question about Baba Yaga


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So it's pretty common knowledge that Baba Yaga

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drains her daughters life force to maintain her power but does it make her younger? I can't remember where they said it but it was mentioned that she also drains their vitality. That plus the fact that it'd be impossible for a 102 year old woman to have children.


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My understanding is that it's not common knowledge at all; that's actually

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the big reveal at the end of the Reign of Winter Adventure Path


Orfamay Quest wrote:
My understanding is that it's not common knowledge at all; that's actually ** spoiler omitted **

I mean it's common knowledge for players nowadays.

Silver Crusade

Pathfinder Adventure Path Subscriber

Dude, spoiler tags.

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samuraixsithlord wrote:
I mean it's common knowledge for players nowadays.

No, it isn't. I didn't know it, for instance. Luckily, if I ever do Reign of Winter I'll be running, not playing, but that's a huge spoiler for people who are playing it, or are going to. So use spoiler tags. Don't be a dick.


I doubt that it would, actually. She spent her life aging as normal before she took on immortality because she wanted to experience it as a mortal ("with age comes wisdom"). It was only after she contracted something she couldn't heal ("she could feel it growing within her, some malignant part of her own body fighting against her vitality" - cancer or a tumor?) that she embraced immortality and eternal life. And with her death, even if she could die of old age, she'd just come back from it 24 hours later.

And magic can do many things. Such as allow her to take on a younger body if she so desires.

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Added spoiler tags.

Dark Archive

Pathfinder Adventure Path Subscriber; Starfinder Superscriber

I always thought:
[that her 'daughters' were really the little girls she stole


Alleran wrote:


And magic can do many things. Such as allow her to take on a younger body if she so desires.

Such as:

PRD wrote:


Threefold Aspect

School transmutation; Level druid 5, witch 4

Casting Time 1 standard action

Components S, F (silver crescent worth 5 gp)

Range personal

Target you

Duration 24 hours (D)

Threefold aspect allows you to shift your appearance between your natural age and three idealized age categories: young adult (youth/maiden), adulthood (father/mother), or elderly (elder/crone). In each case, your appearance is your own at the appropriate age, rather than that of a new individual.

You may change between these three aspects or your actual age as a standard action. As the young adult, you gain a +2 enhancement bonus to Dexterity and Constitution, but suffer a –2 penalty to Wisdom. In the adult aspect, you gain a +2 enhancement bonus to Wisdom and Intelligence, but take a –2 penalty to Dexterity. As the elderly aspect, you gain a +4 enhancement bonus to Wisdom and Intelligence, but take a –2 penalty to Strength and Dexterity. As enhancement bonuses, these stack with any bonuses or penalties you may have from your actual age (which are untyped bonuses)—the bonuses granted by this spell represent your idealized form in this threefold aspect rather than simply duplicating your ability scores at any one particular age.

True seeing reveals your natural appearance overlaid with that your aspect, recognizing both as part of your true self. Individuals who study you closely and have interacted with you at another apparent age recognize a resemblance (as though family) with a successful DC 20 Perception check.

Threefold aspect does not alter your clothing or equipment, and does not heal any deformity or injury unrelated to age.


I do what I want.

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Except kill Hellboy.


omg I am fanboi'ing out

I am your biggest fan baba yaga

also are you my grandma y/n?

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Ross Byers wrote:
Except kill Hellboy.

Frankly, the world is more interesting with that hellspawn alive.

Lamontius wrote:
also are you my grandma y/n?

Unlikely.


Dammit, first, Paizo goes fully Incorporated, and now has Baba Yaga as a Developer! What's next - The Headless Horseman in PR, and Spring-Heeled Jack in Typesetting?


ENHenry wrote:
Dammit, first, Paizo goes fully Incorporated, and now has Baba Yaga as a Developer! What's next - The Headless Horseman in PR, and Spring-Heeled Jack in Typesetting?

Did no one tell you about the bogeyman in sales?

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