Sample. file Contents Author Notes and Credits ......................................4 Chapter 7: Potions of 54 Chapter 1: Hags in General 7 Mutation Randomly Found Potions of Mutation ...............................54 Hag Covens ................................................................................9 Mutation Potion Generator ..................................................55 Cegilune ....................................................................................11 Hag Tailor Made Potions of Mutation ................................56 The Immortal Three ..............................................................12 Sister Sepia & The Burning Bright ....................................14 Chapter 8: Hag Weirds 58 Chapter 2: Hags Lairs 16 Known Hag Weirds ................................................................58 Hag Lairs Near Civilization ..................................................16 68 Herbalist Cottage or Shop ....................................................17 Chapter 9: New Spells Large Active Graveyard .........................................................18 Spell List ...................................................................................70 Sewer or Dungeon .................................................................18 Spell Descriptions ..................................................................71 Haunted House .......................................................................19 Hag Lairs in the Wilderness ................................................ 19 Chapter 10: Bestiary 81 Other Planes of Existence ....................................................20 Creatures Statistics ................................................................82 22 Hag, Auntie ............................................................................102 Chapter 3: Allies, Brutes, Hag, Grandmother ...............................................................109 Minions, Servants, and Slaves 124 Allies ..........................................................................................22 Appendix A: Nonplayer Brutes ........................................................................................23 Characters Servants or Lair Guards .......................................................24 Slaves ........................................................................................24 Appendix B: Immortal Hags 131 26 Chapter 4: Hag Lair Trimmings Appendix C: Intoxicating and 136 Weird Garden ..........................................................................26 Rotting Orchard ......................................................................26 Poisonous Plants Death Yard ................................................................................26 141 Shrine to Cegilune ................................................................. 27 Appendix D: Dungeon Masters Supernatural Plants ...............................................................27 and Hags Bloodthorn ...............................................................................27 Blood Squash ..........................................................................28 Inspiration 143 Carbuncle Cabbage ................................................................28 Corpse Clover ..........................................................................28 Corrupted Fairy Ring .............................................................28 Fey Thyme ................................................................................29 Gluevine ....................................................................................29 Hallow Tree ..............................................................................30 Lemony Tree ............................................................................30 Magic Mushroom, Purple .....................................................31 Spirit Funnel ............................................................................31 Tombstone Tree ...................................................................... 32 Triple Arched Portal ...............................................................32 Wailing Mandrake ..................................................................33 Chapter 5: Hag Gifts 35 Known Hag Gifts ....................................................................35 Chapter 6: Witch Fingers 47 ConsequencesSample of Use and Display ......................................47 file Making a Witch Finger ..........................................................48 Witch Finger Descriptions ................................................... 49 Ravel Witch Finger .................................................................51 Credits Lead Designer and Author: Daniel Chivers Graphic Designer and Layout: Marco Bertini Editing: Daniel Chivers Cover Art: "Witch," by Alexandr Leskinen https://www.artstation.com/leskinen-al, https://www.deviantart.com/alexandr-leskinen Internal Art: All art purchased and/or used with permission, by various artists to include: Bob Greyvenstein, Chris Beatrice, Clubgiudesign, Dan Chivers, Forrest Imel, Jacob E. Blackmon, Hopsy Graphic Art, Matt Forsyth Art, Mordalin, Nadine Ewing, PgmJanssen, Purple Duck Games, Shiroikuro, Sly Tiger Art Studio, Todor Hristov, Tyber Nexus, Xzaramon, pixaby.com, Patrick E. Pullen, Author Notes Jacob E. Blackmon. Daniel Comerci danielcomerci.com. This work greatly expands on the hag canon that already – Some artwork © 2015 Dean Spencer, used with exists in Dungeons & Dragons and also assumes that the permission. All rights reserved. Ricky Hershey, Empty reader has read or has access to the Monsters Manual and Room Studio. The Dungeon Masters Guild was used as Volo’s Guide to Monsters. source for some of the art. All art taken from there is I started work on this hag overhaul after I grew tired of the owned by Wizards of the Coast and is used with morally insipid hags and the idea that female creatures permission under the Community Content Agreement for can’t be evil and beautiful at the same time. Hag, in this the Dungeon Masters Guild. If I have forgotten to mention work, refers to the creature or monster listed in the an artist then it was not on purpose and I will gladly Monster Manual, and is not to be confused with the include their name on the next update. antiquated and disparaging term used for powerful and or Created with Homebrewery old women. Version: 25JUNE2020 There is no reason why evil can’t be hideous. There is no reason why evil must be hideous, or that good must be attractive. This idea led to the nightshade hag, a powerful, Real Evil and Fantasy Evil complex, evil, and feminine creature that is comfortable wearing a hideous form or an attractive one. As I crafted General Warning this new hag I found myself changing and fleshing out The Complete Hag was originally called Malleus Maleficarum more and more of the hag canon and ecology. This small and Stringonomicon. I have changed the title out of respect project became a massive creature ecology that I want to for all women, men, children, heretics, malcontents, and share with the Dungeons and Dragons community. herbalists killed in the name of fear, ignorance, and power. The Complete Hag has been a labor of love, and I know The past cannot be changed, but it can be remembered. that some will hate it, some will see it as another creature The real Malleus Maleficarum, or “witch hammer,” to add to random encounter tables, some will use this to represents a very ugly time in human history. That book was flesh out their hag encounters, and some will love the used to justify the murders of at least 70,000 women. At dense background and lore. I do hope that you enjoy the center of this ugliness was a patriarchal society learning about more complex and complicated hags. threatened by educated, powerful, and willful women who You can skip to the parts that you want to look at could heal without the need for prayer or new gods. immediately because the table of contents is hyperlinked. If This Complete Hag, Stringlasonomicon, Malleus you see the compass… Maleficarum is separate from that human ugliness. Malleus Maleficarum means, “hag hammer.” Stringlasonomicon loosely means, “images in the name of hag.” Feel free to use whichever title you want, depending on the needs of your players. In this work you will read about everything that real witches are not. You will read about slavery, children being eaten, drugs, alcohol, self-mutilization as ritual, psychedelic Sampleplants, the corruption of nature, fileevery form of corruption imaginable and evil in general. You will read about all the terrible evils associated with a love potion. I use the monstrous to explore human evil. I hope that you see this as ...know that it is a button that will bring you back to the table of contents. a work of fiction. Start slow and see how things go. Please do not give this work to children. THE COMPLETE HAG by Daniel Chivers 4 Sample file Hags in General ag wants to turn world into biggest pimple. Hag Motivations. Besides the twisting of wholesome and beautiful things, a hag wants to possess truly evil or ugly objects, objects with souls attached to them, or young pretty girls to twist into hags. A hag can be baited or bargained with if they are presented with something truly unique, ugly, or beautiful. H What they do with these objects is not always obvious, but Badrip Ritesgud, kobold philosopher usually involves a dark ritual to Cegilune. Objects with souls and any sentient item has value to