Cronesight: Baba Yaga has advantage on wisdom checks that rely on sight. As an action, she can observe a target and magically know its current emotional state. If the target fails a DC 19 charisma saving throw, she also knows the creature’s alignment and discovers a hidden secret about the target.
Cronespeech. Creatures with intelligence 3 or lower obey Baba Yaga unquestioningly. Her utterances are often captured as engravings on nearby stone and wood surfaces. These magical reproductions of her words are made in the Common tongue and fade after several days.
Mimicry. The hag can mimic animal sounds and humanoid voices. A creature that hears the sounds can tell they are imitations with a successful DC 20 Wisdom (Insight) check.
Legendary Resistance (3/day). If Baba Yaga fails a saving throw, she can choose to succeed instead.
Grandmother’s Teeth. The iron teeth of Baba Yaga are sentient, magical, and airborne dentures that sometimes work at cross-purposes to the Old Witch. If the teeth and Baba Yaga are getting along, the teeth reside inside her mouth, providing her with a bite attack and access to its spell list. Baba Yaga can cast a spell from the teeth’s innate spell list as a bonus action, using her spellcasting ability. Spells cast in this way are removed from the teeth’s spells per day total. If the witch and her teeth are not getting along, the teeth will fly around casting its spells as it wishes (often to the benefit of Baba Yaga’s enemies).
Innate Spellcasting. Baba Yaga’s innate spellcasting ability is wisdom (spell save DC 20, +12 to hit with spell attacks). She can cast the following spells innately, requiring only verbal components:
- At will: eldritch blast (2d10), message, spare the dying
- 5/day each: command, disguise self, hideous laughter, web
- 4/day each: blindness/deafness, darkness, enthrall, confusion
- 3/day each: clairvoyance, counterspell, feeblemind, eyebite
- 2/day each: banishment, blight, Insect plague, dominate person
- 1/day each: weird
Multiattack. Baba Yaga makes two pestle slap attacks and one bite attack, or three pestle slap attacks.
Pestle Slap. Melee Weapon Attack: +10 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 31 (6d8 + 4) bludgeoning damage.
Bite (if iron teeth are equipped). Melee Weapon Attack: +10 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 37 (6d10 + 4) piercing damage and the target must succeed on a DC 20 Wisdom saving throw or be frightened of Baba Yaga until the end of its next turn.
Weird Insight. The Baba Yaga targets one creature it can see within 30 feet of it. The target must contest its Charisma (Deception) check against the nothic’s Wisdom (Insight) check. If Baba Yaga wins, it magically learns one fact or secret about the target. The target automatically wins if it is immune to being charmed.
Breath of the Bone Mother (Recharge 5–6). Calling on her elemental powers and her mastery of crone-magic, Baba Yaga exhales a great wind in a 40-foot cone that smells of fetid mires and sausages. Creatures caught in that area must make a DC 18 Constitution saving throw. On a failure, a target takes 45 (10d8) necrotic damage and is affected by the Bestow Curse spell for 1 minute. On a success, a target takes half the necrotic damage but is not cursed. In addition, a creature damaged by the wind releases a Stinking Cloud (DC 18 Constitution saving throw against the cloud’s poison) centered on it at the beginning of its next turn. The cloud dissipates after 1d4 rounds.
Baba Yaga can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options listed. Only one legendary action can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature’s turn. She regains spent legendary action at the start of her turn.
- At Will Spell. Baba Yaga casts one at will spell from her list or from her iron teeth’s list if it is equipped.
- Pestle Slap. Baba Yaga makes one pestle slap attack.
- Breath of the Bone Mother (Costs 2 Actions). Baba Yaga uses Breath of the Bone Mother, if it is available.
- Dance of the Time Taunter (1/day). When Baba Yaga’s turn ends, she can take an additional turn. A creature able to see Baba Yaga dance through time has its understanding of the universe challenged and must succeed on a DC 18 Intelligence saving throw or be stunned until the end of its next turn. A set of iron dentures flap through the air, screeching in a voice like metal scraping on metal.
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