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This came up last night in our part 1 playtest - how are you supposed to read the effects on color spray (and probably other spells which use this syntax)
Failure Blinded for 1 round, dazzled for 4 rounds.
Critical Failure Stunned for 1 round, blinded for 4 rounds.
is the target blinded for 1 round and then dazzled for 4 rounds, or stunned for 1 round, and then blinded for 4 rounds?
Or is the target blinded for 1 round, and simultaneously dazzled for 4 rounds, or in other words blinded and dazzled for 1 round, then dazzled for 3 more rounds? (or on a CF, stunned for 1 round and simultaneously blinded for 4 rounds, or in other words stunned and blinded for 1 round, and then blinded for 3 more rounds)?
We ruled that these effects occurred in order, since it didn't make sense for someone to be both blinded and dazzled at the same time, when blinded overrides dazzled specifically in the condition description.
Either way, the effects aren't clear as written.
You're right, it is somewhat unclear. I'm pretty sure, personally, it's actually the other way around (Blinded and dazzled simultaneously, then dazzled for 3 more rounds), because of the way redundant conditions and overriding conditions (found on p319) work, but it could probably be made more clear, either with a textual example in the conditions section, or by rewording these abilities