It may be that your DM either didn't realize Plane Shift is a spell, or was deliberately modifying the default statblock of a hag to allow them to escape, which he or she has every right to do. However, these are all simply mechanical ways to deal with the hags. Alternatively, you could attempt to use paralysis spells such as hold monster, or grapple the hag and prevent her from using the verbal and somatic components necessary for casting Plane Shift (again, this assumes that Plane Shift and not Etherealness is the problem for you, and that your DM is recognizing that innate spellcasting is still spellcasting and bypasses only material components.) Another, albeit high level, solution to the problem would be to utilize an Antimagic Field, as both Plane Shift and Etherealness are explicitly magical effects, and the heartstone itself is a magic item and thus susceptible to suppression via the field, which additionally blocks interplanar travel. 2) Cast an inverted Magic Circle, specifying fiends or fey for night/green hags, respectively, thus forcing a save to leave the circle by interplanar means. Some options are 1) have the rogue pickpocket the hag's heartstone, thus preventing use of Etherealness. If they were escaping via Etherealness (or your DM is house-ruling that innate spellcasting, despite RAW, cannot be counterspelled), it becomes more difficult, but not impossible. She can innately cast the following Spells, requiring no material components." The hag is explicitly casting an spell, and thus is a validtarget for counterspelling. Innate spellcasting specifically reads "Innate Spellcasting: The hag's innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 14, +6 to hit with spell attacks). Just because it's innate spellcasting doesn't mean that it isn't casting a spell. If the latter (which your post seems to indicate) you can certainly counterspell it. To do so, the hag must have a Heartstone in her possession.) or via Plane Shift from her innate spellcasting. If so, they either escaped using their action Etherealness (The hag magically enters the Ethereal Plane from The Material Plane, or vice versa. I'm assuming you're talking about Night Hags here, but I could be mistaken.
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