Annis Hag, Aarnott (3.5e Monster)

Annis Hag
Practitioners of witchcraft with a taste for the flesh of sentient beings, annis hags are tricky giants which lure people into a false sense of security and trust before weakening them and devouring them.

Strategies and Tactics
In combat, an annis will try to get a grapple by hitting with claw attacks and rip its target to shreds while grappling. Their sneakiness comes by how they manage to get close without hostility.

Annis hags have been known to use the following techniques to lure in do-gooders:


 * Transform into a young looking female giant and cry while off the side of the path. The annis will tell a sob story (bluffing all the way) and lure the group to "help her" into some remote area. She may have friends waiting or she might try to separate one of the group. Either way, she will eventually get close and strike.
 * Transform into a crippled goliath with an exposed severely burnt leg, using makeshift crutches. She will get sympathy from the group and ask them to spare any medical supplies for her group that was ambushed by a dragon/salamanders/some sort of fire beast. She leads them back to the "goliath camp", where the coven of hags gets to pounce on them.
 * Transform into a half-giant "hero" fighting another transformed hag looking like an ogre. They will be "fighting" off the side of the road with the half giant saying lame things like "back foul monster!", etc. When the group comes to help fight the ogre, they are suddenly assaulted by both hags.