isMultiplier": false } ] }, "tier": 2 }, { "id": "debuff_petrify", "name": "Zeno's Stillness", "description": "To move, you must first move half the distance. Then half again. Infinite steps in finite time—but your muscles refuse the mathematics.", "type": "debuff", "category": "control", "duration": 2, "stacking": "none", "resistedBy": "heart", "resistDR": 17, "payload": { "actionRestriction": { "skipTurn": true }, "defenseModifier": -4 }, "tier": 3 }, { "id": "debuff_fear", "name": "Grandfather's Terror", "description": "You see the paradox of your own destruction—if you fight, you ensure your doom; if you flee, you ensure your doom. Either path leads backward to oblivion.", "type": "debuff", "category": "control", "duration": 3, "stacking": "duration", "resistedBy": "body", "resistDR": 13, "payload": { "rollModifier": -4, "statModifiers": [ { "stat": "heart", "value": -4, "isMultiplier": false }, { "stat": "emotionalSkill", "value": -3, "isMultiplier": false }, { "stat": "emotionalDefense", "value": -3, "isMultiplier": false } ] }, "tier": 2 }, { "id": "debuff_charm", "name": "Wigner's Friendship", "description": "From your perspective, your reality has collapsed into serving them. From outside, you remain in superposition. Neither view is wrong. You obey.", "type": "debuff", "category": "control", "duration": 2, "stacking": "none", "resistedBy": "body", "resistDR": 14, "payload": { "actionRestriction": { "forcedStance": "heart" }, "statModifiers": [ { "stat": "heart", "value": -2, "isMultiplier": false }, { "stat": "emotionalDefense", "value": -2, "isMultiplier": false } ] }, "tier": 2 }, { "id": "debuff_confusion", "name": "Two Envelope Delirium", "description": "Should you switch? The other choice always seems better. You switch targets, switch tactics, switch again—always certain switching helps, always wrong.", "type": "debuff", "category": "control", "duration": 4, "stacking": "duration", "resistedBy": "heart", "resistDR": 13, "payload": { "rollModifier": -5, "advantageModifier": { "grantDisadvantage": [ "body", "mind", "heart" ] } }, "tier": 2 }, { "id": "debuff_blind", "name": "Quantum Erasure", "description": "Information about your target has been erased from reality itself. You know they exist; you cannot know where. Observation fails.", "type": "debuff", "category": "control", "duration": 2, "stacking": "duration", "resistedBy": "heart", "resistDR": 13, "payload": { "rollModifier": -5, "advantageModifier": { "grantDisadvantage": [ "body", "mind" ] } }, "tier": 2 }, { "id": "debuff_silence", "name": "Moore's Muteness", "description": "You believe you can speak, yet you don't believe you're speaking. The absurdity freezes your voice. Assertion becomes impossible.", "type": "debuff", "category": "control", "duration": 3, "stacking": "none", "resistedBy": "body", "resistDR": 13, "payload": { "actionRestriction": { "blockedStances": [ "heart" ] }, "statModifiers": [ { "stat": "heart", "value": -2, "isMultiplier": false }, { "stat": "emotionalSkill", "value": -3, "isMultiplier": false } ] }, "tier": 2 }, { "id": "debuff_berserk", "name": "Problem of Evil", "description": "If you are all-powerful, why do you suffer? If all-knowing, why not prevent it? Your rage at the paradox consumes reason—omnipotent fury, impotent wisdom.", "type": "debuff", "category": "stat", "duration": 3, "stacking": "none", "resistedBy": "heart", "resistDR": 13, "payload": { "statModifiers": [ { "stat": "body", "value": 3, "isMultiplier": false }, { "stat": "mind", "value": -4, "isMultiplier": false }, { "stat": "heart", "value": -2, "isMultiplier": false }, { "stat": "physicalSkill", "value": 2, "isMultiplier": false }, { "stat": "mentalSkill", "value": -3, "isMultiplier": false }, { "stat": "mentalDefense", "value": -2, "isMultiplier": false } ], "defenseModifier": -3 }, "tier": 2 }, { "id": "debuff_fatigue", "name": "Preface Exhaustion", "description": "You believe each action you take is correct. You also believe some of your actions must be mistakes. The inconsistency drains you.", "type": "debuff", "category": "stat", "duration": 4, "stacking": "intensity", "resistedBy": "heart", "resistDR": 12, "payload": { "statModifiers": [ { "stat": "body", "value": -1, "isMultiplier": false }, { "stat": "mind", "value": -1, "isMultiplier": false }, { "stat": "physicalSkill", "value": -1, "isMultiplier": false }, { "stat": "mentalSkill", "value": -1, "isMultiplier": false } ], "rollModifier": -1 }, "tier": 2 }, { "id": "debuff_exhaustion", "name": "Lottery Despair", "description": "For each effort, you rationally believe it will fail. Combined, you believe nothing will succeed. Yet something must. The contradiction exhausts you.", "type": "debuff", "category": "stat", "duration": 3, "stacking": "intensity", "resistedBy": "heart", "resistDR": 13, "payload": { "statModifiers": [ { "stat": "body", "value": -2, "isMultiplier": false }, { "stat": "mind", "value": -2, "isMultiplier": false }, { "stat": "heart", "value": -2, "isMultiplier": false }, { "stat": "physicalSkill", "value": -1, "isMultiplier": false }, { "stat": "mentalSkill", "value": -1, "isMultiplier": false }, { "stat": "emotionalSkill", "value": -1, "isMultiplier": false } ], "rollModifier": -2 }, "tier": 2 }, { "id": "debuff_slow", "name": "Achilles' Burden", "description": "You are Achilles—faster than any tortoise. Yet the tortoise is always ahead. No matter how swiftly you act, you're always one step behind.", "type": "debuff", "category": "control", "duration": 3, "stacking": "duration", "resistedBy": "mind", "resistDR": 12, "payload": { "rollModifier": -2, "statModifiers": [ { "stat": "physicalSkill", "value": -2, "isMultiplier": false } ], "advantageModifier": { "grantDisadvantage": [ "body" ] } }, "tier": 2 }, { "id": "debuff_root", "name": "Braess Binding", "description": "Adding options makes things worse. You could move, but seeing the paths available creates congestion in your muscles. Paralysis through possibility.", "type": "debuff", "category": "control", "duration": 2, "stacking": "duration", "resistedBy": "mind", "resistDR": 13, "payload": { "defenseModifier": -2, "rollModifier": -2 }, "tier": 2 }, { "id": "debuff_knockdown", "name": "Ross-Littlewood Fall", "description": "At noon, how many balls remain? Your stance is like the paradox—adding and removing faster and faster until at the limit, nothing coherent remains.", "type": "debuff", "category": "control", "duration": 1, "stacking": "none", "resistedBy": "mind", "resistDR": 12, "payload": { "defenseModifier": -4, "rollModifier": -3 }, "tier": 2 }, { "id": "debuff_vulnerability_body", "name": "Richard's Exposure", "description": "Your physical defenses are defined in terms of themselves—a diagonal contradiction. The enumeration reveals your weakness; Body attacks pierce deeply.", "type": "debuff", "category": "defense", "duration": 3, "stacking": "duration", "resistedBy": "mind", "resistDR": 13, "payload": { "statModifiers": [ { "stat": "body", "value": -3, "isMultiplier": false }, { "stat": "physicalDefense", "value": -4, "isMultiplier": false }, { "stat": "physicalSave", "value": -3, "isMultiplier": false } ], "damageTakenMult": 1.5 }, "tier": 2 }, { "id": "debuff_vulnerability_mind", "name": "Cantor's Gap", "description": "Your mental defenses are countably infinite—impressive, until you face uncountable assault. There's always a larger infinity of thoughts to break you.", "type": "debuff", "category": "defense", "duration": 3, "stacking": "duration", "resistedBy": "heart", "resistDR": 13, "payload": { "statModifiers": [ { "stat": "mind", "value": -3, "isMultiplier": false }, { "stat": "mentalDefense", "value": -4, "isMultiplier": false }, { "stat": "mentalSave", "value": -3, "isMultiplier": false } ], "damageTakenMult": 1.5 }, "tier": 2 }, { "id": "debuff_vulnerability_heart", "name": "Burali-Forti Wound", "description": "Your emotional ordinals exceed their own bounds. The set of all your feelings contains a feeling greater than all feelings. Your Heart tears itself apart.", "type": "debuff", "category": "defense", "duration": 3, "stacking": "duration", "resistedBy": "body", "resistDR": 13, "payload": { "statModifiers": [ { "stat": "heart", "value": -3, "isMultiplier": false }, { "stat": "emotionalDefense", "value": -4, "isMultiplier": false }, { "stat": "emotionalSave", "value": -3, "isMultiplier": false } ], "damageTakenMult": 1.5 }, "tier": 2 }, { "id": "debuff_vulnerable", "name": "Breach", "description": "A seam pried open in their guard, stance-agnostic and bleeding-obvious. Every blow you land now finds the gap and digs deeper.", "type": "debuff", "category": "defense", "duration": 3, "stacking": "duration", "resistedBy": "body", "resistDR": 12, "payload": { "damageTakenMult": 1.5 }, "tier": 2, "addedIn": "2026-06-26", "tags": ["status-effect", "vulnerable", "debuff", "amplify"] }, { "id": "debuff_mark", "name": "Raven's Target", "description": "Evidence confirms equivalent hypotheses. A green apple confirms all ravens are black—and confirms you are the target. Everything points to you.", "type": "debuff", "category": "advantage", "duration": 3, "stacking": "none", "resistedBy": "heart", "resistDR": 13, "payload": { "defenseModifier": -3, "advantageModifier": { "grantDisadvantage": [ "body", "mind", "heart" ] } }, "tier": 2 }, { "id": "debuff_body_attack_down", "name": "Omnipotence Failure", "description": "Can you create a blow so powerful you cannot throw it? The paradox resolves: no. Your physical might crumbles under logical contradiction.", "type": "debuff", "category": "stat", "duration": 3, "stacking": "intensity", "resistedBy": "mind", "resistDR": 13, "payload": { "statModifiers": [ { "stat": "body", "value": -2, "isMultiplier": false }, { "stat": "physicalSkill", "value": -3, "isMultiplier": false } ], "rollModifier": -1 }, "tier": 2 }, { "id": "debuff_mind_attack_down", "name": "GHZ Collapse", "description": "Your thoughts were entangled in perfect correlation—until measurement. Now local realism fails. Your Mind attacks scatter incoherently.", "type": "debuff", "category": "stat", "duration": 3, "stacking": "intensity", "resistedBy": "heart", "resistDR": 13, "payload": { "statModifiers": [ { "stat": "mind", "value": -2, "isMultiplier": false }, { "stat": "mentalSkill", "value": -3, "isMultiplier": false } ], "rollModifier": -1 }, "tier": 2 }, { "id": "debuff_heart_attack_down", "name": "Toxin Hesitation", "description": "Intend to feel and you get rewarded—but you know you won't follow through. Unable to genuinely commit, your Heart attacks lack conviction.", "type": "debuff", "category": "stat", "duration": 3, "stacking": "intensity", "resistedBy": "body", "resistDR": 13, "payload": { "statModifiers": [ { "stat": "heart", "value": -2, "isMultiplier": false }, { "stat": "emotionalSkill", "value": -3, "isMultiplier": false } ], "rollModifier": -1 }, "tier": 2 }, { "id": "debuff_evasion_down", "name": "Dartboard Certainty", "description": "Every point has zero probability of being hit—yet something is always hit. Probability zero doesn't mean impossible. You will be struck.", "type": "debuff", "category": "defense", "duration": 3, "stacking": "duration", "resistedBy": "heart", "resistDR": 13, "payload": { "defenseModifier": -3, "statModifiers": [ { "stat": "physicalDefense", "value": -2, "isMultiplier": false }, { "stat": "mentalDefense", "value": -2, "isMultiplier": false }, { "stat": "emotionalDefense", "value": -2, "isMultiplier": false } ] }, "tier": 2 }, { "id": "debuff_accuracy_down", "name": "Ellsberg's Doubt", "description": "Known risks you could handle. Unknown probabilities paralyze. Your attacks carry ambiguous odds—and ambiguity breeds failure.", "type": "debuff", "category": "advantage", "duration": 3, "stacking": "duration", "resistedBy": "heart", "resistDR": 12, "payload": { "rollModifier": -3, "statModifiers": [ { "stat": "physicalSkill", "value": -2, "isMultiplier": false }, { "stat": "mentalSkill", "value": -2, "isMultiplier": false }, { "stat": "emotionalSkill", "value": -2, "isMultiplier": false } ] }, "tier": 2 }, { "id": "debuff_defense_down", "name": "Prisoner's Betrayal", "description": "Rational self-interest dictates you defect—leave yourself exposed. Individual logic produces collective disaster. Your defenses abandon you.", "type": "debuff", "category": "defense", "duration": 3, "stacking": "intensity", "resistedBy": "heart", "resistDR": 13, "payload": { "defenseModifier": -3, "statModifiers": [ { "stat": "body", "value": -1, "isMultiplier": false }, { "stat": "physicalDefense", "value": -2, "isMultiplier": false } ] }, "tier": 2 }, { "id": "debuff_dispel", "name": "Skolem's Reduction", "description": "Your infinite buffs are countable from outside. Enumerated, bounded, finite after all. The Löwenheim-Skolem theorem strips your power away.", "type": "debuff", "category": "stat", "duration": 0, "stacking": "none", "resistedBy": "heart", "resistDR": 12, "payload": {}, "tier": 2 }, { "id": "debuff_hex", "name": "Allais' Curse", "description": "Your allies' pain becomes yours—you violate expected utility by feeling their losses more than logic allows. Independence fails; harm transfers.", "type": "debuff", "category": "damage", "duration": 3, "stacking": "none", "resistedBy": "body", "resistDR": 13, "payload": { "damageOverTime": { "damagePerRound": 2, "damageType": "heart" } }, "tier": 2 }, { "id": "debuff_hp_decay", "name": "Centipede's End", "description": "Backward induction reveals the truth: at every step, you should have given up earlier. Your vitality unravels from the conclusion backward.", "type": "debuff", "category": "damage", "duration": 4, "stacking": "none", "resistedBy": "mind", "resistDR": 13, "payload": { "damageOverTime": { "damagePerRound": 3, "damageType": "body" }, "regeneration": { "healthPerRound": -2 } }, "tier": 2 }, { "id": "debuff_moral_learning", "name": "Moral Blindness", "description": "To learn what's right, you must recognize right when you see it. But to recognize it, you must already know it. Your ethical compass spins uselessly.", "type": "debuff", "category": "control", "duration": 3, "stacking": "none", "resistedBy": "body", "resistDR": 12, "payload": { "statModifiers": [ { "stat": "heart", "value": -2, "isMultiplier": false }, { "stat": "mind", "value": -1, "isMultiplier": false }, { "stat": "emotionalSkill", "value": -2, "isMultiplier": false }, { "stat": "mentalSkill", "value": -1, "isMultiplier": false } ], "rollModifier": -1 }, "tier": 2 }, { "id": "debuff_transformative", "name": "Transformative Terror", "description": "You cannot know what you'll become until you become it. But the decision must be made now, with values you won't keep. Identity fractures under impossible choice.", "type": "debuff", "category": "control", "duration": 2, "stacking": "none", "resistedBy": "heart", "resistDR": 13, "payload": { "rollModifier": -2, "statModifiers": [ { "stat": "mind", "value": -2, "isMultiplier": false }, { "stat": "heart", "value": -1, "isMultiplier": false }, { "stat": "mentalSkill", "value": -2, "isMultiplier": false }, { "stat": "emotionalDefense", "value": -1, "isMultiplier": false } ] }, "tier": 2 }, { "id": "debuff_rational_disagreement", "name": "Peer Doubt", "description": "Your equal disagrees. You're both rational, both informed. Neither can claim superiority. Belief becomes impossible; action becomes paralysis.", "type": "debuff", "category": "stat", "duration": 2, "stacking": "duration", "resistedBy": "heart", "resistDR": 12, "payload": { "statModifiers": [ { "stat": "mind", "value": -3, "isMultiplier": false }, { "stat": "mentalSkill", "value": -2, "isMultiplier": false }, { "stat": "mentalDefense", "value": -1, "isMultiplier": false } ], "rollModifier": -2 }, "tier": 2 }, { "id": "debuff_straw_man_echo", "name": "Straw Man's Echo", "description": "A weakened version of your intent was easily dismissed. You never argued for that—but the damage is done. Your confidence wavers, just slightly.", "type": "debuff", "category": "advantage", "duration": 2, "stacking": "none", "resistedBy": "body", "resistDR": 10, "payload": { "rollModifier": -1 }, "tier": 1 }, { "id": "debuff_post_hoc_tremor", "name": "Post Hoc Tremor", "description": "After the stumble came the strike—correlation mistaken for causation. Your muscles remember the sequence and flinch preemptively, just a little.", "type": "debuff", "category": "stat", "duration": 2, "stacking": "none", "resistedBy": "mind", "resistDR": 10, "payload": { "statModifiers": [ { "stat": "body", "value": -1, "isMultiplier": false } ] }, "tier": 1 }, { "id": "debuff_affirming_consequent", "name": "Affirming the Consequent", "description": "If you were skilled, you'd succeed. You succeeded—therefore you were skilled. But the reasoning was flawed, and your next attempt knows it.", "type": "debuff", "category": "stat", "duration": 2, "stacking": "none", "resistedBy": "mind", "resistDR": 10, "payload": { "statModifiers": [ { "stat": "physicalSkill", "value": -1, "isMultiplier": false } ] }, "tier": 1 }, { "id": "debuff_causal_emergence", "name": "Emergence Failure", "description": "Your consciousness should have causal power—but physics is causally closed. Your will is epiphenomenal, an illusion. Commands fail to reach your limbs.", "type": "debuff", "category": "control", "duration": 2, "stacking": "none", "resistedBy": "heart", "resistDR": 13, "payload": { "rollModifier": -2, "statModifiers": [ { "stat": "mind", "value": -2, "isMultiplier": false }, { "stat": "mentalSkill", "value": -2, "isMultiplier": false }, { "stat": "physicalSkill", "value": -1, "isMultiplier": false } ], "advantageModifier": { "grantDisadvantage": [ "mind" ] } }, "tier": 2 }, { "id": "debuff_no_true_scotsman", "name": "No True Scotsman", "description": "Whatever the bearer is, they are told, they are not the true one. Each blow that lands is reframed as proof — they are not, by definition, who they claim to be — and their guard frays accordingly.", "type": "debuff", "category": "stat", "duration": 3, "stacking": "intensity", "payload": { "statModifiers": [ { "stat": "physicalDefense", "value": -2, "isMultiplier": false } ] }, "tier": 2, "resistedBy": "mind", "resistDR": 12, "sourcedFromCell": "logic-pessimistic-transcendent" }, { "id": "debuff_category_error", "name": "Category Error", "description": "The bearer applies the wrong kind of logic to the wrong kind of moment, and every roll comes back canted. Cosmic categories were never meant for the wound at hand.", "type": "debuff", "category": "control", "duration": 3, "stacking": "intensity", "payload": { "rollModifierPerIntensity": -2 }, "tier": 2, "resistedBy": "heart", "resistDR": 11, "sourcedFromCell": "mid-pessimistic-transcendent" }, { "id": "debuff_tartarus_rot", "name": "Tartarus Rot", "description": "A pit beneath the world, where things go to be forgotten and yet keep suffering. The decay does not heal; it only finds new places to begin.", "type": "debuff", "category": "damage", "duration": 4, "stacking": "intensity", "resistedBy": "mind", "resistDR": 13, "payload": { "damageOverTime": { "damagePerRound": 4, "damageType": "body", "tickPhase": "end" }, "statModifiers": [ { "stat": "body", "value": -1, "isMultiplier": false } ] }, "tier": 2, "addedIn": "2026-04-15", "tags": ["status-effect", "damage", "dot", "since-april"] }, { "id": "debuff_lethe_fog", "name": "Lethe Fog", "description": "The river of forgetting laps at the edges of thought. Names of techniques slip away mid-motion; you reach for what you knew and close on mist.", "type": "debuff", "category": "control", "duration": 2, "stacking": "duration", "resistedBy": "heart", "resistDR": 13, "payload": { "rollModifier": -3, "statModifiers": [ { "stat": "mind", "value": -2, "isMultiplier": false }, { "stat": "mentalSkill", "value": -2, "isMultiplier": false } ], "advantageModifier": { "grantDisadvantage": ["mind"] } }, "tier": 2, "addedIn": "2026-04-15", "tags": ["status-effect", "control", "since-april"] }, { "id": "debuff_gorgon_gaze", "name": "Gorgon's Gaze", "description": "Meet the eyes and the body forgets it was ever fluid. Stone climbs the limbs from the ankles up. For a held breath, you are a statue of yourself.", "type": "debuff", "category": "control", "duration": 1, "stacking": "none", "resistedBy": "heart", "resistDR": 16, "payload": { "actionRestriction": { "skipTurn": true }, "defenseModifier": -3, "statModifiers": [ { "stat": "physicalDefense", "value": -2, "isMultiplier": false } ] }, "tier": 3, "addedIn": "2026-04-15", "tags": ["status-effect", "control", "stun", "since-april"] }, { "id": "debuff_sisyphean_weight", "name": "Sisyphean Weight", "description": "The boulder is yours forever and it is always near the top. Each effort is total; each result is the slope beginning again. Strength leaks out as despair.", "type": "debuff", "category": "stat", "duration": 4, "stacking": "intensity", "resistedBy": "heart", "resistDR": 12, "payload": { "statModifiers": [ { "stat": "body", "value": -2, "isMultiplier": false }, { "stat": "physicalAttack", "value": -2, "isMultiplier": false }, { "stat": "physicalSkill", "value": -1, "isMultiplier": false } ], "rollModifier": -1 }, "tier": 2, "addedIn": "2026-04-15", "tags": ["status-effect", "stat", "since-april"] }, { "id": "debuff_harpy_torment", "name": "Harpy's Torment", "description": "They snatch the meal before it reaches the mouth — every restorative gesture fouled, every breath of relief stolen mid-inhale. Nothing taken stays taken.", "type": "debuff", "category": "regeneration", "duration": 3, "stacking": "intensity", "resistedBy": "body", "resistDR": 13, "payload": { "regeneration": { "healthPerRound": -3 }, "statModifiers": [ { "stat": "heart", "value": -1, "isMultiplier": false } ] }, "tier": 2, "addedIn": "2026-04-15", "tags": ["status-effect", "regeneration", "since-april"] }, { "id": "debuff_icarus_descent", "name": "Icarus Descent", "description": "The wax remembers the sun. What lifted you now drips away, and the higher your earlier flight, the steeper the lesson on the way down.", "type": "debuff", "category": "advantage", "duration": 3, "stacking": "duration", "resistedBy": "mind", "resistDR": 13, "payload": { "rollModifier": -3, "advantageModifier": { "grantDisadvantage": ["body", "heart"] }, "statModifiers": [ { "stat": "luck", "value": -2, "isMultiplier": false } ] }, "tier": 2, "addedIn": "2026-05-20", "tags": ["status-effect", "advantage", "since-april"] }, { "id": "debuff_basilisk_venom", "name": "Basilisk Venom", "description": "A poison that argues with the blood, persuading it to curdle. Conviction itself turns toxic — emotional reserves souring round after round.", "type": "debuff", "category": "damage", "duration": 4, "stacking": "intensity", "resistedBy": "body", "resistDR": 13, "payload": { "damageOverTime": { "damagePerRound": 3, "damageType": "heart" }, "statModifiers": [ { "stat": "emotionalDefense", "value": -2, "isMultiplier": false } ] }, "tier": 2, "addedIn": "2026-05-20", "tags": ["status-effect", "damage", "dot", "since-april"] }, { "id": "debuff_minotaur_maze", "name": "Minotaur's Maze", "description": "Every corridor of intention loops back on itself. You charge forward and arrive behind. The labyrinth was built to keep the monster in — and now it keeps you.", "type": "debuff", "category": "control", "duration": 2, "stacking": "none", "resistedBy": "mind", "resistDR": 14, "payload": { "actionRestriction": { "blockedStances": ["body"] }, "rollModifier": -2, "statModifiers": [ { "stat": "physicalSkill", "value": -2, "isMultiplier": false } ] }, "tier": 2, "addedIn": "2026-05-20", "tags": ["status-effect", "control", "since-april"] }, { "id": "debuff_hubris_brand", "name": "Hubris Brand", "description": "The gods mark the proud so the world may aim true. A sigil no one else can read sits on your brow, and every blow seems to know exactly where you stand.", "type": "debuff", "category": "advantage", "duration": 3, "stacking": "none", "resistedBy": "heart", "resistDR": 13, "payload": { "defenseModifier": -4, "advantageModifier": { "grantDisadvantage": ["body", "mind", "heart"] } }, "tier": 2, "addedIn": "2026-06-07", "tags": ["status-effect", "advantage", "mark", "since-april"] }, { "id": "debuff_minor_unsteadiness", "name": "Minor Unsteadiness", "description": "A loose stone underfoot you keep half-noticing. Nothing dramatic — just a wobble in the wrist at the worst small moments.", "type": "debuff", "category": "stat", "duration": 2, "stacking": "none", "payload": { "statModifiers": [ { "stat": "physicalSkill", "value": -1, "isMultiplier": false } ], "rollModifier": -1 }, "tier": 1, "addedIn": "2026-06-07", "tags": ["status-effect", "stat", "since-april"] }, { "id": "debuff_acid", "name": "Aqua Regia", "description": "A solvent that argues no metal is noble. It dissolves the premise of armor itself — eating through defense as readily as flesh, round after round, and where it meets open flame it becomes something that devours.", "type": "debuff", "category": "damage", "duration": 3, "stacking": "intensity", "resistedBy": "body", "resistDR": 13, "payload": { "damageOverTime": { "damagePerRound": 3, "damageType": "body" }, "statModifiers": [ { "stat": "physicalDefense", "value": -2, "isMultiplier": false } ] }, "tier": 2, "addedIn": "2026-06-20", "tags": ["status-effect", "damage", "dot", "combo-enabler", "since-april"] }, { "id": "debuff_exposure", "name": "Gödel's Exposure", "description": "Every defense is a formal system, and every formal system harbors a true weakness it cannot close from within. Yours has been named aloud — and through that gap, the next blow walks unopposed.", "type": "debuff", "category": "defense", "duration": 3, "stacking": "intensity", "resistedBy": "mind", "resistDR": 13, "payload": { "defenseModifier": -3, "statModifiers": [ { "stat": "physicalDefense", "value": -2, "isMultiplier": false }, { "stat": "mentalDefense", "value": -2, "isMultiplier": false } ] }, "tier": 2, "addedIn": "2026-06-20", "tags": ["status-effect", "defense", "combo-enabler", "since-april"] } ] }