Prone

Condition Severity: Moderate

Effects

• You have been knocked down to the ground (or voluntarily dropped down to the ground).
• You cannot leave your space voluntarily, except via teleport (If you teleport, you retain the condition in the new space), or to crawl.

• Crawling is a double-move action, allowing you to move 5 feet, which provokes, and you are still Prone when the move ends.

• You take a -4 penalty to AC until the condition is cleared, or until you spend a move action to begin to clear it (see below).
• You take a -4 penalty to attack rolls until the condition is cleared.
• You cannot use any 2-handed weapons while Prone.
• If you voluntarily became prone, or if you have had a turn in which you had actions available to you since being made prone, you cannot be subjected to forced movement unless you wish to be.

Ended By

If the ability, trap, or effect description includes specific directions for how the condition is ended, then that is the primary means of ending this condition. In many cases, it is the only way to end the condition. If nothing is specifically listed for ending the condition, then the following methods can be used to end it, instead:

• Move action to stand up, but provokes from threatening creatures as movement to leave a threatened square. Counts as a move action to move, preventing 5-foot steps this round.

• Note that the penalty to your AC is cleared as soon as you begin your move action, meaning that attacks of opportunity made against you when you stand up do not gain the benefit of this penalty.
• Note that picking up dropped objects in your square can be done as part of this same move action to stand up from Prone, as long as you have one hand free for each object you are retrieving.

• If not cleared, automatically ends at the end of the encounter.
• Alternatively, an adjacent ally can spend a swift action to help you to your knees, costing you an immediate action as well, reducing the condition to Quelled. This action does not provoke for either you or the assisting ally.

Array

Quelled → Prone → Splayed