Plant · 6 hexes · SM +2 Assassin Vine [Monster Manual, page 20]
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 (KYOS: ST 18). The vine has Double-Jointed and Constriction Attack; it cannot be disarmed. | 14 | thrust 2d-1 crushing (KYOS: 1d+2 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 (24)
- 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 Poison
- Immunity to Mind Control
- Immunity to Noxious Cold Effects
- Immunity to Noxious Fire Effects
- 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 [Monster Manual, page 20]
- 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.
- 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 / KYOS ST 18) 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.
- 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.
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