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Hexblood
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enter into bargains with hags gain their deepest wishes but eventually find themselves transformed. These changes evidence a hag’s influence: ears that split in forked points, skin in lurid
shades, long hair that regrows if cut, and an irremovable living crown. Along with these marks, hexbloods manifest hag-like traits, such as darkvision and a variety of magical methods to beguile the senses
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
banderhobbs—a hag who knows the ritual might be willing to teach it for the right price. Some other wicked Fey and powerful Fiends also know of the process, as do a few mortal mages.
During its
brief existence, a banderhobb attempts to carry out its creator’s bidding. It accomplishes its mission with no concern for the harm it suffers or causes. Its only desire is to serve and succeed. A
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
master is killed, the hounds seek out a new master, typically an evil vampire, necromancer wizard;necromancer, or hag.
A yeth hound stands about 5 feet tall at the shoulder and weighs around 400 pounds
. Its head has a human-like face and glowing red eyes. The creature gives off a smoky odor.
Yeth hounds make a ghastly baying sound that causes most creatures to flee in terror. They chase those who
Dhampir
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their lineage.
Dhampir Origins
d8
Origin
1
You are the reincarnation of an ancestor who was a vampiric tyrant.
2
Your pact with a predatory deity, fiend, fey, or spirit causes
lineage option, follow these additional rules during character creation.
Ability Score Increases
When determining your ability scores, you increase one of those scores by 2 and increase a different
Magic Items
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
shatters the cauldron into eight pieces of roughly equal size, whereupon all ongoing effects created by the cauldron end as it loses its magic.
The destruction of Iggwilv’s Cauldron causes all hags
in the multiverse to lose the Shared Spellcasting trait gained by being in a coven (see the “Hag Covens” sidebar in the Monster Manual).
Reconstructing the Cauldron. If all eight pieces
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
uses to power her infernal war machines. Years ago, a thirst to experience the ultimate misery brought the night hag to the first layer of the Nine Hells. Followed to Avernus by scores of bloodthirsty
combat, carving out vicious fiefdoms for themselves. Mad Maggie is one such warlord. Mad Maggie is a night hag with the demeanor of a kindly grandmother, but her warm smile masks a cruel cunning. In
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
object causes the whole thing to collapse. Object Hit Points Size Fragile Resilient Tiny (bottle, lock) 2 (1d4) 5 (2d4) Small (chest, lute) 3 (1d6) 10 (3d6) Medium (barrel, chandelier) 4 (1d8) 18
, such as castle walls, often have extra resilience represented by a damage threshold. See also “Damage Threshold.” No Ability Scores. An object lacks ability scores unless a rule assigns scores to the object. Without ability scores, an object can’t make ability checks, and it fails all saving throws.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
object causes the whole thing to collapse. Object Hit Points Size Fragile Resilient Tiny (bottle, lock) 2 (1d4) 5 (2d4) Small (chest, lute) 3 (1d6) 10 (3d6) Medium (barrel, chandelier) 4 (1d8) 18
, such as castle walls, often have extra resilience represented by a damage threshold. See also “Damage Threshold.” No Ability Scores. An object lacks ability scores unless a rule assigns scores to the object. Without ability scores, an object can’t make ability checks, and it fails all saving throws.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
themselves littering the hag’s realm. Any attempt to interact with a hallucinatory image causes it to disappear. A powerful sea hag creates one or more of the following additional regional effects within
, an auntie, or a coven has more effects than the lair of a single hag, including some that can directly harm intruders. Any regional effect that requires a creature to make a saving throw uses the save
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
to prevent these heirs from inheriting what is rightly theirs.
7 Society shunned the ghost unfairly in life.
8 Association with the ghost causes their living victim to be shunned by
society.
9 In life, the ghost’s efforts to do good led them to be cursed by a hag, fiend, or powerful spirit.
10 The ghost foils their victim’s efforts to do good.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
are eager to leave, but cannot do so yet; each either has an unfulfilled bargain with the hag or has displeased her somehow and is working to win back her favor. All five performers are unarmed
Westerly (a nonbinary human from the world of Tal’dorei) paces angrily while muttering their lines. All five actors urge the characters to leave Motherhorn before the hag, whom they refer to as Creeping
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
that reaches out with a dozen clawed human arms. The disk embedded in the altar can be removed by turning it 360 degrees counterclockwise. Removing the disk causes copper coins to spill out from a
. The statue is a Large object with AC 17, 50 hit points, a speed of 0 feet, and immunity to acid, poison, and psychic damage. It has the following ability scores: Strength 14, Dexterity 10
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Morte’s Planar Parade
thaumaturgy cantrip, choosing a magical effect at random. Charisma is the spellcasting ability for this spell.
Churning Chaos. When the creature scores a critical hit or takes a critical hit, chaotic
, a creature has the restrained condition.
Hidden Slaad. When the creature dies, a slaad tadpole bursts from the creature’s chest.
Katerina Ladon A night hag sells larvae
fresh from the Lower Planes
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
con unsuspecting individuals. Gem You carry a seemingly ordinary item stolen from a powerful archmage, and it causes inexplicable things to happen around you. Jester You come from a long tradition of
a hag, in disguise. Ruin A fortune teller warned that you’re destined to cause great destruction, which you’re trying to avoid. Sage You use a divinatory card spread to decide which spells to prepare
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
the door, read: The surface of the door assumes the likeness of a skull-faced hag. “The moon-twin is not welcome here,” it says in a raspy voice. “All others may step forward and pass through the black
until its outer surface is touched again. Creatures that want to leave Motherhorn by this route need only touch the inside of the double door, which causes it to swing open; it remains open until 10
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
horse as big as a full-grown horse. Riding the rocking horse triggers a Magic Mouth spell that causes the horse to whinny and loudly exclaim, “Hot dog!” several times. Treasure. Amid the toys is a Bag
(area C5) C10: Candy Kitchen A toothless hag resembling a ghastly, green-skinned old man in a stained baking apron dashes between pots of boiling sugar and cluttered countertops. Chocolate toads
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
is in league with Endelyn Moongrave, not realizing that the hag is a menace to both. The characters encounter the korreds at Lockbury Henge and the brigganocks at Brigganock Mine. For more
Argantle that they also consider the hag an enemy, she reveals the following: The korreds no longer hold large gatherings at Lockbury Henge. Argantle fears the consequences of Bitter End’s meddling and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
creatures and objects on the Ethereal Plane sees the hags as spectral figures huddled in the middle of the room. See “The Sewn Sisters” sidebar for more information. Hag Dolls Each hag has created a
. Destroying a doll causes the child’s soul within it to become trapped in the Soulmonger. The straw doll, Strawbundle, usually speaks for the group. Clay No-Face can speak only if it molds a mouth onto its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
inside it. Lifting the rusty visor on either suit’s helmet reveals its grinning skull, and removing the helmet entirely causes the goblin’s skull to tumble onto the floor. The suits topple over easily
, producing a loud clatter as the armor and skeletons break apart on the floor. Disturbing either suit of armor or touching the surface of the door causes a large, skeletal version of Endelyn’s gaunt
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
its ability scores. Each guide has 6 charges, and regains 1d6 expended charges daily at dawn. Teleporting itself and the party to either adventure locale or back to its home manor costs a guide 1
, it’s possible that they acquire both mechanical guides. You can decide whether the programming of the two constructs causes them to bicker and one-up each other—or whether each guide attempts to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
evening sky during a royal wedding. The light grows bigger and causes lively discussion between the revelers. It turns out to be a comet that crashes into the wedding, killing everyone. 2 Lament of a
. Goblins dressed as bullywugs cavort around a wicker effigy of Bavlorna Blightstraw. Adventurers stumble upon the scene and trick the “bullywugs” into betraying and killing the toadish hag. 8 An
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
expended charges after 8 hours. Pulling the lever expends 1 charge and causes a line of golden lightning, 10 feet long and 5 feet wide, to flash between the two copper spheres. Any creature in this line
. Endelyn’s poor treatment of her notwithstanding, Vig wants to please the hag. The goblin enjoys working at Motherhorn, though she dislikes Stagefright, the goblin master of ceremonies. Vig knows her way
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
. The Soul Trade No one in Excelsior is sure of it yet, but Sincerity is behind the disappearances in town. She uses empty iron flasks provided by the night hag Uncle Longteeth to capture victims, then
uses her trained sunflies to deliver the flasks to him. The night hag plans to take the souls to Hades, where he’ll transform them into larvae (see the Dungeon Master’s Guide) and sell them as
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
movement to move from a pool onto the floor. Unless otherwise noted, transmutation magic in each pool keeps the water clean. The pools also exude enchantment magic. Living in the water causes hypnotic
black gate. Any offer of freedom, including the use of a glyph key, causes a break in hostilities while the creature listens. If it is freed, unless the characters know of the circle in area 82, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
provide entry to the hag’s lair.
Skabatha Nightshade (see appendix B) uses the garden to cultivate ingredients for her potions and candies. The hag spends a few hours here each day tending to her
the creature must obey the hag until its stolen root is returned to it. If a character promises to return the root to it, the shambling mound stops attacking and waits here for the characters to come
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
shelves contain books of Feywild lore, all written in Elvish, each of which has a withered frog’s body stitched into its spine. Kissing the frog or stroking it with a moistened finger causes the frog to
Hourglass Coven’s hag eye (described in the “Hag Covens” sidebar in the Monster Manual). A black-feathered quill with a bone tip that magically produces its own ink (150 gp). The ink is the crimson
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
communicate with their yeth hounds to give the pack commands from afar. If a pack’s master is killed, the hounds seek out a new master, typically an evil vampire, necromancer, or hag. A yeth hound stands
causes most creatures to flee in terror. They chase those who run and torment them before closing in for the kill. Those that fight back discover that mundane weapons partially pass through yeth
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
temporarily serves its creator as a thug, a thief, and a kidnapper that swallows the unwary. Hags have devised a ritual for creating banderhobbs—a hag who knows the ritual might be willing to teach it for
accomplishes its mission with no concern for the harm it suffers or causes. Its only desire is to serve and succeed. A banderhobb that is assigned to track down a target is particularly dangerous
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
the trigger and the activity that causes the trap to activate. Effect. A trap’s effect occurs after it activates. The trap might fire a dart, unleash a cloud of poison gas, cause a hidden enclosure to
for using a simple trap in play, start by making note of the characters’ passive Wisdom (Perception) scores. Most traps allow Wisdom (Perception) checks to detect their triggers or other elements
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
Lynx Creatlach Presenting herself as a tiefling rogue, Lynx Creatlach talks of how she retired as an adventurer to use her assembled fortune and collected antiquities in the service of nobler causes
. Chief among those causes is the defeat of the servants of the archdevil Bel. An eccentric dilettante, Lynx has had her thick horns intricately carved and inlaid with sigils and figures in silver
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
Dark Bargains and Cursed Paintings The process of creating the cursed paintings that are the hallmark of the Fetid Gaze was first attributed to a night hag grandmother whose name other hags fear to
speak. The method remains shrouded in secrecy, and each member of the Fetid Gaze knows only one part of the procedure. Each hag guards her knowledge zealously, fearing that giving up her secret would
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
text aloud, modifying it accordingly if Endelyn is present: Scores of wooden marionettes hang from the ceiling of this oddly shaped room, the floor of which is strewn with old play scripts. Near the
entrance are two alcoves, one containing a bare table, the other holding a wooden chest with tiny, clawed feet. Deeper in the room, you see a wicker basket surrounded by miniature toy birds.
Scores of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
cauldron into eight pieces of roughly equal size, whereupon all ongoing effects created by the cauldron end as it loses its magic. The destruction of Iggwilv’s Cauldron causes all hags in the multiverse to
lose the Shared Spellcasting trait gained by being in a coven (see the “Hag Covens” sidebar in the Monster Manual). Reconstructing the Cauldron. If all eight pieces of the shattered cauldron are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
the hag and her lair: Next to Loomlurch is a goblin market that sells all sorts of candy treats. The scarecrows planted in Granny Nightshade’s garden scream loudly if they spot intruders. Granny
. Granny Nightshade puts children to work in her toy shop. The hag has a large key protruding from her back, almost like she’s a big wind-up toy herself. Centaur An aged centaur named Winterbow
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Nightshade, and they move away from one another, breaking the ring, whenever someone other than the hag tries to use it as a fey crossing, rendering it unusable. Each awakened toadstool has AC 7, 1 hit
point, no effective attacks, an Intelligence score of 10, and other ability scores of 1. Killing more than half of a ring’s toadstools renders the ring unusable.