Babau

Outsider (Chaotic, Evil, Tanar’ri) · SM +0 Babau (Enraged Eggplant; answers SRD 3.5)

An unnaturally thin biped whose oil-slick black skin sheds light, with a bone-plated skull of a face, a wide predatory mouth and long clawed fingers. It moves in complete silence, prefers ambush to confrontation, and takes its time once the outcome is no longer in doubt.

Attributes

ST11

DX10

IQ10

HT12

HP11

Will10

Per12

FP12

Basic Speed5.5

Basic Move5

Dodge8

DR3

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
Sharp ClawsSharp Claws (13): thrust 1d-1 cutting, Reach C.	13	thrust 1d-1 cutting	C
Protective SlimeAnything that touches the babau takes 1d-3 points of corrosion damage.	no roll	1d-3 corrosion	—

Traits (19)

• Anarchic Touch
• Appearance (Hideous)
• Bad Smell
• Born Biter 2
• Callous
• Cautious
• Immunity to Poison
• Infravision
• Magic Resistance 1 (Improved)
• Sadism (12)
• Silence 2
• Skinny
• Slippery 2
• Social Stigma (Monster)
• Telesend (Magical; Universal)
• Unaging
• Unholy Touch
• Vulnerability (Cold Iron, x2)
• Vulnerability (Holy Weapons, x2)

Skills (2)

• 13Brawling
• 12Innate Attack (Gaze)

Notes

• GCS ancestry draft: gcs/babau.gct
• Source template total: 129 points.
• Library-rebuilt template total: 129 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.
• Weight 140 lbs.

Encounter rating

CER14

Offense8

Protection6

Threat tierminor

Appearing4

Wandering4

Tags

• srd-3-5
• outsider
• chaotic
• evil
• tanar-ri
• demon
• fiend

GCS v5 downloads

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Where this one came from

Source record

Babau

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/babau.gct
• Source template total: 129 points.
• Library-rebuilt template total: 129 points.
• CER was computed from parsed Typical Stats using the Dungeons On Automatic baseline CER path.
• Issue #5: 1 special ability construction(s) restored (Protective Slime). No disabling construction on this record carries a cost the affliction term can score.
• CER recomputed from the reviewed Typical Stats through the canonical Dungeons on Automatic CER path: OR 8, PR 6, CER 14, threat tier minor.
• Conversion baseline reported OR 9, PR 6, CER 15 (tier minor). 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 (default): average number appearing 4, wandering weight 4. 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.