This Stress Tracker feat was commissioned by Sunset Hollow Gaming and utilizes a Max Stress Score of "10".
Note: When adding this feat for the first time, ensure your stress score is set to "0" and work with your DM on increasing and decreasing your score appropriately.
Effects of Stress
When a character makes an attack roll, an ability check, or a saving throw, they must apply their current Stress Score as a penalty to the roll (ex: Stress Score of "2" means subtracting "2" from these rolls).
Gaining Stress
Stress is tracked as a numerical score, increasing in trying situations and decreasing with care. At the DM's discretion, a character's Stress Score might increase by 1 or more following a situation that would otherwise invoke fear, panic, distress, etc. Stress may also be accumulated by failing to take care of basic needs, such as a lack of sleep/rest.
Reducing Stress
A character who spends an entire day relaxing or in otherwise calm circumstances reduces their Stress Score by 1 when they finish their next long rest. Your DM may introduce other methods of reducing your Stress Score at their discretion.
The calm emotions spell effect used to suppress the charmed and frightened conditions also suppresses the effects of one's Stress Score for the spell's duration.
A lesser restoration spell reduces the target's Stress Score by 1, and a greater restoration spell reduces a character's Stress Score to 0.
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