Starting at 14th level, your essence shifts more and more into that of a true hag regardless of gender. By the way, my live streams happen almost every friday at. The ideas are listed below, and you can also download a pdf which contains all of them. While invisible, she leaves no physical evidence of her passage, so she can be tracked only by magic.
For example, if you are a 10thlevel warlock capable of casting 5thlevel spells, you may prepare one spell of 6th level from the expanded warlock spell list. They did so by going into the ethereal plane using a special item called a. When the pcs approached, the figure sprang to life, revealing herself as gertrude the night hag. It is a phenomenon during which a person feels a presence of a supernatural malevolent being which immobilizes the person as if sitting on hisher chest or the foot of hisher bed. So this week, we offer night hag the night hag is part of the family of hags, which include. Night hags were wicked witches that dwelt in the lower planes whose nightmarish minds. The haunt is an adventure for characters of 4th or 5th level, by phil beckwith. The night hag or old hag is the name given to a supernatural creature, used to explain the phenomenon of sleep paralysis. Dungeon masters guild 1st tier levels 14 5th edition. Sword coast and the cold grasp of winter is fleeing, although stiff breezes still soar through the air, especially at night. Night hags were also able to torment individuals by invading their dreams, inserting fear and doubt into their minds night after night, until they expired.
You become impervious to the effects of aging, even magical. On a failed save, the creature is frightened for 1 minute. Note, this article contains spoilers for waterdeep dragon heist. The night hags intelligence is 16, high enough for it to be able to figure out who this is after just one round of combat, but not high enough for it to be able to make this assessment before combat begins. Hags are monstrous old women with a great desire to corrupt all that is good. Corruption rules dungeon masters guild dungeon masters. A night hag had an array of magical powers, and could transmit a disease called demon fever by biting a victim.
Night hags are exclusively females and can only reproduce by mating with a male member of another species. Large monster block cards patrick mitchell johnston. Sites where the presence of such terrible wickedness can slowly twist and infect the physical forms of even the most holy of creatures. The children born are often given into foster care by their hag mothers disguised as a normal woman. Night hags take perverse joy in corrupting mortals as do their half hag offspring. I love hags, even though they are terrifying, hideous witches who are the embodiment of putrid female aspects and the typical witch figure. The child of a night hag faces far more prejudice from particularly the fey due to night hags history of being exiled from the feywild. List of classes that can cast the spell on each card. But how does the party even know the night hag is there. There are a few adventure hooks to throw to the characters to. The statistics for this monster are correct, as published in the official monster manual by wizards of the coast.
The heroes venture into a haunted manor that once belonged to a general, and now is the lair of a really old night hag. The very personification of evil, hags were extremely selfish and arrogant. While a humanoid sleeps, a night hag can straddle the person ethereally and intrude upon its dreams. An annis hag can pull out one of her iron teeth or nails and spend 1 minute shaping. An annis hag can pull out one of her iron teeth or nails and spend 1 minute shaping and polishing it into the form of a coin, a ring, or a tiny mirror. The hag has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects. A hag gives her newborn daughter a name that the girl keeps during her childhood, but upon gaining her full hag powers the daughter chooses her own name, which might or might not relate to her birth name.
The night hags have long since spread across the lower planes. Its a great adventure that could be useful for expert players or players that you want to introduce to the dnd world. Theyre not nearly as strong without a coven, mostly hurling magic missiles. Keep monster name and information easy to find for quick reference. The hypertext d20 srd tm is owned by bols interactive llc. The hag magically turns invisible until she attacks or casts a spell, or until her concentration ends as if concentrating on a spell. When female offspring reach puberty, their mothers hags might visit their daughters several times and. A night hag carries two very rare magic items that she must craft for herself if either object is. Can pcs attune to a hag eye or similar magical items. The hag can mimic animal sounds and humanoid voices. Shrieking hag monsters that roamed desolate plains and wastelands and loved to deceive travelers.
She can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components. Night hags can visit the dreams of chaotic or evil individuals by using a special periapt known as a heartstone to become ethereal, then hovering over the creature. Posted on january 3, 2016 january 20, 2016 by brynvalk. Unpredictable, cunning, and highly dangerous, hags and their powers are best avoided at all costs. However, the night hag could roll on any hags tables. Thereafter, any creature that holds this iron token can have a whispered conversation with the hag, provided the creature and the hag are on the. Night hags cellar one page battle map seriesthe one page battle map series aims to fill the side trek niche for game masters. A creature that hears the sounds can tell they are. The location of three essential magic items, the identity of an npc ally, and the location of strahd himself are determined by a reading from the tarokka deck.
Night hags were once creatures of the feywild, but their foulness saw them exiled to hades long ago, where they degenerated into fiends. Night hag tactics revolve around the combination of etherealness and. A night hag can use etherealness at will as a 16thlevel sorcerer so long as it possesses its heartstone see below. Sea hag hags found in and along the shores of the sea. Nalfeshneenarzugonnergaliid night hag nightmarenilbog noble nothic nycaloth. On the heels of the monsters know what theyre doinga. So in order to prevent contact, you wait for the night hag to arrive, then you cast the spell. Night hags do not have a favored terrain, as such the following table is pulled from urban creatures. Curse of strahd is a fairly freeform adventure where the characters are drawn into barovia and must defeat strahd to escape.
You can also check out my 199 page monster hunter monster manual and monster hunter monster loot tables on my gmbinder profile or by finding them in my. On the other side of this, is their connection to fiends and the lower planes that sings true to the divine sense of any paladin. The statistics for such monsters do not have to follow. See invisibility can be used to see ethereal creatures, but it only lasts an hour, and the night hag can come any time during the night. A night hag has a surprising amount of hp and ac for a spellcaster. I think im a bit deranged for saying that i adore the hags in dnd 5e.
Certain landscapes house deeply evil places or artifacts that corrupt the very nature of people who spend time around them. Hags revisited, part 1 the monsters know what theyre doing. Im trying to determine what level of spellcaster a night hag should be treated to get an idea how many magic missiles she has on each casting. Note that you can also filter and sort them, and generate your own pdf using the monsters application. A night hag carries two very rare magic items that she must craft for herself if either object is lost, the night hag will go to great lengths to retrieve it, as creating a new tool takes time and effort. A night hag knows that if its caught before collecting the soul its after, the mission is a failure, and theres no point in hanging around, so all it takes is a light wound 12 hp of damage or more for the unmasked night hag to cut and run, making its escape via the ethereal plane or a casting of plane shift. A night hag that loses this charm can no longer use etherealness until it can manufacture another which takes one month. The monster manual flavor text says a hag eye is usually entrusted to a. The hag eye is usually entrusted to a minion for safekeeping and transport.
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