Cheaply made potions and elixirs are sometimes tainted by Cackle Fever, which affects Humanoids only (gnomes are strangely immune). A creature suffers the following effects days after infection:
Cackle Fever
Condition · Magical Contagion
Status Effect
Cackle Fever
This condition changes how a creature can act, move, perceive, or interact with the world until the condition ends.
Rules
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Effects
- Fever.
The creature gains 1 level, which lasts until the contagion ends on the creature.
- Uncontrollable Laughter.
While the creature has the 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 () Psychic damage and has the condition as it laughs uncontrollably. At the end of each of its turns, the creature repeats the save, ending the effect on itself on a success. After 1 minute, it succeeds automatically.
PsychicFighting the Contagion
At the end of each Long Rest, an infected creature makes a DC 13 Constitution saving throw. After the creature succeeds on three of these saves, the contagion ends on it, and the creature is immune to Cackle Fever for 1 year.
Spreading the Contagion
Any Humanoid (other than a gnome) that starts its turn within a 10-foot Emanation [Area Of Effect] originating from a creature infected with Cackle Fever must succeed on a DC 10 Constitution saving throw or also become infected with the contagion. On a successful save, the Humanoid can't catch the contagion from that particular infected creature for the next 24 hours.
Reference
Rules Availability
SRD 5.2