Quote Originally Posted by Shining Wrath View Post
We'll get to hags soon, and there is for all hags a serious disconnect between the listed CR (2-5, upgraded for a coven) and the "role of the hag in society", taking society broadly. Basically, these gals are equivalent to crime bosses; they are not necessarily powerful in a stand-up fight, but they are very good at getting other people to fight for them, manipulation and deceit to obfuscate their enemies, and running rather than fighting to the death whenever possible. A hag is very non-dragonish; they will readily give up treasures to avoid combat. As arrogant as dragons, perhaps, but they take pride in their cunning, not their sheer might.

As such, then, a hag is a natural combat partner to any big dumb evil creature; and the hag will cheerfully sacrifice a formorian or an ogre or lesser fey in order to escape. In their hut that runs on skeletal dinosaur legs, or flies using 10,000 enslaved pixies tied to it like the balloons in Up, or slithers along the ground leaving a trail of slime like a slug - at a move speed of 80. They've been around for centuries, they accumulate a lot of good stuff.
There's a good use for the cottage monster from CoS.