A delve can roll an environmental condition on top of its biome and danger tier, and each of the four Dungeons & Dynasties dungeon conditions bends the fight in a specific, measurable way. This page lists what every condition changes: the stat it touches, the size of the penalty, and who on your roster is immune to it. It also covers the gear that counters it and the odds of meeting one at all.
There are exactly four. Each carries a small set of numeric fields, and a field that is absent simply does not apply. Cursed Ground has no effect at all on a party of rage and stamina users, and Pitch Dark costs a melee-only party nothing.
Waist-deep black water drags at every step; blades and footwork bog down where a steady aim does not.
Countered by: Stormwax Waders · Sealskin Greaves · Barrow-Kelp Boots
A smothering, unnatural dark. Bows and spells lose their aim in the black; only those fighting at arm's length see true.
Countered by: Everburning Torch · Sunstone Lantern · Marmot-Fat Lamp
Old wards leach at the will of the living: mana and focus drain away faster than they can be drawn.
Countered by: Warding Charm · Spirit Ward · Kingsfoil Knot
A killing cold seeps into the bones. A wound that would mend turns mortal, and nerves fray with every room you press deeper.
Countered by: Furred Mantle · Rimeguard Cloak · Eagle-Down Mantle
The ground still burns from every war fought over it. The heat comes up through boots and armour alike, and nobody stands in it for long without paying.
Countered by: Kingsfoil Pouch · Scorchwort Satchel · Physician's Roll
The high cold takes the body first. Arms that swing and legs that brace give out long before the mind does.
Countered by: Barkweave Tunic · Mossback Jerkin · Stag-Hide Coat
A condition is not guaranteed. Each generated dungeon rolls once, and the chance scales with the danger tier. Shallow contracts are usually clean, and by the deep tiers close to half of all runs carry one. The roll is capped, so past the eighth tier it stops getting worse.
Guild Wars and other scripted encounters can force a condition regardless of this roll.
This is the part the game never spells out. When a dungeon rolls a condition, it draws only from the conditions whose biome list contains that dungeon's biome. A den can only ever throw Pitch Dark at you; a cavern can throw three different things. So the biome of the region you are contracting into, not its flavour tag, is what tells you which parties are safe to send.
Full biome and kindred breakdown on the regions page.
Every region displays a condition of its own, and five of the seven name one of the four real conditions. The other two do not. The Ashen Marches is tagged infernal and the Riven Peaks frozen, and neither of those exists in the condition table. They are biome-flavour keys that the game uses for naming rooms, not hazards with numbers behind them.
The tag is also not what gets rolled. A region's condition appears nowhere in the code that picks a delve's condition; that draw comes purely from the biome, as above. Treat the tag as the region's character rather than a promise about the fights you will get there. The Elderwood is tagged cursed, but its den biome can only ever produce Pitch Dark.
Because every penalty is scoped to a subset of the roster, conditions reward lopsided parties rather than balanced ones. Flooded punishes only melee attackers, so a Ranger and an Arcanist keep their full output while a Blademaster loses roughly a third of both his movement and his swing rate. Pitch Dark inverts it exactly: the accuracy penalty lands on everyone who is not swinging at arm's length, which makes a shield-and-blade party the clean answer.
Cursed Ground is the sharpest filter of the four, because it checks the resource a class runs on rather than its role. Mana and focus classes lose nearly a third of both their pool and their regeneration, while stamina and rage classes never notice it. A Warden and a Blademaster walk through it untouched, and a Cleric and an Arcanist are close to halved over a long run. Deep Cold is the one that costs you people instead of damage: it multiplies the casualty roll by half again and piles stress on every room you push deeper, so it is the condition to retreat from early rather than play through.
Three of the four also make skill checks read one point harder, which quietly raises the failure rate on traps and locks. Only Cursed Ground leaves them alone. Trait and attribute breakdowns for the heroes making those checks live on the traits page and the attributes page.
Four item lines in the loot tables are tagged as counters, one for each condition, and the game flags them in the inventory when they match the delve you are about to run. They are ordinary drops rather than a shop you can plan around, so treat them as a reason to keep a condition-specific piece in the armoury rather than something to build toward.
Every counter piece rolls as normal loot, so its actual bonus still scales with the quality band it lands in.
Flooded: Archers and casters keep their bite; melee fighters are slowed.
Pitch Dark: Bring blades: archers and casters lose accuracy in the dark.
Cursed Ground: Drains mana and focus: rage and stamina fighters fare best.
Deep Cold: A delver who falls here is far likelier to die: bring a Physician. Every room deeper frays nerves, and the cold makes traps and puzzles harder to pass.
Infernal: Everyone burns a little every moment of a fight, and armour does not stop it. End fights fast and bring healing that keeps up.
Numbing Frost: Stamina and rage drain away; mana and focus are untouched. Casters and focus fighters fare best, and a Paladin holds the line here.
Those lines are the game's own wording, and they are accurate as far as they go, but they omit the sizes, and size is what decides whether a condition is worth re-rolling a contract over. A six point accuracy hit is a real dent in a Ranger's output; a single point of skill DC is close to noise. The numbers above are the ones the simulation actually applies.
Datamined from v3.0.0 · every condition traceable to its offset in the game bundle, see the data tables.
