What They Don't Tell You About Green Hags - D&D
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Mr.Rhexx: "Green hags enjoy and crave suffering"
Me: *Trying to figure out how a green hag could serve as a village therapist, listening to people talk about all their problems in life*
By giving bad advice that makes the situations they talk about significantly worse? Then constantly sabatoging and undermining recovery efforts? Seems easy to me
@@Orthanderis maybe she doesn't give any advice. or people know to do the opposite of what she says. idk :P
@@TamTroll use magic to manipulate them to do the things that are their greatest fears
Or the "therapist" ones are just really, really lazy. I mean, you have people just coming in and telling you how messed up and awful their lives are, and they even pay you to do it. Surely some couch potato of a hag has decided that going out and actually causing suffering is a lot of work when there's so much to feed on already. Your advice doesn't even need to be actively malicious, just not deliberately helpful - these people will never straighten themselves out, and you can get fat off them for years. Maybe you exert yourself once in a while to encourage a murder or abandonment just to keep in practice. Of course, when a competent goody-goody cleric shows up in town and starts helping fix relationships you'll have to get up and brew some poisons, maybe hire some bandits or an assassin ore something. But mostly you can just sit back and wallow in that sweet, sweet misery while dreaming about that hunky ogre that lives in the caves out back.
@@richmcgee434 I'm running a sessions tomorrow and stealing this idea.
Lol once every month or so they’re just like “welp, I gots needs, and those needs are pointing towards that lumberjack in town” 😂😂
@@HiTechSnake what the funky?
Gotta get that nookie lol
Green hag ❌
𝓕𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝔂 hag ✅
I have a homebrew witch character whose mother is a green hag. She was going to change into one on her 13th birthday as well, but her father and adopted mother / false mother realized what happened and performed a ritual to stop that transformation, leaving her part human, part hag with a lot of innate powers and magical ability.
One of the most interesting things about playing her is that all hags have these sacred rules they abide by where they will not attack each other, steal from each other, lie to each other, or break pacts with each other and my witch character was extended that courtesy due to her heritage. So she is able to sense when a hag is nearby and hags are able to sense her as well. They recognize each other and tolerate each other's presence. Any time she visits a city and detects a hag, she will always go visit and introduce herself as a courtesy to the dark sisterhood to stay in their good graces. Sometimes she gets quests or is able to learn new magical abilities or acquire new magical items through hags, for a price, but she doesn't have to worry about a hag breaking their oath.
But it is hard sometimes because she's a more good-leaning neutral character so she doesn't like the idea of innocent people being killed or messed with, but when she sees a hag doing so, she has to turn the other way and let it happen without interference because if she were to fight that hag, she would violate the pact of the dark sisterhood and would not only lose all of her advantages of being part of it, but also be hunted down and killed by them collectively.
So it leads to a lot of interesting roleplaying situations. Being friendly with all hags everywhere has its benefits, but its hard to keep that relationship sometimes. You just have to keep telling yourself that turning on them and losing those benefits is ultimately more harmful to yourself, your friends, and the world at large than tolerating their evil and turning a blind eye to it.
This is really cool.
Kudos to the DM for making this possible.
remember, a hag can not break a deal with another hag, unless one has their fingers crossed
Modern dnd will call your character racist and say I can't exist lol
I had a hexblood warlock of the undying hag baby character named Duneeka, Eek for short. She's one of my favorite characters I've ever played. I took pact of the chain and my familiar was this invisible thing I built dolls for it to live in. It could only fly if no one was looking and it would sometimes go off on its own. It was two different named creatures, but then some kobolds murdered eachother nearby and a couple of them also got stuck in there. It was really fun and wild.
does she have hag eyes? just curious
Boy, as a DM I never go canon, but every time I see one of your videos I always find something to steal, or I get an idea for a BBEG or a campaign. Keep up.
Yup. One of the best things a GM can do is let go of canon.
Even if you trust your players not to metagame, making it so they really _don't_ know what a monster is capable of or anything else about it for certain does wonders for the mood of your game.
Inspirational lore and the ability to make your own stat blocks for whatever system you're using will do you better than a dozen thick books of stat blocks.
100% being a dm is about interpreting what you've been given to make something unique
Of course, if you always go non-cannon, actually going cannon once in a while could be interesting
I usually stick to the lore for the most part as it gives me a lot of ideas and helps me to really bring my monsters to life with small statements that might or might not make sense to the players (like an elf talking about the reverie or an orc saying something like "yep, he's been touched by Yurtrus")
But it's still more like guidelines to me, I don't always follow it exactly and I've been known to throw a wrench in the usual way things work
I also don't really care that much if the players do mild metagaming, I have limits to that but I don't care if they know a troll regenerates despite never having fought one... They know that for the same reason I know what an elephant is, or that I know it I hear a bloodcurdling scream in the woods it's probably a panther, despite never fighting either of them.
It also really can really inspire dread when they know a little about the monsters, for example if they notice that they are getting terrible dreams people are disappearing and they feel as if they are being watched every time they rest in a certain location they might suspect a mind flayer colony, and just the possibility of that brings so much to the game and leads to very interesting shenanigans. It may just be that this area is a place where the border between the Feywild and the Prime is very thin, no illithids involved, but they are going to immediately think mind flayer colony
On the same vein if they find an intellectual troll the fact that they know that is an anomaly adds so much to the experience
Mmm
I feel like Green Hags and Black Dragons could have very enjoyable and lasting relationships. They both want Exactly the same thing and Black Dragons would have no qualms about a willing and competent servant who gets off when the dragon torture-eats a victim.
Also aparently Green Hags are Size Queens so there some unsettling un-rated content and potential stat-blocks there
I dont like where this is going
The question would be how a Green Hag feels about being a servant, because that tends to be the sticking point with evil creatures, no one wants to play second banana.
green dragons could also work, with the whole corruption thing
Felix Rivera The thought of a hag with dragon blood sorcery is honestly more terrifying to me than the idea of a black dragon and green hag getting hot and nasty in the hot and nasty swamp.
Do you mind if I use your idea?
Moral of the story, you see a Hag, set the Paladin on them.
Nah, this is what Meteor Swarm is for.
alternatively some sort of pyromancer
@@zeeb2190 or go cleric or divone soul sorcerer and go *BURN IN HOLY FIRE* !
Or unleash the barbarian who likes to help or, worst, sick the priest who has a shotgun on em, that magic sings shit against buckshot sweetheart and neither is your face
I just killed the green hag in baldurs gate 3. Was fun and an actual quest worth doing with an actual side story unlike others quest in other games. I also thought it was a great depiction of the green hag.
I feel like at the end of the hags videos the lesson will be: Don't talk, look or make deals with hags
But what if i wanna get some cheap youth potions?
What if i want to turn all Stones to cats?
What if i wanna do something truly *weird* ?
What if i want advice on how to best spread evil?
@@defensivekobra3873 Valid points
@@defensivekobra3873 talk to a devil.
Answer to all of your questions.
Of course devils also want to screw you over, but their screwing you over is just business. Over and done with and then they get your soul. Hags are dicks. They kept that bit of their fae nature alive and well.
Or just bring a paper bag and pretend to be in eternal misery. ;)
What if the hag says please and you wanna encourage this behavior?
Am I the only one curious how the trolls got their regeneration? I mean they are so strong, you can even blast them out of existence and still manage to survive as psichic energy
The All Father's wife, cheated with a Sea God to make Firbolgs, Voadkyn (Wood Giants), & Veerbeegs. (Giant Kin)
Yet Trolls, Ogres, & Ogre Mages are thought to be a race conceived by Vaprak's seed. Thusly Giants.
Though Trolls Regenerate from a mythological trope.
There's also many types of Trolls, like Lava Trolls, Spirit Trolls, etc.
Even the deepest essences of a Troll are tough enough to survive in deathly near pain-inducing methods that drive most creatures insane.
In essence, I have no idea.
All True Giants descend from The All Father
I think they are bastard children from that all fathers wife. there is a guide to that here somewhere.
I mean so can humans. That's called a soul
You doing hags now is filling out the lore I need for my campaign... Thank you! It's very fortunate.
Good luck in your campaign bro
@Sightless_Seeker I got them to accept cursed gold from her already. Two more players have joined the party since then, so it might make things fun to play with that. 😁
7:58 Then John Wick murders the hag for killing his dog.
Who’s watching this after encountering Auntie Ethel?😂
So I just wanted to bring up that I wasn't very interested in hags originally but having gotten into their lore more I now find them very interesting indeed.
If Green Mary is the first of the Green Hags, does that make Cegilune the first of the Night Hags?
She used to be revered as the Hag Goddess in the far realms but now we hear nothing of her.
There are a LOT of hints about Cegilune in the lore being way more important than she seems, but I think Wizards wants to keep it as just hints. Maybe I'm just a crazy conspiracy theorist, but Cegilune seems like one of the most important characters in the planes to me.
Gotta say, the Green Hag has always been my favorite monster in the Manual, and part of that is because of the lore behind hags in general and the feeling from me that Green hags are the most haggish of the hags, embodying their lore bloc in Volo's.
Love these videos so much but is anyone else really excited for when MrRhexx makes a lore video on the Lord's of the 9 hells 😁
That'll be absolutely fantastic
Balzebul's story is going to be a wild ride.
Hags are like fey, but with EVERYTHING NICE ABOUT FEY TAKEN OUT.
Need new Hag minions?
There is a creature in African folklore that is called a Tokoloshe. Makes for a perfect lower level Fey-like minion for Hags. Their lore also provides cool plot hooks and abilities. (They eat toes at night/ Turn invisible by eating a pebble)
Basically undead/goblins with "real world" ties to witchcraft for bonus points.
I hope that you decide to continue your hag series soon, i have been very interested recently into looking into them and your one of the best sources of information for looking up monster lore.
Just a little "correction", in Volo's Guide they state that all hags are potentially immortal, having no known limit to their lifespan.
Volo is a quack, but Night Hags probably are immortal since they are outsiders.
I believe it also says hags can go through a metamorphosis and change into different hag types.
I should state, however, that at a lifespan of 500-1000 years and a reclusive lifestyle of constantly changing identities... It can seem immortal.
An episode on false hydras would be great. The whole idea of a monster that can eat your family and make it so you never even knew you had one is the most terrifying things in the forgotten realms.
Sam Smith it’s an interesting homebrew.
Hags are my favorite. I kind of consider all of them to have access to 'weird magic' that doesn't operate like studied arcana magic. They should all be privy to Faustian bargains, hexes, cursed items, and weird trinkets.
while the green hag isnt as interesting as the night hag i could honestly listen to you talk about lore for hours. i love the way you present it and the video is just as high quality as your others :)
Currently running a green hag in my campaign.
One piece of advice I will say for running hags: If you want them to have some evil society-destroying plan, start by coming up with a central tension for your setting, and do do before you come up with any hag ideas.
Maybe two powerful royal houses are in a tense relationship, where the slightest spark between them could ignite a war. Maybe the king has become a lot more ruthless since the death of his wife, and the public aren't happy about it. Maybe there's just a heavy taxing system in place that the public are unhappy about. Heck, maybe there's all three.
Once you've done that, it actually becomes really easy to think of some subtle ways that the hag can collapse everything into anarchy.
Also, think about how she is going to make the Players directly responsible
Great video. Cant wait for a sea hags video. More aquatic monsters are my favorite
This might quietly be my favorite monster ecology. You can bake so many ideas into a scenario with this.
This video is not on the playlist. Just telling you in case it was overlooked. Thank you for the great work! Love these videos!
here's an idea for a Green hag, to who ever wants it
Griny Ginny she seems like an ordinary green hag, but her right leg is a wooden peg leg "(she just stock a tree seed in the stub and let it grow) so she needs a cane, she has two different eye colours but not in the way you think (her right eye is her original, a deep yellow sclera with a olive green iris, her left eye once belonged to a human who stabbed out her original left with a pair of scissors, so she pulled it out and took it for herself, it's white sclera with a brown iris) then there's her teeth, she lost all her original teeth centuries ago, so she takes teeth from other people, giving her the nickname "the tooth fairy" so if you don't want her scarecrow henchmen to kill you on sight, just offer her or them some teeth from animal or people you killed, it will buy you an audience at least, she'll take any teeth that can fit in a human mouth but she doesn't put them in the right order (she'll have a molar were a incisor should go) but she always greets you with a smile, hence her name, and as a final warning, do not fail any task she sets out for you, what happen, well has anyone seen the remake of "Black Christmas" if so, you'll think twice when she offers you a gingerbread man.
I don't even play in Faerun, but I still love these videos! They provide amazing ideas and inspiration for all sorts of fantasy games in all sorts of settings!
6:14 that image instantly made me think of auntie ethel from bg3, when you find her swamp theres a note saying you guys must be hungry theres a basket of poisoned apples and she’s straight up lying about helping anyone with her potions and lotions 🍎 😂
I really appreciate these videos, learning through them gives me ideas for my campaign. For instance with this video, a Green hag daughter who has learned to live in society and doesn't want to be in a coven and thinks the mother is truly evil
That was a pretty epic start of the video - you immediatly drew me into the story ;)
How about "what they don't tell you about vampires" video?
Also, love your videos
Mr.Rhexx, I've started to get so excited whenever I see a new D&D lore video you've put out. You've inspired many new encounters/villains in my campaigns I'm running. I've used dryads, a night hag, a mummy lord, a draco lich all because of you, nerd! You definitely deserve to be paid for this and I hope you are able to make this a full time job because I want more!!!
7:32 Well, I guess that explains the whole poison apple thing.
Thank for the Inspiration
My Ideas is A Kingpin Green Hag leader of a Town , thank to Hobgoblin, Goblin and Bugbear tribes she United. Made into a Port Town ,to bring more people . Is like a pirate/trading/port Town with Goblinoid Navy trained in Figther, Wizard and Warlock Fey (Herself) Feudal Japan motive and rules
Hey plz never stop posting videos, your content is a blessing thx.
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT HAGS
AD&D2e Ravenloft Van Richten guild to Hags
3.5e Ravenloft campaign setting core book.
List history , folklore, and ideals for hag NPC, or as PC.
"Hag spawn mature into hags in their mid 40's, after a childless life of hate filled gossip and banditry ."
a.) Lifting the Curse
You could even play out a game were a noble woman in her mid 40's start turning into a green hag, and she this she has been cursed. She and her noble husban is paying the adventures to find a way to life the curse.
b.) There is a Monster in the Castle
Another plot, the baron's troops after 24 years hunting a bandit queen finally imprison her in the baron's dungeon, after a month in a dark holding cell, she turns into an Annis Hag. Now the baron's men have to fight a "female ogre" that is killing prisoners and soldier alike for sport.
c.) Bitter Sweet Love Story
A female roguish bard renown for her beauty , and torrent affairs. Turns into a green hag.
d.) Around ten years ago, there was an adventure about a Annis Hag and an Ogre tribe.
Mamma is CE, but she Loves her family. She will bribe and make deals with adventures not to kill her family. " Then seek to kill them all after wards."
i.) An NPC or another PC in the group is a warrior maiden, with or with out a love affair in the group becomes and annis hag.
there's so much content about hags on yt and it's really helping my current campaign
So this is what happens when a Druid turns her back on nature
All the reason in the world not to become a druid. Nature is scary.
@@usernameinvalid824 If you don't betray nature I see this as another reason to become a Druid, you can totally be "scary magic shit" character
Any chance we'll get a video on bheur hags? Apparently they've appeared in multiple Forgotten Realms novels and sourcebooks, although I don't know much about them myself (hence why I'd love one of your videos, since you do such an amazing job explaining lore!)
I would really love Kenku one of these days
I had an idea of either a green hag/ or a bheur hag had a romance with an oni and the party would have to investigate missing peoples
“Seeing a joyful couple angers the green hag”
Oh no... am I a green hag??
I want to run a Halloween adventure with these guys
I seriously think that you know divination magic. I’m writing a campaign with a secret villain and you have made a great villain for me! Thank you for everything that you do!
I love the way you pronounce crow, hahaha.
Thank you for these videos. They're highly entertaining, and I would like to request from you that you make many many more of these types of videos.
I would love a video on Bheur's too :) (ice/winter hags) They're pretty cool too
Me too
Nice I love these videos so much
I’m making a coven of green hags who were raised by their human father after he killed their evil night hag mother. He taught them to be good witches and now they are basically if the golden girls had magic
Loved the poem at the beginning of the video! A very cautionary tale.
I never really researched any of the information in the video, but I just ended up writing that Green Hags had connections with Frost Giants in a campaign I'm running. Thanks for bringing up ancient lore to justify my random decision! Time to make Annis Hags a thing in my campaign~
Too bad my character doesn't know lore stuff like hags so this is only fun to listen too, great vids so far, is the hags preparation for fey?
Annis Hags are my favorite, old nags who wack you without a purse or spoon. :P
An old school villain that we played around with way way back when second edition was still a thing was the evil Paladin green hag whose bonded mounts was a black dragon
Thank you Baldur's Gate 3 and Auntie Ethel for bringing me here, and can't wait to see how it might expand the Green Hag lore.
8:45 thanks to you I romanced one of my players (flirty bard, I mean who did you expect). I did that for about 8 sessions. They kept going back to this city & he to his beautifull lover. After they did it again, I describe how he wakes up looking at this horrifying site of a naked green hag, smiling at him. He was disgusted & the rest of us couldn't breathe. So he ran, got two hag childern, didn't tell anyone & through the rest of the campaign he kept hearing stories of a hag coven bringing misery in the area (the coven made sure he heard of it). Till he finally told the party what he had done & went out to stop this.
And I thought Christmas was still a month away, thank you very much for the other background materials for the campaign
man I really love your serie it's amazing!
Thusly, I am blessed by a archprimordial of the elements, pure thought. Mi'st'r-Rhe'x... I summon thee might again, when thy are justified to appear before us mere material mortals!
I'm really loving you DnD stuff. I've never played before but I will be so fucking ready when I do.
Dude I love your videos. This intro was phenomenally good. I'm going to patron right now. Bravo, keep up the excellent work.
Yo Rhexx awesome video as always!! I'm really hoping to hear more about the three hags of Tepest from Ravenloft sometime!! :D
Auntie Ethel from Baldur's Gate 3 has probably doubled the Green Hag's popularity as of late. I know that I for one was a big fan of her character and quests.
The annual hags fun thing next. Protects some people.
You're a mean one Mrs Grinch.
i just thought of a green dragon/hag combo wombo of spies and shit
One of my favorite monsters
Hey MrRhexx! I absolutely love these videos. I was wondering if you could share where you find some of this extra information. I would love the opportunity to check it out. Thanks so much!
You do great on these videos! Can never get to much lore on monsters and love your deep research.
Can you look at doing abishai? The fact they are devils and dragons and the soldiers and messengers of Tiamat from Avernus, they dont get enough love.
That's actually a fairly new thing (5e specific). They used to just be a part of the low end of the devil hierarchy. They used to only be the black, green and red varieties (lowest to highest). The new versions are way better.
The images in this one are amazing omfg
Yay! New MrRhexx video!
MrRhexx! Have you read a copy of Van Richten's Arsenal Vol. 3? There's a Book of Hags in it! It has a good amount of lore on them. As well as a Witch class that could be adapted for current edition, and non-Ravenloft settings. With a little work of course! I highly recommend it for anyone interested in either subject! Or both!
Love the Hag content! I was worried that just because halloween past you wouldn’t do more of the horror creatures
Sounds like they'd make a good One-Shot villain.
Either that or a mastermind villian for a low-level adventure, kinda like the witches in Witcher 3. They are CR3, so a coven of hags with maybe some entourage would make an OK boss fight for a lvl 5 party.
First. Love your vids and revealing the secrets of the creatures you're talking about. And question. Will you do a warforged vid?
On warforges what they?
@@zacharyrodriguez4348 Well what of their culture. What secrets do they posses. How are new once created. The various types from the giant machines of war to the smaller once. Just a fan of the race and because of the vids I think my knowledge of this race is just the tip of the iceberg.
Where did you get the ages? They are immortal every time I've checked
Could you do Nothic's? I think they are very much interesting creatures and worth making a video on it.
WHY IS YOUR ACCENT SO ADORABLE?
Thank you for the entertaining video!!😊
Great Video
Now I just have to figure out what the German translators made out of their name so with so that I can find them in my monster handbook and then I might wait until my party level up
Of course, being a DM, one can give a 'Monster' whatever abilities/spells or items they wish however, the lack of spells provided in the 5th ed MM for Hags, doesn't bring to account the plethora of magical articles a Green Hag will barter / swap or steal to posses.
I've provided my Hags, on more than one occasion, some pretty kick-butt items that have scared the daylights out of players.
And, more than one of my 'Covens' have almost caused a TPK ( be careful of that!)
The sky is quite simply, the limit, to what a Green Hag of sufficient maturity can acquire and use... :)
Can you @MrRhexx, please put; "what they Don't tell you about Mummies", " What They Don't Tell You About Night Hags" and "What They Don't Tell You About Green Hags" into the designated D&D playlist, please and thank-you
MORE HAGS
You should make more videos about Hags, I find them interesting and terrifying
Lotions and Potions, Petal
Hm…. Green Hags love seeing people suffer and bring about suffering… something that black dragons also love. Could you imagine what could happen if a green hag coven worked with an ancient black dragon??
One of the substories in my world has this mangrove locale where a mixed hag coven (Green leader, Sea and Annis sidekicks), Adult Green Dragon and Adult Black Dragon compete for dominance... A LOT of backstabbing, unsavory deals and thousand-facedness happened there and the people of the region (Firbolgs, Lotusden Halflings, Kuo-Toa etc.) tend to be victims of their all's unsavory ways and twisted sadism, as well collateral damages and (un)witting pawns.
Even high-powered Fey feel the need to intervene to contain their squabbles, preventing them from spilling outside (not just to other locations, but significant parts of the Feywild are endangered from there as well).
Love your videos! Where did you get the map you showed at the beginning?
They came in Ed Greenwood’s 80’s 90’s campaign setting for Forgotten Realms.
I love all your videos!! They're so detailed and I learn so much!
On topic of hags; Would be cool with a video on Hagspawns as well ^^
I like the Hag archetype. I miss the classic old ugly evil Witches. They are so often depicted as sultry seductresses, empowered young women, or quirky little girls. Not that these are necessarily bad or anything, I just have a soft spot for the classics!
I'm hoping that soon he'll do a set of videos going over celestials.
ooh, fascinating -- a cool dark version of Daphne and Apollo.
That's some gnarly morning wood!
The Volo's "Weird magic" kinda takes care of the spellcasting issue of most hags. Really the only hag that's dangerous because of it's spellcasting its the bheur hag.
Can you cover the other types of hags?
Please do sea hags!
Should make a video about aasamir
Daddy rhexx is back at it again