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<blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 8240140" data-attributes="member: 20323">Nice comments [USER=40552]@Quartz[/USER] ! Yeah, I think the challenge with converting some of these older editions monsters like Hagspawn starts at a more concept level. There's all this lore in 5e about hags spawning new hag daughters by eating human babies, and then these &quot;sleeper agent&quot; changeling children are sent back to their families, turning into hags at some pivotal developmental moment.But somehow if the child has a male gender instead... it becomes a hagspawn which is this brutish and resentful half-human that's regarded as an ill omen. That whole gender differentiation feels a bit off, and could certainly be made more layered and interesting.I know that sort of conceptual reimagining might not be what the OP is after, preferring a more 1-to-1 conversion, but it's something that sometimes comes up for me when I tackle converting older edition monsters and I try to lean into the reimagining process to inform my conversion effort.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Quickleaf, post: 8240140, member: 20323"] Nice comments [USER=40552]@Quartz[/USER] ! Yeah, I think the challenge with converting some of these older editions monsters like Hagspawn starts at a more concept level. There's all this lore in 5e about hags spawning new hag daughters by eating human babies, and then these "sleeper agent" changeling children are sent back to their families, turning into hags at some pivotal developmental moment. But somehow if the child has a male gender instead... it becomes a hagspawn which is this brutish and resentful half-human that's regarded as an ill omen. That whole gender differentiation feels a bit off, and could certainly be made more layered and interesting. I know that sort of conceptual reimagining might not be what the OP is after, preferring a more 1-to-1 conversion, but it's something that sometimes comes up for me when I tackle converting older edition monsters and I try to lean into the reimagining process to inform my conversion effort. [/QUOTE]

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