Conditions & resources

The Status tab in the scene sidebar (the shield icon) is where conditions and trackable numbers live. Select a token and the panel shows everything riding on it — “Showing status for Kaelan”.

Conditions

1. Select the token and open the Status tab.

2. Click Apply Condition.

3. Give it a key (poisoned) and, if you want a nicer name, a label (Poisoned).

4. Choose how long it lasts, and optionally a number to go with it:

   Duration	When it ends
   Manual	Never on its own — you take it off
   Rounds	After the given number of rounds
   Turns	After the given number of turns
   Scene	When the scene changes
   Until Start of Turn	At the start of the creature’s next turn
   Until End of Turn	At the end of the current turn

5. Optionally set stacks (how many times it applies), pick a colour, and pick an icon.

6. Click Apply.

Each condition sits in the list as a coloured row showing its label, its stack count as x3, and a clock with the time it has left. Hover a row and a × appears to remove it. Clear All takes every condition off the selected token at once.

Applying and removing conditions is a GM job. Everyone can see them.

Resources

Resources are the numbers a creature carries around: hit points, a rage pool, a countdown clock. Click Create Resource, give it a key and label, a starting value and optionally a max, and pick the kind — Pool, Counter, Track, Clock or Custom. Ones with a max get a small bar showing how full they are.

Nudge a resource up or down with the − and + buttons beside its value. Both GMs and players can adjust; only the GM can delete one.

Any resource — including fully homebrew ones — can refill itself on rests: pick Refills: short rest or Refills: long rest when you create it (or add recharge short / recharge long to /resource create in the console), and the next rest of that kind tops it back up to its max automatically. Your choice wins over the game system’s own recharge rules for that resource, so a custom “Blood Points, refills on long rest” pool behaves exactly like a built-in one.

How conditions look on tokens

Conditions also draw on the token itself. Pick the style in Tabletop settings, under Conditions → Token Indicator Style:

Style	What it draws
Badges	Icon circles arranged around the token
Labels	Named pills on the token’s edge
Spinning Rings	The condition names rotating around the token
Dot Bar	Coloured dots in a row underneath
None	Nothing on the token — the panel only

Hover a badge or dot for the condition’s details.

Tip

Damage and healing announce themselves too: a floating +8 in green or −12 in red pops above the token and drifts away, with a matching burst of colour. There is no permanent health bar drawn on tokens — open the Status tab to read exact numbers.

Related

• Actions & resolution
• Managing combatants
• Turn triggers & reactions
• Tabletop settings
• Playing cards

Hope and Fear

In Daggerheart games the tabletop shows both as rows of pips rather than a number, so you can see at a glance what you can afford:

• Hope sits in the scene sidebar for the character you control (GMs see the selected token’s). It glows a little brighter the fuller it is.
• Fear is the GM’s public pool — everyone can see it, only the GM can spend it. It glows harder as it fills, so the table can feel the pressure building without reading the number.

When either is gained, the screen gives it a moment: a coloured bloom from the edge with the new total — Fear from the top, Hope from the bottom. It never covers the map and you can keep playing straight through it. Spending is quiet; only gains get the flourish.

Turn on UI sounds in VTT Settings and the two get matching sounds — a bright rising note for Hope, a low swell for Fear.

Styling an aura

Open a token’s settings and turn on Aura to ring it with a zone everyone can see. Beyond radius and colour there are three looks to set:

Fill — what happens inside the ring.

None	Rim only. Marks the zone without tinting the map underneath.
Soft	A light even wash. The classic aura.
Edge	Clear in the middle, densest at the rim — reads as a boundary rather than a puddle.
Solid	Heavy wash, for a zone that should dominate (a hazard, a danger field).

Motion — what it does over time.

Still	No motion.
Breathe	A slow swell. The classic aura.
Pulse	Rings travelling outward from the token, like sonar.
Rotate	A segmented rim turning slowly — good for arcane or mechanical zones.

Glow sets how far the light bleeds past the rim, from nothing to a strong bloom.

Tip

On hex maps the zone covers whole hexes rather than drawing a circle, because on a hex grid “10 ft” is a set of hexes. Edge fills the rim hexes for the same reason — a gradient has nothing to grade across.

Note

This is signage — it applies no effects on its own. Auras that actually do something come from the card that granted them.

Auras on cards

If you’re authoring a card that grants an aura, the same looks are available in the card’s effect editor. Open the Apply condition step, turn on Aura, and set shape, size and the nested effect as usual — the Appearance block underneath sets fill, motion, colour and glow.

Colour left blank means “inherit”: the aura follows the condition’s colour, and failing that the room’s palette, so a card that doesn’t care about colour won’t fight someone’s theme.

Caution

Appearance changes nothing about what the aura does. If a zone should be harmless-looking but deadly, that’s a legitimate thing to author — just don’t expect the styling to warn anyone.