My players recently FINALLY went against a night hag coven in a module I run. And I say FINALLY because they were absolutely terrified of the one they interacted with, more even than the main BBEG. She didn't get to use her etherealness, but her daughters ran away. And they want vengeance.
@jriggan34 минут бұрын
I love it
@weeaboobaguette39436 сағат бұрын
2:02
@supersanttu79516 сағат бұрын
Now I'm thinking of hags as rad old women who want a little bit of spice in their life by ensuring other people get their faces blasted with a cloud of it. Yass queen slay!
@jriggan9 сағат бұрын
Very nice/:)
@The_ArchlichСағат бұрын
Thank you
@bartholomewdunkley447414 сағат бұрын
Seeing This makes me want to see your interpretation of rakshasas. Also, amazing vid as always Archie, keep up the good work.
@tracej.kingsford722814 сағат бұрын
Every time you post I forget how small you are, you put out great high quality content tho, so I’m delighted every time you post, can’t wait till next time!
@The_ArchlichСағат бұрын
Hopefully the growth continues. I've been fortunate to find the following I already have so quickly. Thank you.
@tylerh254815 сағат бұрын
The coven from Witcher: Wild Hunt revolutionized Hags for me as actual creepy villains. Eldritch horror of the primordial forest
@LocardIII16 сағат бұрын
Hags are so much fun! Brings me back to movies I watched as a kid like Witches and Legend that had such fun designs for hags. These tips really help round out the ideas I had. Thanks again Archie!
@TheGreatDanish17 сағат бұрын
One of my favorite uses of a Hag was Ol' Mertyl. She was a powerful green hag with a coven of daughters she'd kidnapped and transformed from the villages surrounding her bog. Unlike your usual hag, she had *complete* control over the 5 villages that made up her domain, with two daughters per village that she had go out and sow chaos in. She would pit the villages against each other, but always kept it from getting out of hand. The players didn't know any of this, especially as they were traveling to meet her, the old wise woman of the bog, in order to get information and divination services from her. She was the only source of the information they were seeking that they could find, and so when the tracked her down and figured out she was a hag, they had to weigh their own principles against the needs of their greater goals. In the end, even with the knowlege that she was running the villages as her own little pitri dish of chaos, they dealt with her, and got the information. And all it cost them was a single thing from the team's cleric. "What you treasure most." He thought it was a trinket, a family heirloom he inhereited from his mother. It wasn't. It was the memory of his mother. Needless to say, once they had finished their dealings, the players went back to their main quest with the full resolve that when it was all over and they weren't so pressed for time, the hag would die.
@TextualDeviant18 сағат бұрын
I once drank a potion from a hag after wishing to be recognized. Oh I'd get recognized. In fact, I'd be unforgettable. So unforgettable that everything I do would essentially become a memetic hazard at the forefront of everyone's minds.
@MrIbot8819 сағат бұрын
Watched all your videos, greatly enjoy your takes on beefing classical fantasy bad guys that 5e felt would be too scary for players :) Please release more soon , it's been too long since the last one came out.
@Oops-All-Ghosts20 сағат бұрын
I was gonna write a second comment but then I forgot but then my comment got a like from the KZreadr which activated all my neurons related to validation at once, so here's this. I think the big difference between the pacts offered by Hags and the pacts offered by Devils is planning. Hags offer pacts to fuck with people or with pranks. Very few hags, even powerful hags, have big agendas. They're usually pretty content to stay small-scale, and when they move beyond that it tends to be because they got carried away on a wave of success, not because they necessarily intended to. The deals they offer reflect that. Their deals tend to be spontaneous. Often they will deliberately cultivate a reputation of some kind in order to encourage people to seek them out, and then offer solutions to problems of some kind. They might offer you deals that they know will go horrifically wrong immediately as a prank, without necessarily having a detailed plan for how to deal with it if you survive (this is why they tend to be lower-level antagonists; obviously very little of this applies to high-level hags, let alone to someone like Baba Yaga who is probably more comparable to an archdevil at this stage). They might offer you something genuinely useful in exchange for a favour that they can call in later, and bury a side-effect in the thing that they can then use to get revenge if you renege. They might promise to provide a service in exchange for an up-front cost, and then refuse to pay you back when they discover they're incapable of providing that service. In myths and fairy tales, hags are often portrayed as having both benign and malign aspects. They might give you something good at a pittance in a fit of compassion, and then try to kill you to get it back a few weeks later after deciding they miss having it after all, accusing you of cheating or tricking them somehow. The thing that makes devils different, I think--or at least the kind of devil you're likely to meet making deals outside of the Nine Hells; the ones who are powerful enough to wheel and deal independently but who aren't archdevils or their immediate subordinates--is that if you feel like you're in a position to refuse their offer, you probably haven't heard the actual offer yet. They're very powerful, and unlike (most) hags, they're also planar beings with endless patience, a great deal of personal security, and significant resources. They don't need to cheat, nor do most of them feel any particular obligation to. It's so much more satisfying when you fuck someone over by giving them exactly what they want, anyway. If they decide that somebody has something they want, they won't just pop in and make an offer right away (in most cases). They'll find ways to start poking and prodding at their new business partner, shifting and adjusting things until the victim is at their most desperate for whatever thing the devil can provide. And that's when the devil will reveal themself to make their first offer. They won't expect to seal the deal at that stage; they're just putting the possibility in the victim's head. Maybe they'll even use a bit of magic to help their victim out, in a display of good faith, because even if the victim works out that the devil was responsible for a lot of their problems, y'know, they did also help out that one time. And like. I do wanna say, if a powerful devil is actually paying attention to you, they probably don't want your soul. Stealing or bartering for souls is what cultists and gamblers are for. If you're an adventurer, and a devil is offering you something, they probably want you to *do* something for them. Devils are big players, too--even relatively minor ones in the upper ranks of the bureaucracy have a much broader perspective on the world than the average king or noble does. You might never know what exactly you were a part of, or you might not understand until weeks or years later when suddenly it comes crashing down on your head. tl;dr: The difference between them is that Hags are cruel, petty, and vindictive, but also eminently comprehensible. A devil can be cruel, petty and vindictive as well, but the scope they operate on is huge, and unlike Hags they have (vicious, brutal) professional standards. If a devil is competent, you'll feel their influence long before you know they're interested in you, and unless you manage to outwit and corner them (or they decide it'd be funny to tell you), you'll never understand what exactly they wanted you for. // Wall of text; sorry.
@ImmortalLemon20 сағат бұрын
I’ve had a couple encounters with hags before. Both with the same character, an autistic paladin. The first encounter went really badly because he didn’t know what was going on. The second one was over in 2 rounds because Boris learned from his mistakes….
@asmcint21 сағат бұрын
The amount of shade on Bao just in the first few seconds is downright impressive
@yamibakura8597Күн бұрын
Excellent advice as usual, my Overlord. I think the idea of Hags avoiding combat and weaving nets of social chaos is a very under-served niche among the monsters of D&D.
@Yaboi079Күн бұрын
The bone master has blessed us with another skeleton dance inducing video
@medeas_number_1_fanКүн бұрын
Now this has me wanting to run a hag in my level 5 game to absolutely fuck with the players. I'm totally yoinking that squirrel belt too that thing is hilarious
@ingus3502Күн бұрын
The GOATT!!!!
@xavierabowers3800Күн бұрын
Lich? 🚫 Batman ✅️
@Oops-All-GhostsКүн бұрын
The idea of a Salem Witch Trial-type situation being initiated and carried out by a Green Hag as a prank is very funny to me.
@kkplxКүн бұрын
didn't expect a blueberry reference in a D&D video. To be honest didn't realize it was your channel when i clicked on the thumbnail, i thought someone made the lewdtubers play D&D lmao.
@The_Archlich21 сағат бұрын
Leeching in progess...all according to plan.
@unboundsoul3582Күн бұрын
Whats the bgm for this video?
@tomc.5704Күн бұрын
I want to say it's from Psychonauts? If not, same vibe
@unboundsoul358223 сағат бұрын
@@tomc.5704 I'll have to scrub through the OST in that case, I'll lyk if I find it
@The_Archlich21 сағат бұрын
Old School Runescape OST - Lost Soul
@unboundsoul358221 сағат бұрын
@@The_Archlich banger! Thank you sir!
@gammagong9435Күн бұрын
Homebrew magical item for a hag. Enjoy. Skulduggery Epic Magical Weapon Axe (Shaped like a Shovel, looks like a skull) Attacks made with this weapon are silent. While attuned to this weapon, the wielder has dark vision out to 30 feet, and tremor sense out to 20 feet if they already possess dark vision. Once per day, the wielder can spend 1 hour to dig a hole in the ground of any shape, up to 20 feet deep and 5 feet wide. If a covering of any kind is placed over this hole(rug, blanket, sticks, etc...) it soundproofs the hole and takes on the appearance of the surrounding terrain, requiring a DC 16 Perception check to notice it. Any items or creatures placed in holes dug by this weapon can not be detected by magic of any kind other than this weapon.
@alphadeltaroflcopterКүн бұрын
The "brief" going over of the hags was 26 minutes of the video...
@The_Archlich21 сағат бұрын
True and Real, King
@tarkusvontortellini1877Күн бұрын
A used condom that's been out in the sun for too long implies the existence of a correct length of time to leave used condoms in the sun for.
@The_Archlich21 сағат бұрын
Now you're asking the right questions.
@chloejo9991Күн бұрын
As always, I love the video😊
@The_Archlich21 сағат бұрын
Thank you!
@alonsogutierrez9500Күн бұрын
I took a Russian fairy tales class for the global study requirement in University, and seeing Baba Yaga referred to as a GILF hurts me to think about as I immediately picture her in the fairytales with the updated visuals.
@marshallmonzingo9095Күн бұрын
As someone who absolutely loves the folklore surrounding Hags and has deeply enjoyed your creativity ever since your first video on liches, I really appreciate you making this video. I've been looking forward to it ever since you first announced the project and love the idea for the sleeping squirrel belt amongst your other thoughts. If you are open to a little constructive criticism, though? You could have saved roughly 15 minutes on stat explanations by just mentioning that you found most hags to be more physically focused and less creatively interesting compared to the green hag and thus that variety would be the focus for today's lecture. That quick summary could have given you a lot more time to spice up your recipe for Granny Ethyl and her sisters of the Greenwood, much like you did with Xanax. I don't want this taken harshly as I greatly enjoy your vids and can't wait to see what you come up with next. But I can read the stat blocks. Your sadistic imagination, on the other hand, is inspiring, and I would like to enjoy more of your thoughts on how to creatively make iconic monsters a ptsd inspiring nightmare for players.
@The_Archlich21 сағат бұрын
I see what you mean, and perhaps I will touch more on them later, but I also want to make sure that my DM's guide series teaches people all the basics to running a creature. There are a lot of less experienced people watch these videos as well, and getting them into the habit of gleaning more from the statblocks they're looking at is helpful I think. This one was a little tricky to make, and I think going forward, I may have to keep it to one creature per type. (one type of dragon, one type of hag, etc etc.) Also I appreciate your feedback. I always love to hear from my acolytes!
@marshallmonzingo90958 сағат бұрын
@The_Archlich I appreciate your response and definitely understand and respect that goal. I saw someone else's thought of running a series for various types. I have no knowledge of video editing and can definitely understand if it would end up being too much work, but another thought that comes to mind is to cut some subjects into two shorter and more focused videos to avoid feeling rushed with your content. For example, "running dragons like a chad 101" as a primer that goes through all your subtype stat blocks and basic running suggestions by the book. And then releasing a "running dragons like a chad 201" that goes into your expanded and fantastically night terror inducing off the book ideas focused on the type or types you have the most interest and passion for. Whatever you do in the future, though, I respect the choices, deeply enjoy what you do, and look forward to your next video. Thank you for your substantial work in making the fantasy realm a darker place!
@acepirosu5871Күн бұрын
While green hags are my favourite because of their shakespearean outlook on life - they literally treat life as a play and the world as a stage and love nothing more than to turn comedies into tragedies - I do think the Annis deserves a bit more credit. If I had to give them a "theme of corruption" like their sisters then it would be turning a peaceful settlement into a slum of fear and paranoia. But their most interesting trait is their penchant for raising "families" of monsters in their lair like Animal Crossing for the brothers Grimm. Imagine a village on the mountainside, far away from all of your setting's prominent monster lairs and roaming bandit tribes. A safe haven against the unpredictable wilderness. One day an Annis hag notices this village and decides to make tormenting it her personal hobby. She's physically strong enough to just go on a rampage and take a dozen lives a day but that would be too easy and boring for old Annie. So instead she builds her lair at the top of the hill and waits for a group of children to wander too far into the woods. She stalks them for a while, camouflaging her mottled brown, growth-ridden form amongst the dead autumn trees until the exact moment one of the kids notices something is wrong. The first scream signals the chase. Annie catches one boy and one girl, allowing the rest to flee back to the village covered in cuts and bruises from running down the mountainside. The two victims are never seen again, save for a scarecrow that appears at the base of the mountain the following morning, made entirely from human hair and bound together by the girl's torn clothing. A week passes, then a month, then three. More children have been taken or killed on overcast nights when the moon is hidden. Some have even been taken from their homes on the outskirts of town. Livestock has been found torn to pieces in the fields. But now winter has come, and the autumn leaves no longer obscure the clay-wrought dwelling on the top of the hill, accentuated with clumps of rotten bark and hardened manure. To the villagers' horror, old Annie hasn't just been occupying herself with their misery all this time. A trio of starved gnolls crouch in treetops at dusk, watching for farmers who take too long in barricading their homes for the night. A young female orc and her cubs make spears out of the bones of human game. The villagers would have been wise to burn that scarecrow they found, for now it prances through the abandoned apple orchard flying a kite of human skin. A grey ooze chews through dirt on its trek down the mountainside, leaving a fine gravel path in its wake for Annie and her "children" to invite visitors desperate enough to bargain for her mercy. And that thing playing fetch with the owlbear young - is that a homunculus? An observer too scared to approach the lair would never realise it, but atop the misshapen thing's hunched shoulders sits the shrunken head of that poor boy from three months ago, features forever twisted in an expression of abject terror. Welcome to Annie's new community.
@acepirosu5871Күн бұрын
If anyone actually reads all that shit I just posted then I also want to mention my main inspiration for hag roleplay: Excellinor the Witch from the How to Train Your Dragon books. That series had a huge impact on shaping my creativity as a kid and I'll never forgive Dreamworks for butchering it.
@cattrucker8257Күн бұрын
A modern-day world D&D campaign where the vtubers people call hags are actually literal hags, with covens and shiet. And their simps are the minions they send at you.
@The_Archlich21 сағат бұрын
This guy gets it.
@thatgamingkiwi1630Күн бұрын
THE EVIL GRANDMA TUTORIAL! THE EVIL GRANDMA TUTORIAL IS RREEEEEEEAAAAAALLL!
@CalebgoblinКүн бұрын
Archie really just lore dumped his main exes so that we dungeon masters can arrange to "clean up business" for him at our tables. Very clever, I respect it
@The_Archlich21 сағат бұрын
Perhaps. I'm considering looking at such things once more people care about what I have to say. Edit: This was an incorrect response to the wrong comments to answer your statement: yes.
@ZanTheFoxКүн бұрын
Damn that's a lot of memes
@elisabethgent1532Күн бұрын
gaslight, gatekeep, eat hot chip, and lie
@belial3716Күн бұрын
I want to disagree with you on sea hags because I used them in a coven in my first campaign as antagonists for a time. However the more I think about it the only real “sea” thing they did was swim around and try to drown people.
@The_Archlich21 сағат бұрын
Yeah I didn't have that opinion on sea hags going in. I honestly just found the green hag makes a better sea hag than the sea hag...
@RandomInternetStrangerКүн бұрын
Here's a simple Magic Item that makes Green Hags _incredibly_ fun: *_Heart of Subterfuge,_* Very Rare (requires Attunement) _This item appears to be a perpetually beating human heart, the veins of which pulse with black fluid._ This item is affected by a permanent iteration of False Aura, as seen in Nystul's Magic Aura. If Dispelled, this effect ceases to function until the item expends a charge (explained below). While the user is Attuned to this item, they become permanently affected by Mask, as seen in Nystul's Magic Aura, as well as Alter Self and Nondetection. This item has 7 charges. It expends one charge at midnight every night. If it loses all 7 charges, its magic ceases to function until it regains all charges, one of which it immediately expends in order to re-activate. If a humanoid dies within 30ft. of you while you are Attuned to this item, you can use your Reaction to pull its soul inside the heart. This causes the item to regain all expended charges. If the trapped soul remains as such, its soul is continually drained, and is destroyed once 7 charges have been drained from them. Once this occurs, they cannot be brought back by any means short of Divine Intervention or the Wish spell. This gives the Green Hag the inability to be detected by a low-level party, allowing her to do all the fun manipulation she lives for. It also gives her a reason to stay active, rather than just camping out in the woods until the party stops searching for her. It even makes traveling to a new place in search of more prey difficult, requiring careful planning (and likely the tipping of her hand) once she runs low on victims.
@skipmageКүн бұрын
Yeah, 5E makes no sense. I just spent like 20 minutes to find out that annis hags have double the CR of green hags, have less HP, less magic and the same AC.
@The_Archlich21 сағат бұрын
I think it might be because of the damage resistance? I think CR sucks really with the system they've put in place. Honestly I think vibes are a better measurement than the current system.
@thatgamingkiwi16307 сағат бұрын
@@The_Archlich I think the most egregious example of CR outright lying to you is the Tarrasque being considered CR 30. From what I hear that thing gets mulched by high level parties leading to a lot of DMs having to modify it to stand a chance.
@RohnonКүн бұрын
You acutally made me like hags
@vanderkarl3927Күн бұрын
Never did I think I would see Baoberry here. Clearly I lack imagination.
@OmniDan26Күн бұрын
Neothelid would be an interesting future video. Perhaps?
@thorscape3879Күн бұрын
My favorites are Fate Hags. They are just the Fates of ancient Greek legend.
@zayadontdwellКүн бұрын
Damn it, I just ran the Night Hags encounter at Ol Bonegrinder
@p0kevet13Күн бұрын
*me trying to figure out how to run a hag dragon aka a dragon warped and raised by a hag coven* Ooooh, that’s a good idea!
@Joty295Күн бұрын
Avg bao berry enjoyer
@avakio19Күн бұрын
I was not expecting culture to be used to introduce hags.
@crimsonpotemkinКүн бұрын
Hags are in demand
@josemagana-pq3jdКүн бұрын
Ey
@The_Archlich21 сағат бұрын
Ey
@jordanayling9841Күн бұрын
How about running a Mimic like a chad? Maybe some monstrous mimics that take on the form of a building. Or even a mimic that inadvertently becomes the subject of Kua'Toa worship.
@tap5445Күн бұрын
Archie I love your videos! It's just a DM geeking out about monsters. Like me! This has been a niece missing from dnd tube tbh
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My players recently FINALLY went against a night hag coven in a module I run. And I say FINALLY because they were absolutely terrified of the one they interacted with, more even than the main BBEG. She didn't get to use her etherealness, but her daughters ran away. And they want vengeance.
I love it
2:02
Now I'm thinking of hags as rad old women who want a little bit of spice in their life by ensuring other people get their faces blasted with a cloud of it. Yass queen slay!
Very nice/:)
Thank you
Seeing This makes me want to see your interpretation of rakshasas. Also, amazing vid as always Archie, keep up the good work.
Every time you post I forget how small you are, you put out great high quality content tho, so I’m delighted every time you post, can’t wait till next time!
Hopefully the growth continues. I've been fortunate to find the following I already have so quickly. Thank you.
The coven from Witcher: Wild Hunt revolutionized Hags for me as actual creepy villains. Eldritch horror of the primordial forest
Hags are so much fun! Brings me back to movies I watched as a kid like Witches and Legend that had such fun designs for hags. These tips really help round out the ideas I had. Thanks again Archie!
One of my favorite uses of a Hag was Ol' Mertyl. She was a powerful green hag with a coven of daughters she'd kidnapped and transformed from the villages surrounding her bog. Unlike your usual hag, she had *complete* control over the 5 villages that made up her domain, with two daughters per village that she had go out and sow chaos in. She would pit the villages against each other, but always kept it from getting out of hand. The players didn't know any of this, especially as they were traveling to meet her, the old wise woman of the bog, in order to get information and divination services from her. She was the only source of the information they were seeking that they could find, and so when the tracked her down and figured out she was a hag, they had to weigh their own principles against the needs of their greater goals. In the end, even with the knowlege that she was running the villages as her own little pitri dish of chaos, they dealt with her, and got the information. And all it cost them was a single thing from the team's cleric. "What you treasure most." He thought it was a trinket, a family heirloom he inhereited from his mother. It wasn't. It was the memory of his mother. Needless to say, once they had finished their dealings, the players went back to their main quest with the full resolve that when it was all over and they weren't so pressed for time, the hag would die.
I once drank a potion from a hag after wishing to be recognized. Oh I'd get recognized. In fact, I'd be unforgettable. So unforgettable that everything I do would essentially become a memetic hazard at the forefront of everyone's minds.
Watched all your videos, greatly enjoy your takes on beefing classical fantasy bad guys that 5e felt would be too scary for players :) Please release more soon , it's been too long since the last one came out.
I was gonna write a second comment but then I forgot but then my comment got a like from the KZreadr which activated all my neurons related to validation at once, so here's this. I think the big difference between the pacts offered by Hags and the pacts offered by Devils is planning. Hags offer pacts to fuck with people or with pranks. Very few hags, even powerful hags, have big agendas. They're usually pretty content to stay small-scale, and when they move beyond that it tends to be because they got carried away on a wave of success, not because they necessarily intended to. The deals they offer reflect that. Their deals tend to be spontaneous. Often they will deliberately cultivate a reputation of some kind in order to encourage people to seek them out, and then offer solutions to problems of some kind. They might offer you deals that they know will go horrifically wrong immediately as a prank, without necessarily having a detailed plan for how to deal with it if you survive (this is why they tend to be lower-level antagonists; obviously very little of this applies to high-level hags, let alone to someone like Baba Yaga who is probably more comparable to an archdevil at this stage). They might offer you something genuinely useful in exchange for a favour that they can call in later, and bury a side-effect in the thing that they can then use to get revenge if you renege. They might promise to provide a service in exchange for an up-front cost, and then refuse to pay you back when they discover they're incapable of providing that service. In myths and fairy tales, hags are often portrayed as having both benign and malign aspects. They might give you something good at a pittance in a fit of compassion, and then try to kill you to get it back a few weeks later after deciding they miss having it after all, accusing you of cheating or tricking them somehow. The thing that makes devils different, I think--or at least the kind of devil you're likely to meet making deals outside of the Nine Hells; the ones who are powerful enough to wheel and deal independently but who aren't archdevils or their immediate subordinates--is that if you feel like you're in a position to refuse their offer, you probably haven't heard the actual offer yet. They're very powerful, and unlike (most) hags, they're also planar beings with endless patience, a great deal of personal security, and significant resources. They don't need to cheat, nor do most of them feel any particular obligation to. It's so much more satisfying when you fuck someone over by giving them exactly what they want, anyway. If they decide that somebody has something they want, they won't just pop in and make an offer right away (in most cases). They'll find ways to start poking and prodding at their new business partner, shifting and adjusting things until the victim is at their most desperate for whatever thing the devil can provide. And that's when the devil will reveal themself to make their first offer. They won't expect to seal the deal at that stage; they're just putting the possibility in the victim's head. Maybe they'll even use a bit of magic to help their victim out, in a display of good faith, because even if the victim works out that the devil was responsible for a lot of their problems, y'know, they did also help out that one time. And like. I do wanna say, if a powerful devil is actually paying attention to you, they probably don't want your soul. Stealing or bartering for souls is what cultists and gamblers are for. If you're an adventurer, and a devil is offering you something, they probably want you to *do* something for them. Devils are big players, too--even relatively minor ones in the upper ranks of the bureaucracy have a much broader perspective on the world than the average king or noble does. You might never know what exactly you were a part of, or you might not understand until weeks or years later when suddenly it comes crashing down on your head. tl;dr: The difference between them is that Hags are cruel, petty, and vindictive, but also eminently comprehensible. A devil can be cruel, petty and vindictive as well, but the scope they operate on is huge, and unlike Hags they have (vicious, brutal) professional standards. If a devil is competent, you'll feel their influence long before you know they're interested in you, and unless you manage to outwit and corner them (or they decide it'd be funny to tell you), you'll never understand what exactly they wanted you for. // Wall of text; sorry.
I’ve had a couple encounters with hags before. Both with the same character, an autistic paladin. The first encounter went really badly because he didn’t know what was going on. The second one was over in 2 rounds because Boris learned from his mistakes….
The amount of shade on Bao just in the first few seconds is downright impressive
Excellent advice as usual, my Overlord. I think the idea of Hags avoiding combat and weaving nets of social chaos is a very under-served niche among the monsters of D&D.
The bone master has blessed us with another skeleton dance inducing video
Now this has me wanting to run a hag in my level 5 game to absolutely fuck with the players. I'm totally yoinking that squirrel belt too that thing is hilarious
The GOATT!!!!
Lich? 🚫 Batman ✅️
The idea of a Salem Witch Trial-type situation being initiated and carried out by a Green Hag as a prank is very funny to me.
didn't expect a blueberry reference in a D&D video. To be honest didn't realize it was your channel when i clicked on the thumbnail, i thought someone made the lewdtubers play D&D lmao.
Leeching in progess...all according to plan.
Whats the bgm for this video?
I want to say it's from Psychonauts? If not, same vibe
@@tomc.5704 I'll have to scrub through the OST in that case, I'll lyk if I find it
Old School Runescape OST - Lost Soul
@@The_Archlich banger! Thank you sir!
Homebrew magical item for a hag. Enjoy. Skulduggery Epic Magical Weapon Axe (Shaped like a Shovel, looks like a skull) Attacks made with this weapon are silent. While attuned to this weapon, the wielder has dark vision out to 30 feet, and tremor sense out to 20 feet if they already possess dark vision. Once per day, the wielder can spend 1 hour to dig a hole in the ground of any shape, up to 20 feet deep and 5 feet wide. If a covering of any kind is placed over this hole(rug, blanket, sticks, etc...) it soundproofs the hole and takes on the appearance of the surrounding terrain, requiring a DC 16 Perception check to notice it. Any items or creatures placed in holes dug by this weapon can not be detected by magic of any kind other than this weapon.
The "brief" going over of the hags was 26 minutes of the video...
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A used condom that's been out in the sun for too long implies the existence of a correct length of time to leave used condoms in the sun for.
Now you're asking the right questions.
As always, I love the video😊
Thank you!
I took a Russian fairy tales class for the global study requirement in University, and seeing Baba Yaga referred to as a GILF hurts me to think about as I immediately picture her in the fairytales with the updated visuals.
As someone who absolutely loves the folklore surrounding Hags and has deeply enjoyed your creativity ever since your first video on liches, I really appreciate you making this video. I've been looking forward to it ever since you first announced the project and love the idea for the sleeping squirrel belt amongst your other thoughts. If you are open to a little constructive criticism, though? You could have saved roughly 15 minutes on stat explanations by just mentioning that you found most hags to be more physically focused and less creatively interesting compared to the green hag and thus that variety would be the focus for today's lecture. That quick summary could have given you a lot more time to spice up your recipe for Granny Ethyl and her sisters of the Greenwood, much like you did with Xanax. I don't want this taken harshly as I greatly enjoy your vids and can't wait to see what you come up with next. But I can read the stat blocks. Your sadistic imagination, on the other hand, is inspiring, and I would like to enjoy more of your thoughts on how to creatively make iconic monsters a ptsd inspiring nightmare for players.
I see what you mean, and perhaps I will touch more on them later, but I also want to make sure that my DM's guide series teaches people all the basics to running a creature. There are a lot of less experienced people watch these videos as well, and getting them into the habit of gleaning more from the statblocks they're looking at is helpful I think. This one was a little tricky to make, and I think going forward, I may have to keep it to one creature per type. (one type of dragon, one type of hag, etc etc.) Also I appreciate your feedback. I always love to hear from my acolytes!
@The_Archlich I appreciate your response and definitely understand and respect that goal. I saw someone else's thought of running a series for various types. I have no knowledge of video editing and can definitely understand if it would end up being too much work, but another thought that comes to mind is to cut some subjects into two shorter and more focused videos to avoid feeling rushed with your content. For example, "running dragons like a chad 101" as a primer that goes through all your subtype stat blocks and basic running suggestions by the book. And then releasing a "running dragons like a chad 201" that goes into your expanded and fantastically night terror inducing off the book ideas focused on the type or types you have the most interest and passion for. Whatever you do in the future, though, I respect the choices, deeply enjoy what you do, and look forward to your next video. Thank you for your substantial work in making the fantasy realm a darker place!
While green hags are my favourite because of their shakespearean outlook on life - they literally treat life as a play and the world as a stage and love nothing more than to turn comedies into tragedies - I do think the Annis deserves a bit more credit. If I had to give them a "theme of corruption" like their sisters then it would be turning a peaceful settlement into a slum of fear and paranoia. But their most interesting trait is their penchant for raising "families" of monsters in their lair like Animal Crossing for the brothers Grimm. Imagine a village on the mountainside, far away from all of your setting's prominent monster lairs and roaming bandit tribes. A safe haven against the unpredictable wilderness. One day an Annis hag notices this village and decides to make tormenting it her personal hobby. She's physically strong enough to just go on a rampage and take a dozen lives a day but that would be too easy and boring for old Annie. So instead she builds her lair at the top of the hill and waits for a group of children to wander too far into the woods. She stalks them for a while, camouflaging her mottled brown, growth-ridden form amongst the dead autumn trees until the exact moment one of the kids notices something is wrong. The first scream signals the chase. Annie catches one boy and one girl, allowing the rest to flee back to the village covered in cuts and bruises from running down the mountainside. The two victims are never seen again, save for a scarecrow that appears at the base of the mountain the following morning, made entirely from human hair and bound together by the girl's torn clothing. A week passes, then a month, then three. More children have been taken or killed on overcast nights when the moon is hidden. Some have even been taken from their homes on the outskirts of town. Livestock has been found torn to pieces in the fields. But now winter has come, and the autumn leaves no longer obscure the clay-wrought dwelling on the top of the hill, accentuated with clumps of rotten bark and hardened manure. To the villagers' horror, old Annie hasn't just been occupying herself with their misery all this time. A trio of starved gnolls crouch in treetops at dusk, watching for farmers who take too long in barricading their homes for the night. A young female orc and her cubs make spears out of the bones of human game. The villagers would have been wise to burn that scarecrow they found, for now it prances through the abandoned apple orchard flying a kite of human skin. A grey ooze chews through dirt on its trek down the mountainside, leaving a fine gravel path in its wake for Annie and her "children" to invite visitors desperate enough to bargain for her mercy. And that thing playing fetch with the owlbear young - is that a homunculus? An observer too scared to approach the lair would never realise it, but atop the misshapen thing's hunched shoulders sits the shrunken head of that poor boy from three months ago, features forever twisted in an expression of abject terror. Welcome to Annie's new community.
If anyone actually reads all that shit I just posted then I also want to mention my main inspiration for hag roleplay: Excellinor the Witch from the How to Train Your Dragon books. That series had a huge impact on shaping my creativity as a kid and I'll never forgive Dreamworks for butchering it.
A modern-day world D&D campaign where the vtubers people call hags are actually literal hags, with covens and shiet. And their simps are the minions they send at you.
This guy gets it.
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Archie really just lore dumped his main exes so that we dungeon masters can arrange to "clean up business" for him at our tables. Very clever, I respect it
Perhaps. I'm considering looking at such things once more people care about what I have to say. Edit: This was an incorrect response to the wrong comments to answer your statement: yes.
Damn that's a lot of memes
gaslight, gatekeep, eat hot chip, and lie
I want to disagree with you on sea hags because I used them in a coven in my first campaign as antagonists for a time. However the more I think about it the only real “sea” thing they did was swim around and try to drown people.
Yeah I didn't have that opinion on sea hags going in. I honestly just found the green hag makes a better sea hag than the sea hag...
Here's a simple Magic Item that makes Green Hags _incredibly_ fun: *_Heart of Subterfuge,_* Very Rare (requires Attunement) _This item appears to be a perpetually beating human heart, the veins of which pulse with black fluid._ This item is affected by a permanent iteration of False Aura, as seen in Nystul's Magic Aura. If Dispelled, this effect ceases to function until the item expends a charge (explained below). While the user is Attuned to this item, they become permanently affected by Mask, as seen in Nystul's Magic Aura, as well as Alter Self and Nondetection. This item has 7 charges. It expends one charge at midnight every night. If it loses all 7 charges, its magic ceases to function until it regains all charges, one of which it immediately expends in order to re-activate. If a humanoid dies within 30ft. of you while you are Attuned to this item, you can use your Reaction to pull its soul inside the heart. This causes the item to regain all expended charges. If the trapped soul remains as such, its soul is continually drained, and is destroyed once 7 charges have been drained from them. Once this occurs, they cannot be brought back by any means short of Divine Intervention or the Wish spell. This gives the Green Hag the inability to be detected by a low-level party, allowing her to do all the fun manipulation she lives for. It also gives her a reason to stay active, rather than just camping out in the woods until the party stops searching for her. It even makes traveling to a new place in search of more prey difficult, requiring careful planning (and likely the tipping of her hand) once she runs low on victims.
Yeah, 5E makes no sense. I just spent like 20 minutes to find out that annis hags have double the CR of green hags, have less HP, less magic and the same AC.
I think it might be because of the damage resistance? I think CR sucks really with the system they've put in place. Honestly I think vibes are a better measurement than the current system.
@@The_Archlich I think the most egregious example of CR outright lying to you is the Tarrasque being considered CR 30. From what I hear that thing gets mulched by high level parties leading to a lot of DMs having to modify it to stand a chance.
You acutally made me like hags
Never did I think I would see Baoberry here. Clearly I lack imagination.
Neothelid would be an interesting future video. Perhaps?
My favorites are Fate Hags. They are just the Fates of ancient Greek legend.
Damn it, I just ran the Night Hags encounter at Ol Bonegrinder
*me trying to figure out how to run a hag dragon aka a dragon warped and raised by a hag coven* Ooooh, that’s a good idea!
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I was not expecting culture to be used to introduce hags.
Hags are in demand
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How about running a Mimic like a chad? Maybe some monstrous mimics that take on the form of a building. Or even a mimic that inadvertently becomes the subject of Kua'Toa worship.
Archie I love your videos! It's just a DM geeking out about monsters. Like me! This has been a niece missing from dnd tube tbh
Glad you enjoy them!