Abomination Vaults - Barcumbuk

[Randall Metscher]

Hello,

Barcumbuk is a custom creature in AV's seventh level.

He has and ability I don't know how to interpret.

Furious Fusillade The erinys hovers in place if they are flying and fires one arrow at any number of creatures in a 30‑foot cone. Each attack is rolled separately. This counts as one attack for the purpose of the erinys’s multiple attack penalty.

He doesn't have a missile attack that uses arrows and arrows by themselves have no attack and damage values.

He has the ranged attak of a Flaming Light Hammer +19 / +15 / +11 (agile, evil, fire, magical, thrown 20 feet), Damage 1d6+6 bludgeoning plus 1d6 evil and 1d6 fire.

My inclination is to read the stat block as Furious Fusillade using the Flaming Light Hammer attack.

Is this correct? Is there better option?

Thank you.

[Dr. Frank Funkelstein]

Yes, i would use the existing ranged attack, also much more awesome than arrows

[Castilliano]

Yeah, that's a copy-paste ability from the original Erinys who wield bows (and scores of arrows). While I'd consider throwing hammers instead, I'd also consider whether he has a Returning Hammer or not; or enough hammers plus an ability to draw them fast. As in maybe he retains that ability (being an Erinyes), but the writers didn't want to use it vs. the PCs (for whatever reason) so took away his bow. Hmm, maybe check if there's another bow around as a reserve to go grab when he has time to prepare or counterattack.

And of course one has to update that evil damage to Spirit (+ the Unholy).

[Errenor]

Another funny thing, he has common erinys loot

Spoiler:

erinys-hair rope, but he is also completely bald. Guess that's where the hair went.

[Randall Metscher]

Thanks for the replies. I am going to give him a returning hammer as it best fits the abilities.

To Castilliano, I have been reworking the stat blocks to fit the remaster as we go. So many spells to sort out, but I hadn't noticed the damage type.