I’m creating a desert adventure about a corrupted dryad who’s become a hag and now trades water for blood to keep her tree alive. I need to know a good hag to use. Here are my options:
Night hags are good generic hags found everywhere, but are fiends instead of fey and don’t fit the corrupted dryad story.
Green Hags fit with the tree theme but not the desert environment.
Dusk hags fit the environment but are not knowledge-based than night hags.
Annis hags are too much of maternal brutes for my liking but somewhat fit the environment.
Homebrewing a Dust Hag might step on the toes of other hag types (namely the dusk hag)
This is on the wrong forum please repost to dugeon masters only.That said a blood or dust hag (both of which can be found in kobold presses tome of beasts) would work best here Lastly dusk hags have little to do with deserts (they are more area neatrul) and are from ebberon.
Is there a particular reason it needs to be a published hag type? I would just create a custom monster. Presumably similar to other hags, but with its own tricks.
How does a tree fit the desert environment, but a hag that works with a tree theme doesn't fit? If the tree is there, and you think a kind of hag work with the tree, then it would seem the hag could be there, too.
Otherwise, the homebrew ideas above can work. Or just re-skin an existing one to better suit your environment. Maybe the green hag has dusty colored skin instead of green, for example.
How does a tree fit the desert environment, but a hag that works with a tree theme doesn't fit? If the tree is there, and you think a kind of hag work with the tree, then it would seem the hag could be there, too.
Otherwise, the homebrew ideas above can work. Or just re-skin an existing one to better suit your environment. Maybe the green hag has dusty colored skin instead of green, for example.
The story is that the hag lives in a dried-up oasis and used dark magic to save her tree when the water ran out.
How does a tree fit the desert environment, but a hag that works with a tree theme doesn't fit? If the tree is there, and you think a kind of hag work with the tree, then it would seem the hag could be there, too.
Otherwise, the homebrew ideas above can work. Or just re-skin an existing one to better suit your environment. Maybe the green hag has dusty colored skin instead of green, for example.
The story is that the hag lives in a dried-up oasis and used dark magic to save her tree when the water ran out.
Wouldn’t the hag be able to sustain herself along with the tree?
How does a tree fit the desert environment, but a hag that works with a tree theme doesn't fit? If the tree is there, and you think a kind of hag work with the tree, then it would seem the hag could be there, too.
Otherwise, the homebrew ideas above can work. Or just re-skin an existing one to better suit your environment. Maybe the green hag has dusty colored skin instead of green, for example.
The story is that the hag lives in a dried-up oasis and used dark magic to save her tree when the water ran out.
Wouldn’t the hag be able to sustain herself along with the tree?
Yes and no. The hag’s deal altered the tree: she had all the water she could want from a magical well, but her tree is no longer nourished by water, but by blood; a cruel twist of fate.
I wouldn’t have the Dryad corrupted. Just the tree. The dryad still wants to keep the tree alive despite the cost. How much is she willing to turn a blind eye to where the blood comes from?
I wouldn’t have the Dryad corrupted. Just the tree. The dryad still wants to keep the tree alive despite the cost. How much is she willing to turn a blind eye to where the blood comes from?
It’s the dedication to the blood of the tree and preying on desperate travelers that turned the dryad into a hag. And she’s willing to accept blood regardless of where it comes from, leading to a bit of slasher horror when it comes to the people who stalk the landscape for victims and body horror from those who bleed themselves for water.
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I’m creating a desert adventure about a corrupted dryad who’s become a hag and now trades water for blood to keep her tree alive. I need to know a good hag to use. Here are my options:
Night hags are good generic hags found everywhere, but are fiends instead of fey and don’t fit the corrupted dryad story.
Green Hags fit with the tree theme but not the desert environment.
Dusk hags fit the environment but are not knowledge-based than night hags.
Annis hags are too much of maternal brutes for my liking but somewhat fit the environment.
Homebrewing a Dust Hag might step on the toes of other hag types (namely the dusk hag)
This is on the wrong forum please repost to dugeon masters only.That said a blood or dust hag (both of which can be found in kobold presses tome of beasts) would work best here Lastly dusk hags have little to do with deserts (they are more area neatrul) and are from ebberon.
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Is there a particular reason it needs to be a published hag type? I would just create a custom monster. Presumably similar to other hags, but with its own tricks.
How does a tree fit the desert environment, but a hag that works with a tree theme doesn't fit? If the tree is there, and you think a kind of hag work with the tree, then it would seem the hag could be there, too.
Otherwise, the homebrew ideas above can work. Or just re-skin an existing one to better suit your environment. Maybe the green hag has dusty colored skin instead of green, for example.
The story is that the hag lives in a dried-up oasis and used dark magic to save her tree when the water ran out.
Wouldn’t the hag be able to sustain herself along with the tree?
Yes and no. The hag’s deal altered the tree: she had all the water she could want from a magical well, but her tree is no longer nourished by water, but by blood; a cruel twist of fate.
I wouldn’t have the Dryad corrupted. Just the tree. The dryad still wants to keep the tree alive despite the cost. How much is she willing to turn a blind eye to where the blood comes from?
It’s the dedication to the blood of the tree and preying on desperate travelers that turned the dryad into a hag. And she’s willing to accept blood regardless of where it comes from, leading to a bit of slasher horror when it comes to the people who stalk the landscape for victims and body horror from those who bleed themselves for water.