The Stress Effects in the Lazy DMs Companion

The stress effects thing in the lazy DMs companion is to deal with this, that anytime you're taking agency away from a player, you can give them the option instead to break out of it by taking psychic damage. You can also apply this mechanism for breaking an effect by taking psychicdamage to characters who are frightened, stunned, or incapacitated. I've seen players who were like, I don't know if I'm, if I'm eighth level and I'm taking 48 psychic damage to break outof this psychic attack, then, you know, if I roll high, I'm going to be down anyway. And you're like, well, you're already incapacitated. It doesn