Can night hags affect elves?

Yes, and honestly if the elves can dream, they can be subject to nightmares created by a Night Hag.

Can elves be affected by sleep?

According to Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes (p. 38), in the "Dreams from Beyond Memory" sidebar: Yes, elves can sleep, but find dreams to be mysterious and weird so they generally choose not to. Elves can sleep and dream just like any human, but almost all surface elves avoid doing so.

How do you deal with a night hag?

Leomund's Tiny Hut or the Alarm spell are both fine solutions to her slitting your throats in your sleep. Also, possibly force attacks like Magic Missile or Eldritch Blast might work. Magic weapons may do the trick and a Hag might be Fey so the Paladin's Divine Channel may still work.

What happens when a night hag dies?

If unimpeded in their mental invasions, night hags would continue straddling their marks until they died in their sleep. It was at this point that a night hag's other powerful item, her soul bag, came into use.

Are elves immune to night hags?

Based on the mechanics, they are immune because it says sleeping. Nothing about elf rules says they can't sleep, so if an elf player deliberately made a point of wanting to actually be asleep, I'd allow it. In such a case, they would be vulnerable to the hag's ability.

What They Don't Tell You About Night Hags - D

Are night hags fey?

The most vile and nightmarish of the hags, night hags were fey turned fiends, so vile even compared to the rest of their kind that they were banished from the Feywild. The fiendish degenerates were soulmongers who traded larva in Hades for power and wealth.

How tall is a night hag?

Night hags vary widely in appearance, standing between 5-1/2 and 7 feet tall, and weighing from 150 to 300 pounds.

What does a hag eye do?

A Hag Eye has AC 10, 1 hit point, and Darkvision with a radius of 60 feet. If it is destroyed, each coven member takes 3d10 psychic damage and is Blinded for 24 hours. A hag coven can have only one Hag Eye at a time, and creating a new one requires all three members of the coven to perform a ritual.

How do night hags reproduce?

10 They Reproduce By stealing And Eating Children

If the night hag as no child of her own, she will steal one from a nearby village shortly after its born. The night hag will devour the hapless child and in a week produce a new one in its place.

What would a hag ask for?

Most commonly, the Hag wants some kind of “thing” in exchange for her assistance. The request might seem trivial. She might want a lock of hair from a beautiful girl in the nearby village, a single drop of blood from a powerful warrior, or some other such simple request.

Is a night hag a humanoid?

The hag magically polymorphs into a Small or Medium female humanoid, or back into her true form. Her statistics are the same in each form. Any equipment she is wearing or carrying isn't transformed. She reverts to her true form if she dies.

What does a soul bag do?

Well a soul bag would be a holding spot for a Night Hag to change a soul into a Larva, probably by transporting them to Hades/The Three Glooms/etc. Then they are used per the DMG: "Hades is crawling with larvae. Night hags, liches, and rakshasas harvest them for use in vile rituals.

Do elves need 8 hours of sleep?

The Mechanics of the Elves' Trance Ability

While an Elf is in their Trance, they are in a semiconscious meditative state. They do this daily for 4 hours to gain adequate rest equivalent to other races' 8 hours of sleep.

Can elves hear while Trancing?

They would hear combat and normal noise regardless, but wouldn't likely hear an assassin. All this said, the duration is the real prize. Elves don't need a full night's sleep to get their rest, so they can be alert for half of a long rest.

Do elves need 8 hours of rest?

An Elf can get the benefit of a Long Rest in only 4 hours. The 4 hours only applies to not being exhausted, 8 hours is still required get the benefits of a Long Rest.

How do I become a hag?

Hags are created by other Hags. By trapping and devouring infants, the Hag is able to give birth to daughters who, upon reaching their thirteenth birthday, become Hags themselves. It is not uncommon for Hags to do this to create a coven of their own.

Are all hags evil?

Hags are some of the most wicked, nasty, and vile creatures in all of Dungeons and Dragons. They are evil to their core, and their bodies reflect their despicable nature. Hags look like old crones with withered bodies and matted hair.

How long can hags live?

They are also able to mimic most animals. Greenhags speak their own language (a dialect of annis) as well as all demihuman languages and common. These are the longest lived of all hags — they can live for up to 1,000 years.

Are night hags fiends?

From page 178 of the MM: “Night Hags were once creatures of the Feywild, but their foulness saw them exiled to Hades long ago, where they degenerated into fiends.” So Night Hags are Fiends.

What type of creature is a hag?

A hag is a wizened old woman, or a kind of fairy or goddess having the appearance of such a woman, often found in folklore and children's tales such as "Hansel and Gretel".

How old is an old hag?

1. an ugly or slatternly old woman. 2.

What is the most powerful hag 5e?

Annis Hags are wicked Hag and are said to be the most powerful of the Hags. Annis Hags are giant crones with blackened skin; stringy, black hair; fingers that end in long talons; and sharpened teeth that look like iron nails.

Do hags have to be female?

Hags usually used charms and/or coercion to get male humans to mate with them, often killing and eating them afterward. Though male or female offspring could result from such a coupling, female children inevitably became hags while male children became hagspawn.

Are Fey humanoids?

The 5e rules define humanoids as a creature type not a "form". Creatures only have 1 creature type unless specifically stated otherwise. The centaur race from GGtR is Fey instead of humanoid, because it has a trait that says so.