D&D 5E dealing with a hag

[pukunui]

If you lost your eye, and you had nowhere else to go but to the local hag, who offered you a magic eye that also functions as a gem of seeing, would you accept? The catch would be that she can see through it, too. (Though she might not tell you that.)

Oh, and you already have three attuned items (a brooch of shielding, slippers of spider climbing, and a stone of good luck), so you'd have to give one of them up to gain the benefits of the magical eye.

 

[Lanliss]

Depends on my needs. If I need my eye back, yes, I would trade the Brooch or stone. If my eye is optional for my class, maybe not, I would look for better options for my play style.

 

[AaronOfBarbaria]

The one character I've gotten to play in 5th edition thus far would totally go to a hag for a magic eye - he's confident in his ability to deal with whatever nefarious plans the hag might be trying to get over on him.

As for which of those three items he'd give up to attune to the eye, it'd be the brooch.

If I had to guess how many of my players in my group would do, only about half of them would make a deal like this - and one would definitely not only not make the deal, but would retire his one-eyed character if there wasn't some other (low consequence) way to fix it.

 

[pukunui]

Depends on my needs. If I need my eye back, yes, I would trade the Brooch or stone. If my eye is optional for my class, maybe not, I would look for better options for my play style.

Yes, you'd like to have two eyes again, as you are a spell sniper, and you'd prefer not to be at a disadvantage to hit things with your eldritch blast attack. (EDIT: You are 9th level, by the way.)


As an aside, what if the eye only granted you darkvision (you're human) out to 60 feet and didn't require attunement? In this case, she's giving you something quite powerful for free ... there must be some kind of catch. Let's say you convince her to admit that she'd be able to see through it herself, thus enabling her to spy on you.

Would you still accept it?

 

[Lanliss]

Yes, you'd like to have two eyes again, as you are a spell sniper, and you'd prefer not to be at a disadvantage to hit things with your eldritch blast attack. (EDIT: You are 9th level, by the way.)


As an aside, what if the eye only granted you darkvision (you're human) out to 60 feet and didn't require attunement? In this case, she's giving you something quite powerful for free ... there must be some kind of catch. Let's say you convince her to admit that she'd be able to see through it herself, thus enabling her to spy on you.

Would you still accept it?

Yes, but I would wear an eyepatch when dealing with powerful artifacts she might want to know the location of.

 

[pukunui]

As an aside, does this seem like something a hag would actually do?

 

[AaronOfBarbaria]

As an aside, does this seem like something a hag would actually do?

Start a deception-themed sub-plot? That's kind of the go-to trope for hags.

 

[pukunui]

Start a deception-themed sub-plot? That's kind of the go-to trope for hags.

Sure. But she already has some strands of the PC's hair, so she could easily just use them to scry on him. Why give him a magic eye?

To answer my own question, I'm thinking that the eye would enable her to scry on the PC automatically without the saving throw. I was also thinking of letting her cast suggestion through it (only against the PC with the eye) once per day, like a crystal ball of telepathy.

I'm leaning more towards an eye that grants darkvision but doesn't require attunement (like the goggles of night). An eye that works like a gem of seeing seems too generous and possibly too disruptive for 9th level, but I'm not really sure. The former feels more like "something for nothing", whereas the latter has more obvious costs (such as an attunement slot).

 

[jgsugden]

Sure. In my experience all you need to get rid of a hag is a divorce and restraining order.

 

[iserith]

I'd do it because I like fun complications even if my character doesn't. Benefits like darkvision would make it an even easier choice for me.