hey, just a heads up ... your video "The Feywild" that I got alerted to because of my notification is marked as private ... just letting you know in case it should have been public.
"How _do_ you deal with a bunch of murderous children?" at which point I, the DM, follow up with "'Cause that's essentially my preparation for every game I run for you guys"
time to start up the chaotic evil party. chaotic evil duegar fighter with a warhammer walks into the town tavern, "alright, first things first, where do ye sign up fer the wack-a-brat competition."
A new mother looks like she hasn't slept in days. She says her baby sleeps through the night, and that it's simply the stress dreams of a first-time mother that are keeping her up at night. She insists she's ok, since she has a nanny that comes to the house every morning to help. The nightmares continue, however, until one night, the baby wakes up crying. The mother rushes to tend to him, but after days without sleep, she's too distraught to notice the pinch mark on the baby's leg that caused him to wake in the first place, and too groggy to wonder why the nanny is in her home at this strange hour. She's just relieved to have someone trustworthy to watch the child while she rests her eyes for a few minutes. The next morning, she wakes up in a chair in the baby's room to the sound of the nanny, knocking on the door, ready to watch her baby for the day... With deduction and dice rolls, the players realize only a hag would be so malicious that simply taking a baby wouldn't be enough. Instead, they needed to torture the mother by having her hand the child over willingly. Now, they race to a nearby swamp that is devoid of all sounds except that of a child crying in the distance. They follow it, only to discover more green hags using mimicry to fool them, leading them towards sea hags that try to pull them into the murky water and catoblepas and trolls that serve them. Eventually, they are able to find the Night Hag that haunted the poor mother's dreams, and the Green Hag that impersonated her nanny. And if they hurry, they can reach the child before the two witches finish arguing over which of them gets to consume him... Hags can be a great top-end monster for a low-level party and even stir up a great side-quest for a higher-level one.
I have a Sea Hag in my game, she pretended to be an apothecary and started healing this Village but the potions that she gave if somebody stop taking them they would die. So essentially this entire Village is enslaved to her because she's the only one who continues to make the potions that is both what is killing them and keeping them alive
In my Fairy Tale setting, Hags are morally neutral, they don't care for good or evil, and they are more like the "Deal with the Devil" creature, it is common knowledge that you can buy favors and wishes from hags, but most people ask for evil things, and that almost always comes back to bite them in the ass and not the Hag, but they also have a fiendish delight in watching people take displeasures in their wishes. My rules of RPing the Hag come from Sonheim's into the woods, "Careful the wish you make, wishes come true not free" Hags are a wind driving forward unfortunate sails, but they are not evil, the mortals are
In Irish, Bhuer is pronounced "V-AIR". In old Irish, (as Gaeilge) it means Hag, Old Women, Wearer of a veil, etc. There is lots of folk lore for you to look up like "cailleach bheur". Lots of flavour for encounters.
Here's my addition to hag lore: when you kill a hag, the other hags in their coven know it and can sense you. And they come for revenge. it's been a huge part of my current campaign.
KingCole I highly recommend Pathfinder's Adventure Path ,,Curse of the Crimson Throne". Almost the entire game takes place in one city and does a great job of setting up all the different factions and the city as an environment.
Update: They stopped the hags from summoning a hydra but someone succumbed to the death glare. Also the children the hags kidnapped had a version of warding bond on them and the players killed the children by killing the hags(they had detect and dispel magic RIP).
Hags in a nutshell: -Annis Hag: melee brute that usually has a few dumb minions and lives in the mountains and hills, likes to get PC's lost. -Borr Hag: strike at innocent villages during winter, try to keep village isolated. Mildly spellcasting. -Green Hag: semi-isolated schemers who do voice mimickry and kidnap children+villagers. Mildly spellcasting, espect a long narrative of plots and backstabs. -Sea Hag: coastal port harrasser, not really powerfull. Their strenght lies in their lairs. -Night Hag: hag-fiend hybrid from Hades. Corrupt people in their sleep to get larvae (AKA soul-worms) and sell them to devils and demons as blood war weapons. Strong spellcasting. -Covens: Hag×3=powerfull clusterf*ck of magic and minions.
Currently running an adventure using hags as the main villains....this video has helped me so much. To be honest, you guys pretty much taught me how to DM. I've met a load of new friends through D&D and I definitely owe some of the fun to you guys. Keep up the great channel!
Jim Davis Seriously?! I have not seen them yet, that's amazing! XD Well, my evening is planned, keep up the great work Jim. By the way, Pathfinder recently published a book about the realm of the Fey. It has great lore about all kind of Fey creatures, from Hags to the Jabberwocky.
Hmm, your discussion on Sea Hags has given me some inspiration to use them as the Seiðkona that join on viking raids against my PC's village. Give them the ability to create fog, so their ships can approach unseen within.
I actually just ran my bunch of 5 4th level players through a night hag coven encounter recently. I expected a really tough fight, but, although they took some knocks, they came out of it without anyone dropping to 0. Little do they know that the coven matriarch's coming back soon, with some banderhobbs, legendary actions, and magic items to *really* even things out. On that related note, though, the whole hag dynamic has actually been one of the most fun things to research and roll up items for. I really commend the Volo's Guide section on them for being an amazing compilation of lore and item tables. And hags are just such great fun to roleplay, too, even though their personalised nightmares made the cleric hate them so much he just charged straight into battle and interrupted their monologue. On a shorter note, love the show, guys!
I've been writing up a powerful Night Hag for an adventure through the first 5 layers of Hell and for weeks I've been hoping for you guys to cover hags. Keep up the excellent content!
This video/ reading the volos chapter on hags has given me a way new way to take my current game, the players were dealing with problems in a small city/large town, crops were dying, dead were rising and the water had been polluted, they players hadn't done much investigating they're just dealing with the issues, and I was thinking what the root of the problem could be, toying with multiple ideas but a hag coven seems like the best way and I am so excited to drop it on these guys!
Hags are my Favorite villains. They are Inherently useful and dynamic villains as a template. As a Template! You can go ahead and buff them with a magic initiate feat, or a simple scrying tool or other uncommon magic item. I feel like a long term campaign where the Lady of a city is a relativley young looking Vampire who's lady in waiting is a Nighthag and her master of spies is an Incubus would be a triad of frustrating and powerful entities that can challenge a third tier party. Their rival faction? A wizard school led by a powerful wizard who uses divination but specializes in Necro divining and eventually becomes a lich using the help of the party.
Haven't played dnd in a long time just started watching your channel and it's really entertaining just listening to these guys nerd out about monsters and dnd in general.
It's mentioned multiple times in this video that the hags must be within 30 feet of their Cauldron, but i'm pretty sure current rules have it as they only need to be within 30 feet of Each Other to utilize coven spells.
You guys are life savers. I'm currently running an extended mission that ends with my party fighting a hag coven. Great to get a video on hags for some advice/perspective.
I think this episode got me past some significant DM writer's block I had about a (probable) upcoming leg of my group's journey. I need a mini-arc in a city (Baldur's Gate) the party is visiting to try to solicit aid. A pair of Night Hag sisters messing with the minds of the city leadership to sow chaos and dissent, and having to dispatch them before the council/leaders/etc. will grant aid, sounds like a great hook. I'll have to watch the Razel-Sinn [sic?] stuff too. Thanks!
Compliment time! Love the pre and post segments on many of your videos. I currently follow about six 'D&D' related UA-cam sites and yours is by far my favorite. (Drunkens and Dragons is a close second).
I kinda treat hags as evil sorceresses who are more powerful together but hate each other almost as much as they hate non-hags. There's also a bit of Discworld witch influence. They focus on divination, enchantment, and illusion but sometimes dabble in conjuration, necromancy, or transmutation ; in fact, I usually have it that one of a trio will focus on conjuration, one on necromancy, and one of transmutation. The Fates from The Sandman are very much an inspiration. So is Frau Totenkinder from Fables. I also like my hags more powerful than they are presented in the Monster Manuals.
A couple of vids talking about your experiences with each WOTC D&D settings and your opinions on them and how they might appeal to DM's out there. Forgotten Realms, Greyhawk, Eberron, Darksun, Dragonlance ext.
I used a coven of Sea Hags (uplevelled with basic lair actions) and whole bunch of respawning minions to challenge a party of nine 8th level characters. It was fun fight underwater in and around an old wrecked ship on the sea floor. One of my bards polymorphed into a tiger shark and got wrecked by the chuul they'd enslaved.
I grew up watching these videos, and as I rewatch all the videos, in which I already watched in high school, I'm going to post this comment. I love you guys, and y'all have gotten me through some tough times. The second I get out of college and get a stable job, I will definitely become a web demon.
Jim, the show you were thinking of was called originally "4 Country Reporter" (because it originated on channel 4 in the DFW market) and later syndicated as "Texas Country Reporter."
I'm working on a holiday mini-campaign with the following villains, a red dragon boss, named Kristkringle, and his minions, being a hag (annis or bheur) named Gryla, and her 13 troll sons (probably mix of trolls, ogres, and bugbears for stats) called the Yule Lads. It's borrowed from Icelandic lore. The pcs will be from separate villages that have been forced to give yearly tribute to the dragon which is collected by the hag and trolls, and the villages have had enough. This video has helped me work out a lot of ideas! Thank you!
Thanks for the video. I decided to start my first campaign with the big bad being a green hag (coven). The players are still working up to fight the coven, but knowing the hags use a lot of mimicry and trickery, I have made an effort to include a lot of detail even when it isn't necessary. It not only makes the players not know if it is the hag, or just a bird. Also, a higher level of detail just makes the world more alive.
I've said Pruitt's beard is growing more and more overtly evil every episode. I take that back, it's the opening puns that's getting more evil. Seriously. Hag-tion? One of these days, these puns are gonna kill someone.
I did an encounter where a modified green hag lived as the baker of a frontier forest village and she would steal children from the village and eat them then grind their bones and mix it with the flour to make bread to give back to the villagers. The party was pretty split on whether or not to tell the villagers after she ran off
My group once dropped the barbarian off of a magic carpet through the roof of an annis hag’s hut. He yelled “OH YEAH” on the way down. He did a Cool-aid-Man through the ceiling of this hag’s house. Then the paladin kicked down the door so hard that it hit the hag and did damage.
Great episode! Van Richten's Monster Hunter's Compendium, Volume 3 has some FANTASTIC Hag lore! I highly recommend it to anyone wishing to delve deeper into hag goodness (or evilness lol)
A most excellent presentation of the HAG(s). I'm adding this for sure. Have you covered the WITCH class ? I'm looking for some 5E guidance on this NPC other than pubs on DMs Guild site. Thanks for the hard work, attention to details (including references provided) and the entertainment you provide in your videos. Enjoying and soaking it all in.
In a campaign I ran, the PCs came up against a coven, led by a Night Hag. Her companions were an Arcane Trickster Rogue and a shapeshifted Aranea. As part of a multi-part quest, they had to steal the coven's Eye.
Oh my god! There was a Whataburger next to my local Game Shop where my friends and I would play D&D. We'd almost always grab some food for the night and Inspiration for the night came in the form of a HBCB!! I'm so happy Jim Davis is from TX and he can relate! :D
Hags are awesome monsters to mess your player character's moral compass with. Their casual cruelty and natural evil tendencies can even be infectious to the PCs and it can even sanitize them from their own acts of evil. It is a lot of fun seeing how my different players react to them.
I've had this idea for low level party like 1-2 of a party roaming a small island villlage terrorized by a green hag coven that primarily focusses on investigating as people go more and more insane. It would be them raising undead nearby, causing villagers to turn on you, etc
I had a game that started off with a green hag that had taken the form of our elf party member and had gone into the city before hand, claiming to be the scout for the party, and then proceeded to steal several horses as she left town, a day before we arrived in with similar horses.
I'm working on both a small OSR hexcrawl adventure and bigger adventure for a swedish role-playing game, both with a Hag/Witch theme. Listening to a lot of Stoner Metal for inspiration.
Your polymorph idea I think is great for many different encounters. Maybe the characters are just traveling through a hallway and a squirrel starts gnawing on a character. They kill the squirrel and it goes poof into an ogre! And the dm could have a random table the squirrels could turn into.
I never had the opportunity to use hags before. I had sand brides in dark sun, but nothing traditional. Eberron definitely makes me want to use them. I dig their lore in that setting.
If y'all are bringing up the Witcher 3, I think the more mainstream representation of Hags would be the Witches of Crookback Bog, who were essentially a Hag Coven. Either way thanks for this episode, been trying to think of a good enemy type to put my players up against and I think a Hag Coven is going to suit my needs juuuuuust fine.
I do monologues because I play on a website I found, but I do pauses halfway through for player input. Literally EVERYONE decides to interrupt them, but sometimes that fucks players over in my games because, like the night hag, they have some custome item that was meant to appear in some fashion in the next or after post.
I'm currently working on a game with a frost hag as the tier 1 villian. She's assembled a coven with a evil Druid and a Goblin Warlock and they've been doing their best to punish a town.
You guys have some of the best D&D content! Also I know this video is like 2 years old but upon rewatching this to help get more info for a game I'm planning, I noticed a little faded 'B' on Pruitt's hand. As a musician myself, I'm used to getting the sharpie 'B' on my hand when I play shows, so I gotta ask, is Pruitt in a band?
I noticed it says in your videos' descriptions that if you sign up for the mailing list you have a chance of winning a DMG or PHB. It doesn't say any of the details though so could you fill me in?
Sean Nolan if you go to webdmshow.com and sign up for the webdm mailing list, you'll automatically be entered in a drawing for signed books. There's more info on fb and Twitter
The original Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon has a great example of a hag/assassin villain. She inserts herself into a noble house and twists the mind of a young prodigy fighter/thief as part of her long game to get her revenge on the protagonists, a high level monk and a fighter.
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Pruitt gets disadvantage on life for that pun
I think its pronouced like Verr for the Bheur Hag
hey, just a heads up ... your video "The Feywild" that I got alerted to because of my notification is marked as private ... just letting you know in case it should have been public.
"How _do_ you deal with a bunch of murderous children?" at which point I, the DM, follow up with "'Cause that's essentially my preparation for every game I run for you guys"
Someone call the burn unit xD
Its my day on day duty (school teacher).
time to start up the chaotic evil party. chaotic evil duegar fighter with a warhammer walks into the town tavern, "alright, first things first, where do ye sign up fer the wack-a-brat competition."
A new mother looks like she hasn't slept in days. She says her baby sleeps through the night, and that it's simply the stress dreams of a first-time mother that are keeping her up at night. She insists she's ok, since she has a nanny that comes to the house every morning to help. The nightmares continue, however, until one night, the baby wakes up crying. The mother rushes to tend to him, but after days without sleep, she's too distraught to notice the pinch mark on the baby's leg that caused him to wake in the first place, and too groggy to wonder why the nanny is in her home at this strange hour. She's just relieved to have someone trustworthy to watch the child while she rests her eyes for a few minutes. The next morning, she wakes up in a chair in the baby's room to the sound of the nanny, knocking on the door, ready to watch her baby for the day...
With deduction and dice rolls, the players realize only a hag would be so malicious that simply taking a baby wouldn't be enough. Instead, they needed to torture the mother by having her hand the child over willingly. Now, they race to a nearby swamp that is devoid of all sounds except that of a child crying in the distance. They follow it, only to discover more green hags using mimicry to fool them, leading them towards sea hags that try to pull them into the murky water and catoblepas and trolls that serve them.
Eventually, they are able to find the Night Hag that haunted the poor mother's dreams, and the Green Hag that impersonated her nanny. And if they hurry, they can reach the child before the two witches finish arguing over which of them gets to consume him...
Hags can be a great top-end monster for a low-level party and even stir up a great side-quest for a higher-level one.
next level88 I love this idea
Thanks for writing this session for me ;)
Yes, this is exactly the way that they should be set up and used!
My goodness this is nightmare fuel...I love it.
I am stealing this.
I have a Sea Hag in my game, she pretended to be an apothecary and started healing this Village but the potions that she gave if somebody stop taking them they would die. So essentially this entire Village is enslaved to her because she's the only one who continues to make the potions that is both what is killing them and keeping them alive
Chemotherapy. She's selling them chemotherapy.
Reminds me of the TV Tropes entry "What do you mean, it's not political?"
So she's a drug dealer
In my Fairy Tale setting, Hags are morally neutral, they don't care for good or evil, and they are more like the "Deal with the Devil" creature, it is common knowledge that you can buy favors and wishes from hags, but most people ask for evil things, and that almost always comes back to bite them in the ass and not the Hag, but they also have a fiendish delight in watching people take displeasures in their wishes. My rules of RPing the Hag come from Sonheim's into the woods, "Careful the wish you make, wishes come true not free" Hags are a wind driving forward unfortunate sails, but they are not evil, the mortals are
KiqueDragoon Oh I like that, very cool
KiqueDragoon Awesome Idea i may have to steal this!
KiqueDragoon
The comments section is thief GM gold
I like the idea of a hag in the woods posing as a hag hunter and helping the party try to find her, but always misleading them
In Irish, Bhuer is pronounced "V-AIR". In old Irish, (as Gaeilge) it means Hag, Old Women, Wearer of a veil, etc. There is lots of folk lore for you to look up like "cailleach bheur". Lots of flavour for encounters.
Gotta love Gaelic's totally random approach to pronunciation :D
So it's basically called a hag hag?
@@RoboBoddicker it's at least consistent. 🙂
@@RoboBoddicker So "bh = v" is weird and random, but "ph = f" is not?
@@asgrahim9164 whoa...you're right 🤯🤯🤯
Here's my addition to hag lore: when you kill a hag, the other hags in their coven know it and can sense you. And they come for revenge. it's been a huge part of my current campaign.
Could you guys do an episode on designing cities? Would love to see how you work around creating a good city atmosphere
KingCole I highly recommend Pathfinder's Adventure Path ,,Curse of the Crimson Throne". Almost the entire game takes place in one city and does a great job of setting up all the different factions and the city as an environment.
3 sea hags summon a kraken because why the hell not
Or three sea hags serve a Kraken, and draw power from it, like a messy three-way warlock.
I have 3 Sea Hags summoning a hydra lol
Trentrex bob that is so evil
10 sea hags summon a leviathen
Update: They stopped the hags from summoning a hydra but someone succumbed to the death glare. Also the children the hags kidnapped had a version of warding bond on them and the players killed the children by killing the hags(they had detect and dispel magic RIP).
Hags in a nutshell:
-Annis Hag: melee brute that usually has a few dumb minions and lives in the mountains and hills, likes to get PC's lost.
-Borr Hag: strike at innocent villages during winter, try to keep village isolated. Mildly spellcasting.
-Green Hag: semi-isolated schemers who do voice mimickry and kidnap children+villagers. Mildly spellcasting, espect a long narrative of plots and backstabs.
-Sea Hag: coastal port harrasser, not really powerfull. Their strenght lies in their lairs.
-Night Hag: hag-fiend hybrid from Hades. Corrupt people in their sleep to get larvae (AKA soul-worms) and sell them to devils and demons as blood war weapons. Strong spellcasting.
-Covens: Hag×3=powerfull clusterf*ck of magic and minions.
You're from Texas, so any snow is crippling. In Minnesota, if a frost hag moved in, no one would notice. Lol
Lol same.
I, an Ohioan, embrace all of our Hag overlords.
I love the idea of a hag handling her horde of goblins, trolls and ogres like a bunch of misbehaving children
Been there , done that.
Hand out index cards with prewritten characters for game play.
Who is playing " Mama Hag" ?
Currently running an adventure using hags as the main villains....this video has helped me so much. To be honest, you guys pretty much taught me how to DM. I've met a load of new friends through D&D and I definitely owe some of the fun to you guys. Keep up the great channel!
I killed a defenseless woman because a hag made me, and all I got was this lousy t-shirt.
Made you?! I dunno man...
I'd love to see an episode explaining how you guys handle divination and/or an episode explaining Player Characters home bases
These intros are getting worse and worse, which is to say better and better.
Aren't you afraid that your game would turn into a Hag'n'slash? xD
MGCXIII boooooo
@@barrymcballs I bet you play a Necromancer!?
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**The party takes 20d12 psychic damage, and loses intelligence equal to 1d20**
Ah yes, the worst of brand of Haagen-Dazs out there
Idea for a Campaign long villain: The Coven of Supremacy, A Council of 13 Hags and they take on an entire nation instead of just one village.
Florian Narratio you just described the plot of our Razel Sinn series of live plays!
Jim Davis Seriously?! I have not seen them yet, that's amazing! XD Well, my evening is planned, keep up the great work Jim. By the way, Pathfinder recently published a book about the realm of the Fey. It has great lore about all kind of Fey creatures, from Hags to the Jabberwocky.
Hmm, your discussion on Sea Hags has given me some inspiration to use them as the Seiðkona that join on viking raids against my PC's village. Give them the ability to create fog, so their ships can approach unseen within.
I actually just ran my bunch of 5 4th level players through a night hag coven encounter recently. I expected a really tough fight, but, although they took some knocks, they came out of it without anyone dropping to 0. Little do they know that the coven matriarch's coming back soon, with some banderhobbs, legendary actions, and magic items to *really* even things out.
On that related note, though, the whole hag dynamic has actually been one of the most fun things to research and roll up items for. I really commend the Volo's Guide section on them for being an amazing compilation of lore and item tables. And hags are just such great fun to roleplay, too, even though their personalised nightmares made the cleric hate them so much he just charged straight into battle and interrupted their monologue.
On a shorter note, love the show, guys!
Love these videos taking a (class of) creature and examining how to build a campaign, or at least a tier, around them.
The hag, so you can make the Blair witch in d&d and have it actually be scary.
I've been writing up a powerful Night Hag for an adventure through the first 5 layers of Hell and for weeks I've been hoping for you guys to cover hags. Keep up the excellent content!
A dingo hag stole my baby?
Let me guess that their favourite stolen baby recipe is Haggis?
Andrew C baby back ribs
Definitely one of the best discussions on Hags out there! Thanks
I LOVE the little banters after the official show. They are really funny
25:46 I love the 5e to 2e Monsters HB comparison, Im running an OSR now and Im constantly going back to the 2e MM
The Green Hag: Good old Meg Knucklebones from "Legend"
The actor, Robert Piccardo, who did Meg's voice did such a good job that she was the scariest thing in the movie as a 10 year old in 86.
Those puns were hagnificent, Mr. Right Nerd. That was fey-rly amusing.
This video/ reading the volos chapter on hags has given me a way new way to take my current game, the players were dealing with problems in a small city/large town, crops were dying, dead were rising and the water had been polluted, they players hadn't done much investigating they're just dealing with the issues, and I was thinking what the root of the problem could be, toying with multiple ideas but a hag coven seems like the best way and I am so excited to drop it on these guys!
What I liked about this one so much is how you guys gave very specific encounter scenarios. Great stuff, y'all.
Hags are my Favorite villains. They are Inherently useful and dynamic villains as a template. As a Template! You can go ahead and buff them with a magic initiate feat, or a simple scrying tool or other uncommon magic item.
I feel like a long term campaign where the Lady of a city is a relativley young looking Vampire who's lady in waiting is a Nighthag and her master of spies is an Incubus would be a triad of frustrating and powerful entities that can challenge a third tier party. Their rival faction? A wizard school led by a powerful wizard who uses divination but specializes in Necro divining and eventually becomes a lich using the help of the party.
I really enjoy you show. You guys are brilliant, well informed and delightfully witty. Thank you. Best regards from Seattle.
I love hags! Definitely one of my favs. I'm glad Volo's went into it in more detail on them.
Travis Cope me too! The chapter on hags is an amazing resource.
Pruitt must have studied more than a few classes in the School of Punomancy.
Haven't played dnd in a long time just started watching your channel and it's really entertaining just listening to these guys nerd out about monsters and dnd in general.
It's mentioned multiple times in this video that the hags must be within 30 feet of their Cauldron, but i'm pretty sure current rules have it as they only need to be within 30 feet of Each Other to utilize coven spells.
A good homebrew magic item would be a cauldron that increased their casting level with a stationary limitation.
The Hags in Ebberon pretty much made a nation of their own full of monsters
You guys are life savers. I'm currently running an extended mission that ends with my party fighting a hag coven. Great to get a video on hags for some advice/perspective.
I think this episode got me past some significant DM writer's block I had about a (probable) upcoming leg of my group's journey. I need a mini-arc in a city (Baldur's Gate) the party is visiting to try to solicit aid. A pair of Night Hag sisters messing with the minds of the city leadership to sow chaos and dissent, and having to dispatch them before the council/leaders/etc. will grant aid, sounds like a great hook. I'll have to watch the Razel-Sinn [sic?] stuff too. Thanks!
Razel-Sinn !
I must watch your videos a lot, guys. My two year old just waved to you both. Hi!
+Scott Po my kid calls them "Uncle Jim and Uncle Pwooitt"
Web DM our toddler giggled when Jim said "what if you're sharing your house with a murderous toddler?"
I thought "aren't they all?"
Tome of Beasts' hags are fantastic as well. I cannot recommend that book enough..
Compliment time! Love the pre and post segments on many of your videos. I currently follow about six 'D&D' related UA-cam sites and yours is by far my favorite. (Drunkens and Dragons is a close second).
I kinda treat hags as evil sorceresses who are more powerful together but hate each other almost as much as they hate non-hags. There's also a bit of Discworld witch influence. They focus on divination, enchantment, and illusion but sometimes dabble in conjuration, necromancy, or transmutation ; in fact, I usually have it that one of a trio will focus on conjuration, one on necromancy, and one of transmutation. The Fates from The Sandman are very much an inspiration. So is Frau Totenkinder from Fables. I also like my hags more powerful than they are presented in the Monster Manuals.
A couple of vids talking about your experiences with each WOTC D&D settings and your opinions on them and how they might appeal to DM's out there. Forgotten Realms, Greyhawk, Eberron, Darksun, Dragonlance ext.
I used a coven of Sea Hags (uplevelled with basic lair actions) and whole bunch of respawning minions to challenge a party of nine 8th level characters. It was fun fight underwater in and around an old wrecked ship on the sea floor. One of my bards polymorphed into a tiger shark and got wrecked by the chuul they'd enslaved.
Whataburger sponsoring WebDM would be equally hilarious and delicious. I need it.
I grew up watching these videos, and as I rewatch all the videos, in which I already watched in high school, I'm going to post this comment. I love you guys, and y'all have gotten me through some tough times. The second I get out of college and get a stable job, I will definitely become a web demon.
Jim, the show you were thinking of was called originally "4 Country Reporter" (because it originated on channel 4 in the DFW market) and later syndicated as "Texas Country Reporter."
you guys should just do episodes on each type of interesting creature, I love hearing how you guys implement them into games
"book of beautiful horrors" has a lot of the monsters from the witcher series. Really cool
Thanks for the video! Hags are my most favorite monster, and consistently a baddie in every game I dm.
I'm working on a holiday mini-campaign with the following villains, a red dragon boss, named Kristkringle, and his minions, being a hag (annis or bheur) named Gryla, and her 13 troll sons (probably mix of trolls, ogres, and bugbears for stats) called the Yule Lads. It's borrowed from Icelandic lore. The pcs will be from separate villages that have been forced to give yearly tribute to the dragon which is collected by the hag and trolls, and the villages have had enough. This video has helped me work out a lot of ideas! Thank you!
Thanks for the video. I decided to start my first campaign with the big bad being a green hag (coven). The players are still working up to fight the coven, but knowing the hags use a lot of mimicry and trickery, I have made an effort to include a lot of detail even when it isn't necessary. It not only makes the players not know if it is the hag, or just a bird. Also, a higher level of detail just makes the world more alive.
Great episode, guys. Definitely inspired to create some side adventures around villages plagued by hags. Thanks!
I've said Pruitt's beard is growing more and more overtly evil every episode. I take that back, it's the opening puns that's getting more evil.
Seriously. Hag-tion? One of these days, these puns are gonna kill someone.
Have you guys considered doing an updated video this in-depth on Beholders? Especially when that new book comes out?
I did an encounter where a modified green hag lived as the baker of a frontier forest village and she would steal children from the village and eat them then grind their bones and mix it with the flour to make bread to give back to the villagers. The party was pretty split on whether or not to tell the villagers after she ran off
My group once dropped the barbarian off of a magic carpet through the roof of an annis hag’s hut. He yelled “OH YEAH” on the way down. He did a Cool-aid-Man through the ceiling of this hag’s house. Then the paladin kicked down the door so hard that it hit the hag and did damage.
I've been waiting for this video. I'm running my first game, and the first tier main villain is a powerful green hag.
Great episode! Van Richten's Monster Hunter's Compendium, Volume 3 has some FANTASTIC Hag lore! I highly recommend it to anyone wishing to delve deeper into hag goodness (or evilness lol)
I came for the intro. I was not disappointed.
A most excellent presentation of the HAG(s). I'm adding this for sure. Have you covered the WITCH class ? I'm looking for some 5E guidance on this NPC other than pubs on DMs Guild site. Thanks for the hard work, attention to details (including references provided) and the entertainment you provide in your videos. Enjoying and soaking it all in.
In a campaign I ran, the PCs came up against a coven, led by a Night Hag. Her companions were an Arcane Trickster Rogue and a shapeshifted Aranea. As part of a multi-part quest, they had to steal the coven's Eye.
Oh my god! There was a Whataburger next to my local Game Shop where my friends and I would play D&D. We'd almost always grab some food for the night and Inspiration for the night came in the form of a HBCB!! I'm so happy Jim Davis is from TX and he can relate! :D
Hags are awesome monsters to mess your player character's moral compass with. Their casual cruelty and natural evil tendencies can even be infectious to the PCs and it can even sanitize them from their own acts of evil. It is a lot of fun seeing how my different players react to them.
I've had this idea for low level party like 1-2 of a party roaming a small island villlage terrorized by a green hag coven that primarily focusses on investigating as people go more and more insane. It would be them raising undead nearby, causing villagers to turn on you, etc
I have a macbeth/beowulf Adventure where the witches are a coven of A green hag, Bhur hag, and a powered up sea hag. The most fun campaign i've run.
That was quite possibly the most half-HAGgard introduction you guys have ever done. For real though, I think that's my favorite to date.
Great examples of hags:
Mignola's babayaga
Grendel's mother
I had a game that started off with a green hag that had taken the form of our elf party member and had gone into the city before hand, claiming to be the scout for the party, and then proceeded to steal several horses as she left town, a day before we arrived in with similar horses.
Actually walking on frozen mud roads is actually pretty stable, since the mud gets stuck in weird positions.
I'm working on both a small OSR hexcrawl adventure and bigger adventure for a swedish role-playing game, both with a Hag/Witch theme. Listening to a lot of Stoner Metal for inspiration.
Dang, you guys are really nailing down these intros.
I blushed with pride when you said right and left nerd!
adorable
oh boy, i've been waiting for a hag episode
This into is one of my favorites
PingPongPope The thumbnail is superb as well.
I believe it's a V sound, as bheur comes from Celtic mythos and the BH followed by a bold vowel makes a V, as in Siobhan
Your polymorph idea I think is great for many different encounters. Maybe the characters are just traveling through a hallway and a squirrel starts gnawing on a character. They kill the squirrel and it goes poof into an ogre! And the dm could have a random table the squirrels could turn into.
Have you guys done mummies yet? Or plan to do an episode on them?
I never had the opportunity to use hags before. I had sand brides in dark sun, but nothing traditional. Eberron definitely makes me want to use them. I dig their lore in that setting.
Another great episode guys! Thanks!
If y'all are bringing up the Witcher 3, I think the more mainstream representation of Hags would be the Witches of Crookback Bog, who were essentially a Hag Coven.
Either way thanks for this episode, been trying to think of a good enemy type to put my players up against and I think a Hag Coven is going to suit my needs juuuuuust fine.
That d20 on the left looks like it would take up a lot of room in that Crown Royal bag.
I do monologues because I play on a website I found, but I do pauses halfway through for player input.
Literally EVERYONE decides to interrupt them, but sometimes that fucks players over in my games because, like the night hag, they have some custome item that was meant to appear in some fashion in the next or after post.
Have A Great Summer
I'm currently working on a game with a frost hag as the tier 1 villian. She's assembled a coven with a evil Druid and a Goblin Warlock and they've been doing their best to punish a town.
Jim's concept of winter amuses me.
"so Hags, what are they good for"
well they're good at being bad
Hags are also attached to Noble houses, and most generals/armies, anywhere a surplus of souls is generated and likely to flush the underworld economy.
Can you make a video on Death Knights?
New favorite episode, love the puns
You guys have some of the best D&D content! Also I know this video is like 2 years old but upon rewatching this to help get more info for a game I'm planning, I noticed a little faded 'B' on Pruitt's hand. As a musician myself, I'm used to getting the sharpie 'B' on my hand when I play shows, so I gotta ask, is Pruitt in a band?
Thanks! Just in time for my session tomorrow!
Which live video was it where you guys made the hag encounter you mentioned about the 25:00 mark
how has this intro not gotten the attention it deserves???
I noticed it says in your videos' descriptions that if you sign up for the mailing list you have a chance of winning a DMG or PHB. It doesn't say any of the details though so could you fill me in?
Sean Nolan if you go to webdmshow.com and sign up for the webdm mailing list, you'll automatically be entered in a drawing for signed books. There's more info on fb and Twitter
Emma Lambert thanks for the info.
The original Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon has a great example of a hag/assassin villain. She inserts herself into a noble house and twists the mind of a young prodigy fighter/thief as part of her long game to get her revenge on the protagonists, a high level monk and a fighter.
can you guys do an episode on vision?