A fresh and fascinating deep dive into the rich lore of hags that is full of new creature options and variant rules. The new hags are very interesting, especially the delightful Candy Hag, and you get a full bestiary of very flavorful new hag minions. The supplement also offers interesting mechanics, including new hag curses and bargains, guidance on creating powerful Auntie and Grandmother hags, advice on running a hag and the tacticts they use, lists of minions you might find with certain types of hags, alternative covern spell lists, lots of adventure hooks, descriptions of several weird new magic items, and it concludes with several encounters and two full adventures showing how many of the new creatures and options can be used in game play. You get a lot of bang for your buck! I would have liked even more information about creating an Auntie or Gradmother hag, and also even more flavorful hag variants like the wonderful Candy Hag, along with additional cool new minions. Also, a full list of weird and frightening new spells would have really rounded out the supplement--perhaps, even a new mini-system of alternative hag magic could have been added. Nonetheless, it is an excellently written and comprehensive overview of hags that offers plenty of cool new options and creatures to use in your game. It is a great addition to the existing information on hags offered in the official Monster Manual and Volo's Guide To Monsters. Also, I would suggest checking out on the DMsGuild the amazing Monster Manual Expanded by Dragonix. Along with the nearly 500 monsters in that supplement, it offers stat blocks for Elder Hags, which provide a good bridge between a regular hag and an Auntie hag, or even a great template on which to add the Hag's Hexes's suggeted lair and regional effects, along with a couple of the additional sugggested features, to build a powerful Auntie Hag. Another great feature of the Hag's Hexes supplement is how effectively and easily it can be used with both official and other third-party material to provide a novel and exciting take on the iconic hag adversaries.
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