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I’m just enjoying some let’s plays of Poppy Playtime Chapter 4.

Sahuagin were reclassified from humanoid to fiends. And lizardfolk can now be elementals.

Those feel weird.

I hadn’t heard about lizardfolk being elementals, what’s that about?

Sahuagin being fiends does make sense though. I think Merrow are as well? (Merrow worship Demogorgon, if I remember correctly)

Little lore snippet about some lizardfolk becoming attuned to the elemental plane of earth.

Merrow are still monstrosities, not fiends.

I know sahuagin worship and evil god, but I saw them kinda like orcs and goblinoids where they're still humanoid.

Speaking of orcs, orc is now the tough. Which kinda works. But drow now being priest acolyte just feels really weird to me. There's also Svinerfelbin Gnomes (I'm not gonna try spelling that for a tool tip) now being scout.

Specifically Lizardfolk Geomancers and Lizardfolk Sovereigns are Elementals with connection to the elemental plane of earth and primal magic.

Normal Lizardfolk as still humanoids.

Oh and since you like hags a lot, Arch, I will say I feel like coven spellcasting got a bit of a nerf to it. Now instead of hag-casting something like eyebite it's more just utility stuff. Augury, Find Familiar, Identify, Locate Object, Scrying, or Unseen Servant.

That said, there are little tables to help build a hag's personality. And I do love that an arch-hag's weakness can be "the multiverse's worst pun." Just imagine an epic fight when the bard is like, "Camping is very in-tents." and the Arch-Hag is like, "NOOOOOO!!!! I'm melting! MAKE IT STOP!"

Hmm, strange. (I think it’s spelt Svirfneblin?)

and I see for the lizardfolk. Personally, I would do a similar thing with Kuo-Toa and Gnolls, only the higher CR ones are aberrations or fiends, respectively.

I already do a lot of modifications to creature type in my games. For example, my goblins have always been fey, so have unicorns and trolls.

Unicorns being celestials is weird to me.

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Oh and since you like hags a lot, Arch, I will say I feel like coven spellcasting got a bit of a nerf to it. Now instead of hag-casting something like eyebite it's more just utility stuff. Augury, Find Familiar, Identify, Locate Object, Scrying, or Unseen Servant.

That said, there are little tables to help build a hag's personality. And I do love that an arch-hag's weakness can be "the multiverse's worst pun." Just imagine an epic fight when the bard is like, "Camping is very in-tents." and the Arch-Hag is like, "NOOOOOO!!!! I'm melting! MAKE IT STOP!"

 I see, that is quite the nerf. Oh well, either way, I’ll probably be modifying them.

I DIDN’T KNOW THE ARCH-HAG’S STATBLOCK WAS AVAILABLE ALREADY

ITS AWESOME

THE CRACKLING WAVE IS A CONE? THAT MAKES IT SO MUCH MORE TERRIFYING

oh, and remember, you’re supposed to fight those things in covens. Three arch-hags, each having a different anathema.

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Oh and since you like hags a lot, Arch, I will say I feel like coven spellcasting got a bit of a nerf to it. Now instead of hag-casting something like eyebite it's more just utility stuff. Augury, Find Familiar, Identify, Locate Object, Scrying, or Unseen Servant.

That said, there are little tables to help build a hag's personality. And I do love that an arch-hag's weakness can be "the multiverse's worst pun." Just imagine an epic fight when the bard is like, "Camping is very in-tents." and the Arch-Hag is like, "NOOOOOO!!!! I'm melting! MAKE IT STOP!"

 I see, that is quite the nerf. Oh well, either way, I’ll probably be modifying them.

I DIDN’T KNOW THE ARCH-HAG’S STATBLOCK WAS AVAILABLE ALREADY

ITS AWESOME

THE CRACKLING WAVE IS A CONE? THAT MAKES IT SO MUCH MORE TERRIFYING

oh, and remember, you’re supposed to fight those things in covens. Three arch-hags, each having a different anathema.

Different anathema?

One word.

GYATT!

Vitus I swear to god-

did they just release the arch-hag early, or do those who preordered already have all the monsters? Because the Arch-Hag didn’t show up when I searched for it, and neither did any other hags. But the link thingy worked.

Master Tier get early access and I'm in a couple campaigns with Master Tier sharing so I can access it via that.

Ah, I see.

how are the other hag statblocks?

Doing a quick compare contrast.

green hag vs green hag.

AC and HP unchanged.

Invisible Passage and Illusory Appearance changed into invisibility and disguise self.

Claw attack slightly nerfed. Spellcasting buffed via the addition of at-will 3rd level ray of sickness.

night hag vs night hag

AC and HP unchanged.

Bonus to intiative.

dream merged into Nightmare Haunting.

stats given to soul bag; can now steal non-evil souls

at-will magic missile upped to 4th level.

some other changes to the spell list too

sea hag vs sea hag

AC and HP unchanged

Death glare is now on a recharge but no longer requires the target to see the hag, though it must be frightened. It also requires the target to be at 20hp or less to drop to 0. Otherwise takes 3d8 psychic.

Horrific Appearance (now Vile Appearance) has no caveat of averting one's eyes.

Illusory Appearance changed into disguise self.

Ooh, interesting.

were there any other hags included or added, or just the arch-hags?

None besides the friendly Arch-hag.

I see. Well, I love all of them, and look forward to using a coven of arch-hags.

thinking of arch-hags and their anathemas, do you think the wicked witch of the west’s anathema would be like, water?

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I see. Well, I love all of them, and look forward to using a coven of arch-hags.

thinking of arch-hags and their anathemas, do you think the wicked witch of the west’s anathema would be like, water?

 Probably, and the Wicked Witch of the East's anathema is "house".

Water seems like a good anathema for her. They list the anathemas as things the arch-hag can only be destroyed in the presence of, even if it causes no damage in and of itself.

The East's would houses of course.