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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
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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.