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Spells
Player’s Handbook
uncontrollably if it’s capable of laughter, and it can’t end the Prone condition on itself.
At the end of each of its turns and each time it takes damage, it makes another Wisdom saving
Monsters
Vecna: Eve of Ruin
, Disguise Self, Dispel Magic, Light, Mage Hand, Message, Prestidigitation, Tasha's Hideous Laughter
2/day: Polymorph
1/day each: Maze, TelekinesisArcane Rebuff. Immediately after Tasha takes damage
target must make a DC 20 Intelligence saving throw. On a failed save, the target takes 21 (6d6);{"diceNotation":"6d6", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Psychic Whip", "rollDamageType":"psychic"} psychic
Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
succeed on a DC 18 Intelligence (Investigation) check to discern that the doll is animate.
Regeneration. The doll regains 5 hit points at the start of its turn. If the doll takes fire or psychic damage
. Hit: The target is grappled (escape DC 6) and takes 11 (2d10);{"diceNotation":"2d10", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Grabby Hands", "rollDamageType":"psychic"} psychic damage at the start of each
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Dexterity saving throw to take only half damage, it instead takes no damage if it succeeds on the saving throw and only half damage if it fails, provided it isn’t incapacitated.Multiattack. The
lacks meaning.
To other creatures, a quickling seems blindingly fast, vanishing into an indistinct blur when it moves. Its cruel laughter is a burst of rapid staccato sounds, its speech a shrill
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
1 minute. While poisoned in this way, a creature takes 31 (7d8);{"diceNotation":"7d8", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Brimstone Vapor", "rollDamageType":"fire"} fire damage at the start of each of
the good feelings of her charmed victims. She chooses any number of creatures she can see who are charmed by her. Each target takes 17 (5d6);{"diceNotation":"5d6", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
damage. If the target is a creature, it must succeed on a DC 16 Wisdom saving throw or fall prone in a fit of laughter.
Mind Thrust. The quori targets a creature it can see within 60 feet of it. The
the body. The target is immune to this quori's Possession for 24 hours after succeeding on the saving throw or after the possession ends.
Empathic Feedback. When the quori takes damage from a creature
Tasha's Hideous Laughter
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Spells
Player’s Handbook (2014)
A creature of your choice that you can see within range perceives everything as hilariously funny and falls into fits of laughter if this spell affects it. The target must succeed on a Wisdom saving
time it takes damage, the target can make another Wisdom saving throw. The target has advantage on the saving throw if it’s triggered by damage. On a success, the spell ends.
Hideous Laughter
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Spells
Basic Rules (2014)
A creature of your choice that you can see within range perceives everything as hilariously funny and falls into fits of laughter if this spell affects it. The target must succeed on a Wisdom saving
it takes damage, the target can make another Wisdom saving throw. The target has advantage on the saving throw if it's triggered by damage. On a success, the spell ends.
Entertainer
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Backgrounds
Player’s Handbook (2014)
You thrive in front of an audience. You know how to entrance them, entertain them, and even inspire them. Your poetics can stir the hearts of those who hear you, awakening grief or joy, laughter or
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3
I want to be famous, whatever it takes.
4
I idolize a hero of the old tales and measure my deeds against that person’s.
5
I will do anything to prove myself superior to my
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
, entertain them, and even inspire them. Your poetics can stir the hearts of those who hear you, awakening grief or joy, laughter or anger. Your music raises their spirits or captures their sorrow. Your
me of someone I love.
2
Someone stole my precious instrument, and someday I’ll get it back.
3
I want to be famous, whatever it takes.
4
I idolize a hero of the old tales and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
uncontrollably if it’s capable of laughter, and it can’t end the Prone condition on itself. At the end of each of its turns and each time it takes damage, it makes another Wisdom saving throw. The target
Tasha’s Hideous Laughter Level 1 Enchantment (Bard, Warlock, Wizard) Casting Time: Action
Range: 30 feet
Components: V, S, M (a tart and a feather)
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
One
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
it’s capable of laughter, and it can’t end the Prone condition on itself. At the end of each of its turns and each time it takes damage, it makes another Wisdom saving throw. The target has Advantage on
Tasha’s Hideous Laughter Evocation Cantrip (Bard, Paladin, Warlock, Wizard) Casting Time: Action
Range: 30 feet
Components: V, S, M (a tart and a feather)
Duration: 1 Minute
One creature of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Tasha’s Hideous Laughter 1st-level enchantment Casting Time: 1 action Range: 30 feet Components: V, S, M (tiny tarts and a feather that is waved in the air) Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute A
creature of your choice that you can see within range perceives everything as hilariously funny and falls into fits of laughter if this spell affects it. The target must succeed on a Wisdom saving
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
nightmare--forces the creature to make a DC 13 Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, the creature takes 5 (1d10) psychic damage and becomes incapacitated with mad laughter for 1 minute. The creature
laughter, giving the disease its common name and its morbid nickname: "the shrieks." Symptoms manifest 1d4 hours after infection and include fever and disorientation. The infected creature gains one level of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
to make a DC 13 Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, the creature takes 5 (1d10) psychic damage and becomes incapacitated with mad laughter for 1 minute. The creature can repeat the saving
.
Cackle Fever This disease targets humanoids, although gnomes are strangely immune. While in the grips of this disease, victims frequently succumb to fits of mad laughter, giving the disease its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
the “Fellow Students” section in chapter 3. As twilight falls, a student rushes toward the characters. The student says through their laughter: “You’ve got to see what’s going on at the Rose Stage
winner gets a fancy prize!”
The mascot-stacking competition takes place in area R3 of the Rose Stage; see map 3.5 in chapter 3.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
and insects die in your presence.
3 You’re the harbinger of a grim prophecy. Any creature your touch damages is marked with a temporary scar of a group, fiend, deity, or other force that takes an
warped by the distortion.
6 Every time you touch a creature, you hear the laughter of someone you once harmed.
Death Touch. You can focus your deadly touch against your foes. As an action
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
Kollema Hall and step inside, read or paraphrase the following text: Kollema Hall has been transformed. Music, color, and laughter fill the airy space as masked and impeccably dressed students and faculty
without adequate attire, a helpful student working the desk takes them to a room upstairs with a wardrobe full of musty costumes from past Prismari theatrical events. The character can use these costumes to assemble an outfit, albeit an atrocious one.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
DC 20 Intelligence saving throw. On a failed save, the target takes 21 (6d6) psychic damage and has the stunned condition until the start of Tasha’s next turn. On a successful save, the target takes
Magic, Disguise Self, Dispel Magic, Light, Mage Hand, Message, Prestidigitation, Tasha’s Hideous Laughter
2/day: Polymorph
1/day each: Maze, Telekinesis
Bonus Actions
Abyssal Visage (2/Day). For
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
Battle Begins When the characters are ready, Darrett or a militia member guides them into line with the other Vogler troops. Read the following description: After much laughter and jostling, the
mayor, Cudgel, and other spectators walk to a nearby vantage to watch. As they do, the militia takes up its position atop High Hill—the same hill Solamnic troops held centuries ago. They face the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
if it has an Intelligence of 4 or lower. On a failed saving throw, the creature takes 5 (2d4) psychic damage and is incapacitated for 1 minute as it is overcome by a fit of laughter. At the end of
toward others. The doll takes pleasure in tormenting the guilt-ridden and despondent, hastening their descent into depression or paranoia. Because it fears its own destruction, the doll rarely causes
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
the winch himself and will transport only one adventurer at a time. The trip takes 10 rounds, down and up. The rope is stained with old blood and long enough to reach all the way to the floor of the
. “Five gold dragons says they’re back before a tenday, minus the fighter, the wizard, and the cleric!” is the flavor of commentary often heard amid gales of drunken laughter. The walls of the well are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
laughter and upbeat music at the village circle. The characters arrive at the center of town, by following either Darrett’s lead or the flow of traffic, just in time to hear Mayor Raven Uth Vogler address
provides shade for happy picnickers. From a temporary stage, a band of local musicians brings a spirited song to a close as Mayor Raven Uth Vogler takes the stage.
“Welcome, friends!” the mayor begins
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
reads “Tasha the Wizard—Known for Her Hideous Laughter.”
A halfling couple holds hands as they approach the glass cabinet. One of the halflings is wearing butterfly face paint. As he drops to one knee
and pulls a small box from his pocket, his sweetheart bursts into laughter and begins rolling on the ground. The halfling in face paint begins sobbing and darts into the nearby tent without getting his
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
good, beauty, love, and laughter in the world, stand against the wickedness that would swallow it. Where life flourishes, stand against the forces that would render it barren. Preserve Your Own Light
. Delight in song and laughter, in beauty and art. If you allow the light to die in your own heart, you can’t preserve it in the world. Be the Light. Be a glorious beacon for all who live in despair
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
seems blindingly fast, vanishing into an indistinct blur as it moves. Its cruel laughter is a burst of rapid staccato sounds, its speech a shrill squeal. Only when a quickling deliberately slows down
subjected to an effect that allows it to make a Dexterity saving throw to take only half damage, it instead takes no damage if it succeeds on the saving throw, and only half damage if it fails
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
immune). A creature suffers the following effects 1d4 days after infection: Fever. The creature gains 1 Exhaustion level, which lasts until the contagion ends on the creature. Uncontrollable Laughter
. While the creature has the Exhaustion condition, the creature makes a DC 13 Constitution saving throw each time it takes damage other than Psychic damage. On a failed save, the creature takes 5 (1d10
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
whole table erupt in laughter, cheers, or howls of surprise probably deserves Heroic Inspiration.
You can also use Heroic Inspiration to reward roleplaying, immersion in the game, and heroism. Use it
probably wouldn’t harmed by Fire Bolt; feel free to confirm their guesses. Actions in Combat When a monster takes an action in combat, the players need to have some idea what’s going on both in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
, seemingly on the verge of falling apart. The book is evil. Any non-evil creature that touches it or starts its turn with the book in its possession takes 5 (1d10) psychic damage. The book contains the
following spells: 1st level: burning hands, charm person, detect magic, find familiar, fog cloud, mage armor, protection from evil and good, ray of sickness, sleep, Tasha’s hideous laughter, unseen servant
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
populated by torpid creatures whose deep, sonorous speech lacks meaning. To other creatures, a quickling seems blindingly fast, vanishing into an indistinct blur when it moves. Its cruel laughter is a
takes no damage if it succeeds on the saving throw and only half damage if it fails, provided it isn’t incapacitated.
Actions
Multiattack. The quickling makes three Dagger attacks.
Dagger. Melee
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
. Personality Traits d8 Trait 1 I’m haunted by fey laughter that only I can hear, though I know it’s just my mind playing tricks on me. 2 Like a nomad, I can’t settle down in one place for very long
see the “rule of three” everywhere. (Lawful) 7 Obsession. I won’t let go of a grudge. (Evil) 8 Greed. I will do whatever it takes to get what I want, regardless of the harm it might cause. (Evil
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
whispers, Tasha’s hideous laughter 2nd detect thoughts, phantasmal force 3rd clairvoyance, sending 4th dominate beast, Evard’s black tentacles 5th dominate person, telekinesis Awakened Mind Starting
creature deals psychic damage to you, that creature takes the same amount of damage that you do. Create Thrall At 14th level, you gain the ability to infect a humanoid’s mind with the alien magic of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Dryad Travelers entering a forest might catch a glimpse of a feminine form flitting through the trees. Warm laughter hangs on the air, drawing those who hear it deeper into the emerald shadows
throw or be magically charmed. The charmed creature regards the dryad as a trusted friend to be heeded and protected. Although the target isn’t under the dryad’s control, it takes the dryad’s requests
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
fast, vanishing into an indistinct blur as they move. Their cruel laughter is a burst of rapid staccato sounds, their speech a shrill squeal. Only when quicklings deliberately slow down, which they
that allows it to make a Dexterity saving throw to take only half damage, it instead takes no damage if it succeeds on the saving throw and only half damage if it fails, provided it isn’t incapacitated
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
. The party should meet Tekeli-li several times. The vampire’s strategy is to drain the party’s resources, then retreat and recover before attacking again. If Tekeli-li ever takes more than 20 damage
during an encounter, the vampire turns to mist and withdraws to a safe location in the dungeon. Even when the vampire is not immediately present, its cackling laughter echoes through the caves






