Succubus ability that is missing?

[sabrinathecat]

Which version to use? Which works better with your story? That's the one you give them.

 

[I'm A Banana]

Yeah, the words "mythology" and "accuracy" are generally mutually exclusive.

 

[Greenfield]

Feeling stupid right now: I asked which D&D edition the Night Hag is from, because I couldn't find it. It's 3.5, the version I play, and it's in the SRD.

I just made the mistake of looking up Hag, and finding the Green Hag terrible trio. Night Hag is a different creature, with a different entry.

 

[sabrinathecat]

Yeah, the words "mythology" and "accuracy" are generally mutually exclusive.

Oh the fun I could have with that. Just thinking about it... But I've already been disciplined once for opening that can o' worms. Thanks for the cheerful thoughts though.

 

[Samloyal23]

I say give night hags and succubi each a different "spin" to their powers. Hags squatted on a dreamer's chest to "ride" the dreamer, causing exhaustion. Succubi basically screw you to death...

 

[Cleon]

Am I crazy or is this the EXACT nature of the succubus? They can do this naturally without a heartstone. Would I be wrong in slapping this ability (reworded appropriately) onto the succubus npc?? Shouldn't that already be there? WTF.

Just as a point of order, a 3E Night Hag writeup says it needs the heartstone to become ethereal, which is a prerequisite for Dream Haunting. If it had another means to become ethereal (like a Succubus's ethereal jaunt spell-like ability), I'd presume they can Dream Haunt victims without needing a heartstone.

I'd be fine granting some Succubi the Dream Haunting ability, since it's so appropriate for them. Succubi are relatively fragile for demons, so "loving someone to death" from the ether would be a much safer and more reliable way to deal with a foe, albeit a rather slow one.

 

[Aeolius]

Hag Wiki : "A hag, or "the Old Hag", was a nightmare spirit in English and anglophone North American folklore. This variety of hag is essentially identical to the Old English mæra — a being with roots in ancient Germanic superstition, and closely related to the Scandinavian mara. According to folklore, the Old Hag sat on a sleeper's chest and sent nightmares to him or her. When the subject awoke, he or she would be unable to breathe or even move for a short period of time. In the Swedish film Marianne, the main character suffers from these nightmares. This state is now called sleep paralysis, but in the old belief the subject had been "hagridden". It is still frequently discussed as if it were a paranormal state."

In my games succubi and erinyes are daughters of night hags, by demon and devil fathers respectively.

 

[Shemeska]

Succubi have the ability to ethereal jaunt, and if you remember in 2e and 3e (and Pathfinder), that it was in the ethereal that dreamscapes existed. So a succubus could find a victim, go ethereal and find their dreamscape, or just wander the border ethereal browsing dreams for a potential victim.

Presumably that's why they have that ability, to let them go into dreamscapes, because otherwise it's relatively useless for them since the ethereal plane didn't touch the Abyss in 2e.

 

[Weather Report]

Presumably that's why they have that ability, to let them go into dreamscapes, because otherwise it's relatively useless for them since the ethereal plane didn't touch the Abyss in 2e.

Sort of odd they have an ability they can't use on their home plane (I still like it).