Stinking Cloud

Category: Baldur’s Gate Spells

Level 3 Conjuration spell available to Bards, Sorcerers, and Wizards. A 6m cloud of gas that makes enemies Nauseous, and Nauseous creatures cannot take Actions. No damage, and it does not need to do any.

Spell description: Create a cloud of gas so nauseating it prevents creatures from taking actions.

Spell properties

Range: 18m (60ft)
Area: 6m (20ft) radius
Duration: 10 turns
Concentration spell
Save: CON save
Conditions applied: Nauseous
Cost: Action + Spell Slot
Recharge: Per action

Spell upcasting

Casting Stinking Cloud at higher levels provides no additional benefits.

How to obtain Stinking Cloud

Bard, Sorcerer, Wizard at Class level 5

Source item: Scroll of Stinking Cloud

Create a cloud of gas so nauseating it prevents creatures from taking actions.

On save: The creature is not Nauseous.

Range: 18m (60ft)

Save: CON save

AoE: 6m (20ft) Radius

Duration: 10 turns

Duration: 10 turns

AoE: 6m (20ft) Radius

A cloud of nauseating gas. Creatures inside must save each turn or be Nauseous.

Condition: Nauseous

CON Save

The creature cannot take Actions.
It can still move and take Bonus Actions.
The save repeats each turn the creature remains in the cloud.

When to cast Stinking Cloud

Losing your Action is losing your turn. An enemy in a Stinking Cloud cannot attack, cannot cast, and cannot do anything except shuffle out of it, and they have to save again every turn they stay. For one slot that is a lot of enemy turns deleted.

The Constitution save is the problem. It is the save that brutes are best at, which means this lands beautifully on casters and archers and gets shrugged off by exactly the ogre currently walking towards you.

So use it on the backline. Enemy casters and archers have poor Constitution and no reason to leave, and a Stinking Cloud parked on top of them removes them from the encounter without a single point of damage.

It is a cloud, so it can be blown away by Gust of Wind, and it will be if the enemy has one. It is also Concentration. Protect the caster and it holds all fight.

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Spell properties

Level

Level 3

School

Conjuration

Casting resource

Action + Spell Slot

Damage type

Range

18m (60ft)

Duration

10 turns

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