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PFS StandardSweet Hag

Sweet hags use bright colors, pleasant visages, and sugary treats to draw in children and the young at heart. Their favorite prey is impoverished youngsters who are unlikely to be missed—sweet hags offer them food and a veneer of kindness before devouring the hapless child. Sweet hags also enchant their food to magically charm others, often using these bespelled servitors to handle all of their busywork. Though they present a lovely and generous face to the world, they turn vicious when insulted or defied. A sweet hag's true form is a dribbling mass of flesh with gumdrop eyes, often resembling melting taffy.

Recall Knowledge - Humanoid (Society): DC 19
Unspecific Lore: DC 17
Specific Lore: DC 14

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Sweet HagCreature 4

Medium Hag Humanoid 
Source Monster Core pg. 189
Perception +10; darkvision
Languages Aklo, Common, Fey, Jotun; truespeech
Skills Acrobatics +9, Athletics +11, Deception +10, Nature +8, Occultism +8, Stealth +9
Str +5, Dex +3, Con +3, Int +2, Wis +2, Cha +4
Coven A sweet hag adds charm, honeyed words, and outcast's curse to their coven's spells.
AC 21; Fort +11, Ref +11, Will +12; +1 status to all saves vs. magic
HP 70; Weaknesses cold iron 5
Speed 25 feet
Melee [one-action] candy cane claw +14 [+10/+6] (agile, magical), Damage 1d10+5 piercing plus soporific touchOccult Innate Spells DC 20, attack +14; 2nd create food (sweets only), invisibility (at will), laughing fit, shrink, sleep; 1st charm (at will), cleanse cuisine (at will), spider sting; Cantrips (2nd) daze, figment, light, message; Constant (5th) truespeech
Betraying Touch [one-action] The sweet hag touches a creature that doesn't realize the hag is an enemy. The betrayed creature is affected by soporific strike with a –4 circumstance penalty to their saving throw.Change Shape [one-action] (concentrate, occult, polymorph) The sweet hag can take on the appearance of any Medium humanoid woman. This doesn't change their Speed or their attack and damage bonuses with their Strikes, but it might change the damage type their Strikes deal (typically to bludgeoning).Poisoned Candy [two-actions] (occult) The sweet hag casts an innate spell that can normally target 1 creature on a piece of food, typically a sweet treat. The spell is stored in the food. The first creature that eats any of the food is affected by the spell and takes a –4 circumstance penalty to their saving throw against that effect.Soporific Touch (incapacitation, occult) A creature damaged by a sweet hag's claw must succeed at a DC 20 Fortitude save or be enfeebled 1 for 1 day. If the creature critically fails or fails this save while already enfeebled by soporific strike, it falls unconscious and dreams of eating delicious sweets; this is a mental sleep effect. If not woken up before 1 minute passes, the creature wakes up automatically.

All Monsters in "Hag"

NameLevel
Cuckoo Hag9
Iron Hag6
Sea Hag3
Sweet Hag4

Hag

Source Monster Core pg. 188
Hags are malevolent predators who use magic and manipulation to lure children and young adults into their clutches. Though their true forms are eldritch and horrifying, hags spend much of their lives disguised as ordinary women. They seek out targets who are unhappy, innocent, or otherwise vulnerable, preying on their weaknesses before snatching them up. The typical hag is abusive, controlling, and narcissistic. Though less malicious hags possibly exist, they rarely reveal their true forms, making them nearly impossible to find.

Sidebar - Advice and Rules Hag Covens

Hags are dangerous enough on their own, but when they gather in threes to form covens, they grow much more powerful.

Sidebar - Advice and Rules Hags and Children

Hags are known to replace infant humanoids with their own offspring. These children are changelings and have the potential to become hags themselves. Though hags are based on the fantasy villains of fairy tales, they can also touch on the all-too-real behavior of abusive adults. Consider and discuss whether hags are right for your group and game before using them. Pathfinder is for everyone, and it's not weak or selfish to avoid traumatic memories in a game that's meant to be played for fun!

Sidebar - Related Creatures Other Hags

The four types of hags presented here are but the most notorious of their kind. Others—such as the blood hag, moon hag, storm hag, and winter hag—plague society in other regions of the world.

Sidebar - Additional Lore The Nature of Hags

No one is entirely certain what hags are or where they came from. That no known male hags exist has also puzzled occult scholars. Many believe hags are a type of fey, since most of their kind have an aversion to cold iron. Yet hags seem to have no origin in the First World that researchers have found. Some tales claim that hags were once creatures who made a series of powerful bargains with devils. Though they outsmarted the fiends, they were still eventually corrupted.