Greetings:
I am wondering what happens to people nauseated by a stinking cloud spell when its duration expires.
Do they all stop being nauseated because the spell ended or do they remain nauseated for 1d4+1 rounds if they where inside the cloud or the remainder of their 1d4+1 rounds if they had already left it?
Thank you!
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STINKING CLOUD
School conjuration (creation); Level sorcerer/wizard 3
Casting Time 1 standard action
Components V, S, M (a rotten egg or cabbage leaves)
Range medium (100 ft. + 10 ft./level)
Effect cloud spreads in 20-ft. radius, 20 ft. high
Duration 1 round/level
Saving Throw Fortitude negates; see text; Spell Resistance no
Stinking cloud creates a bank of fog like that created by fog cloud, except that the vapors are nauseating. Living creatures in the cloud become nauseated. This condition lasts as long as the creature is in the cloud and for 1d4+1 rounds after it leaves. (Roll separately for each nauseated character.) Any creature that succeeds on its save but remains in the cloud must continue to save each round on your turn. This is a poison effect.Stinking cloud can be made permanent with a permanency spell. A permanent stinking cloud dispersed by wind reforms in 10 minutes.
The bold section answers your question: nauseated creatures suffer the condition for as long as they're in the cloud plus the condition lingers for 1d4+1 rounds afterwards - it doesn't matter if the creature leaves the cloud or the cloud itself dissipates (i.e. the spell ends) the lingering nausea still applies.
Put another way: the duration tells you how long the cloud exists, the description tells you the effects on creatures that encounter the cloud - these effects don't vanish when the cloud does. With this type of spell, the spell is creating the cloud, it's not creating the nausea effect directly - that's a consequence of a creature encountering the cloud. It's similar to if you cast a fireball spell - even though the fireball itself only lasts for an instant, the effects from encountering that fireball (hit point loss due to being burnt) don't vanish with the fireball.
TL, DR: the lingering nausea duration doesn't vanish when the spell's duration ends.