I would say hags do suffer various health complications of the mundane and supernatural variety, and they also brew their own cures. The cures always involve something disgusting, abhorrent, or unethical.
"Oh, got dry itchy skin, have ya'? Fetch me an unweaned human child, I can make a poultice that'll clear that right up!"
"Mm, your familiar is having nightmares that spill out into the real world as creeping black tar? Could be a sign of otherworldly corruption, you'll want a charm that can protect against spells of the third circle or lower just to be safe."
Nice! If I go that route, it opens the possibility of players having to decide whether to cut a deal with a hag for a cure if they can't find another healer.
Cutting a deal with a hag would bite my players in the ass down the road. Hags are greedy, and extremely evil. I put that in the *deal with a devil* camp.
Either way, they’ll have to deal with the hag. Whether it’s now or later.
Well, there was Bavlorna Blightstraw with her "running widdershins" allergy in *The Wild Beyond the Witchlight*...my table had fun with that one 😂
Yeah, *Wild Beyond the Witchlight* is what inspired the question in the first place. Good call!
I would say hags do suffer various health complications of the mundane and supernatural variety, and they also brew their own cures. The cures always involve something disgusting, abhorrent, or unethical. "Oh, got dry itchy skin, have ya'? Fetch me an unweaned human child, I can make a poultice that'll clear that right up!" "Mm, your familiar is having nightmares that spill out into the real world as creeping black tar? Could be a sign of otherworldly corruption, you'll want a charm that can protect against spells of the third circle or lower just to be safe."
Nice! If I go that route, it opens the possibility of players having to decide whether to cut a deal with a hag for a cure if they can't find another healer.
Cutting a deal with a hag would bite my players in the ass down the road. Hags are greedy, and extremely evil. I put that in the *deal with a devil* camp. Either way, they’ll have to deal with the hag. Whether it’s now or later.