Alley Hag

Innate Spellcasting. The hag's innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 12, +4 to hit with spell attacks). She can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:

At will: detect magic, magic missile

1/day each: plane shift (self only), ray of enfeeblement, sleep

Magic Resistance. The hag has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.

Hag Coven. Alley Hags always form covens. Unlike other hags, these covens are made up exclusively of Alley Hags. Also unlike their hag sistren, Alley Hags work together to support the interests of their coven above and beyond their individual desires. This collegiality is more to do with the intense self-pity that the hags share, than any sense of communal responsibility.

A coven consists of three hags so that any arguments between two hags can be settled by the third. If more than three hags ever come together, as might happen if two covens come into Conflict, the result is usually chaos.

Shared Spellcasting (Coven Only): While all three members of a hag coven are within 30 feet of one another, they can each cast the following Spells from the wizard's spell list but must share the Spell Slots among themselves:

• 1st level (4 slots): Identify, Ray of Sickness
• 2nd level (3 slots): Hold Person, Locate Object

Claws.(Hag Form Only). Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 13 (2d8 + 2) slashing damage.

Change Shape. The hag magically polymorphs into a Small or Medium female humanoid, or back into her true form. Her statistics are the same in each form. Any equipment she is wearing or carrying isn't transformed. She reverts to her true form if she dies.

Etherealness. The hag magically enters the Ethereal Plane from the Material Plane, or vice versa. To do so, the hag must have a heartstone in her possession.

Tug at Heartstrings (1/Day). While within 1 mile of their coven's lair, an Alley Hag can suggest a course of activity (limited to a sentence or two) and magically influence up to twelve creatures of their choice that they can see within 60 ft and that can hear and understand the hag. Creatures that can't be charmed are immune to this effect. The suggestion must be worded in such a manner as to make the course of action sound reasonable. Asking the creature to stab itself, throw itself onto a spear, immolate itself, or do some other obviously harmful act automatically negates the effect of the spell.

Each target must make a Wisdom saving throw (DC 12). On a successful saving throw the target will simply feel no compulsion to follow the suggestion; indeed, they might choose to follow it anyway, for their own reasons. On a failed save, the target pursues the course of action the hag described to the best of its ability. The suggested course of action can continue for the entire duration. If the suggested activity can be completed in a shorter time, the spell ends when the subject finishes what it was asked to do.

A hag can also specify conditions that will trigger a special activity during the duration. For example, they might suggest that a group PCs confront a street gang which has been harassing the coven when the PCs next come across members of that gang. Alternatively, the hag might suggest that the PCs enter the first red and gold door they see and trash any rooms they find behind that door. If the condition isn't met before the spell ends, the activity isn't performed.

If any coven members damage a creature affected by this spell, the spell ends for that creature.