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MONSTERS OF THE EAST Shrieking Hag Hagspawn War1 Medium-Size Monstrous Humanoid Medium-Size Monstrous Humanoid Hit Dice: 12d8+36 (90 hp) 1d8+1 (5 hp) Initiative: +1 +0 Speed: 30 ft., fly 80 ft. (good) 20 ft. (breastplate), base 30 ft. AC: 21 (+1 Dex, +10 natural), 19 (+2 natural, +5 breastplate, touch 11, flat-footed 20 +2 large wooden shield), touch 10, flat-footed 19 Base Attack/Grapple: +12/+17 +1/+2 Attack: Claw +17 melee Bastard sword +2 melee Full Attack: 2 claws +17 melee Bastard sword +2 melee Damage: Claw 1d4+5 Bastard sword 1d10+1/19–20 Face/Reach: 5 ft./5 ft. 5 ft./5 ft. Special Attacks: Rend 2d4+10, shriek, spell-like abilities — Special Qualities: Cold immunity, darkvision 60 ft., Hagspawn traits, SR 12 sonic resistance 10, SR 21 Saves: Fort +11, Ref +9, Will +8 Fort +3, Ref +0, Will +0 Abilities: Str 20, Dex 13, Con 16, Str 12, Dex 11, Con 13, Int 11, Wis 15, Cha 14 Int 10, Wis 11, Cha 8 Skills: Bluff +7, Concentration +15, Diplomacy +6, Climb –3, Jump –3, Spot +2 Disguise +2 (+4 acting), Hide +7, Listen +11, Sense Motive +6, Spot +11, Survival +6 Feats: Alertness, Cleave, Combat Casting, Exotic Weapon Proficiency Iron Will, Power Attack (bastard sword) Climate/Terrain: Cold plains Any land Organization: Solitary Solitary Challenge Rating: 10 Character level +1 Level Adjustment: — +2 Treasure: Standard Standard Alignment: Always chaotic evil Usually chaotic evil Advancement: By character class By character class Bheur Hag Hagspawn Shrieking Hag 64 Illustration by Vince Locke
Maddening Feast (Su): A bheur dines on the bodies of the creatures it slays. As a full-round action, it can totally devour the flesh of a slain or helpless victim, leaving only the bones and equipment. Any creature within 60 feet that views this must make a Will save (DC 16). The save is Charisma-based. Those that fail are either permanently blinded (75% chance) or become confused for 2d6 days (25% chance). This is a mindaffecting effect. Although they prefer the flesh of humans, bheurs are willing to eat just about any humanoid creature, livestock, or fish. Spell-Like Abilities: At will—chill metal, ray of frost, Snilloc’s snowball swarm (FRCS); 1/tenday—control weather. These abilities are as the spells cast by a 10th-level sorcerer (save DC 11 + spell level). Acid and Electricity Vulnerability: Bheurs take half again as much (+50%) damage as normal from acid and electricity, regardless of whether a saving throw is allowed, or if the save is a success or failure. Size Change (Su): A bheur can grow to Large size or return to its normal size as a standard action. When in Large form, the bheur’s AC and attack bonus decrease by –1 due to size, it gains +8 Strength, –2 Dexterity, and +4 Constitution, natural armor increases to +12, and its reach increases to 10 feet (see the above statistics for size change’s effect on attacks, skills, and abilities). However, its fly speed is reduced to 30 ft. (average). The bheur can remain in its Large form for only 10 minutes per day. Shrieking Hag Shrieking hags are horrible, spiteful monsters that haunt desolate wastelands and barren plains, preying on unwary travelers and spreading all sorts of mischief in their wake. They delight in deceiving the strong and virtuous, seeking to spread chaos and despair. When a potential victim resists its wiles, a shrieking hag flies into a murderous rage. One angry hag can scour an entire village in a matter of minutes with its formidable spell-like abilities and terrible, maddening shriek. A shrieking hag resembles a tall, regal woman ravaged by age. Its skin is yellow-brown in hue, tough and leathery, and its hands are twisted into iron-hard talons. Its long, white hair whips about in a bitterly cold wind that seems to follow the hag wherever it goes. A shrieking hag usually wears thin, tattered robes and may lean on a crooked staff that it has no real need for. COMBAT Shrieking hags prefer to deceive, entice, and charm travelers into their lairs, using their spell-like abilities to split up parties and draw away a single chosen victim. Should that fail, they resort to a furious assault from the night sky, shrieking and blasting their foes with wind. They reserve their physical attacks for dealing with solitary victims. Rend (Ex): A shrieking hag that hits a single target with both claws latches onto the opponent’s body and tears the MONSTERS OF THE EAST 65 flesh. This attack automatically deals an additional 2d4+10 points of damage. Shriek (Su): Three times per day, the shrieking hag can give voice to a terrible, maddening shriek. Any creature within 60 feet of the hag takes 2d6 points of damage and is also confused for 2d6 rounds. A successful Fortitude save (DC 19) negates the confusion effect and reduces the damage by half. The save is Constitution-based. Spell-Like Abilities: At will—change self, dancing lights, ghost sound, gust of wind, shocking grasp, wind wall; 3/day— charm person, control winds, improved invisibility, lightning bolt, see invisibility, suggestion; 1/day—charm monster, great shout (FRCS), polymorph self, whirlwind; 1/tenday—control weather. These abilities are as the spells cast by a 12th-level sorcerer (save DC 12 + spell level). Hagspawn Through charm or coercion, hags of all sorts use human males to propagate their wicked kind. Female children from such a union grow into hags, but the male children become hagspawn, brutish and ill-tempered creatures who inherit many of their hideous parent’s worst qualities. Usually abandoned while young, hagspawn frequently fall into lives of violence, murder, and brigandage, using the physical strength and toughness of their monstrous heritage to intimidate the smaller and weaker folk around them. Hagspawn resemble brutish humans at first glance. They are tall and powerfully built, with long arms, big hands, and a distinctive hunched posture. Their hair is long and lank, usually black in color, and their red eyes gleam with malice. Their faces are heavy-featured and coarse, and their skin color hints at their mother’s kind—pallid blue for the sons of annises, sickly green for a green hag’s spawn, and so on. Most hagspawn become brigands, thugs, or mercenaries and thus take the warrior class. The information presented in the entries above represents a 1st-level hagspawn warrior. For more information, see the Hagspawn entry in Chapter 1: Races of the East. COMBAT Gifted with unusual strength, tough hides, and an innate resistance to magic, hagspawn naturally gravitate to physical combat. They favor large, powerful weapons and are notoriously reckless with their own lives, counting on their superior brawn and ferocity to see them through. HAGSPAWN CHARACTERS A hagspawn’s favored class is barbarian, but they also make good fighters, rangers, and rogues. Given the circumstances of their birth, hagspawn are loners by nature, and few become the leaders of anything at all. Hagspawn clerics usually worship evil, violent deities such as Bane or Talos.
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Contents Introduction . . . . . . .
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Across the wide lands of Faerûn, b
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Chapter 5: Magic Items. The Red Wiz
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Races The races commonly found in o
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Star Elf Racial Traits Star elves h
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of adventuring party. At best, a gn
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Major Geographic Features The two d
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A ghost of the Great Barrow THE GRE
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the Dalesfolk and shield them from
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While the Dalesfolk don’t like ou
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-970 The Nentyarch of Tharos builds
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the only other settlements that mig
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Mettledale and Spearsmouth Dale Alo
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Foreigners view Rashemen as a myste
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with earthquakes, freakish storms,
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wealth. The water is glacial runoff
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others believe it is a gift from th
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People of Rashemen The people of Ra
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and are the face of the Rashemi peo
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THE VREMYONNI While the wychlaran s
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Rashemen’s forces except the Witc
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efore reaching the keep, and the go
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Mulsantir (LARGE TOWN) At Mulsantir
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Best known for the crimson-robed Re
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more than 17,000 feet high. In the
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Thayan bombards (see Chapter 5: Mag
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those on foot. As well, the lands a
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nobles, and his sergeants are Rashe
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The zulkirs appoint tharchions, or
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Aglarondan spy who keeps an eye on
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too juicy a target for the Shadowma
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This has built up some resentment o
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Thesk is most famous for the Golden
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potential to be the most fertile la
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slaves of the Tuigan Horde or refug
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disciplined mercenary companies. Th
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Today, the Shadowmasters control or
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on supplies. Orc miners take over P
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his prodigious fortune and business
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hands just outside its walls. The 3
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sinister past, concerned as they ar
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An Unapproachable East FORGOTTEN RE
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usiness. Use the statistics below,
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