Thanks for watching folks. Let me know what monster you'd like to see next time!
@adenedhel3855
11 ай бұрын
nightmare dragon!
@Drizztbc
11 ай бұрын
I’m not sure what it’s called but there’s a monster that has a lions head but is shaped and moves like a wheel…. Also it breathes fire
@heuclmeucl-heucl5351
11 ай бұрын
@@Drizztbc You might be thinking of the roving mauler, they are from the 3.5 magic compendium, tho they can't breath fire and honestly aren't super unique apart from their cool look and the fact that they will roll you over. The concept has been used in a lot of property tho like the allocer from ritual of the night so there must be another game out there in which they breathes fire.
@Drizztbc
11 ай бұрын
@@heuclmeucl-heucl5351 roving mauler sounds about right. I think I remembered it off hand from a Dungeon Masters roundtable that had both Dungeon Dad and AJ Pickett joking about the monster. Thank you for the clarification!
@TheGuzdar
11 ай бұрын
what happens if a hagspawn gets with a hag? is the resulting child something like a true hag?
@tuskwilliams716
11 ай бұрын
Playing a hagspawn warlock who's fey patron is just their overprotective hag mother sounds like a fun idea
@matiasluukkanen7718
11 ай бұрын
With hags being as they are, even "loving" hag mother is probably more akin to hag smother.
@AzraelThanatos
11 ай бұрын
@@matiasluukkanen7718 If you add the Kobold Press stuff, it might work with a Red Hag...I'm kind of wondering about what a hagspawn based on them would be Another thing might be something where the kid was conceived prior to the hag awakening as a hag there and something be tied into that. A situation where the teen girl had a boyfriend, and, well, the hag that "mothered" her decided to intervene there and she has the attachment to the kid from that. Possibly even have had the situation be one where the hag mother was intending for the girl to have a daughter, but ended up with a son...the older hag, possibly trying to see if she can create a more nightmarish hag by turning the actual, physical daughter of another hag of her own lineage...some of the older edition books had mention of a "True Hag" of sorts that may or may not exist which several hags want to emulate. So that might be a way to do that, perhaps trying to "line breed" to reduce the amount of humanoid in the ensuing generations...and has to protect their investment even if it is a hagspawn there
@Vender02
11 ай бұрын
He can be his own patron. As an "half" hag he can not do magic in the same way his mother do.
@kly8105
11 ай бұрын
Canonically a hagspawn player character probably would have to be locked out of sorceror and maybe wizard but not warlock, i imagine a tragic character that ends up having a quest to become a full fledged male hag with a lot of horrific stuff like when a wizard aims for lichdom. In dnd it would be over as soon as they got hold of the wish spell tough, but being pathfinder they would be looking for means for quite a long campaign.
@MegaTotalcarnage
11 ай бұрын
@@Vender02that isn’t a warlock then it’s a sorcerer a warlock is using dark borrowed power channeled from another entity
@Dragonblade722
8 ай бұрын
This actually inspired me for my next dnd campaign character. For my backstory, a powerful green hag goes about the process to make herself a daughter (I prefer the devouring an infant explanation as it's f'ed up). She succeeds and gives birth to twins. However, they are fraternal twins, one being the hag girl she wanted while the other is a male hag spawn. She initially wants to kill the hag spawn (partially out of irritation that the spawn being male ruined an opportunity for her to have a coven), but notices that being twins has tethered the souls of the twins. She realizes that her new hag daughter can use this bond to feed off her brother's latent magical blood. So the hag keeps him around as a slave/plaything for her and her daughter. The spawn's sister, while initially loving her brother, gradually inherits her mother's cruelty and starts to view him as more of a favorite pet/magic energy drink. This eventually comes to a head when a rival (good aligned) arch fey helps the spawn escape and becomes his patron.
@gavinbroussard2924
10 ай бұрын
I feel like a hagspawn Wild Magic Barbarian makes sense, their brutish build, and I could see them having a rage filled desire to be as magical as their mothers. And the rage combined with they latent fey powers, results in random bursts of magic.
@MarkusAndersen96
11 ай бұрын
The Banjo Kazooie music did not go unnoticed!
@JCinLapel
11 ай бұрын
Back when Curse of Stradh was first released far before Van Ritchens or leaning anything about Tasha I made Vershell the charetten fortune teller. Learning of how sometimes hags were made by ritualistic curse of children I made Vershell. She is one of my few female characters. She was saved after the ritual had started. She is a lorebard that focued on curses and debuffs Visous Mockery Bane cutting words sanaptic static. Also with 3 companions in the protector fighting style it quickly became a game of can the DM get double crits to hit because disadvantage -1d4 -1d6 -1d8 is really hard to over come.
@KarTheDeamon
11 ай бұрын
In my world. The original party. Interrupted a ritual 13hags were there to summon their master, the Horned One. And try to offer him a baby as a vessel. Technically think od him as being Born to one of the witches as a hexblood. Then through that ritual becoming a male hagborn on top of it. Plus having 11 hag godmothers. (Party knew none od IT) they JUST were warned that the Kid Is beyond saving And has to be killed as well. So the party storms the ritual. Half of them died (their players wanted epic ending And another charakter). And those who survived decided to raise the Kid. 31 years later the Kid named Alexej, trapped his master/rival in timeloop. Killed Some of his adoptive dads, became a first Necromancer. Destroyed half of the body of his Like true fatherfigure. And turned paladin into sort of deathknight. Thus Undead kingdom was created. And at the end of the age. IT was revealed,that during the ritual, Alexej saw the end of all. And all He ever Done was to prevent IT. Which He did. Imagine last moment 2 armies clashing. Good guys almost gone. And than dead start to rise. And a strange knight Is leading another Undead horde towards the evil host.
@blackgriffinxx
11 ай бұрын
Well look like someone change team today. GO team PC. This may kind of fix some of the weirdest stuff that goes on in D&D Why is that guy so strong in X? Grandpa was a hagspawn Also where lawyers,accountants, politicians and some teachers come from. Grandpa was a hagspawn
@Vender02
11 ай бұрын
I'm thinking of a Hag who has many male hagspawns on purpose to have a group of slaves to do all the heavy lifting.
@Momofan69
11 ай бұрын
I think Hags have ways around that without using males, even one is a risk.
@vileluca
11 ай бұрын
I once had a male Medusa as an NPC. The players met him in the Underdark. The NPC wore an iron helmet so that he didnt petrify anyone accidentally and hid his identity. It was quite the reveal when the medusa finally had to remove the helmet to help the party in a dire fight against a Drider ambush.
@WalkinStereotype
11 ай бұрын
You mean a medudesa?
@vileluca
11 ай бұрын
@@WalkinStereotype 😎👉👉 yes
@thecursed01
11 ай бұрын
ohh. an eye.off. drider vs medusa :) winner has to eye-off a spectator
@drawbyyourselve
11 ай бұрын
Maedar already exist though Although there is something about medusae made by curses in the forgotten realms.
@miguelangelus959
11 ай бұрын
Male medusas are a thing in d&d, though
@johntheherbalistg8756
11 ай бұрын
I wonder if hags wouldn't sometimes kidnap a male child and do this on purpose. They would make for good fighter/infantry, and the hag mother would have more influence over them than the average bewitched bugbear they might use for that purpose. They're probably smarter than bugbears, so could be field command for the hag's melee forces, if she has enough to need field command.
@TrollOfReason
11 ай бұрын
They do that, already. Hexbloods can be male, even tho they're basically larval hags.
@89qwyg9yqa34t
11 ай бұрын
That's a good question. I would assume that there's a cost to creating a child that can't just be arbitrarily paid. Otherwise, the long life and relatively extreme power of a hag would make them the most populous species very quickly. Why not just eat every baby that's available while you're not already pregnant? Make them all female and, within a thousand years, there are billions of hags.
@89qwyg9yqa34t
11 ай бұрын
Actually now that I think about it, it actually sounds really awesome to have the idea that, in order for a hag to succeed its mother, it has to eat its mother. With that being the case, there's incentive to not make too many kids to simply make it a numbers game. There's also incentive to make only females, because males can't reproduce in this way. It also leaves it open for a confrontation between them to result in the death of the child instead of the mother, causing the mother to look for somebody else and also be very picky about who she is going to turn into a hag.
@costanzafaust
11 ай бұрын
I built a whole adventure around that. Noble's son got kidnapped, traded to a hag. The party rescued a doppleganger pretending to be the boy (and missed all the clues it wasn't him), brought back the doppleganger to town where it made more problems. Then they still had a chance to save the kid when they went to the hag's lair, but took a long rest which gave her time to turn him into a hagspawn. I swear I'm not unfair, they just blew the chances I gave them.
@louzo5175
11 ай бұрын
@@TrollOfReason still a needed thing to point out for others to potentialy use for their game
@tomcurl8034
11 ай бұрын
I think a good idea for a character motivation for a hag spawn would be to find their father in hopes of having a non abusive parent
@wiseoldowl1628
11 ай бұрын
bro
@moongrum1
10 ай бұрын
And I oop
@ezraoberheim1081
10 ай бұрын
Their face when their dad is just as awful as their mom
@epicgamer-ny4fj
10 ай бұрын
@@ezraoberheim1081they find a childs grave stone
@llab3903
8 ай бұрын
@@ezraoberheim1081just like real life
@soggy_boggy3032
11 ай бұрын
A hagspawn warlock would be such a fun character: making up for their magical ineptitude by literally making a deal with the devil just to make mummy proud
@louzo5175
11 ай бұрын
this is so full of angst potential i love it
@rusticdebris8021
7 ай бұрын
Nah, their patron IS their mother. Go Fey Warlock, forced to do their mother's bidding to make up for their terrible genetics.
@Drak_From_The_Healer_Tribe
11 ай бұрын
I find funny the idea of a hagspawn that's lawful good solely out of spite for their hag mother. I can't help but imagine the banter if they ever met again during the campaing. Hag: "Oh Donny, why you have to be like this? Why couldn't you be more like your older sister?" Hagspawn: 'Oh boy, here we go again' Hag: "You don't need to be completely evil if you don't want to, but couldn't you at least be midly evil? We could start with slightly evil if you don't feel comfortably jumping straight to the next part"
@msf2399
11 ай бұрын
The rest of the party thought they were getting a boss fight, but no! It’s an awkward family reunion.
@kyosokutai
11 ай бұрын
@@msf2399That's even worse!
@DragoonSensei
11 ай бұрын
Is this a KND reference? 🤣
@Drak_From_The_Healer_Tribe
11 ай бұрын
@@DragoonSensei Yep, I didn't remember the words exactly so I improvised with what I did.
@emanresU2020
11 ай бұрын
@@Drak_From_The_Healer_Tribe I know what you’re talking about and I think it went something like this: “If only you’d been more evil. You could’ve been nasty or even mildly unpleasant.”
@thepyrookami
10 ай бұрын
concept: a party of Hagspawn looking for their shared human father just to find out who the fuck was crazy enough to sleep with 5 separate hags AND still somehow end up with 5 hagspawn.
@crynostic9300
Ай бұрын
This is great
@עומרשרייבר-ל4ר
11 ай бұрын
As soon as I heard this creatures lore I already started working on a friendly hegspawn npc that was treated as a monster but is actually a big harmless teddy bear. Im a sucker for characters who are horrfying in appearance but are actually kind and sweet, and this lads just fit the bill for me.
@bifflechips-t5r
11 ай бұрын
The Hunchback from Courage the Cowardly Dog came to mind as an inspiration for this character.
@voltageauthor
11 ай бұрын
I’m about to play a CG Bard who is horrifying in appearance but is super friendly. Why is he horrifying? Because he’s an undead skeleton. However, he thinks he’s alive with a rare skin condition.
@עומרשרייבר-ל4ר
11 ай бұрын
@@voltageauthor he sound like a fun pc.
@yharleththegrandobserver236
11 ай бұрын
@voltage2576 a rare skin condition; a complete lack of skin.
@voltageauthor
11 ай бұрын
@@עומרשרייבר-ל4ר he is. I don’t think I have ever had so much fun playing a character before.
@Haidan199
11 ай бұрын
The idea comes to mind for a hagapawn from a night hag, who later is adopted by a circle of dreams druids. The Druid circle basically teaches this hagspawn ways to aid and heal people with the sleep and dream powers they innately have.
@marcusc9931
11 ай бұрын
In Neverwinter Nights 2 we had a hagspawn NPC on the party - but since his theme was heavily into "messing with people's dreams", he got super lucky in the looks department.
@bifflechips-t5r
11 ай бұрын
I think the lore was that the hag mother legitimately loved his father which is why he was born to be handsome instead of hideous. The other members of the coven found out and force fed her his father as a result.
@KimiTakami
11 ай бұрын
Thank you! I was just about to mention Gannayev and how I couldn't believe he didn't get a mention here!
@alliekingsley7919
11 ай бұрын
@@KimiTakami Oh, Gann-of-Dreams. 🥰 He was such a beautiful, glorious, vain bastard. 💖💖💖
@sebastianpinoalipaz5935
11 ай бұрын
In the Mask of the Betrayer campaign for Neverwinter Nights 2 one of your companions Gann (or Gannayev-of-Dreams) was an unusually beautiful and magically attuned hagspawn, if memory doesn't fail me, rhe reason for that was that his mother actually loved his father, which other hags considered weakness, so they forced her to eat him and abandon the child, which drove her to madness. This is all from memory, I havent playee NWN2 in almost 10 years, so I may have gotten something wrong there.
@JannetFenix
11 ай бұрын
Everytime i hear that name, i reinstall mask of the betrayer.
@DFAnton
11 ай бұрын
Oh good, someone mentioned Gann. God, Mask of the Betrayer was awesome.
@bib4eto656
11 ай бұрын
Tbh, the level in the labyrinth where you can hear Gann's mother's chanting and screaming is one of the most haunting video game moments ever, knowing who she is and what's happened to her. Masterfully done.
@stingerjohnny9951
11 ай бұрын
I actually had this idea as a sorcerer subclass. I didn’t know it was actually a thing 🤣 Also I could see a Nighthag spawn claiming to be a tiefling just to escape the stigma of being related to a hag.
@azathoththe3rd
11 ай бұрын
As opposed to having Tiefling stigma
@stingerjohnny9951
11 ай бұрын
@@azathoththe3rd I’m pretty sure being seen as a tiefling is better than being seen as a Hag. Anyone who knows what a Teifling is would at least understand that they are a people (regardless of personal opinions of that people). Hags on the other hand are invariably seen as either monsters or a desperate deal with the devil to anyone who knows of them.
@LegendStormcrow
11 ай бұрын
@@azathoththe3rddepends on the setting. For instance, in Matt Mercer's setting they are widely accepted, where as in mine, a hagspawn would be likely more accepted, even if distrusted by most.
@stingerjohnny9951
11 ай бұрын
@@LegendStormcrow in Your world, I could imagine that a Nighthag spawn would have a rough time trying to convince people he’s NOT a Tiefling. Even if he did it’s still a rough sell lol. “No, I’m not a tiefling, I’m related to a monsterous, child eating old woman who has fucked over this village with bad deals and worse dreams.”
@LegendStormcrow
11 ай бұрын
@@stingerjohnny9951 more likely that he'd be confused with an otherworldly monster. Some centuries before half the known world was lost to an invasion. Or they could assume the hagspawn was meant to fight the world's diety.
@lythnookwemin
11 ай бұрын
When thinking of male hags a painting by John Bauer (1915) comes to mind. "Look at them," the Troll mother said "Look at my sons! You won't find more beautiful trolls on this side of the moon." When I think of female hags, I think of the Alp, the mare.
@alexandercarter9598
11 ай бұрын
I love the idea of a hagspawn pc who actually has a wholesome and healthy relationship with his mother and sisters. Since hags tend to change what type they are over time, you could have an Annis or Night-Spawned character from his mother's "Youth-full indiscretions," before she settled down and went Green. "Hey, My Mum could help out, she's a whiz with potions! We have dinner every Sunday, I'll bring you over." *Knock Knock" "Hey Mum, I brought some friends to visit, they'd like to talk to you about something." "That's lovely dear, I'll set a couple more places at the table!" "Mom, he's up to something! You know he doesn't have friends" "Love ya too, you little brat!" "Honey, be nice to your brother! Oh, and dear, I'll need you to run to the store later, your sister's visiting from the UnderDeep next week, and we're all out of fish." "Is she bringing that Triton jerk with her? I know pickings are slim for a Sea Hag, but I really hate that guy"
@TheBottegaChannel
11 ай бұрын
Hear me out for this Character/ NPC idea: Imagine a hagspawn who goes by the name Grandfather Solomon, but also answers to the nicknames of "Grandpappy, Papaw, Git, Curmudgeon, Hermit, Hoot," and " Blighter". He specializes in artificing armor and prosthetics for wounded martial class characters. The only conditions? Payment up front, you must have one or more bones of the original limb for him to use as spell components if it's a prosthetic, a keg of ale from " down yonder in Holler Crick hostel", and don't touch the thermostat in the workshop ( it's a mimic). His homunculus is a giant metal wolf automaton named " Ol' Blue" and he rides around on what appears to be a 1950's style push mower made from cradle scythe blades traded to him by a local farmer. 6 times out of 10 you can find him whittling talasmans on his porch sitting in his rocker, Blue on one side and repeating crossbow on the other. The other 4 times, he's in the shop doing commission work.
@liamjacques5335
11 ай бұрын
Why do I feel like this kind of person would be the go to artifice for the equivalent of an Orc Biker Gang and would be under their protection like one of the fam?
@TheBottegaChannel
11 ай бұрын
@@liamjacques5335, probably because Orc barbarians ( bikers) know grandpa Sol is fair, blunt, stubborn, and gives two hexed quarrels/ bolts in your rear if you cross him then tells you " get off my lawn before Blue gets a new chew toy.". XD
@johntheherbalistg8756
11 ай бұрын
I suddenly feel like Granpappy Sol is gonna find a place in my world. I'll trade you for Nana. She's a night hag that I've used repeatedly in my games. She was one of the original hags that was ejected from the feywild (if you use that cosmology - she's among the oldest hags, either way). She appears just this side of fey crossings and, while she's just as vile as any other hag, she genuinely likes kids. You'll often hear kids in the area where she appears talking about going to Nana's for sweet cakes and hide and seek. Those same kids won't remember her once they're grown, and Nana will no longer treat them well. Her main goal is to create 9 loyal daughters who will form 3 covens, all ultimately subservient to her. Have fun with her if you can find a place for her. I usually use her as a neutral/helpful npc and for exposition
@MrNetWraith
11 ай бұрын
For the curious, hag reproduction has a very curious meta-history. The concept first appeared in Dragon #125's "Ecology of the Green Hag", which says that Night Hags give birth to Green Hags by seducing human men, and Green Hags can give birth to Annis Hags by mating with ogres and hill giants. This chain of species was ignored and subsequently dropped in the 2nd edition sourcebook "Van Richten's Guide to the Witch" - which was never actually published, instead being bundled into "Van Richten's Monster Hunters Compendium III", alongside his "Guide to the Fiend" and "Guide to the Vistani". This source states that hags undergo periodic impulses to breed, which they do by seducing humanoid men. The fruit of such unions were seemingly normal girls of their father's race, save for their sterility, but when they reach 50 years old, they physically transform into hags. This lore was implicitly preserved in 3rd edition, save for the night hag; being more a demon that convergently evolved into a hag, this got a unique twist, in that its children will stay humanoids unless ritually transformed into new night hags, in the Dragon article "Ecology of the Night Hag" (#345). Paizo would later reverse-engineer this idea to apply to all hags, creating the PC race called "Changelings"; all female and naturally inclined towards magic - PF2e would state that changelings come in both female and male forms. 5e would provide the first real change to this lore, largely by saying that hags need to eat a human baby first in order to impregnate themselves, and the baby changing on her 13th birthday instead of her 40th.
@digitaldynamic3476
11 ай бұрын
I like the idea of a Hag Spawn being “left to the wolves “ and ends being raised by the wolves Mowgli style 😁
@ChucktheSpicyChicken
10 ай бұрын
Hag spawn druid/ranger with two wolf compainions, being hes sibling wolves (since the parents are the pack leaders so they won't be able to leave) with the ability to understand animal speech.
@endormorre6567
11 ай бұрын
Honestly I really like the idea that there could be female hagspawns. If the key detail about them is that they are not as gifted at magic at birth, it makes sense that sometimes even a female hag could be born not as a full hag. I know it's something that complicates stat blocks but the idea of playing underpowered monsters and leveling them up as a monster through play has always been an under explored system idea that has fascinated me. It comes from the fact that my dad made 3rd edition more interesting by allowing me to make characters that are classed monsters. It only becomes less feasible the lover level of a game you want to play so the idea of treating your race as another type of class has always been interesting, but not supported by the base system unfortunately.
@nathanielchiros5585
11 ай бұрын
-trans hag-
@adrianrandom3448
11 ай бұрын
There are so many monsters that I want to play as, I want to play as an illithid, that electric beholder whose name I can't remember, a Gnoll, a Hag turned into a small pixie, I wanna be monstrous
@endormorre6567
11 ай бұрын
@@adrianrandom3448 I second Gnoll! Honestly any monstrous humanoid with a CR around one really has no excuses not to be a playable race officially. It would be easier to do this if every monster was built more like a character than an encounter so even if it wasn't stated you could just then slap a class on the monster, have a level adjustment if it is a higher CR creature, and call it a day. Unfortunately it's oblivious this isn't their approach because a base goblin stat block doesn't fully reflect the goblin player race.
@wesleyjesoa5983
11 ай бұрын
Mrrhexx has a series of books for playing as a monster where the monster is your race and class, they're really well balanced from what I've heard and seen
@Masatisan
5 ай бұрын
Wouldn't that be a hexblood?
@vonsklavounakis8265
11 ай бұрын
Imagine a hagspawn that is also a hexblood. After dabbling in dark fey magic, the hagspawn has unlocked the true nature of their cursed fey blood.
@darcraven01
11 ай бұрын
i had the same thought about a hexblood hagspawn but my idea was the hag who birthed it was in a dire situation where it couldnt simply just abandon the male child... maybe it was being hunted and didnt have access to any other beings who it could take a child from but the hag already had a daughter and having a full coven would give them the strength to fight their hunters... so tried to force the hagspawn's blood to awaken to its power. ends up turning him hexblood but still unable to use him in the coven, her and her daughter get slayn and the hexblood hagspawn (hexspawn?) survives (saved or maybe hid from the hunters).
@Gamerkat10
10 ай бұрын
Probably the closest you can get to a male hag!
@Sleepycat482
11 ай бұрын
I've always liked the Hag Spawn, there is a lot of potential for characters or situations just based on the nature of the creation. I was sad that WOC didn't take the opportunity to include them in Van Ricten's Guide to Ravenloft.
@lordsubziro2824
11 ай бұрын
Interesting D&D creature lore. I've heard of male Medusas, but never a male Hag. Always thought they were "born" female only, but there are male Witches called warlockes. Curious if there are male Lamias or Harpies or are they born female only as well.
@gagapandega1668
11 ай бұрын
If I'm not wrong, male harpies do exist, but they look pretty much the same as female harpies so folks usually don't realize it. Doesn't help that they're not common as well
@PxsDD
11 ай бұрын
In dnd, what we call witches are called sorcerers. Warlocks require a patron as a source of their Magic. Sorcerers have Magic innately. Neither are sex-specific
@xominxx6441
11 ай бұрын
@@PxsDDsimple but effective 👌
@thehellfirewolf13
11 ай бұрын
When they were first introduced into 5e, Orcs (not half-orcs) and Kobolds had negative stats, but when they were re-released, i think they did away with that.
@LarsEckert_Molimo
11 ай бұрын
I see 3 untalented Hagspawn wizards desperately trying to cast coven magic, who physically overpower hags to conduct experiments on them.
@vaclavsoukup7302
11 ай бұрын
A Hag can’t curse you if you break her nose first!
@rasmusdegn9690
5 ай бұрын
The Hagspawn use the power of their coven to well and truly cast Punch.
@timothyflynn2738
11 ай бұрын
Alright, ‘borrowing’ heavily from “Shrek 2”, a green hag is using magic to disguise their son as a handsomest boy to marry the beautiful maiden, which will break-up an existing romance, and get them a foothold in controlling a town/village. Mostly for shiggles.
@aquageist
11 ай бұрын
I ended up looking into hagspawn a while ago after reading "sea hag coven" as a possible source for a Fathomless Warlock. Hags are big on rugpulling, and covens like having a variety of minions, so getting power from your manipulative aunties is possible if you're a hagspawn. They're probably going to try to get you to do something awful or expose your source of power to your allies at the worst possible time, but hey, you grew up with these jerks and know there's always a catch. Maybe you can get the better of them. Or you also eat puppies and kick flowers and don't get why everyone else is so horrified.
@yocean14
11 ай бұрын
So, Japan has a widespread legend of Yamanba (Mountain Hag, basically) or Onibaba (Oni Hag or Demon Hag), who are considered be a mountain deity type yokai that eat people mostly travelers. However, there is a legend of this one spawn of Hag who grew up to be a legendary Hero. His name is Kintaro, (later Sakata no Kintoki) and he got red skin and said to grew up wrestling bears and wields a huge axe. Kintaro eventually make it to Kyoto and there he becomes a part of Yokai hunting crew under the Samurai Prince Yorimitsu of Minamoto clan.
@Sintorace
11 ай бұрын
Not often we get videos in such quick succession Thanks for the hard work father of dungeons
@great-roleplaying-debbie
11 ай бұрын
there is now a NPC called the father of dungeons in my game. my players say F you.
@DungeonDad
11 ай бұрын
@@great-roleplaying-debbie I take that as the highest compliment
@superdimentiobrolyX
11 ай бұрын
my god this video is a life saver, i have an npc in my game who is a vaguely neutral/friendly but mischeivous nighthag and she offhand mentioned having a son once, now i can build off that further
@juliaskalla3979
11 ай бұрын
I would love to play this character as a transgender person on a quest to change their gender to female ! and gain ultimate power.......and become the monster she knows she is.
@andrewphilos
11 ай бұрын
You specifically said "assigned male at birth" at one point, so now I have the idea of a trans Hag Spawn who wants to be accepted by her Hag family. 😢
@zenmaster8
11 ай бұрын
Same
@julianlastname5730
11 ай бұрын
My brain immediately went to trans-fem hagspawn too lol
@dhesyca4471
11 ай бұрын
I appreciate that he used the language, and it got my brain working, too
@louzo5175
11 ай бұрын
it also gives me idea of transmasc hag whos best friends w his sibling hagspawn the mother hag will be so pissed tho bc it might break the power of a hag coven so they both might really need to flee
@boros4925
Ай бұрын
YWNBAH
@mitchhaelann9215
11 ай бұрын
I do like the Hexblood race from 5e as a hag/fae-equivalent for tiefling. That said, extra options are always nice. I have a small corner of a campaign world I'm working on where a coven of hags has enthralled the local baron and are in the process of converting all the locals (over the last 3 generations) into Hexbloods, using a magical artifact to keep anyone from noticing. I could mix some hag-spawn into there.
@eliotoole4534
11 ай бұрын
9:23 Thanks for including us! (Any/all)
@pustuleofyelough
11 ай бұрын
Hagspawn are one of my favorite sub-races in DnD, there are many different story beats that can be told with these guys… one I’ve imagined is a Hagspawn who starts to tap into their magical inherence… and their mother who abandoned them starts to reach out through dreams in order to corrupt and bring them back to the Hut..
@cretzen1851
11 ай бұрын
They aren’t very spooky, but seeing a stat block for Selkies from Gaelic myth would be awesome!
@Drizztbc
11 ай бұрын
The Unapproachable East has been so neglected in 5E, there’s so much room for adventure. More monsters from that region in the future @DungeonDad?
@dilsoncamacho4100
11 ай бұрын
Before I even finish watching the video, I'd like to share that I've played a "hagspawn-ish" character before. It was a eldritch knight x/monk 1 multiclass with hexblood as the race. First level as fighter with unarmed fighting style and con proficiency, then 1 as monk for unarmored defense and martial arts. The core of the build was punching the enemy and casting hex to improve the damage. The character was visually a fat old man with a huge bald spot but long hair along the circle of bald head, long nails and green skin, fat belly but thin arms and legs, with saggy skin... but it was only a 17 years old hagspawn, actually a young dude that wasn't evil, despite being a bit monstruous.
@_Trash_Goblin
11 ай бұрын
I was wondering if you'd mention the hexblood, and very glad you did. Neat video as always!
@yugijak
11 ай бұрын
You mention that hagspawn are usually thrown to the wolves It gave me an idea of a hagspawn that becomes a druid through sheer existence, surviving on what little power they do inherit and nuturing it with the most primal of druidic methods An embodiment of the concept throw me to the wolves and i shall return leading the pack
@brainstormsurge154
10 ай бұрын
Makes me wonder how a hagspawn would reproduce if they wanted to start a hidden village of hagspawn. I know you said it could be that hagspawn could just be similar to tieflings but it's interesting to think about how that would come to be in the first place. Could be a PC character motivation where they seek a means to create their own community of hagspawn. Perhaps they use a wish spell to turn willing hagspawn into females in order to create this community or just using true polymorph. Maybe the PC uses the wish spell to become a true male hag to rule over this new hagspawn community or comes across secret/forbidden knowledge or uses powerful divination magic to discover a method to do the same thing. Would certainly be an interesting kind of end goal for a player. Kind of giving the goal of making hagspawn like tieflings. Then you wonder about sorcerer's that could come from any hagspawn that has children with regular folk.
@arcanusafonso2647
11 ай бұрын
For a long time, I've been fascinated by hags and my current campaign will have an old adventurer asking the PCs for help to stop his old Sea Hag lover (because "love is blind" stories are my weak spot). This gave me the idea to instead have their son doing this in place of his father. Thanks for the inspiration!
@tarososandgoose637
11 ай бұрын
Played a few hagspawn in 5e before this video came out. It interesting to see your take on it. Though this reminded me I should make a dune hag spawn or maybe more hag variants off of kobold presses hags.
@Jawmax
11 ай бұрын
I could see a situation where in order to stop a coven from making a Hag Dragon the party has to show a Hag Spawn that he is being abused and one they have the dragon they won't need him anymore. Angry smashing chaos is the perfect diversion grab the egg.
@tomhanks1769
10 ай бұрын
I remember a male hag from Neverwinter nights 2 i think. He was handsome because his mother actually loved his father and vice versa so he was born with unparalleled beauty.
@aaroncunningham8307
11 ай бұрын
Yes! I love the Uvuudaum! I had a headcanon that the Uvuudaum are powerful spellcasters of timelines/worlds abandoned to Far Realm corruption. They would transmute their brain into the iron spike found on their heads to resist the madness and mutation, and now seek revenge against the gods who abandoned them.
@One_Eyed_Man_
11 ай бұрын
I like the idea of the relationship between a hag and her spawn being more akin to that between Morgan la Fae and Mordred, or like a fantasy version of a Karen: "HOOOOOW DARE YOU?!!, My boy is a perfect little angel!" This would be just as toxic but, arguably, the outcome would be worse. Imagine a spoiled brat with an evil witch as a mother growing up to be an unstoppable warlord.
@MerculiarchSyn
11 ай бұрын
He’s thrown out of the house, and has to start a interplanar OF account to survive.
@blakewyattdunfee2
9 ай бұрын
A hag spawn sees a building collapsing and leaps into action and tries his best to brace the crumbling building while the people scramble to get out as fast as they can. After everyone escapes by the skin of their teeth, they look back a the 7 foot tall physically fit but not overly muscular hag spawn quickly losing strength as the weight of the building piles up on top of him before the crumbling building crashing down on top of him, while he's bellowing in physical agony as he pushes a small little girl who was left behind by mistake to safety. The tiny girl tries to dig the brave and compassionate "giant" boy from the debris but only to find his mangled and crushed frame, with the help of the other townsfolk after seeing how desperate she was to find and thank him for protecting her. She saw his crushed body and weeps...while the townsfolk out of respect for giving his life to save a bunch of strangers who he didn't even know in the slightest, mourn. It was the least that they could do...
@mycenaeangal9312
11 ай бұрын
Trans hagspawn pc has such an incredible emotional knot and stakes and just meat for someone to play with. Honestly the character conflict just writes itself. If you wanna explore inferiority and gender dysphoria and the grotesque and layered social ostracism and abusive parental relationships and powers ability to shield you from these things, I could scarcely think of a better way to do it. The metaphors and symbolism and irony are all just like so perfectly built in for you to be a dramatic bitch at the table. And really who doesn’t wanna be a dramatic bitch at the table?
@thenoremac2685
10 ай бұрын
Hmm... Hagspawn feylock that is a complete mommy's boy.
@zimattack9994
11 ай бұрын
Ow story hook A coven of hags tasks the party to hunt down a hag spawn and bring him back to the hag why because hes the son of baba yaga and any daughter born of him would be a terrifying powerful hag Have you done slaymate yet
@jamesb7994
11 ай бұрын
Gann from Mask of the betrayer is a really good night hagspawn that was your compaion throughout the dlc of neverwinter nights 2.
@echedp8903
11 ай бұрын
I think a trans woman hag spawn set to prove to her mother that she is a real hag by learning the most powerful of magic would be a cool idea for a character. That just sounds like a solid idea.
@CorporalHicks8
11 ай бұрын
I have an enemy kingdom of hags in my campaign right now. The bulk of their population are the hexbloods who can ascend to haghood by performing a ritual that requires other hag's help but because a new hag is a new rival, this is very rare. They're led by a king, the sole male hag who has forbidden male hexbloods from ever ascending because he wants to be the only one. I wish you'd come out with this video a month ago because I love the variation in your hagspawn. Maybe I'll just covertly retcon since they haven't truly made it to hag territory yet.
@libraryofpangea7018
11 ай бұрын
I like the idea of a Seahag spawn Pirate Captian, who has an unhealthy co-dependancy with his Hag mother. A big gnarly badass who is a total momma's boy & an abusive devouring mother archetype who is never satisfied with his accomplishments but love bombs him to maintain control. The ship crewed by a cult of The Mother. The Captian her favorite and most disappointing child. Burning merchant ships to cinders yet running to mummy when he gets a splinter. Mother is so beautiful, their captured hostages must be forced to gaze upon her....
@robertprueter3292
11 ай бұрын
In the Volo book, Orcs get a -2 Charisma
@FilmGuy7000
11 ай бұрын
Same with the original Volo's Guide. Although it might have been Intelligence? I can't quite remember.
@robertprueter3292
11 ай бұрын
@@FilmGuy7000 Thanks my man, it was the Volo book, not Eberron. I misremembered.
@warwerewolf777
11 ай бұрын
Same book Kobolds got -2 Str as well I believe
@TheKypps
11 ай бұрын
Volos was the best book 5e made.
@pepsicrusader535
11 ай бұрын
And kobolds get a -2 to strength because the 5e writers wanted to punish me for being a tiny dragon Bastard but they failed and i play them more then any other race especially since they got buffed
@NeoIsrafil
10 ай бұрын
Omg. Hearing you call hag spawn males AMAB makes me want to play an AMAB trans-hag... 😂
@chrisg8989
11 ай бұрын
Man Hag? You mean the Mag? Or the Han? 😅
@XanderMander006
11 ай бұрын
Hags are one of my favorite "humanoid" monsters. Being able to play as the "son" of a hag sounds like a really fun idea. I've got a couple of ideas of characters for the (Anis) Hag-Spawn and they both revolve around necrotic damage.
@jacobcrawford1345
Ай бұрын
I'm making the hunchback of Notre Dom with the hag spawn
@arthursouzadocarmo404
11 ай бұрын
Nice, mad maggie can now have e son as creepy as she is in Descent into avernus!
@reiprosciutto6664
11 ай бұрын
I LOVE when a youtuber gives a homebrew player options lmao
@Liliputian07
11 ай бұрын
I actually play a character on Saturdays who was a male baby turned into a hag by a coven. it didn't work and all it did was give him a female body, which he now seeks to use magic to change. (he can't just use the change sex spell because the female body is manifesting from his nature being changed, rather than just a physical and chemical difference)
@criticaltipper7699
11 ай бұрын
How to tell your dnd friends your trans without telling them a masterclass
@Liliputian07
11 ай бұрын
@@criticaltipper7699 that would be cute. but no, I just like exploring gender for narrative purposes. mine is settled
@morthim
11 ай бұрын
when an old woman is actually a man, it is an old man. im glad to clear that up for you.
@deepseastonecore3017
11 ай бұрын
Micro machine man bard
@SylviaWylvia
5 ай бұрын
as a trans woman i feel like there could be a very compelling story for a trans hagspawn sorcerer pc who has had to work harder to try to be accepted by her mother possibly even eventually realizing she doesn't want to be like her after all. also whether intentional or not i really appreciate you saying hagspawn are assigned male at birth not that they're always "men" it really feels nice cause alot of "nerdy" spaces can be pretty transphobic even if only accidently so thank you for that :)
@DungeonDad
5 ай бұрын
That is definitely a story I could see being really interesting to play out at the table or even just as a backstory thing! Also yes it definitely was intentional. I knew this creature would likely hit a lot of notes that resonate one way or another with trans folks, and I think that’s really cool! Since the trans experience is outside of my personal experience, I didn’t feel super comfortable diving too deep into that in the video itself, but, I did want to make sure my use of language was careful here to put forth my best effort to be inviting to trans stories told through these guys. It truly warms my heart to read the comments on this video from trans people either just saying they like the monster or brainstorming their own character ideas. I’m definitely not perfect by any means but I do always try my best to make my channel welcoming for everyone, which absolutely includes my trans viewers. Thanks for watching!
@QuestionableObject
11 ай бұрын
Ah the Hag Spawn, takes me back to Mask of The Betrayer
@sigur95
11 күн бұрын
@sigur95 0 seconds ago A MtF trans AMAB hag spawn would probably be one of the most misunderstood creatures in existence 💀
@Dinosaurianationazation
11 ай бұрын
It think it’s more interesting if the Hagspawn aren’t just all male. I found a similar Hagspawn race which features female Hagspawns, which honestly feels more interesting and tragic to me. Hagspawns could be any gender, as opposed to just male. You could get a lot of good drama out of it.
@astuteanansi4935
11 ай бұрын
I feel like the tale of a female Hagspawn would be even more tragic. With males I can see the hags just going "oh well, tough luck" but a female child who for some reason doesn't inherit their magic would be the subject of so much abuse
@MsAirnation
11 ай бұрын
I already had a random encounter possibility which was a woman managing to hand off what turned out to be a baby to the party and then disappearing - might make it a hag sneakily making her hagspawn someone else's problem
@eddiebendigo7317
11 ай бұрын
In some not quite D&D book i read of a creature called the hagling. I think you'd be able to do a lot with them.
@gabrielcaro
11 ай бұрын
Sad you never mentioned Gann of Dreams from Neverwinter Nights 2 Mask of the Betrayer. An excellent portrayal of Hagspawn.
@willturnbull4796
11 ай бұрын
I ran a similar monster, being a caldron created "Grandsons" all burly human ape hybrids or fast gross rat hyrbids. Fun minions that met there end to a lantern and a bad falls jumping out of a burning inn
@vaguely-humanoid
3 ай бұрын
I just introduced a Hagspawn NPC who is a new player favorite. He's a wandering hermit type who just protects the land and the creatures on it. He was kept around by his hag mother and sisters who fed off his despair until one day he found hope through the main god of the campaign and he stopped being valuable to them. They kicked him out, but he basically said "screw you" and doubled back to rob them blind. So he has access to all these spooky magic items that he may give/lend to players, while still being like the sweetest guy ever.
@wiredsound5005
11 ай бұрын
Well I think i know what race i want to play next campaign! Thanks again for another fascinating monster video, Dad. Your production quality has gone up so much as the channel grew this year! I look forward to seeing it continue that way.
@jrock8760
11 ай бұрын
Now I want to make a hag spawn warlock whose mother is their patron. "Deary, could go to the market and pickup some meat for dinner." "Do you want one or two children tonight?" "Two! Margaret will be over for our weekly grimoire reading. Now hurry up you oaf!" *sigh*"Yes mother..."
@bobyhappy2992
11 ай бұрын
I think male Hags can exists and still be on par with their peers just a very rare occurance but still a possibility in my head a hagspawn is more the result of a person being cursed or raised by a hag or a coven I love hags they are so colorful 😍 And I've always wanted to be a Hag Daddy
@JohnSmith-nd9oh
2 ай бұрын
Imagine delightfully wicked synergy of being a hex blade warlock and your creature race is Hex blood. the hag that created you or cursed you at birth was a pact hag......
@Hawdkoah
11 ай бұрын
On Keith Baker's blog, he's said that hags can be any gender in Eberron and listed a few male examples. For that setting, I'd say a hagspawn would follow the same logic and are probably the result of manifest zones similar to how other planetouched in that setting arise or are some kind of Vedalis experiment.
@cameronpearce5943
11 ай бұрын
I have a character based off an NPC my Wizard saved in an Adventure's League game. She was eaten by a Hag as a baby and was soon after abandoned by her father who saw the whole thing go down. She was raised by a woodsman and on the cusp of her 13th birthday the party unravelled the whole tragedy and fortunately were able to use a Remove Curse scroll to halt her transformation. Subsequently I made a character based off of her, being trained by my Wizard character, and is a Hexblood Wizard (using the UA Witherbloom subclass). With Baldur's Gate showing the process of Hag Creation being that the child is incubated in the hag's stomach and then regurgitated as a hag after some time, a process that can be interrupted, I do wonder how much of the original person remains when a Hag is birthed? Also, we do have a male Night Hag in Planescape as an NPC Villain in one of the gate towns
@dubuyajay9964
11 ай бұрын
Wouldn't a male Hag just be a Warlock?
@TaCo0oCaT
11 ай бұрын
To be a warlock you need a patron
@endormorre6567
11 ай бұрын
If you think Hag is gender exclusive maybe, but in this case hag is a species, and it's hard to say to a son of a hag, "Even if you're born from a hag, you can't be one because you're a guy," especially if they are a hostile encounter in D&D. Gender exclusive terms have fallen out of fashion, but these terms can still be useful outside of a gendered way. Have you read any of Terry Pratchett's Discworld? They use Wizard and Witch as gender specific terms for spell casters but as the books go on it decides more apparent that the real difference is how each group uses magic, witches use practical magic while wizards use big magic, with gender simply being a common but not exclusive component, especially since the third book is all about the first female wizard and the last book introduced the first male witch.
@FoxBatinaHat
11 ай бұрын
Yuggoloths
@smithsmith1956
11 ай бұрын
@@endormorre6567I think we should still keep some gendered language. It makes things confusing as fuq if we don't use it at all or blur the lines. I never thought wizard or witch was gendered, though. Out of the books I've read they were just job titles essentially. It's just that men gravitate to wizard and women witch. Just like irl men gravitate to being mechanics and women to nursing.
@mrpartychiken2870
11 ай бұрын
@@smithsmith1956true as a male “witch” would either focus on magic or alchemy defaulting them to wizard or alchemist respectively
@aldenburning1346
11 ай бұрын
"Assigned male at birth"... really?
@connorletkeman5002
11 ай бұрын
Itd be neat to use a hagspawn NPC who's similar to vivienne from paper mario
@halfdecentstrange
11 ай бұрын
PAPER MARIOOO
@maxblake5564
11 ай бұрын
YES!!! THE LORDS OF THE FAR REALM, THE UVUUDAUM, ARE FINALLY GETTING THEIR TIME IN THE SPOTLIGHT!!!
@Shadowrunner123
11 ай бұрын
I WAS JOKING ABOUT A HAG HAG BUT GO OFF KING
@Bofrab
5 ай бұрын
I know Hags have a tradition of stealing a child and replacing the child with a hag version that would grow up and kill the family they were left with, but what if one time they tried that, but it ended up being a Hag Spawn and the Hag went “well that sucks” and just left it, then the Hag Spawn just grew up with the family it was left with.
@rue...whenwasthis
10 ай бұрын
Me who's currently playing a DnD 5e campaign as a Wild Magic Hexblood Sorcerer when I see the video title: "is for me?"
@ODDnanref
11 ай бұрын
Giving the sea hag -2 to charisma but also giving them an ability that depends on charisma is a nonbo. You are essentially nerfing their use of said ability. You understood this to the point where you had to specifically make the negative into a positive. Problem is that this just means that normal intimidation is also bad for a hag spawn ugly enough to intimidate in other situations. Feels weird. Maybe have them have disadvantage in persuasion and performance?
@Long_May_They_Raine
11 ай бұрын
My immediate thought is Hagspawn Cinderella who’s treated like shit by his mother and sisters, makes a pact with an entity that promises him revenge, and will eventually return to destroy his family.
@DIEGhostfish
2 ай бұрын
Early DnD stuff including Gygax's own novel implied Ogre Mages might be their males.
@evelynlamoy8483
5 ай бұрын
ah, new character aquired. Hagspawn who aspires to become a great wizard to spite his mom for not thinking he'd ammount to anything as a spellcaster.
@PierceWald
Ай бұрын
I like the idea of a hagspawn that learns magic and becomes a wizard purely to go back and kick their families asses out of spite
@fusiondisaster5230
8 ай бұрын
I heard the laugh about hagspawn having a good relationship with their mother and took that personally, so I've made a hagspawn character that not only has a very loving mother, but a caring grandmother and aunt
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