How did Baba Yaga make her hut?

[Liam Warner]

I know what the flavour text is and that she's a unique being with special rules and abilities but her stat description indicates she's still only caster level 20 but her hut requires caster level 30 to make so mechanics wise how in all the worlds of.creation did she do it?

And please don't say a wizard (witch) did it this is a serious question.

[Tangent101]

She has 10 Mythic Tiers. The Hut is a Legendary Item that was upgraded to Minor, and then Major Artifact.

[Stone Dog]

I would imagine that it takes a 30th level caster to make the thing as it stands. It probably wasn't always this powerful.

She probably made it in bits and peices over the centuries with favors from more powerful beings in the mix.

[Liam Warner]

Stone Dog wrote:

I would imagine that it takes a 30th level caster to make the thing as it stands. It probably wasn't always this powerful.

She probably made it in bits and peices over the centuries with favors from more powerful beings in the mix.

Hmmmm interesting so you don't need to meet the CL of an item if you add in bits and pieces or go with a legendary item. Just seemed odd that admiteddly her most powerful creation was beyond her ability to create. Thanks for the replies.

[Aelryinth]

You upgrade the CL of a magic weapon when you go to +2 from +1. I'm pretty sure there's nothing stopping you from doing it with other things.

Does she have the feat that raises your effective caster level with mythic tiers?

==Aelryinth

[Liam Warner]

Aelryinth wrote:

You upgrade the CL of a magic weapon when you go to +2 from +1. I'm pretty sure there's nothing stopping you from doing it with other things.

Does she have the feat that raises your effective caster level with mythic tiers?

==Aelryinth

Don't recall seeing one either in her description or the mythic books I'll have another look, I thought even if you were upgrading you needed the CL to do so?

[Aelryinth]

It's just a modifier to the Spellcraft check, Liam. ooo, +5 harder.

==Aelryinth

[Luna eladrin]

Perhaps she is not as powerful as she used to be. If you look at Russian fairytales this is hinted at. She used to be a goddess, but when Christianity arrived in Russia, she was demonized as an evil witch.
You can see it in the older fairytales, where Baba Yaga usually helps the heroes, whereas in the newer she is usually an enemy.

[Alleran]

Liam Warner wrote:

I know what the flavour text is and that she's a unique being with special rules and abilities but her stat description indicates she's still only caster level 20 but her hut requires caster level 30 to make so mechanics wise how in all the worlds of.creation did she do it?

Well:

- Wild Arcana spells gain +2.
- Beads of Karma gain +4.
- Orange Ioun Stone gains +1, potentially 1d4 with a wayfinder.
- Moon Circlet gains +1 (at the right time of the month).

There will undoubtedly be others, but I can't think of them right now. That's a +8 to +11 anyway.

Baba Yaga probably built her Hut over a long period of time, adding to it as she went. This is somewhat supported by one of the potential boons she can grant to the PCs at the end of RoW, when they can get a modified version of the Grand Hex that creates a Hut. The (permanent) ones she gives to the PCs don't have all the demiplanes that hers does, but the text mentions that the PCs can create various demiplanes within their Huts if they want in order to build it up over time into something more remniscient of Baba Yaga's.

[Reckless]

She stole it from the Doctor. She still hasn't found out how it really works.

[Tangent101]

Actually, Reckless, she IS a Timelord. The Hut is her Tardis, and it's stuck in the Chicken Hut configuration much like the Doctor's Tardis has its Chameleon Circuit stuck in the Telephone Booth configuration.

She's just apt at hiding, so the Doctor never realized she wasn't trapped in the Time War.

[Luna eladrin]

I was already beginning to wonder whether I was the only one to notice the parallel. I have a number of Doctor Who fans in my group (at least two, excluding me), so there will certainly be Tardis comments I guess. I was also toying with the idea of using the Tardis noise when the group is switching from one adventure to another. It is surely appropriate.

[Haladir]

Magic.

[Flightyay]

Didn't the reign of Winter books say that she somehow combined the "Witch's Hut" hex with her familiar?

[Zhangar]

She has an ability called Queen of Witches that, among other things, specifically allows her to craft artifacts.

Essentially, she has a ability that boils to "don't worry about the mechanics, she's just able to do it."

(In my game, she taught the Queen of Witches ability to the witch PC in my group as her reward at the end of the AP. But I gave a reward to every character, instead of just 1 for the entire group.)

Baba Yaga apparently started the Hut from the Witch's Hut hex, and Adam Daigle mentioned that she has the Sanctum mythic ability as a sort of precursor.

(Note that due to how Sanctum works, she's got a personal demiplane that the Hut can freely enter and leave. Which has amusing ramifications.)

Granted, in my game Baba Yaga can travel between different cosmologies, changing game systems when she does so.

(So, for example, she dealt with Tashanna by dumping her off into the D&D cosmology =P)

@ Luna Eladrin - the Pathfinder version of Baba Yaga isn't a demoted goddess; rather, she's an extremely powerful mortal who's consciously rejected divine ascension - she doesn't want the responsibilities or the baggage that comes with it. (Or as the article put it, she hates people enough already; she does NOT want to have to hear them begging for her help at all times =P)

Honestly, Dear Grandmother's probably the strongest of any of the CR 30s that have been written up so far in the system. The ramifications of her Queen of Witches ability are ludicrous.

[Cthulhudrew]

She raised it from a little egg-hut.

[Luna eladrin]

Zhangar, I have my own campaign world and reinforced the Russian elements in the campaign. That is why my Baba Yaga is different. I also intend to add another adventure at the end of the campaign and therefore I needed to use this aspect.
I usually rewrite parts of adventures and adventure paths depending on my own campaign world and the PC backgrounds.

[Venequin]

I imagined her having the ability to create her hut due to her unique interaction with an otherworldly creature such as a Norn (particularly on a planet such as "ours"). On page 61 of book 6 during Vigliv' description it states that not only did Baba Yaga tear Viglivs' primordial sanctum as a foundation for the hut. Shortly thereafter, "Vigliv both loves and fears Baba Yaga, and serves her because her own thread of fate is inextricably entwined with that of Baba Yaga".