

Later on in the game with certain class and trinket combinations - you potentially can reduce an afflicted hero down to 0 stress while in a dungeon.

While in dungeon - if you can reduce the heroes Stress down to 0, then the affliction will be removed. They will randomly bark out lines influenced by the type of affliction they suffer (from insults if Abusive to gibberish and nonsense if Irrational) and will have a chance to act or engage in actions out of your control.Īnd Affliction itself will be displayed as a small 'stress' symbol above the health bar. Paranoid Selfish Irrational Fearful Hopeless Abusive Masochistic Rapturousįrom that point on - their speech bubbles will be jagged, the text will be red. Upon a failed roll, it will splash a close up sceen of the character often cowering in fear or recoiling in pain bathed mostly in red with a word describing the Affliction they are suffering from: It sounds like you are talking about "Affliction".Īffliction is when the character was pushed to 100 stress and failed their virtue roll.
