Debuffs are temporary or persistent detrimental Status Effects. They are applied by weapon effects, perks, abilities, environmental hazards, or as side effects of 🤕 Injuries.
Many debuffs use the X suffix notation to indicate potency (e.g. Bleed 3, Burn 2). See Status Effects → Effect Notation for how X is interpreted.
Damage Over Time
DoT debuffs deal damage or apply resources at the end of the affected creature’s turn. Most stack, ignore armor, and can be partially resisted with an END + 🏕 Survival Test.
- 🩸 Bleed — bleeding damage; stacks reduce by 1 if you don’t move
- 🔥 Burn — fire damage; spreads to adjacent creatures and objects at high stacks
- 🐍 Poison — toxin damage; also reduces healing received
- 🌩 Shock — drains AP at the start of your turn
- ❄ Frozen — drains AP at the start of your turn (cold variant)
- ☢ Radiation — adds ☢ RADS at end of turn
Control Effects
Debuffs that force or restrict a creature’s behavior. Most are resisted with a 😌 Composure Test.
- 🤼 Grappled — restricted to adjacent tile of source
- 💢 Taunted — Disadvantage attacking anyone but the source
- 🕊️ Pacified — cannot attack any creature
- 🤪 Madness — attack the nearest creature, friend or foe
- 👻 Fear — flee from the source; lose all MAP even on a successful resist
- 🤼 Submission — accumulates toward a Submission Hold (👊 Unarmed)
- ⛓️ Immobilized — 0 MAP and no Movement Actions
- 💤 Unconscious — out cold: Prone, unaware, and melee hits against you are CRITs
- 🔁 Turned — fights for whoever 🐕 Tamed or 🤖 Overrode it, until combat ends
Tactical Debuffs
In-combat penalties to Accuracy, Evasion, AP, or other combat resources.
- ⏬ Pressure — −1 Evasion per stack (max 3)
- ⏬ Suppressed — Accuracy penalty from suppressing fire (Composure DC 15)
- ⏬ Pinned Down — severe penalties from heavy suppressing fire (Composure DC 20)
- 🌊 Shockwave — −2 Accuracy, −2 Evasion
- ⏬ Exposed — Cover Concealment Bonus halved
- Marked — +2 Accuracy on attacks against you, for the marker and its allies
- ⏬ Staggered — −2 AP on your next turn (max 2 stacks)
- ✨ Stunned — skip your next turn entirely
- 😲 Surprised — no actions during the Surprise Round
- 🎯 Vulnerable — the next hit against you is a CRIT
- 👀 Distracted — no Reactions or Free Reactions; ends Overwatch Mode
- 📡 Tracked — cannot Hide or benefit from invisibility
- 🐢 Slowed — no Sprint; Movement Actions cost double AP
- 🥀 Weak — Melee and Unarmed attacks deal 25% less damage
- 😰 Shaken — −1 Composure per stack (max 6)
- 🔇 Deafened — cannot hear; cannot be Taunted or receive spoken orders
Passive
Debuffs that linger beyond a single combat or have non-combat origins.
- 😫 Exhaustion — cumulative survival debuff from neglected food, drink, or rest
- 🏋️ Overencumbered — movement and sneak penalties from exceeding Carry Capacity
- Priority Target — the source and up to 3 allies deal bonus damage on their first hit against you
- ☢ Atom Aura — Borsalino-specific damage amplifier on the target
- Sundered X — −X Hardness on a Power Armor piece or vehicle, until repaired
Categories
Every debuff is also one of three categories, marked on its own page:
- Mental — resisted with 😌 Composure: 👻 Fear, 🤪 Madness, 🕊️ Pacified, 💢 Taunted, ⏬ Suppressed, ⏬ Pinned Down, 😰 Shaken
- Physical — resisted with END + 🏕 Survival, 🧪 Status Resistance or 🤼 Grapple: 🩸 Bleed, 🔥 Burn, ❄ Frozen, 🐍 Poison, ☢ Radiation, 🌩 Shock, 🤼 Grappled, 🤼 Submission, plus 🔙 Knockback and Knockdown
- Unresisted — no resist Test: every other debuff on this page
See Also
- Status Effects — top-level overview
- Crippled and other 🤕 Injury Related Debuffs (Head Trauma, Reeling, Weakened Arm/Leg/Mind/Organs)
- 🔙 Knockback, Knockdown — forced movement / stance effects
- 💊 Addictions — chem dependencies
- 🤒 Illnesses — infections and diseases; attack recovery rather than combat