Every witch should have a sign outside her lair that says "Now entering the crone zone".

@CorbiniteVids

3 жыл бұрын

oh you mustn't go through the crone zone. Got roughed up there once myself, cost me a pretty penny

@CountsDigGraves

3 жыл бұрын

15% discount on hag swag!

@rationalroundhead6739

3 жыл бұрын

@@CountsDigGraves Hag swag? Oh, please. Don’t waste your money on that witch kitsch.

Thank you! I used some of these ideas in a recent session. In payment for a reading, the witch asked a PC for "her tears." But instead of simply collecting a teardrop from the PC, the witch took her ability to cry.

@MonarchsFactory

3 жыл бұрын

That's IT!! That's the GOOD STUFF right there!

One of my favorite concepts for a hag is a sort of "finder of lost things", and working that into their flavor. The hag's home isn't on any map, if you know you're going there you'll never get there, but yet if you cannot find your way you are sure to stumble upon it. For my hag patron warlock there is a great deal of twisted mundanity to his magic. He misty steps by falling down a hole only he can see, or walking out of sight behind a tree or a box and just appearing elsewhere. Sort of an "anyone could do this, if only they saw the world the way I do." way about him. Also he shoots eldritch blast from a grafted Hag Eye, which is pretty rad.

@williamchristensen7354

3 жыл бұрын

Great character flavor! Nicely done!

@espadieros8609

3 жыл бұрын

I love player led flavour

@LeMayJoseph

2 жыл бұрын

I love that!

17:06 "[Witches] come at you from the _side;_ they turn you on _yourselves."_ Y'mean they use... _Headology,_ perhaps?

@raphaelhemery152

3 жыл бұрын

My favorite depiction of witches by far!

Tarot reading: "A little too safe." Consult the bones: "A little spooky." Fondle animal entrails: "Okay, I'm out."

I'm gonna need like 15% more Spooks from that shirt

@MonarchsFactory

3 жыл бұрын

Wow, tough crowd

@feildpres

3 жыл бұрын

@@MonarchsFactory Our standards are only so high cause your content is soooo good!!!! (great video as always)

All of this good advice, and all I can retain without taking notes is "Monty Python had it right."

@shaphown

3 жыл бұрын

Newt man: "I got better"

@yam3946

3 жыл бұрын

honestly, that's probably a good rule for D&D in general. maybe dependent on what kind of the vibe of your campaign but still.

@cdgonepotatoes4219

3 жыл бұрын

Take the comedy out, that's a great way to make a witch: "What do witches do?" "they burn!" "what else burns?" "uh.. wood?" "good, good, and what else does wood do?" "it floats" "what else floats?" "a.. a duck!" "then we will take a duck, if they're lighter than a duck they're a witch" _reality slips and folds, things take new meaning and the witch.. is now lighter than a duck_ You know why in a number of fantasy settings technology and magic don't go well together? What would happen with this logic if I told you, a mage, that the machine aside you makes metal malleable and so easy to work with it's like kneading flour? Instead of new fittings for a door you'll pull out a loaf! You now have a furnace that turns iron into bread.

@GoblinLord

2 жыл бұрын

@@cdgonepotatoes4219 jesus christ I love this

"It's so hot today!" ...In Octob- Oh, right, Australia.

@justmutantjed

3 жыл бұрын

IKR? Weather report in my area suggests snow possible by Halloween.

@cabalarcana6996

3 жыл бұрын

@@justmutantjed Ah, yes, the big North American mood.

@pharrigan-hikes

3 жыл бұрын

Haha, its still in the upper 80's Fahrenheit, here in southern California.

@TheRepublic4

3 жыл бұрын

@@pharrigan-hikes oof, all love from Pennsylvania hope you’re home is safe or atleast not actively on fire

@pharrigan-hikes

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheRepublic4 Oh thanks! Yes, we have been lucky where we live. The closest fire was a few hours away. We just had some crazy smoke a few months ago.

Sounds like someone *really* enjoyed their last viewing of Stardust.

@gobbelgub4031

3 жыл бұрын

Its a really Dael kinda fantasy movie

@markfarnsworth3340

3 жыл бұрын

If you don’t enjoy stardust then I dare say you don’t enjoy classic fantasy tropes and great acting from beautiful actors and actresses.

@Prottype

Жыл бұрын

I straight away thought of that movie with the fight idea. I will definitely be using that fake give up scene and the doll control.

Speaking as someone who has been afraid of witches his entire life, you want to make them worse?! Well I've had a good run but I do believe that I'll be leaving the planet thank you very much for nothing. No need to show me the way out I know where I'm going which is somewhere where the witches won't know that I'll be.

@jackiecozzie4803

3 жыл бұрын

What if dael is a witch and she's just lured you into a specific location?

@TheEndKing

3 жыл бұрын

Just be careful of the space witches, who only exist in the black vacuum of space.

@coleallen8425

3 жыл бұрын

Haven’t you read Macbeth? No matter how much you try and avoid fate, it always comes. Sometimes, it hits you because you tried to avoid it. The Weird Sisters told Macbeth that he would be king, and that Banquo’s descendants would be kings. And so upon becoming king, Macbeth sets out to kill Banquo. Because he tried to have Banquo killed, Banquo’s son sets out to overthrow Macbeth, making him the next king. It was out of fear for the witches’ prophesies that they became true. Go where you will. Your fate will meet you nonetheless. Mwahaha.

@chrishall5570

3 жыл бұрын

@@coleallen8425 Well I was good before you brought fate into this! Now I have to have at least one interaction with a witch if foreshadowing has any say in it.

@coleallen8425

3 жыл бұрын

@@chrishall5570 Maybe Dael was the witch. Maybe I’m the witch. Maybe you met a witch without knowing it. Witches can be very crafty you know.

Any home brew mechanic that allows me to “gift” terrible puns to my players is one that I will always find useful.

Do not speak to me of the deep magic, Witch! I was there when it was written!

*Makes video called “Making Witches Scary”* “I wasn’t made for scary”

Some of my favorite horror has that feeling where the protagonists know they should turn back, that they shouldn't be doing what they're doing, but something tantalizes them. I like the idea that witches represent an obviously untrustworthy wielder of the sort of magic you just can't get from Joe Bookwizard who has a market stall and charges 25 gold for an identify spell. You can seek them as the only accessible source of that deep magic, but you're wittingly or not letting them tie strings around you to control you with.

"Everyone say it with me now..." VAGUE AND EVOCATIVE!!!!!!!! I may or may not have said this aloud. In the backseat of a car full of family members. They may or may not think I am crazy now. Not that that's much different from usual.

@cranknlesdesires

3 жыл бұрын

Remember you may be faced with a wall of questioning, keep all your answers VAUGE AND EVOCATIVE!

@Magic__7

3 жыл бұрын

i did this too just i was aloneso felt less wired

@oliverworley5162

3 жыл бұрын

From the toilet isn't much better... Of course I wouldn't know from first hand experiance at all

@jackiecozzie4803

3 жыл бұрын

@@oliverworley5162 ah...I can just imagine sitting in my room and hearing someone tell "VAGUE AND EVOCATIVE" from the bathroom next door...I love that thought

@leem4386

3 жыл бұрын

don’t worry, we all did it lol

I just thought of this! When Dael describes the witches having control of a player's body even though the player can still speak and react to this puppetry, it reminds me of Hama from ATLA. Having the visceral creaking and stiff movements of blood bending applied to how the witches take control adds serious levels of scariness to how twisted and sadistic their magic can be.

Firstly I have to say I LOVE this sort of aesthetic for witches, I also bring it into hags whenever i run them, though obviously everything takes an even darker slant when it's a hag. I also love the Consulting of the Bones! I'm stealing that! I also really love the whole Power of Three thing, and since I'm actually planning to use a coven of witches as the big bad of the first arc of the campaign i'm planning to run, i'm gonna get a lot of mileage out of that! Love this video!

Amazingly timed, or you saw my tweet asking about hags/weirds/witches, but this has given me a lot of inspiration. On 3s, my players just learned there were as many as 27 greater covens in Somnia. 3 groups of 3, for each of the 3 continents. The whole campaign has been two individual witches manipulating the players as npcs, helping them screw over the other's plans. Only recently did they learn both of their true natures. They are competing to take the open third spot on a greater coven. If the players kill one, the other gets the spot and will shape the later story when the coven becomes the bigger baddie. Side note, my players now think every npc might be a witch, or enthralled by a witch deal.

I can see it being each witch has her own spell list. One deals with damage dealing, one with illusions and charms, and one with support/ summoning. Apart they only have access to their own spells, but when one or more of them are at the covens cauldron, the one/ones not there have access to the others spells.

@user-vm9xz4kv9z

3 жыл бұрын

I like how you switched pronouns mid-sentence Why did you start referring to witches as "her" anyways?

@Geeko170

3 жыл бұрын

@@user-vm9xz4kv9z It’s a subconscious thing. Witches are always “she” in my mind, while warlocks are “he”. One of the Scooby-doo movies put that idea in my head when I was a kid.

I would love to hear your interpretation of shamans as an extension to this - that is if you do include shaman-like things in your games. Stuff like calling the rain, talking to spirits, smelling the future, sacrificing rats for good omens.

@kingcole5977

3 жыл бұрын

haha, "smelling the future"

@bjhale

3 жыл бұрын

First off, there's a lively debate about how much should be included under the label of "shaman." The only cultures where shamans are unquestionably a thing is the Ewenk of Siberia because that's where the word came from. That said, even if we took one of the more expansive understandings of the term--those who practice archaic techniques of ecstasy for miraculous purposes--the stuff you're describing isn't all that common. Primarily, shamans were about communing with the spirit world to heal or curse. In folklore, they are often shown doing all sorts of crazy stuff that you'd associate with wizards in D&D, like swimming through the earth or folding space like in Dr. Strange (especially among people of the North Pacific, like the Inuit and Chuckchee). Honestly, if you just treated shamans as clerics or wizards, and you treated the shaman's outfit as a spell book with each of the many objects attached to it as a separate spell, you wouldn't be far off. Another alternative is treat all the PCs as part shamans, descending into the underworld to fight and treat with monstrous beings to retrieve the souls of the sick. Taking a spiritual journey while in a state of ecstasy to a lower world populated by evil spirits seems redundant when you already are going into dungeons full of monsters.

@joyfulcandycube6785

3 жыл бұрын

@@bjhale I'm not trying to disregard your suggestion, just going to clarify the idea I was going for. Regardless of what Shamans actually have been in the real world, we are shooting for "Vague and Evocative" (had to quote that). Since it's going to be all about certain NPCs that serve some role, the PCs aren't necessarily going to find out what Shamas are all about or how they work, and by the way I'd rather not include drugs in my game. It's just there to be something mysterious and probably just to be a supportive character, not a powerful and destructive force. So... to clarify, much like witches, I'd like more mystical and ritualistic versions of magic being used by a proportionally mystical user and ways to portray them. Now, if you can describe trance to the players with words it would be amazing, but I think that it won't be as intriguing due to lack of "relatability" or understanding of these in game events.

@bjhale

3 жыл бұрын

@@joyfulcandycube6785 How about this: Unlike witches, when you introduce a shaman to your PCs, have them be completely normal and unremarkable people for the culture in question. They're not even living on the outskirts of the village. No costume, because they only wear that when they shamanize. And when they are ready to shamanize, that's when you hit them with an abrupt shift of personality. Don't be afraid to literally shout at your players. While masks are used in many shamanic traditions, they aren't so much used in Siberian shamanism, the versions I am most familiar with. Instead, you sometimes have the shaman wearing a headpiece with a fringe of tassles covering their face. This fringe, according to at least one account I've read, is less for the shaman's benefit than it is for any onlookers', for the shaman's face becomes twisted into a series of horrifying grimaces while shamanizing. I would encourage you to look up some descriptions of shamanic rituals in action to get a feel for it; they're not all about drugs, drums, and masks. Not even remotely. (Well, they do almost always involve drums, but still). Here are some ways you could use shamans in your campaign: 1. Enemies. Long ago, an evil young shaman came to the forest to make his drum, as all new shamans must. He slew a kindly treant for the frame and a lamassu (or other goodly creature for) for the skin. Their voices haunt the forest to this day. Slay the shaman and put them to rest. He is of great power, but at night when he sleeps one of his souls flies through the forest in the shape of a cuckoo. Destroy it and you will weaken him. However, beware of his other soul which often marauds about in the same forest at night as a fearsome bear. 2. Healers. The most obvious one. As a quest, you might have to recover one of his shamanic objects lost, settle a polygamous marital dispute between his invisible otherworldly wife and his earthly one, or what have you. While I use "he" women can totally be shamans too, but those scenarios make themselves more apparent to me with males. 3. Time travel. Among the Mansi and Khanty, there's an interesting belief that time in the lower world goes in reverse direction as in the middle world. As people who can visit the lower world, shamans could help you go there to effectively go back in time. 4. Helping an otherworldly being become initiated as a shaman. Shamans are customarily served by helping spirits and instructed by tutelary ones. A common part of a shaman's initiation in many cultures is a period of intense sickness in which a shaman experiences a vision where he is reduced to pieces, often a skeleton, and has to put himself together again. This being reduced to pieces is often done by evil spirits. Interestingly, there is a trope I have found in some folklore in which the lower world is much like ours, but when we visit there, we are seen as evil disease causing spirits, much like how the denizens of the lower world are portrayed when they come to our world. The PCs could be instructed to venture into another world and defeat a powerful enemy, but are warned that they must flay them alive or boil them to succeed. In reality, they are merely serving as the helping spirits in an otherworldly shaman's initiation

@derigel9783

3 жыл бұрын

@@joyfulcandycube6785 Instead of drugs, use bloodletting or extensive exaustion from staying awake, walking, fucking, etc. as other means to hallucinate and contakt other plains and reals.

Very clever. One idea I was toying with to lend the witches turning magic back on the party would be to have the party members have things go missing (trinkets, lock of hair, etc) by the witches familiars or people they’ve ensorcelled. The witches then produce that item when doing their legendary or lair actions that affect that party member.

i like the idea that this kind of sinister-seeming trickery and misdirection would be how a heroic witch does things too. no clear-cut white robes vs black robes healing magic vs harming magic, they're doing very similar things with the important difference being what they apply it on

@MonarchsFactory

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah! Nice!

The way I deal with witches in my setting is sort of like a twisted druid. They're using the magic of nature, but instead of it being gifted or granted or borrowed, like in the druid's case, its taken, stolen or twisted in some way.

Just had this happen in my game! The party discovered the Goblin Market in the city. I have a witch who deals in memories but not just past memories, there are three: Past, Present, and Future. One Takes, One Gives and One Knows. ...they chose to look into future and got an ominous vision. It vaguely implied that one character would be betrayed by the other. All of her deals are final...no leaving and coming back later.

You could go further: Did you roll a die with numerals or with pips? That's significant to the reading somehow. Did you roll a basic cubic d6, or something fancier? That's significant to the reading somehow. Did you roll a numbered die, or something different that just happens to fit the description, like a Boost or Setback die from Genesys/SWRPG or one of the dice from King of Tokyo? Well that's significant too.

One movie that blew my mind about witches was Suspiria (2018). The lore on the 3 mothers (Suspiriorum, Lachrymarum and Tenebrarum ) became a big inspiration for my witches.

I love the idea of 3's, and I'd go full meta with it, each 3 rolled on a d20 is in the witches control. No save. Then I'd also have their attacks multiply in ways where the party can interact with it, i.e. each with can cast Witch Bolt as one of their 3 actions, and each of them can activate the others Witch Bolt. That means you really want to break their concentration, rather than just do the normal 5e focus fire and reduce them to 2, the more you focus fire the more damage they deal (as long as they're 3). Another thing I'd add is the idea of them having foreseen and planned certain things, maybe the players bought some healing potions recently, and if they drink it in front of a witch she smiles and it gives a bitter aftertaste... 3 rounds later that Witch can have an effect, preferably something that the merchant who sold the potions warned them about, like maybe it makes them vulnerable to lightning and oh what's this? One of the witches is chanting forth a thunderstorm?

ooh I like that idea of having the town try and burn the party druid at the stake

I really love the idea of witches having a different kind of older magic. It reminds me of Pratchett (although I know the idea predates him). I'm working on trying to tie in witches with the Fey realm in my setting.

I love the idea of a bottled sliver of light or stroke of luck, I'm definitely stealing it, thank you! Also, while characters I play are usually decent people, they're also waaay too superstitious to interfere in a witch trial.

I love the idea of having a witch place a very elaborate illusion on a party member who then “wakes up” as a child, to find that the witch is their mother, they have none of their gear, but are in warm pajamas under soft blankets, the crackling of fire where once there was a cackling of fiendish enemies. “Not to worry my dear, twas only a nightmare, go back to sleep, and remember, mummy loves you.” To the rest of the party, this member becomes frozen, unconscious and catatonic on their feet. This attack deals no physical damage, but may take multiple rounds to break. Depending how they choose to fight it, they may make their way out of it, or fall deeper down the rabbit hole.

The lore content that you add to RPG/DND communities is amazing. Thank you for all that you do!

Gah! You are too good on the timing! Not but last Friday, had my players been invited for dinner by Flo, Vi, and Ru in their swamp cabin. Only rather than consult with the bones (which sounds so much cooler), I had them confer with their crystal ball by giving it a shake. "Signs point to Yes" They then went to try and turn the party into small animals and preserve the poly-morph magic in rune-sealed jars, to keep them trapped once the party made their intent known. The party saved their resolve before it came to that, but the idea for an encounter where the party are their animal-egos scampering about the house trying to not be caught before the magic wears off, or break the spell early, sounds like an awesome idea I'll have to use another time.

Also I might use this in my anti magic campaign, the party has already agreed the inquisition is bad so some terrifying witches might complicate things. Tho I’ll probably not use that encounter idea, my party would die very fast

"Black as midnight, black as pitch, blacker than the foulest witch" - Blix. Hags, Witches & Cowans the more Gonzo, the darker, the more evil the better. Gonzo & Dark can seem a difficult task to attempt as a DM, but if done right it worth it. Haha & Wirltches work with all types. Also venerate an alternative divinity.

My favourite take on witches that I use in my setting is based on Terry Pratchett’s ideas, where the most powerful aspect of a witch is in fact when they ARENT using magic (headology, for example), but beyond that their magic comes similar to druids, but in more of a flowing with and persuading (or tricking) the natural magical forces!

I made my comment below early in the video because I still can't believe this fairy tale and share it whenever I can, it's absolutely wild from beginning to end, but I just wanted to say that this video is fantastic too! I've just started DMing and your videos have been a massive inspiration for how I've been getting things done :) My favourite witch-like figure is the Bogmother in Hans Christian Andersen's story "The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf". A 'mean' girl doesn't want to step on a bog as she's delivering bread to her grandmother, so she uses the bread to step on. She gets sucked into the bog, and the Bogmother, who's brewing potions under the bog, decides to send her to her nephew. Her nephew, Satan.

Me initially: "This is great and interesting advice, but it isn't giving me a scary vibe." *Dael says three wisdom saves* 😵

I've been increasingly more and more fascinated with magical trade, markets, deals, and favours, a lot of it thanks to Dael. From here, the idea of dealing with concepts is great. If you deal with a witch or a devil, you likely want benefits like power, wealth, love - but they don't deal in concretes, and so the payment is nebulous yet of equal if not greater cost. Power for your firstborn, wealth at the cost of your ability to feel joy, things like that. Someone smart can play a witch well, make a trade that's actually beneficial to them, or to the witch as well. I gotta put my finger on what exactly it is I like about it.

i like making the witches using premade items as well for their spell casting. like a voodoo doll for the body control, or mirrors or candles to be the focus for the illusions. this way u can have players realise that the deals they made with the witch for items, power, or answers are the thing the witches now use against them.

My favourite character I play is my Lore Wizard. She’s very Witchy, with her mother being a druidic healer and later in her career as an adventurer she stole the secrets of a coven of Hags (the nature coven from Volo’s)

Amazing video, great advice, and great info from beginning to end. Congrats and thank you!

Another great video, keep making the awesome content!

My mom does Tarot. Actually believes in it and stuff. She can also reiki you positive energy from a socially distant zoom call.

I love these videos so much.

Discword witches have that practical magic of tweaking and building relationships down, they're mostly just clever people

That was wonderful. Thank you for such a magical birthday present. Keep on being vague and evocative!

A quote my DM once had a hag say that freaked me the fuck out is “that is your fault for not living in The Ever Present Now” In exchange for the material she needs. The hag told us of a plan she had in the past tense, and when we the party found out she didn’t do the things she said she did and confronted her, well turns out she sees the future so readily she knew who would walk into her hut and what they would want when they came to her. Which was very very scary. Because we came to the hag to kill her but she was calm about it.

This was a great video will awesome ideas! Thanks very much for sharing!

I love these cold opens so much haha

Lots of preamble at the start but once we got to the meat of your ideas they were fantastic. Thank you Dael.

Thank you for helping me plan my witch for tonight's Halloween game! Subbed!

I always love your takes on the D&D videos. This is another great one! It's amazing how you take a simple enemy into a rich experience that gives so much character to the world around the players.

Thank you so much for all what you are doing! You really motivate me to drive games as a DM

I love including lifeblood sacrifices, esp small animals, also apothecary brewing, music man instigators, and scarlet letter social complexities.

I love all of your twists on mechanics. So freaking inspiring to a forever DM looking to freshen up the experience.

LOVE the OTGW reference, the Unknown is a marvelous source material for the vague and evocative

Incredible video, very insightful, with lots of new things to think about. I don't run into videos that inspire new ideas very often, thanks a lot!

I think this is one of your most inspiring D&D videos Dael! Lots to think about and thanks very much for that brain candy.

This video and the kraken one are so good. All of the different ideas combined in a conceptual way to form a really amazing experience. Every of these videos gives me a dozen ideas on how to make my own encounters more exciting. So thanks :)

Okay...but that opener has me dead. You're so wonderful.

I appreciate this. I'm running an encounter this weekend with a Bheur Hag. She happens to be in the same woods as a druid contact with whom my players are seeking counsel. Unfortunately for my poor players, I do not believe they will see through the hag's offers of assistance in travel through the deep snow as anything but boons. But each benefit has a price and a cost... "Well, well, well...Warm bloods have wandered into my wood. Weary walkers, what will you wish for once we've met? Will the winter weather ward you back whence you came?"

man i enjoy these types of videos so much such good ideas really delving into the fairy tale origins and ideas behind withes and hags, love the dark fairy devilish vibes and the inherent deep magic explained in the video. reminds me of my notes for my eastern coven campaign in the mountains of Rashamen the small village of trillian and their history with Buashabaal the Hag

Your phased witches fight sounded like an Elven Blightlord boss fight I have in my game. I was able to draw a few ideas from your ideas so thank you. I'd be interested to hear your thoughts in Kindly Witches in D&D. Roleplaying games I've noticed have a bit of a negative bias towards witches, Pathfinder notably with the witches spell list and class features. You touched on it some with the ambiguous witch burning scene but your thoughts on ways to make a witch a prominent character without resorting to "I eat babies"/etc.

@veggiedragon1000

3 жыл бұрын

Mr. Tealeaf Hey there, I'm doing a dissertation on the subject right now and I'd really recommend looking up the actual history of witches and Philosophy Tube's video on witches and Marxism. Like Dael said, the witch was the ideal of the powerful woman. The whole "eating babies" thing comes from the fact that a lot of the women called witches in the dark ages were herbalists who provided contraception to other women. The women had reproductive autonomy as well as the reputation of power without either men, or traditional labour. Without these wise women, women in general no longer had that power and were forced to submit to men.

Love it, some many cool ideas!

I've used bargaining with a hag/witch NPC at the end of a one shot really effectively. She asked the players to give up memories in exchange for the Dragon egg she had. The more intense the memory the better. Led to some great role playing, where two of the pcs gave up the memory of their friendship. I was hoping the players would be foolish enough to let her pick which memories to take... She would have taken the memory of why they needed the Dragon egg in the first place. My players were too smart for that though!

This is awesome stuff, thank you!

This was absolutely amazing and will be very useful when I run the Sewn Sisters. I appreciate that you can tie things back to the origins in myth!

I love the vague, language-based magic idea! Absolutely stealing it. My go-to for witches has always been a powerful, openly-evil NPC spellcaster. They are a challenge for my players to outwit, as the group loves to go full "challenge a sicilian when death is on the line". In the past these encounters have derailed campaigns in all the best ways.

So good!

Thank you very much for the idea of the parallel dimension with random overlaps to the prime material. That can provide some incredible settings. I also hadn't considered the power of 3 aspect, that could prove very interesting.

Skulduggery Pleasant being represented on the shelf *chefs kiss* great video! A lot of ideas I may crib

Me watching this as I plan my hedge witch PC for my next campaign: I mean it's not very relevant, but it's a Vibe. Would love to hear how you'd think about a hedge witch! (In the vein of Discworld witches) Mine is going to be a bard, with her magic flavoured as coming from persuasion, deception and incantations rather than music and performance.

Terry Pratchett's "headology" was what I thought of when Dael mentioned the metaphorical vs. the tangible. Like in Wyrd Sisters when the coven used a copper stick, an old pot, some soap, and a scrubbing brush during a conjuring. It wasn't what they were in a tangible sense that mattered, but what the three witches imagined them to be in that moment that made them what they *really* were. One of the best summaries I've seen for headology is "I think, therefore it is". And then there's "boffo", i.e. "they think, therefore I am". Confidence and belief combined with presentation and action to change the tangible into something else, something bigger and more powerful. So you could have these witches out in the woods, the locals terrified of them, always getting up to mischief, ruining their lives, and then it turns out it's just three old women living in a nice little cottage, but you have to break through layers of belief and presentation to finally notice what's actually there.

Cant wait to incorporate this into my dnd game somehow. I did a ghost encounter following your video and my players LOVED it

This is why I am subscribed to this channel! The way your mind works and the way you implement things into DnD is downright breathtaking! I cannot help but fall in love with your ideas and concepts as for me they are brilliant. Thank you for your brain. If i were an intellect devourer I would scoop it out and keep it in a jar and nibble at it every once in a while like an expensive meal.

Well you have timed this video perfectly as im about to start a campaign this week with the first serious villains being a coven of witches

This gave me SO many good ideas for how to run the witch coven for an upcoming quest my party is gonna be tackling.

I love these ideas. Especially how you would run a coven fight on the premise that getting to the hag would be the tricky part, since in dnd hag stats get left behind quickly

Stardust witches are badass - this reminds me a lot of them - I feel that book/movie does a good job of representing as much of the "classic" witch attributes as they could That whole movie is badass actually - my wife and I's favorite movie (like, together, not individually lol)

When it comes to all things fantasy you have a beautiful mind and a flair for the way you articulate those thoughts you present .. inspiring

The way you handle witches is the way I handle the Fey in my games

This really gave me a new perspective on magic users as I tend to get stuck in a Dark Sun kind of paradigm of preservers & defilers. Thanks for the vid ! I was hooked at "not built form scary". ;-)

Oooh, lot of really fun ideas here. My annual Halloween one shot for my friends is gonna be epic this year. Thank you.

A bottle of moonshine doesn't seem like a particularly fantastical thing, but I suppose ymmv.

@shangc2781

3 жыл бұрын

I think she means a bottle of liquid that's full of the shine of the actual moon

@matthewsinnott5386

3 жыл бұрын

You'd think that, but I'm in a campaign where there's a shop called "Fine Wines and Spirits" and, well... you don't go there for the alcohol

@Magic__7

3 жыл бұрын

@@shangc2781 taken from a woodland pond on the full moon no doubt

@CrimsonTemplar2

3 жыл бұрын

But it’s way easier to bottle than moonlight.

So magic is like the force in your games!

Norns, the three fates, past present future, maiden, mother, crone/matriarch. so many goodies, love the battle strategy tips and twists. Moss from a hanged man's skull, left under a gibbous moon will protect those from baba yaga's gaze!

Serious brain envy going on over here. Thanks again for another awesome video!

This is prob my fav ep thusfar, I freaking LOVE witches and esp villian witches bc of, like you said, that Deep Dark Magic that's stronger than just magic. I also love how you described magic as "written on the mountain; written in the rain" ooh! That sent chills down my spine. I think imma watch this video a few times and take some notes~

It's taking me twice as long to concentrate on the video bc that shirt is freaking awsome

Yummy great detail. 👍( love the details of knowledge.)

I’m so mad I just discovered you from my friend Michelle. You’re undeniably brilliant in the most refreshing sense

You have some really creative ideas!

Verry helpful advice as i am running a game with a coven of Hags as the enemy. Especially the rule of three is something that I really like.

Perfect timing for this video, got some coming up in my campaign!

@StormageddonTMS

3 жыл бұрын

Some?...

@joshuapurinton7752

3 жыл бұрын

Same.

@laffuntilucry

3 жыл бұрын

Got a hag encounter coming up myself :P

Im currently playing a necromancer wizard who was very inspired by the trinity and triple goddess and fate being malleable but unchangeable and this has made me realize how witchy she is and has given me so much inspiration for spell selection and such. Thanks for that

Dael makes everything better 🖤🧙

Just when I think you can't get anymore awesome or adorable. You make a Over the Garden Wall reference!!! I've used the idea of trading the intangible for very tangible rewards from a Hag (That's close enough to a witch in D&D) Best one I ever got was a +2 Flametongue for a "Bit of your luck" Seemed great until the player realized he could never roll with Advantage. Or gain Inspiration.

I usually don't comment on KZread; but I have to let you know all videos I've watched so far have been great inspirations! Keep it up!

Creating my own dark fantasy game system atm and was adding enemy mechanics just remembered your fabulous self and this video. Added a rule of 3 ruleset onto my witches with epic mild melting illusions. Thanks for existing and doing your thing. I look forward to having players questioning how many hags there are at every appearance. Though with illusions.....who can tell ;)