Assassin Vine

Plant · 6 hexes · SM +2 Assassin Vine (Enraged Eggplant; answers SRD 3.5)

A thick braided creeper with muscular tendrils, black recurved thorns and pale bell-shaped flowers, lying among ordinary undergrowth it cannot be told apart from. Blind and deaf, it waits for weight and warmth to pass within reach, then wraps and squeezes until whatever it caught stops moving and rots into the soil beneath it.

Attributes

ST20

DX10

IQ1

HT14

HP20

Will7

Per10

FP14

Basic Speed5

Basic Move1

Dodge8

DR5

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
ConstrictionConstriction Attack. Grapple first with Wrestling-14, then constrict each following turn for thrust damage from ST 20. The vine has Double-Jointed and Constriction Attack; it cannot be disarmed.	14	thrust 2d-1 crushing	C
Entangle (Binding 10)No attack roll. Emanation covering an 8-yard radius, usable only where the area holds dense vegetation. Victims caught in the area are bound at effective ST 10 and stay bound for roughly 100 seconds; escape is a Quick Contest against the Binding's ST. Persistent, so the binding is not consumed by one escape.	no roll	Binding ST 10	8-yard emanation

Traits (25)

• Blindness
• Cannot Jump
• Constriction Attack
• Deafness
• Doesn’t Breathe
• Doesn’t Eat or Drink (Water Only)
• Doesn’t Sleep
• Double-Jointed
• High Pain Threshold
• Horizontal
• Immunity to Metabolic Hazards
• Immunity to Mind Control
• Immunity to Noxious Cold Effects
• Immunity to Noxious Fire Effects
• Immunity to Poison
• Injury Tolerance (Homogenous, No Head, No Blood, No Eyes, No Neck)
• Limited Camouflage (Vegetation)
• No Legs (Slithers)
• No Manipulators
• Regrowth
• Restricted Diet (Carnivore)
• Temperature Tolerance 6
• Unfazeable
• Vibration Sense (Air)
• Wild Animal with Mute

Skills (2)

• 12Stealth
• 14Wrestling

Notes

• GCS ancestry draft: gcs/assassin-vine.gct
• Source template total: 92 points.
• Library-rebuilt template total: 92 points.
• CER was computed from parsed Typical Stats using the Dungeons On Automatic baseline CER path.
• Review attacks, special abilities, encounter frequency, treasure, grappling, and GCS modifiers before approval.
• Size 6 hexes.

Encounter rating

CER45

Offense19

Protection26

Threat tierstandard

Appearing1

Wandering3

Tags

• srd-3-5
• plant

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Where this one came from

Source record

Assassin Vine

Source system

gurps_4e_fan_conversion / author_permission

Released under

cc_by_4_0

Conversion

0.2.0-reviewed

Review status

approved

Credit

Original GURPS conversion by Enraged Eggplant, from Monsters (May 11, 2024); adapted and republished with permission.

Description

Written by Dungeons on Automatic, released under cc_by_4_0

• GCS ancestry draft: gcs/assassin-vine.gct
• Source template total: 92 points.
• Library-rebuilt template total: 92 points.
• CER was computed from parsed Typical Stats using the Dungeons On Automatic baseline CER path.
• Issue #5: the empty attack list was a parser limitation, not missing source mechanics. Constriction (Wrestling-14, thrust from ST 20) and the Binding 10 vegetation entangle were added from the source's stated mechanics.
• CER recomputed from the reviewed Typical Stats through the canonical Dungeons on Automatic CER path: OR 19, PR 26, CER 45, threat tier standard.
• Conversion baseline reported OR -1, PR 26, CER 25 (tier standard). The reviewed values come from the consumer CER implementation, which rounds damage once after the damage-type multiplier and credits ranged accuracy; the conversion baseline ceilinged the damage base first and ignored range.
• Encounter metadata derived (solitary): average number appearing 1, wandering weight 3. Encounter metadata derived for 0.2.0 from the reviewed threat tier and creature class (appearing: minor 4 / standard 2 / major 1 / severe 1, forced to 1 for solitary classes — including swarms, which are a single multi-body creature — and raised to 6 for gregarious minor creatures; wandering weight: minor 4 / standard 3 / major 2 / severe 1). The fan-conversion source states no appearing-in-numbers or wandering values, so these are derived, not source mechanics.
• Lair, treasure, and grappling remain unpopulated in 0.2.0 by package policy: the authorized fan-conversion source states no lair, treasure, or grappling values, and review declines to invent them. See review/policy/0.2.0-empty-field-policy.md.
• Description text is original Dungeons on Automatic prose written from this record's own converted statistics and from the project's art direction for the creature. It is not derived from the authorized fan-conversion source, which states no creature descriptions, and not from any SRD. It carries its own authorship and CC BY 4.0 terms in the description field. See review/policy/description-policy.md.
• Review approved by automated-mechanical-review on 2026-07-26 (batch ee-2026-07-26-b4-special-mechanics); GCS fidelity check passed, DOA playability check passed.
• Special-mechanics record. Mechanics the CER path cannot price are named per record in review/reports/cer-audit.md rather than folded into the number, and encounter counts are capped where a save-or-disable attack is present.