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Winter Hag

CR 7.00 Monstrous Humanoid CE Medium HD 10

This woman has black, frostbitten skin, white hair, and a black ice staff decorated with bones and gems.

Description

Winter hags are sadistic crones who haunt winter-blasted plains and rime-covered forests. They're exceptionally arrogant, and often use their magic to subjugate entire tribes of evil humanoids so they can rule over them as queens. These arrangements rarely last more than a few seasons, because no creature is truly safe from a winter hag's irrepressible appetite for warm, raw flesh. An ambitious winter hag might extort a village by causing constant snowfall until they give her children to eat or adults to become her slaves.

A typical winter hag stands between 5 and 6 feet tall and weighs 100 pounds.

When a winter hag joins a coven, the coven adds sculpt simulacrum and simulacrum to its spell-like abilities, and any member within 1 mile of the winter hag gains icewalking and snow vision.

Combat Stats

85 (10d10+30)

20, touch 11, flat-footed 19 (+1 Dex, +9 natural)

Init

Speed

30 ft.

Fort

Ref

Will

BAB

+10

CMB

+13

CMD

Melee: +2 frost quarterstaff +15/+10 (1d6+6 plus 1d6 cold) or<p class="stat-block-2">2 claws +13 (1d4+3)</p>
DR: 10/magic
SR: 18
Racial Modifiers: +4 Stealth in snow

Ability Scores

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Proficiencies

Weapons: Simple

Special Attacks

Breath Weapon — A creature that successfully saves against the hag's breath weapon takes half damage and is not blinded.

Special Qualities

Ice Staff — Once per week, a winter hag can perform an hour-long ritual to create a staff made of black ice that is as hard as steel and functions as a +2 frost quarterstaff. A winter hag holding her ice staff can use cone of cold once per day as a spell-like ability. The staff melts after 1 week.

Icewalking — This ability works like the spider climb spell, but the surfaces the hag climbs must be icy. The hag can move across icy surfaces without penalty and doesn't need to make Acrobatics checks to run or charge on ice.

Feats

Alertness, Blind-Fight, Combat Casting, Deceitful, Great Fortitude

Special Abilities

Universal Monster Rules

Breath Weapon Su from Universal Monster Rule

Some creatures can exhale a cone, line, or cloud of energy or other magical effects. A breath weapon attack usually deals damage and is often based on some type of energy. Breath weapons allow a Reflex save for half damage (DC 10 + 1/2 the breathing creature's racial HD + the breathing creature's Con modifier; the exact DC is given in the creature's descriptive text). A creature is immune to its own breath weapon unless otherwise noted. Some breath weapons allow a Fortitude save or a Will save instead of a Reflex save. Each breath weapon also includes notes on how often it can be used, even if this number is limited in times per day.

Special Abilities

Ice Staff from text

Once per week, a winter hag can perform an hour-long ritual to create a staff made of black ice that is as hard as steel and functions as a +2 frost quarterstaff. A winter hag holding her ice staff can use cone of cold once per day as a spell-like ability. The staff melts after 1 week.

Icewalking from text

This ability works like the spider climb spell, but the surfaces the hag climbs must be icy. The hag can move across icy surfaces without penalty and doesn't need to make Acrobatics checks to run or charge on ice.

Feats, Traits & Items

Alertness from Feat

You get a +2 bonus on Perception and Sense Motive skill checks. If you have 10 or more ranks in one of these skills, the bonus increases to +4 for that skill.

Calculated: +2 Perception, +2 Sense Motive

Blind-Fight from Feat

In melee, every time you miss because of concealment (see Combat), you can reroll your miss chance percentile roll one time to see if you actually hit.

An invisible attacker gets no advantages related to hitting you in melee. That is, you don't lose your Dexterity bonus to Armor Class, and the attacker doesn't get the usual +2 bonus for being invisible. The invisible attacker's bonuses do still apply for ranged attacks, however.

You do not need to make Acrobatics skill checks to move at full speed while blinded.

Combat Casting from Feat

You get a +4 bonus on concentration checks made to cast a spell or use a spell-like ability when casting on the defensive or while grappled.

Situational: to cast a spell or use a spell-like ability defensively or while grappled: +4 untyped concentration

Deceitful from Feat

You get a +2 bonus on all Bluff and Disguise skill checks. If you have 10 or more ranks in one of these skills, the bonus increases to +4 for that skill.

Calculated: +2 Bluff, +2 Disguise

Great Fortitude from Feat

You get a +2 bonus on all Fortitude saving throws.

Calculated: +2 Fort

Skills

Bluff +18, Craft (alchemy) +11, Diplomacy +9, Disguise +11, Intimidate +17, Knowledge (arcana) +8, Perception +18, Ride +9, Sense Motive +8, Spellcraft +8, Stealth +9 (+13 in snow)

Spells

spell-like abilities:

Constant—Pass Without Trace (DC 15), Constant—See Invisibility, At will—Chill Metal (DC 16), At will—Detect Magic, At will—Fog Cloud, At will—Frostbite, At will—Whispering Wind, 3/day—Alter Self, 3/day—Charm Monster, 3/day—Invisibility (DC 16), 3/day—Major Image, 1/day—Cone Of Cold (DC 19), 1/day—Control Weather, 1/day—Wall Of Ice (DC 18), 1/day—Waves Of Fatigue

Details

Type: Monstrous Humanoid
Alignment: CE
Size: Medium
Environment: cold forests or plains
Organization: solitary, patrol (1 plus 1 winter wolf), or coven (3 hags of any type)
Treasure: standard
Senses: darkvision 60 ft., see invisibility, snow vision; Perception +18
Languages: Aklo, Common, Giant
Source: Bestiary 4

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