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A fire-based status effect, but it is otherwise a wild card that can have a range of effects (sapping the user's HP is a popular effect). If the game also features a Freeze status effect (and chances are good it already does), the two may even cancel each other out.

* ''DragonAgeOrigins'' has the Curse of Mortality, which blocks all healing while also dealing a small amount of damage. The effect is only active for a limited time, but it often dooms party members that it hits. [[UselessUsefulSpell Also, because enemies rarely use healing, learning it is not much use to the player.]]

* ''LeagueOfLegends'' has Grievous Wounds, which reduces healing and regeneration by 50%. Though originally designed to counter the enemy's WhiteMage champions, Grievous Wounds better serves to counter aggressive champions that rely on copious LifeDrain.

** Also, there's diamondization, which is basically instant death as well.

* ''The VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion'' enemies will often cast a single spell after being silenced and then attack you with a weapon, this can be due the fact silence only effects spells, not scrolls or greater/lesser powers.

** Hell, it doesn't even have to be the final boss -- the third boss in ''Persona 3'' is fond of charming opponents. If he hits the player character, you can only hope that your party finishes off the boss while you waste turns getting messages reading "[Character Name] has turned against the party!" Since you can't alter tactics once you've been charmed, you may as well sit back and wait to see if the AI decides to be merciful.

* ''{{Terraria}}'''s "On Fire!" debuff, which one can get from heat-based enemies or by falling in lava. It slowly saps your HP like poison, though you can end the effect by dunking yourself in water. Its cousin, "Cursed Flame", is nastier: water doesn't put the flames out.

* The ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' games have stat-sapping radiation poisoning, with instant death at 1000 rads, as well as conventional HP-draining poison status, such as that from Radscorpion and Cazador stings, which also causes InterfaceScrew in ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas''. The Dart Gun has this effect as well as instantly crippling its victim (see "Slow" status below). In ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', poison can be applied to melee and throwing weapons. [[SyntheticPlague FEV]]-laced water in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'''s ''Broken Steel'' DLC (if you did the "Project Impurity" subquest) causes a drop in stats, and death if four bottles are consumed.

* In the first two ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' games, being irradiated to 1000 rads causes death within 24 hours(unless Rad-Aways are used), as opposed to the Instant Death in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' and ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas''.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'' has several, including Heat (a particularly brief ailment that kills the afflicted character if they take any action whatsoever), and Trouble (which, if the afflicted character is attacked, hurts the rest of the party for roughly half the damage taken).

* Critical damage in ''{{Vanquish}}'' automatically activates BulletTime, as well as causing visual InterfaceScrew.

* Recieving a Concussion (crippled head) in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' and ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' causes blurred vision and ringing in the ears, and reduces Perception. Vault 106 has its atmosphere injected with a psychoactive drug that periodically causes hallucinations.

* [[UniversalPoison Slowly saps your HP]]. In turn-based games, it will deal a set amount of damage at the beginning (sometimes end) of each turn. If the game in question doesn't automatically cure status effects at the end of each battle, this effect almost always lingers until cured, often draining a bit of HP even outside of battle with each step you take. Some games (''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'', ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'') have both regular poisons and stronger, more potent poisons that sap more health at a time. This can sometimes get hilariously out of hand, as evidenced [[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4272418.stm here]].

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[[UniversalPoison Slowly saps your HP]]. In turn-based games, it will deal a set amount of damage at the beginning (sometimes end) of each turn. If the game in question doesn't automatically cure status effects at the end of each battle, this effect almost always lingers until cured, often draining a bit of HP even outside of battle with each step you take. Some games (''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'', ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'') have both regular poisons and stronger, more potent poisons that sap more health at a time. This can sometimes get hilariously out of hand, as evidenced [[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4272418.stm here]].

* Certain ''BomberMan'' games have skull tiles, which cause random effects such as causing Bomberman to continuously drop bombs, be unable to drop bombs, move too fast or too slow, etc. The effect can be transmitted to other players by touching them.

* Depending on the game, paralysis in the TalesSeries either prevents action until cured, prevents action for a short time, or perhaps most annoyingly, causes the afflicted character to flinch at random intervals.

* In SuperSmashBrothers characters can be put to sleep. Interestingly, it can only be caused by a pokemon, either one from a Pokeball (Bellossom, Togepi) or it is a cause of Jigglypuff's Up B move, sing, which causes sleep in her games. It usually only lasts for a couple of seconds, but it's possible to put characters in sleep lock where they doze off immediately after waking up using the aforemented pokeball pokemon. Jigglypuff however, needs to time her move so they don't wake up before she stops singing

* In ''PhantasyStarOnline'', one of the status effects that is probably confused causes the player's character to run in random directions - gunners will fire in about every direction but what you want them to and run into enemies so it's best just to stay very still and wait.
** Confused enemies will attack whatever is closest.

* In ''VideoGame/PaperMario'', the stone cap does this. Like the tanuki suit in Super Mario Bros 3, It dramatically increases your defense.

* ''TeamFortressClassic'' has the Combat Medic's infection, when he uses his medkit on someone from the other team. It's worse than fire because 1: it will only stop if the player dies or a medic from the same team heals him and 2: IT'S CONTAGIOUS, as in if you touch a teammate while infected, he gets infected too.

* "Afterburn" is the Pyro's trademark ability in both ''TeamFortressClassic'' and''VideoGame/TeamFortress2''. It deals damage over time, wears off eventually and can only be stopped by picking up a Medkit, diving into water, being doused by a friendly Sniper's Jarate, being doused by a friendly Scout's Mad Milk or being airblasted by a friendly Pyro. The Pyro [[ViewerGenderConfusion himself/herself]] cannot be set on fire and thus doesn't have to worry about Afterburn. The Soldier's Cow Mangler 5000 weapon can, with a charged-up shot, inflict Afterburn and if a Pyro puffs their Flamethrower at a friendly Sniper who is carrying a Huntsman, the Sniper's arrow [[ArrowsOnFire will be lit up.]]

* ''TeamFortressClassic'' has the Spy's Tranquilizer Gun. Getting hit by a dart will cause the player to move and turn much slower, making it easier to backstab or run away.

* ''{{Minecraft}}'' has the player and mobs that can be set on fire, whether by natural fire, falling into lava, or being set on fire from an enchanted bow or sword that has a fire effect. Being on fire deals a whole heart of damage per second until the fire goes out on its own or if you jump into a pool of water. Being exposed to the rain also douses the flames. Zombies and skeletons catch on fire from the sunlight and certain mobs are immune to being set on fire.