There's a description that includes 'weakened and numb' in the roper's entry. Those are not intended to be ongoing conditions. The effects and damage are fully described in that sentence.
A creature struck by a strand is numbed and weakened by the strange material, and must make a DC 25 Fortitude save or take 1d6 points of Strength damage.
It's a flavor description of what happens, not the mechanical effects (which is the Strength damage).
What ^Symar^ said. Sometimes a description is just flavor.
It's so the GM can say "A rope-like appendage whips out and strikes you. Numbing cold pierces your body and you can no longer completely control your chilled muscles. Take..." "... two points of strength damage." instead of "It hits. Take two points of strength damage."
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As a mechanical term, weakened means you do half damage in 4th Edition, but it's flavor text in Pathfinder.
Ah, that explains it! Thank you.
*kicks 1 hp minions into bottomless pit*
sorry to resurrect this thread, but...relevance...
Is this numbing and weakening considered a poison for the sake of poison immunity? it isn't specifically called out as a poison, but it does appear to work as a poison.
Doesn't say anything about poison, so it isn't. It's the "strange material", whatever that may be, not some kind of poison ON the material.
that was my interpretation as well. Thanks