Shin Megami Tensei: Persona/Gameplay

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Appendices

Stats

St - Strength - Affects the strength of physical attacks
Vi - Vitality - Affects defensive ability and HP gains
Dx - Dexterity - Affects hit rate of sword and gun attacks
Ag - Agility - Affects evasion rate and turn order
Lu - Luck - Has a slight affect on various things

Conditions

Temporary Conditions
Condition	Description
Happy	Happiness may often cause a failure to take action, and if allowed to worsen, may cause a complete inability to act, as well as decreased defense
Freeze	Frozen characters are unable to act and become weak to electric attacks. Taking damage from fire attacks will speed recovery from this condition
Shock	Shocked characters are unable to act or evade, and become weak to ice attacks
Panic	Panic causes characters to become unpredictable and may cause them to attack allies. As the condition worsens, the character may switch positions as well
Charm	Charmed characters attack their allies
Bind	Bound characters cannot act
Sleep	Sleeping characters cannot act or evade, and their defense suffers. Sustaining damage speeds recovery
Unlucky	Decreases a character's luck stat, which may eventually cause them to be unable to evade attacks
Mute	Increases the chance that SP-based attacks will fail
Guilt	The character begins to lose the will to act
Blind	Hit and evasion rates suffer, eventually causing an inability to perform SP-based attacks
Terror	The character begins to lose the will to act, and may flee from battle

Severe Conditions
Condition	Description
Poison	Attack strength is halved and character takes 1/16th of their maximum HP in damage each turn. After battle, the character loses 1 HP for every 2 steps taken
Paralyze	Character cannot act or evade, and loses 1/16th of their maximum SP each turn
Stone	Character cannot act or evade, defense suffers, and will suffer more critical hits
Sick	Character takes 1/16th of their maximum HP in damage each turn. After battle, the character loses 1/8th of their maximum HP for every 4 steps taken
KO	Character is taken out of battle, and recovers with 1 HP after battle

Beneficial Conditions
Condition	Description
Cloak	Enemies will not target a cloaked character, but the character becomes weaker to spells and cannot invoke their persona
Fury	Increases character's attack strength and hit rate, but renders them incapable of doing anything but weapon attacks
Puppet	When KOd, a character may be controlled by the others as a puppet, but can not invoke their persona or be targeted by enemies
Berserk	Magic attacks and hit rate are increased when the character's persona goes berserk, but the persona can not be controlled
Counter	When attacked, the character will counter-attack
Beast	Stats will be affected by the phase of the moon. The full moon increases stats, while the new moon decreases them

Spells

Spells have types and sub-types. Personas and demons have particular types and sub-types of spells that they may use, and some may use a secondary type in addition to their primary type. All combatants have strengths and weaknesses towards certain types and sub-types. Element and Force are opposing types, as are Holy and Dark. Fire and Ice, Earth and Wind, Electricity and Nuclear, and Gravity and Blast are opposing sub-types.