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Hey I got a question.

Where do Baba Yaga's daughters come from? I mean who is her baby daddy?

Also if there just human women, why do the live so long...?
I know there Jadwiga or whatevs but it don't say they live any longer.

If this has been answered please let me know where.

Thx

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I get the feeling a lot of those questions will be answered in Reign of Winter.

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Rasputin is called a 'half brother' so we don't know if that's literal or a term of enderement. I'd assume that the granddaughters learn some version of Baba Yaga's life draining spell, or maybe being vested as queeen slows their aging.

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wargod wrote:

Hey I got a question.

Where do Baba Yaga's daughters come from? I mean who is her baby daddy?

Also if there just human women, why do the live so long...?
I know there Jadwiga or whatevs but it don't say they live any longer.

If this has been answered please let me know where.

Thx

In classic folk tales and in the Dragon issue which had Baba's Hut as a mini-mega dungeon, Baba's daughters are all girls that she's adopted or stolen. There's no Mr. Yaga in the bushes somewhere.


LazarX wrote:
...mini-mega dungeon...

Mind blown.


IFM is at play here, I suspect.

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So... Baba Yaga. Nice broom. My hut or yours?


Heine Stick wrote:
LazarX wrote:
...mini-mega dungeon...
Mind blown.

"The Dancing Hut," from Dragon #83, published in 1984, for AD&D 1ed.

I had a subscription to Dragon at the time, and it was a blast to read. I never played or ran it, though.

Unfortunately, my colletion of Dragon Magazine (along with most of my LPs and paperback novels) were destroyed during my senior year at college in 1991 when my parent's basement flooded.


Either Adopted or they are like Isildur's line in LotR. Being born of Baba Yaga grants them longer lives than normal Humans.

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Kryzbyn wrote:
IFM is at play here, I suspect.

Can someone help me with this acronym? I can't sort it out and I'm pretty certain it isn't some of the definitions I've read while searching for IFM.

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Adam Daigle wrote:
Kryzbyn wrote:
IFM is at play here, I suspect.
Can someone help me with this acronym? I can't sort it out and I'm pretty certain it isn't some of the definitions I've read while searching for IFM.

I think it's a somewhat too specific reference to a RW fertility treatment.

I.e., Baba Yaga uses magic to have children or something. Personally, I prefer the adoption aspect of it. (I'm an adoptive dad, though she's not exactly a poster grandma for that route of having a family).


It can't be adopted.

The Jadwiga are all 'descendants' of the first daughter Jadwiga.

The scions of the current queen are more powerful than the seed of former queens.

When the new queen comes along, she's a jadwiga.

There are a sub race of human like an Ulfen, so there is no random human aspect, she doesn't find an osirian or a vudran or anything, there has to be some decendency going on here of some sort.

IS Baba Yaga just a human, or would she qualify for "hag"?


Her race is unknown according to the Inner Sea World Guide.


Maybe Baba Yaga's daughters are clones. Not like the spell clone, but actual biological clones. Considering the kind of technology found in past iterations of the dancing hut, a fully stocked genetic/biological research facility wouldn't surprise me in the least.

As for Baba Yaga's race, I'm pretty sure she was born human. It's just that, after prolonging her life for at least 1,400 years using very suspect means, she might not qualify as human anymore. In the Irrisen book, it's noted that the more closely someone is related to BY, the more unnatural they appear (weird eyes/skin, stuff like that). That could just mean that BY is a human ethnicity alien to Golarion, no different than Varisian or Kellid. Or it could mean she's something far worse.


I'm going for baba yaga has evolved magically into her own unique form of Hag.

It Totally think there should be a major or grand hex that makes a witch a hag.


Maybe that should be an Archetype's Capstone...


nah.... I think it should be a Hex. Making it a single archetype capstone would make it too limited.


Hmm, Maybe a Hex that requires the Coven Hex and maybe a few other Hexes?

Say a Hex Chain that has a Hex in each level of Hex culminating in the Hag Transformation Hex?


well to require the coven hex wouldnt work, since you need a hag to have a coven. the end purpose would be to GET a Coven and a PC.

The ONLY way to do it really with out a HAG Hex, would be to get a cohort Hag.

Currently good and neutral players/groups probably dont want that.

I have two players getting ready to start Reign of Winter, A Winter Witch and a hexcrafter that think having a coven would be cool (their characters are half siblings)


Baba Yaga ain't just human. She's an earthling! Ra Ra Rasputin!


I really think Reign of Winter could be a good AP for me to get introduced to Golarion... I could play a Varki Ranger from an Isolated Tribe who is just travelling out of his tribes typical territory.

But could you not make a Non-Evil Hag?


well one of the players is a changeling, which essentially is a half hag.

shes planning on taking a few of the changeling feats that accentuate hag lineage.

I'm thinking about letting her count as a hag.

The mechanics of being in a coven aren't that cool. It's just the idea for the OF being in a coven.

I might change the coven benefits around. I'm not sure.

I found a magic item (cloak) that lets one count as a hag for the purposes of a coven, which would be cool. The arctic druid could wear one or something (since there needs to be three)

I dunno.

Any thoughts?

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Sounds like a perfect use for the leadership feat :-)


Charlie Bell wrote:
So... Baba Yaga. Nice mortar. My hut or yours?

Fixed that for ya.


Orthos wrote:
Charlie Bell wrote:
So... Baba Yaga. Nice mortar. My hut or yours?
Fixed that for ya.

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