Overview
The hearth room takes most of the hut; the kitchen and the nursery corner open off it. The floor tilts a little when the hut shifts its weight.
Resting: no Not under her roof. The hut is listening for your breathing to slow.
Getting here
Ways in
- From The Ruins of Berez: Climb up to the hut's door
Ways out
| # | Exit | Leads to | Only when |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Down the root ladder |  The Ruins of Berez |
Map
Key: gold, people; red, containers; purple, hidden finds; teal, skill checks; white, exits; orange, traps. The numbers match the lists on this page.
Close up
a doll over the hearth
a cradle, something sewn into the cradle's lining
Bundles hanging from the beams, the one jar that doesn't hum
People
Who turns up at points in the story (1)
- Baba Lysaga, The hearth room (#2, #3): when lysaga slain in hut and not lysaga dead; or when lysaga bargained and not lysaga dead and not strahd knows marina truth and not lysaga slain in hut; or when lysaga guests and not lysaga dead and not lysaga lured and not strahd knows marina truth and not lysaga slain in hut
What to find
| # | Where | What | How |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | Her pantry | Ration ×3, 12 gp | open it; only when lysaga dead or lysaga bargained or lysaga left broken |
| 5 | a shelf of humming jars | Potion of Healing ×2, Antitoxin | open it; only when lysaga dead or lysaga bargained or lysaga left broken |
| 8 | something sewn into the cradle's lining (hidden) | Wand of Polymorph | Search: Investigation DC 17 |
| 9 | the one jar that doesn't hum (hidden) | Potion of Speed | Search: Investigation DC 16 |
Tarokka treasure spots. If the reading hid one of the treasures here, it's in: Berez Baba Lysagas Hut (lysagas_pantry)
The containers here also get random magic items and potions, rolled for a party of level 9 the first time you come (Random Treasure). Hidden finds need a Search (F) nearby; the party's best roll counts.
Skill checks
| # | Where | Check | Try | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | Drawings of a boy | Insight 13 | Look closely at the drawings | lore: The boy in the drawings |
| 7 | Bundles hanging from the beams | Arcana 16 | Study the hag's charms | finds Potion of Speed |
Fights
- The door of the hut slams itself. The fire in the hearth stands up tall and green, and the jars on the shelf…, in Baba Lysaga's Hut: Baba Lysaga, Swarm of Insects. Scales with your level.
By party level (the first line your party fits is the fight you get)
- Baba Lysaga's Hut, when level ≥ 9: Baba Lysaga, 2 × Swarm of Insects (7400 XP)
- Baba Lysaga's Hut, when level ≥ 8: Baba Lysaga, 2 × Swarm of Insects (7400 XP)
- Baba Lysaga's Hut: Baba Lysaga, Swarm of Insects (7300 XP)
Quests and lore
- The Mad Mage of Mount Baratok: A powerful wizard lives alone on Mount Baratok with his memory gone. Someone took it on purpose.
- The Third Stone: The third of the Martikovs' vine stones, the winery's magic gems, was stolen last autumn and carried to Berez, the drowned village, where a…
- The Witch of Berez: In the drowned village of Berez, Strahd's old nurse keeps house in a hut that walks, with one of the Wizard of Wines' stolen gems and a…