Okay im trying to create a state where if a character is in this state they can do everything as normal but every turn a counter goes down. After the counter reaches 0 the character dies. Anybody know how to set this up? Any help is greatly appreciated.

That's kinda impossible without a script. Now I don't know any standalone script which does just that, but this state is included in the Tons of Add-ons collection: http://forum.chaos-project.com/index.php?topic=105.0.