Keen Hearing and Smell. The Black Shuck has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on hearing or smell.
Visage of Doom. The Black Shuck generates a 50ft. cone from its cyclopean eye, and chooses whether it is active at the beginning of each of its turns. Creatures in the cone have disadvantage on saving throws and skill checks, and disadvantage to attack the Shuck. Blinded are not affected by this ability.
Infernal Hound. Creatures within 5ft. that touch or hit the the Black Shuck are dealt an additional 2(1d4) fire damage. This is included in its attacks.
Multiattack. The Black Shuck makes one attack with its bite and one with it's claw.
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 10 (2d6 + 3) piercing damage and 2(1d4) fire damage. If the target is a creature, it must succeed on a DC 13 Strength saving throw or be knocked prone.
Claw. Melee weapon attack: +5 to hit, reach 5ft., one target. Hit: 8 (1d8+3) piercing damage and 2(1d4) fire damage.
Description
He takes the form of a huge black dog, and prowls along dark lanes and lonesome field footpaths, where, although his howling makes the hearer's blood run cold, his footfalls make no sound. You may know him at once, should you see him, by his fiery eye; he has but one, and that, like the cyclops', is in the middle of his head. But such an encounter might bring you the worst of luck: it is even said that to meet him is to be warned that your death will occur before the end of the year. So you will do well to shut your eyes if you hear him howling; shut them even if you are uncertain whether it is the dog fiend or the voice of the wind you hear. Should you never set eyes on our Norfolk Snarleyow you may perhaps doubt his existence, and, like other learned folks, tell us that his story is nothing but the old Scandinavian myth of the black hound of Odin, brought to us by the Vikings who long ago settled down on the Norfolk coast.
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