Sample file DUNGEONS & DRAGONS, D&D, Wizards of the Coast, Forgotten Realms, Ravenloft, the dragon ampersand, and all other Wizards of the Coast product names, and their respective logos are trademarks of Wizards of the Coast in the USA and other countries. This work contains material that is copyright Wizards of the Coast and/or other authors. Such material is used with permission under the Community Content Agreement for Dungeon Masters Guild. All other original material in this work is copyright 2019 by Catherine Evans published under the Community Content Agreement for Dungeon Masters Guild. Cover artwork: Purple Duck Games | Interior Artwork: Envato Elements ags are creatures of magic, created when a hag – or a coven of hags – steals a humanoid baby, devours it, and births it anew as a hag. As if that difficult origin wasn’t enough to Hmake any young hag leave home and take to the What type of hag? road, hag covens constantly squabble and vie for There are five different types of hag in fifth power. edition Dungeons & Dragons. Some of them are very powerful. Rather than try to render Your hag character is a solitary creature who each type of hag as a specific subrace, this race has left the safety of her coven to become an provides a single set of traits that capture the adventurer. Perhaps she is young and ambitious, feel of a hag: witchy and wise, and skilled with or perhaps she has lost her coven to some more hexes, curses, and illusions. powerful force. Ugly As Sin A hag’s natural form is twisted and ugly, and most humanoids find it deeply unpleasant to look upon. She may have blackened or missing teeth, or spiders in her hair and the folds of her clothes, or fingers that are unnaturally long and clawed. Most hags choose to go in disguise amongst humanoids, except when showing their true form might be beneficial, for example, to terrify lesser creatures into doing her bidding. Time-Honoured Grudges No one holds a grudge like a hag. Even the least malevolent keeps track of every slight, real or imagined, against her and nurses that grudge like a child. Some grudges are inherited from a parent or an older coven member. What’s more, hags don’t die of old age – they just get older and wick- eder until they run into something nastier than they are, and it kills them – which means some of their grudges are older than many human towns. Natural Spellcasters Hags have magic in their blood and in their bones. They can pick out the meaning of an ar- cane ritual by instinct, and even the least mag- ically-inclined of them knows enough spells to make aSample nuisance of herself. file.