Hags in Dungeons & Dragons

[@Jorphdan]

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[@dawsonhelf7922]

@Jorphdan, I think it’s a good time to explain a concept that I came up with: “The Color Cosmology” Where pairs of complimentary colors share the same orbital path around a color that’s made up of those two colors, and each color has a unique “personality” based on the color’s meanings, and this cosmology also helps me classify immortals (or supernatural creatures in general): White - Angels Black - Fiends Purple - Monsters Green - Spirits Orange - Kas (kami/youkai) And I was going to connect this comment to the video by saying that “Fey” are one of many groups in the Ka group but I just wanted to throw “The Color Cosmology” idea out there -Double D

[@michaelkelligan7931]

Hags are a favorite of mine,Meg Mucklebones from the movie Legend was a really good representation of a green hag. My all time favorite of course is Baba Yaga! Great video man...i'm impressed.

[@marissashantez6051]

Baba Yaga isnt evil. She is as unpredictable as nature itself.

[@llewballantine6678]

I was literally just watching the Dungeoncast episode on hags when this notification popped up, this was appropriately spooky.

[@wysegalloway4546]

No, I’m not even joking when I say my wife and I were gonna play 1-on-1 D&D Tomorrow and I was planning on using a hag. Amazing.

[@nickmanzo8459]

Hags are my absolute favorite enemies in the game. They’re just awesomely evil and there’s so much to work with.

[@flyingninjamimejr]

Hags are what brought me into DND. Such an underrated trope in fantasy.

[@Trollgernautt]

I love hags and this idea that one might make a pact with a Warlock blew my mind!

[@sirellyn4391]

Love of ugly, hatred of beauty, intense desire for power, desire to inflict nothing but misery on people, love to tear people apart, knowledge of secrets best left forgotten, devouring innocent children until they are just like them? ... I swear I've met these people on twitter...

[@randyayo2846]

Democrats

[@TerrariaGolem]

@@randyayo2846 nah, just corporate democrats. Hillary Clinton is a hag. AOC, Omar, & Tlaib are the only democrats I trust. I don't trust Republicans, but their typically better the corporate democrat incrementalist centrists. I'm a progressive independent, I vote for integrity & policy. The only dem candidates I currently trust are Andrew Yang, Tulsi Gabbard, & Bernie Sanders.

[@TerrariaGolem]

@@randyayo2846 so... You're technically correct. The Political Spectrum is really fucked up, depending on your ideology, you might hate both *corporate democrats & republicans*

[@LordBrittish]

“I’m not a witch, I’m your wife!”

[@cassokaylol]

What is that from?

[@VeganStories]

Cassandra Keys The Princess Bride

[@Ninebreaker56]

I saw it was by jorphdan and couldn't possibly watch the video faster. 😅 it's new seeing him do monster lore. I like it.

[@Jorphdan]

Thanks!

[@eddymorales8810]

I agree glad to see in depth monster lore

[@rampant1apart]

Very old world fairy tale sensibilities and methods. I dig it. :)

[@gabrieladerre2862]

Van Richten's Compendium has an entire "book" that covers hags, in detail! I always enjoyed Van Richten's story. Hes one of my all time favorite NPCs, in any game, ever! That and I genuinely love Ravenloft! I suggest the book for anyone, particularly DMs, who want to add a lot of detail to their big bads! The Hag "book" also covers Witches and Warlocks as a character class option! I haven't played in years! But if O were to start again. I'd either want a Warlock as they are in 5th edition. Or one of the Witches or Warlocks from the Ravenloft setting. The Witch and Wsrlock classes have differences beyond their genders! If you can find a copy of Van Richten's Arsenal, Volume 2, I believe, The Hallowed Witch class is almost identical to the ones in the Hag book.

[@dynamicworlds1]

The "Van Richten's Guide to _____" books are amazing for fleshing out their subject matter. Even those not interested in Ravenloft should read them.

[@frankparker1191]

I love to use Hags, Vampire Lords, Illithid's, Rakshasa, and Beholders in my chronicles.

[@TheOldAdventure]

I think I made a mistake making a deal with a elven witch in the swamps, that I now realise is a green hag xD

[@benjoe1993]

Planning a feywild campaign, here's an idea for a random encounter: In the forest you come across a gypsy woman travelling with a giant turtle that has a small carnival tent on its back. The turtle never stops, it's always moving forward very slowly. The gypsy woman offers to read your fortune from cards for a couple coins. The reading is oddly specific. It has a place, a time, lore of riches or magic items and a vague description of a horrible monster. If you follow the "path" of the fortune teller you come upon the place in which resides the horrible monster described by the hag, guarding a chest or a glass box with the reward foretold. When you defeat the monster(s) the gypsy woman appears huffing and cursing for you not falling in battle. She begrudgingly says "Looks like I have to finish this myself" and reveals her true form, that of an ugly hag. FIGHT! The true tale of the hag as is follows: She is coming from a line of hags who are passing the "Deck of fortune" onto their next sister in line. This item is cursed as it can tell an exact future encounter for others but not to hags. These hags roam the lands in search of adventurers to lure them into combat weakening them and if need be, defeating the left over fighters themselves. After the adventurers fall they take the riches and magic items that was "created" by the deck for themselves. Usage: You can create an actual deck with the "encounter cards" or just create a table (cryptic pictures and vague descriptions of place, time, monster, reward) to have your players generate a random encounter for themselves by pulling cards from a deck, with in-world mechanics. You have to balance the two back-to-back fights so that the players don't immediately die in the second one, but is a good chance take them on with a hag when they are already low on resources. Good lesson for them not to blow all their spells and stuff on a random encounter when they don't know what's coming next. One thing I don't know is how to present the tale of the hags with the cursed deck to the players in-world. Worst case is them telling to a friend NPC who knows about the hag but forgot to warn them or something... Opinions? Ideas? Lore corrections?

[@martinnoel1894]

Excellent, as ever. Thank you for your time and effort!

[@TS-LordPhrozen]

The timing! We just wrapped up the final art pass for our Hag model for Faerun Heroes ! :D

[@Jorphdan]

Woo!

[@jack-rh8me]

always loved the lore behind Baba Yaga. Loved that there are more than one views of her/it in the D&D game. Plus at least two different Modules(dragon Magazine too)

[@LordMortanius]

More on night hags: they often make deals with powerful yugoloths, mutating them into more powerful forms in exchange for some special service. When the lich-god Mellifleur attempted to corner the Lower Planar larva trade, the worried night hags created the altraloth Typhus to drive away the power's undead armies. Anthraxus the Decayed became an altraloth in exchange for killing off the invading Knights of the Planes Militant. The flip side is that the other yugoloths despise the altraloth for tainting the purity of Evil. The General of Gehenna, the most powerful of the 'loths, isn't a unique fiend, he's the first ultroloth. The masters of the Tower Arcane are arcanaloths. Mydianchlarus, the current Oinoloth, is an ultroloth.

[@gabrieladerre2862]

YAAAAAY!!!!!! I've been hoping that you, and Mrhexx, who's name I might have just messed up, would do a Hags video! I'd also love for AJ Pickett to do an updated Hag video! The three of you are my favorite D&D KZbinrs! So to see my favorites cover some of my favorite topics, is always great!!! Thank you for the hard work that you put in to your content. 😊

[@DRFUZY1]

I don’t like that you made a video about my mom, Jorphdan.

[@TerrariaGolem]

My mom must be in a coven with yours... Smh.

[@phane5694]

I'm always inspired to play more when i watch your videos thank you.

[@Jorphdan]

That's great to hear :)

[@Ashi8No8Yubi]

Matt Mercer is good at a lot of things sure, but he is INCREDIBLE at playing hags haha

[@ZombieChimpanzee]

a member of my party thought they could get a good deal from a hag, now our rogue can understand many languages but can't lie in any, and when attempting to lie croaks and ribbits like a frog.

[@joaoignacio7666]

Awesome video Jorphdan! PLEASEEEE, Keep Up!

[@TerrariaGolem]

In my opinion, Sea Hags are the least ugly.

[@darryldamour278]

Great video man, really interesting creature and lore. Now to think up a use for one🤔

[@Jorphdan]

Thanks!

[@coyotebrown2294]

Always wondered why no simple "witches" in Dungeons and Dragons, at least none in MM-1, MM-2 and FF that I ever saw? Maybe the witchcraft thing they were worried about at the time, but Demons and Devils abound in all three monster volumes???

[@dynamicworlds1]

Depending on your flavor of witch, hags (for the distinct evil creature), warlocks (for the pack with an evil being), or druids (for more of the magic wise woman) are all appropriate things to pull from. Considering that witches can refer to anything from green skinned malevolent creatures, to people who have made pacts with a devil, to real-life wiccans, there's no one way to protray that, so (much like there are multiple ways to portray even something more mundane like a knight) you're given ways to make different witch archetypes under different names (and even more in previous versions) and it's left to the GM to decide what wayS they might be referred to in setting. This splitting of one thing into several mechanical representations and being able to use one class to portray multiple things is all over the D&D books (with a _lot_ of the monsters listed being different names for the same thing interpretated differently to not shut out different interpretations people might want to being into their game)

[@coyotebrown2294]

DynamicWorlds makes sense, thanks!

[@dynamicworlds1]

@@coyotebrown2294 np, it's generally useful to understand the design philosophy behind your games if you want to use them to full effect. Btw, if you want a deeper dive on hags, specifically and their types Taking20 kzbin.info/www/bejne/hpiaeICOicSofMk Web DM kzbin.info/www/bejne/o5jClH2dp51_ibs

[@steveblunden2295]

Nicely narrated (if I can use the term "nice" for an article on hags)

[@toastghost3174]

Hey Jorphdan! I love your videos. Do you mind making a video on the far realm?

[@Jorphdan]

not much is known, I'd like to do an expanded video sometime. I'll see what can dig up. In the meantime I talk about the Far Realm at the end of this Sigil video. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hZythXhjhbWGpdU

[@toastghost3174]

Jorphdan awesome! Thanks a bunch!

[@JockStrop]

is Midnight still Mystra ?, I haven't read these books for years...id loooove movie. Your video was awesome, id love if you done a audio book!

[@N-cromancer]

so Auntie Ethel is actually her rank? thats crazy. That must mean "M" is the grandmother....

[@TheLostArchangel666]

5:00 ... Sandman. You used... If I could I'd like this video a thousand times now. Although, those three are not *truly* hags, nor a coven: They're more of a... Trinity. A threefold goddess: They are the Fates, the Norns, the Morrigan... The Furies. ... The Kindly Ones

[@Jorphdan]

Correct :) But it made for a fun reference

[@TheLostArchangel666]

@@Jorphdan Definitely, definitely true.

[@zzuiderzee9309]

To disguise my voice--an old hag's cackle....

[@AJDeLaRosa]

Late as usual, but this was a super cool video! Well done!

[@misomiso8228]

best villains!

[@Danimally]

Hags want to transform mortal souls to worms from hell. They trade those worms for goods.

[@Markonheim]

Thank you for another fun and entertaining video Jorphdan!

[@jesterssketchbook]

i kinda wanna make a player where a hag cursed his family and he can only say 20 words between every long rest :D

[@RachelTheStrong]

Hags fuck with players, and with Volo’s they are a shitload of fun. If I had to name a favorite type, I can’t! They are all fun to DM! Though... nah, I cannot choose!

[@joaoluizsn]

What I appreciate about your channel is that there's no if any use of "meme language" for the new generation which I see is pretty widespread rn - Regardless, whatever the topic I always extra engaged on it

[@iangaskins3843]

Hi, Phian here, the ph is silent. I am supremely creeped out, thanks. Great video as always!

[@eddymorales8810]

Im about to inroduce hags into a campaign I'm running with my brothers for their first time playing. I love your content was glad to see this video come out!

[@Jorphdan]

Nice!

[@thedeaderer8791]

Hags trade souls so they're definitely interested in ur souls

[@misomiso8228]

The best Enemies.

[@N-cromancer]

Hags invented cigarettes I guess in their war on beauty.

[@Scortch-lo3xy]

interresting

[@SirLucien]

hahaha, this was my idea

[@pauldiamond1583]

What that tongue do

[@randyayo2846]

FOUL TASTING FAIRY!!!

[@the_Miles_crew_fun]

Can a night hag become a lich or were crocodile or psychic vampire or even all three can a woman become a hag ?

[@the_Miles_crew_fun]

And a half purple dragon

[@mynameluvsdragonscancelled6759]

I’m the 770th person to like

[@tonyraffetto931]

sounds like my ex wife!

[@homespunheroes]

I don't appreciate you slandering my Mother like this