The Night Hag has an action called Nightmare Haunting:
While on the Ethereal Plane, the hag magically touches a sleeping humanoid on the Material Plane. A protection from evil and good spell cast on the target prevents this contact, as does a magic circle. As long as the contact persists, the target has dreadful visions. If these visions last for at least 1 hour, the target gains no benefit from its rest, and its hit point maximum is reduced by 5 (1d10).
Seems straightforward enough...except that elves, technically, don't sleep:
Elves don’t need to sleep. Instead, they meditate deeply, remaining semiconscious, for 4 hours a day. (The Common word for such meditation is “trance.”) While meditating, you can dream after a fashion; such dreams are actually mental exercises that have become reflexive through years of practice. After resting in this way, you gain the same benefit that a human does from 8 hours of sleep.
So are elves immune to the Night Hag's Nightmare Haunting ability? The text for this "attack" uses the word sleeping, not resting. Should this be read as being deliberate/precise? Or does the elven trait of trance equal sleeping for this attack?
Nothing about elf rules says they can’t sleep, so if an elf player deliberately made a point of wanting to actually be asleep, I’d allow it. In such a case, they would be vulnerable to the hag’s ability.
But, in general, the answer to your question is yes. Barring the above exception, an elf is never “a sleeping humanoid,” and thus not a valid target for the ability.
The Dream specifically notes that it can't be used on creatures that don't sleep, such as elves, and is mechanically very similar to Night Hag haunting.
Nothing about elf rules says they can’t sleep, so if an elf player deliberately made a point of wanting to actually be asleep, I’d allow it. In such a case, they would be vulnerable to the hag’s ability.
But, in general, the answer to your question is yes. Barring the above exception, an elf is never “a sleeping humanoid,” and thus not a valid target for the ability.
Actually the rules in MoTF its explicitly stated that elves can sleep, but it essentially an activity they avoid. (Chapter 2, The Elven Outlook, sidebar "DREAMS FROM BEYOND MEMORY")
Assuming the DM takes that as written, I believe as Saga does. It could also occur if say an elf was poisoned, that caused them to sleep, based on the RAW that elves cannot be put to sleep magically but does not explicitly state it is impossible through other means based on the the strictest reading of the Fey Ancestry trait.
In these circumstances, the Hag ability or the even Dream could work on an elf.
The Night Hag has an action called Nightmare Haunting:
Seems straightforward enough...except that elves, technically, don't sleep:
So are elves immune to the Night Hag's Nightmare Haunting ability? The text for this "attack" uses the word sleeping, not resting. Should this be read as being deliberate/precise? Or does the elven trait of trance equal sleeping for this attack?
Nothing about elf rules says they can’t sleep, so if an elf player deliberately made a point of wanting to actually be asleep, I’d allow it. In such a case, they would be vulnerable to the hag’s ability.
But, in general, the answer to your question is yes. Barring the above exception, an elf is never “a sleeping humanoid,” and thus not a valid target for the ability.
The Dream specifically notes that it can't be used on creatures that don't sleep, such as elves, and is mechanically very similar to Night Hag haunting.
I agree. On one hand they don't sleep, but on the other they can dream (while not technically sleeping).
Based on the mechanics, they are immune because it says sleeping.
Actually the rules in MoTF its explicitly stated that elves can sleep, but it essentially an activity they avoid. (Chapter 2, The Elven Outlook, sidebar "DREAMS FROM BEYOND MEMORY")
Assuming the DM takes that as written, I believe as Saga does. It could also occur if say an elf was poisoned, that caused them to sleep, based on the RAW that elves cannot be put to sleep magically but does not explicitly state it is impossible through other means based on the the strictest reading of the Fey Ancestry trait.
In these circumstances, the Hag ability or the even Dream could work on an elf.