Tasha’s Hideous Laughter

Category: Baldur’s Gate Spells

Level 1 Enchantment spell available to Bards and Wizards. It leaves a creature Prone and helpless with laughter, unable to stand. A single-target hard lock for one slot.

Spell description: Inflict a creature with fits of laughter, leaving it Prone without the ability to get up. At the end of its turn or when it takes damage, the creature can try to shake off the effect.

Spell properties

  • Range: 18m (60ft)
  • Duration: 10 turns
  • Concentration spell
  • Save: WIS save
  • Conditions applied: Prone and incapacitated, unable to get up.
  • Cost: Action + Spell Slot
  • Recharge: Per action

Spell upcasting

Casting Tasha’s Hideous Laughter at higher levels provides no additional benefits.

How to obtain Tasha’s Hideous Laughter

  • Bard, Wizard at Class level 1
  • The Great Old One (Warlock) at Class level 1
  • Draconic Bloodline (Copper, Acid ancestry) Sorcerer at Class level 1
  • Arcane Trickster (Rogue) and Eldritch Knight (Fighter) at Class level 3
  • Granted by features: Magic Initiate: Bard, Magic Initiate: Wizard

Tasha’s Hideous Laughter

Level 1 Enchantment Spell

Inflict a creature with fits of laughter, leaving it Prone without the ability to get up. At the end of its turn or when it takes damage, the creature can try to shake off the effect.

Range: 18m (60ft) Save: WIS save
Action Level 1 Spell Slot

When to cast Tasha’s Hideous Laughter

It is a single-target hard lock for one Level 1 slot. The victim is Prone and cannot stand, which means it is stuck on the floor taking Advantage attacks from your whole party while its own attacks suffer Disadvantage.

The weakness is that it can shrug off the effect whenever it takes damage, so it works best when you lock down one dangerous enemy and focus the rest of the party elsewhere. It is Concentration and a Wisdom save, so it is a control tool, not a guarantee.

Looking for more spells? Check out our full sortable and filterable list of all BG3 spells in the database.

Browse all BG3 Spells →

Spell properties

Level
Level 1
School
Enchantment
Casting resource
Action + Spell Slot
Damage type

Range
18m (60ft)
Duration
10 turns
You might also like these spells pages:

Arcane Lock

Level 2 Abjuration spell available to Wizards. Seals a door or container with a magical lock that cannot be picked and cannot be opened with Knock. Mostly it is Knock in a mirror and just as situational, but it has one combat trick that is properly good. Spell...

Web

Level 2 Conjuration spell available to Sorcerers and Wizards. Covers a 4m radius in sticky webbing: Difficult Terrain that halves movement, and anything that fails a Dexterity save is Enwebbed and cannot move at all. It is also flammable. That second sentence is the...

Pass Without Trace

Level 2 Abjuration spell available to Druids and Rangers. A flat +10 bonus to Stealth Checks for you and every companion nearby. Not Advantage. Ten points. It is the largest single modifier any spell in the game hands out, and it turns your whole party, plate armour...

Warding Bond

Level 2 Abjuration spell available to Clerics. You bind yourself to an ally: they get Resistance to all damage and a +1 bonus to Armour Class and Saving Throws, and every point of damage they take is dealt to you as well. No Concentration, lasts until a Long Rest....

Spike Growth

Level 2 Transmutation spell available to Druids and Rangers. Turns a 6m patch of ground into hardened spikes: 2d4 Piercing damage for every 1.5m a creature moves through it, and its Movement Speed is halved. There is no save. In a game where enemies love to charge...

Arcane Lock

Level 2 Abjuration spell available to Wizards. Seals a door or container with a magical lock that cannot be picked and cannot be opened with Knock. Mostly it is Knock in a mirror and just as situational, but it has one combat trick that is properly good. Spell...

Notes & sources

RPGWire’s BG3 Wiki is an independent fan resource maintained by a small team. We do our best to fact-check all content against in-game testing and official Larian sources. Errors can happen. If you spot one, or want to contribute to the wiki, Contact us here.

Spell mechanics, descriptions and values are based on Baldur’s Gate 3 version 4.1.1.7209685 and may change with future patches. Where applicable, sources are cited within each article.

Copyright disclaimer & licensing
Some or all of this work is © Larian Studios.
Some spell icons and game data are property of Larian Studios and used here under their fan content policy. Any fan-created works using content from Larian fall under: Larian Fan Content Policy and / or Baldur’s Gate 3 Fan Content Terms. Some of the icons used in these spell cards were downloaded from Sammy8932 on NexusMods.

0 Comments