Halloween is a time where people love to dress up in all sorts of costumes, from scary to funny and everything in between. One popular choice for a costume is that of an old hag witch. This costume is a classic and has been a favorite for many years. The old hag witch costume typically consists of a long, tattered dress in dark colors such as black or purple. The dress is usually accessorized with a cape and a pointed hat. The hat is often black with a wide brim and a pointed top, giving it the classic witch look.
Potion of Raw Magic
This glass flask contains a small amount of heavily diluted raw magic. When you drink this potion, you gain the following benefits for 1 minute:
- You have advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
- When you cast a spell, you also produce a magical effect rolled on the Wild Magic Effects table.
- At the start of each of your turns, you gain a random magical effect, determined by rolling a d6 on the table below, that lasts until the start of your next turn:
| d6 | Effect |
|---|---|
| 1 | You can add a d4 to any attack roll or ability check you make. |
| 2 | You have a flying speed equal to your walking speed. |
| 3 | You walking speed is doubled. |
| 4 | You have truesight out to a range of 60 feet. |
| 5 | Your attacks deal an extra 1d6 force damage on a hit. |
| 6 | You can use a bonus action to teleport to an unoccupied space you can see within 30 feet of you. |
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OutDPS!
As a DPS class, it’s our duty to ensure that our potion is on cooldown at the end of every non-trivial fight. Clearing Archivon for the mount? Feel free to save it, but if you’re on a hard fight, you can really increase your DPS this way. Today I’ll go over our options, and talk about when and how to use them.
First up, the basic mechanics. Using a potion out of combat gives you a 1 minute cooldown, but using it in combat prevents you from being able to use one again until after this combat is over. And no, feigning death does not let you take another. Here are the commonly used potions, what they do, and when to use them.
- Potion of speed is the most commonly used potion because it’s “the DPS potion”. It gives you 500 haste rating for 15 seconds. Alas, as we all know, haste for hunters is one of the lowest DPS per point stats we have. It makes our auto-shot go faster, and if we’re not already casting them faster than our global cooldown, our steady shots go faster. Still, 500 haste, even for 15 seconds, will increase your DPS.
- Potion of wild magic is nowhere near as popular for hunters, but I’m listing it second for a reason. The fact that it gives us 200 spell power can be ignored, but the 200 crit it gives? Well, according to all the DPS calculators I use, that’s actually more DPS than 15 seconds of haste. If you want to find out whether this is true for you, you should import your hunter into www.femaledwarf.com and check yourself.
- Runic mana potion is next up, and it gives you a chunk of mana. If the fight you’re in will force you into viper at some point, this will lower the amount of time you need to spend in viper.
- Runic healing potion is last on my list. You need to have these around in case you need them, but the only way they increase your DPS is by preventing you from being turned into a hunter flavored pool of jelly by some (hopefully unavoidable) damage your healers couldn’t fix. For example- on Iron Council hard mode, you need to have one of these for the last few percent in case you get a super-powered static disruption while the healer is out of range to battle res a tank.
Now as for when to use these: if you’re going with a potion of haste or wild magic, you have to try to use them during a heroism/bloodlust. If you’re going to have to use a mana pot, try to save it until you really need it- the later you pop it, the more likely you are to realize that you won’t need it and be able to pop a DPS potion instead.
Sometimes, you won’t have a heroism- in this case, try to use a crit potion during rapid fire (the more shots you have while the crit buff is active, the more effective the potion). Personally, I don’t like blowing haste pots during rapid fire, but I can’t quite pin down why. If that’s the direction I’m going in, I just always use one some other time.
[edit] One last note- some people like to pop a potion just before combat starts so they can use a second one after a minute. This might work for you, or it might not. At the very least, it costs twice as much as just using the single potion, and whether you can time your first use well enough to make sure you don’t get locked out for the rest of the fight, and still have enough time left on it that’s it was actually worth it depends on the fight.
If you’re an engineer or an alchemist, you have additional options, but I’m not going into them because they all fall into the health and mana regen area. Anyone else have any others they like? Maybe something from BC?
Wild Potion Mishaps Table (5e Other)
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Use whenever two potions are combined, or when crafting a potion goes wrong. Feel free to add in other effects. Each effect lasts for 1 minute at most, unless stated otherwise.
| d100 | Effect |
|---|---|
| 1 | Roll twice on the d100, if you roll the same number re-roll one of them |
| 2 | The potion becomes acidic enough to eat through your potion crafting materials, rendering them useless. |
| 3 | The potion appears to be a potion of greater healing, but actually does an equal amount of poison damage instead of healing. |
| 4 | The consumer grows 3d4 inches for the duration. |
| 5 | The bottle explodes violently, and a genie appears. It disappears after 1 minute. |
| 6 | Lose 1 level of exhaustion |
| 7 | Gain 1 level of exhaustion |
| 8 | Your potion sprays out bubbles in a 10 ft radius, making the area heavily obscured. |
| 9 | You gain wings for 30 seconds, they give you a swim speed of 30 feet |
| 10 | You gain flippers for 30 seconds, they give you a flying speed of 30 feet |
| 11 | The potion becomes flavored water (flavor determined by the DM). |
| 12 | Roll on the wild magic table, that effect is contained within this bottle for 30 seconds |
| 13 | Roll on the wild magic table, that effect is contained within this bottle for 1 minute |
| 14 | Roll on the wild magic table, that effect is contained within this bottle for indefinitely until released |
| 15 | The consumer makes animal noises for the duration. |
| 16 | Roll on the barbarian wild magic table |
| 17 | The potion becomes a drink listed in the D100 List of Tavern Drinks |
| 18 | You have an astral projection experience, the DM may choose an effect that happens ontop of the spell Astral Projection; Dream, Augury, Legend Lore |
| 19 | The potion acts as a potion of poison. |
| 20 | The potion turns into tree sap |
| 21 | The potion acts as the spell Fog Cloud |
| 22 | Your sense of sight increases, you gain ranged attack rolls and advantage on other rolls that involve sight for 7 minutes |
| 23 | Your sense of hearing increases, you gain advantage on rolls that involve hearing for 6 minutes |
| 24 | Your sense smell increases, you gain advantage on rolls that involve smell for 8 minutes |
| 25 | Your sense of touch increases, you gain advantage on melee attack rolls other rolls that involve touch for 5 minutes |
| 26 | Your sense of taste increases, you're able to instantly identify anything just by its taste alone |
| 27 | Remove two conditions affecting you, but a random one begins affecting you |
| 28 | The potion becomes a random potion of equal rarity. |
| 29 | The potion becomes a random potion of lesser rarity. |
| 30 | The potion becomes a random potion of one greater rarity. (Calculate via average rarity of ingredients) |
| 31 | The bottle explodes, dealing 1d4 piercing damage to you |
| 32 | The potion sets you ablaze, dealing 1d8 fire damage at the start of each of your turns until you use an action to put it out. |
| 33 | The drinker's hands become paws like a wolves. You deal 1d4 slashing damage and everything but dashing becomes difficult terrain |
| 34 | The drinker's hands become hooves like a elk's. You deal 1d6 bludgeoning damage, and everything but jumping becomes difficult terrain |
| 35 | The drinker's hands become tentacles. They can still grasp and hold as normal. |
| 36 | The Consumer sweats uncontrollably for 1d4 minutes, possibly hindering vision |
| 37 | The Consumer sweats uncontrollably for 1d6 minutes, likely hindering vision |
| 38 | The Consumer sweats uncontrollably for 1d8 minutes, most likely hindering vision |
| 39 | The Consumer sweats uncontrollably for 1d10 minutes, hindering vision |
| 40 | The Consumer sweats uncontrollably for 1d12 minutes |
| 41 | The potion reduces one of your ability scores by 4, no lower than 3. |
| 42 | The potion increases one of your ability scores by 4, no higher than 24. |
| 43 | The concoction bubbles violently, spilling out over the top, dealing 1d6 acid damage to you every turn until you use an action to wash it off with a water skin or some other source of water |
| 44 | You learn a random fact about something. You forget it after a minute and can't tell anyone. |
| 45 | The potion increases one ability score by 2 at random, no higher than 24. |
| 46 | If drunken, after ten minutes, take 1d12 poison damage and make a DC 14 Con save to throw up the potion, if succesful, you're safe, if failed take another 1d6 every minute, the DC getting lower by 1 every minute |
| 47 | Gain immunity to poison for the next 48 hours |
| 48 | The potions explode, dealing 1d6 force damage within a 10 ft radius. |
| 49 | Gain immunity to acid for the next 36 hours |
| 50 | Your voice booms, causing creatures within 5 ft of you to take 1d6 thunder damage every time you speak. |
| 51 | Your speed doubles for 1 minute |
| 52 | You move at half movement speed for 1 minute |
| 53 | A random ooze creature of CR 1d4 or below appears within 5 ft of you. |
| 54 | You black out and awaken 1d4 hours later (if drunken) with 1d10+cha mod Temp. HP |
| 55 | The consumer gains a bubble breath attack. Within a 15 ft cone, they can make an area lightly obscured until the start of their next turn. |
| 56 | You grow one size larger and when you walk, the space behind you becomes difficult terrain |
| 57 | The potion becomes blinding. Every creature within a 10 ft radius must make a Constitution saving throw against your own save DC. If you have no save DC, the DC is 8 + your proficiency bonus. On a fail, the creature is blinded. |
| 58 | The potion turns into a bottle of ink |
| 59 | The potion forces the creature to make a Constitution saving throw against your own save DC. If you have no save DC, the DC is 8 + your proficiency bonus. On a fail, the creature is deafened. |
| 60 | The potion turns into a bottle of holy water |
| 61 | The consumer gains 1d10 temporary hit points until you finish your next short or long rest. |
| 62 | The potion turns into a Lycanthropy Antidote |
| 63 | Upon consumption, a random condition is added for the duration. |
| 64 | Upon consumption, a random condition is removed for the duration. |
| 65 | The potion becomes inflammable oil |
| 66 | The potion turns into a bottle of ectoplasm, very valuable in the right hands |
| 67 | You gain hooves, you now have a burrow speed of 30 feet |
| 68 | You have claws, you now have tremor sense of 30 feet and a claw attack of 1d6 slash or 1d6 piercing |
| 69 | Your voice swaps pitch. If it is low, it becomes high, and vice versa. |
| 70 | The potion becomes a mummy rot antidote |
| 71 | The potion becomes a cure for Aboleth sickness |
| 72 | The drinker is cured of all affects and restored to full HP |
| 73 | The drinker contracts a minor form of a disease, determined at random. It is no more than a nuisance. |
| 74 | The potion becomes a Thessaltoxin Antidote |
| 75 | The potion transforms you into a random creature of CR 0. |
| 76 | The potion transforms you into a random creature of CR(1/8) or lower. |
| 77 | The potion transforms you into a random creature of CR(1/4) or lower. |
| 78 | The potion transforms you into a random creature of CR(1/2) or lower. |
| 79 | The potion transforms you into a random creature of CR(1d2) or lower. |
| 80 | The potion transforms you into a random creature of CR(1d4) or lower. |
| 81 | The potion transforms you into a random creature of CR(1d6) or lower. |
| 82 | The potion transforms you into a random creature of CR(1d8) or lower. |
| 83 | The potion transforms you into a random creature of CR(1d10) or lower. |
| 84 | The potion transforms you into a random creature of CR(1d12) or lower. |
| 85 | Roll a die. The skin of the consumer either whitens (odd number) or blackens (even number). |
| 86 | Roll a die. The skin of the consumer either turns red (odd number) or turns blue (even number). |
| 87 | Roll a die. The skin of the consumer either turns green (odd number) or turns yellow (even number). |
| 88 | The consumer becomes unable to knowingly cause harm to others. |
| 89 | The potion solidifies and weighs 1000lbs |
| 90 | The bottle spits out the ingredients |
| 91 | The potion turns into a mimic. ROLL INITIATIVE |
| 92 | The bottle glows when uncorked at night from 10pm to 8:30am |
| 93 | The consumer is forced to constantly punch the nearest creature for the duration. (The consumer must make unarmed strikes.) |
| 94 | You become 3d4 inches taller. |
| 95 | Your alignment changes. Roll a d10 for your alignment. 1 equals unaligned, 2 equals lawful good, 3 equals neutral good, 4 chaotic good, 5 chaotic neutral, 6 true neutral, 7 lawful neutral, 8 lawful evil, 9 neutral evil, 10 chaotic evil. Ignore the result if you are already that alignment and re-roll. |
| 96 | The consumer becomes 3d4 inches shorter. |
| 97 | The potion expands, producing enough overflow to fill 1d4 more bottles. |
| 98 | You can instantly cast a spell of 3rd level or lower, determined by the DM. |
| 99 | You can instantly cast a spell of 6th level or lower, determined by the DM. |
| 100 | The potion becomes inert. |
The hat is often black with a wide brim and a pointed top, giving it the classic witch look. To complete the old hag witch costume, makeup is often applied to give the wearer a more aged and sinister appearance. This can include applying green or gray face paint, adding wrinkles and age spots, and enhancing the eyebrows and eyes to create a more sinister look.
Accessories are also an important part of the old hag witch costume. These can include items such as a broomstick, a cauldron, and a necklace with a potion bottle pendant. These accessories help to enhance the overall witchy look and add to the authenticity of the costume. The old hag witch costume is a versatile choice and can be customized to fit any personal style or preference. For those who want to go for a scarier look, more dramatic makeup and accessories can be added. Alternatively, for a more lighthearted approach, a colorful or whimsical dress and hat can be chosen. Overall, the old hag witch costume is a classic choice for Halloween and never goes out of style. It allows individuals to tap into their creativity and embrace their dark side. Whether it is for a party or trick-or-treating, the old hag witch costume is sure to make a statement and be a hit at any Halloween event..
Reviews for "Creating a Unique Old Hag Witch Costume with a Budget"
1. Alice - 1 star
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2. Mark - 2 stars
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3. Sarah - 1 star
I had high hopes for the "Old hag witch costume," but it fell short of my expectations. The overall design was unappealing, and the colors were dull and faded. The hat included in the package looked like it had been crushed in transit, and no amount of reshaping or steaming could fix it. The sizing was also off, as the dress was too short and tight around the chest area. I ended up returning this costume and finding a better option elsewhere. Save your money and look for a higher-quality witch costume elsewhere.