Prone

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Prone

Condition Severity: Moderate

The character is lying on the ground. A prone attacker has a –4 penalty on melee attack rolls and cannot use a ranged weapon (except for a crossbow). Spell casting while prone suffers a -4 penalty to any concentration check they are required to make (such as combat casting or casting defensively). A prone defender gains a +4 bonus to Armor Class against ranged attacks, but takes a –4 penalty to AC against melee attacks.

Standing up is a move action that provokes an attack of opportunity. Standing up from prone is also considered movement, thus disallowing 5-foot steps that round.

While prone, creatures cannot make 5-foot steps, but they can take a Crawl action as a move action. Crawling provokes attacks of opportunity, and moves 5 feet as a move action. Creatures which crawl remain prone after the crawl action is completed.

A creature which has voluntarily dropped to Prone can elect to ignore any forced movement inflicted upon it as long as it remains prone. However, a creature which was made prone involuntarily gains no such resistance to forced movement until they have had an opportunity to stand up (usually a move action). Note the creature doesn't need to stand up (and, indeed, doing so would remove its resistance to forced movement), merely have the action available that would allow it to stand up.

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Helpless → Prone → Flat-Footed