Recently I was skimming the Good Ol BoVD and started thinking about the Hag Countess. Of all the pictures of Archdevil/demons, "hers" was the only one that really freaked me out. But when I checked my brother's FC for the 9 Hells, she was replaced by some redskinned bimbo.
I can guess why she's gone (despite Baator already had another bimbo), but I still think it was a mistake.
Did anyone ever use the Hag Countess, or have any thoughts about her?
I thought the change from the Hag Countess was a bit odd myself, given that the Reckoning happened fairly recently as far as the Hells are concerned. For a lawful plane, that's a lot of upheaval in a short period of time.
I also was a little confused over Asmodeus' daughter taking over. I can't remember too much in the way of angling to take over one of the layers before. Sure she probably had plans and plots and such, but this was kind of out of the blue for me.
And yeah, it probably was because they wanted another "hot" archfiend instead of the Hag Countess.
I will admit I haven't come up with much for using her specifically, but then again, most of my "devilish" ideas have revolved around Mephistopheles, rather than any of the lower tier diabolic rulers.
There were cries of "foul!" when the Hag Countess was first introduced. She wasn't a baatezu. Heck, she wasn't even a devil. She was a Night Hag, and they arise (and are predominantly) NE. What was this pretender doing with control over one of the nine layers of Hell?
Glasya has a long history in Hell. She's Asmodeus's daughter. She's been in adventures and supplements in editions past. Seeing an established LE power replace the Hag Countess makes a great deal of sense from that standpoint.
Besides, a layer of rolling boulders is a lot less interesting than a layer made out of a living night hag turned inside out and expanded and grown to hideous proportions.
Yeah, but I kind of liked it for the sheer, "what the hell is Asmodaeus up to" factor that it generated. For what its worth, I do like the terrain since the Hag Countess went all "inside out."
There were cries of "foul!" when the Hag Countess was first introduced. She wasn't a baatezu. Heck, she wasn't even a devil. She was a Night Hag, and they arise (and are predominantly) NE. What was this pretender doing with control over one of the nine layers of Hell?
Glasya has a long history in Hell. She's Asmodeus's daughter. She's been in adventures and supplements in editions past. Seeing an established LE power replace the Hag Countess makes a great deal of sense from that standpoint.
Besides, a layer of rolling boulders is a lot less interesting than a layer made out of a living night hag turned inside out and expanded and grown to hideous proportions.
Like KE said, that first paragraph gave one of the reasons I found her intersting. So Glasya's an old character, that still doesn't change the fact Fierna beat her (and Mally, as well) to the punch of being the "Paris Hilton" of Hell. I mean what's even the point, how often do PCs "Grapple and Pin" demonesses anyways?
I've made a decision. If I ever get around to running a D&D game again, I'll make sure to use ol' Haggie. Maybe I make her the Ruler of the Ninth (D&D's Asmodeus looks kind of stupid to me anyway).