This is more of a narrative question than a rules question; How does the bard deliver spell attacks when he has replaced the somatic casting action of his spell with the playing of an instrument?
Since bards are able to replace their somatic, material, and verbal casting actions with playing a held instrument; and spell attacks are delivered as part of the somatic action, do bards play their instrument in place of making spell attacks? If so, how does that work exactly?
There's a bit of other weirdness with bard spells, like the apparent ability to cast bard spells while raging by replacing all casting actions with playing an instrument, and whether or not you can stow your instrument as part of the material casting action as you could if it had been a normal spell focus. I'd take clarifications on those issues as well, but I'm mostly worried about whether or not I'm meant to be breaking my guitar over someones head, or melting their face with an epic solo.
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I'm a big fan of whacking orcs with a violin bow.
Haven't met a problem that couldn't be solved with an appropriate amount of violins.