Animal · SM +5 Baleen Whale (Enraged Eggplant; answers SRD 3.5)
An enormous mottled blue-grey whale with a pleated throat and a mouth that strains its food from the water rather than biting it. It is not a predator of anything larger than a shrimp, but a ship that gets under one when it breaches has a serious problem.
Attributes
ST72
DX9
IQ5
HT11
HP72
Will10
Per10
FP11
Basic Speed4
Basic Move4
Dodge7
DR7
Melee attacks
| Usage | Level | Damage | Reach |
|---|---|---|---|
| BiteBite (9): thrust 8d-1 crushing. Reach C. | 9 | thrust 8d-1 crushing | C |
Traits (13)
- Discriminatory Hearing
- Doesn’t Breathe (Oxygen Storage, x100)
- Enhanced Move 1.5 (Water)
- Injury Tolerance (No Neck)
- Night Vision 5
- No Legs (Aquatic)
- No Manipulators
- Peripheral Vision
- Pressure Support 1
- Restricted Diet (Plankton)
- Speak Underwater
- Temperature Tolerance 3 (Cold)
- Wild Animal
Skills (2)
- 9Brawling
- 13Survival (Open Ocean)
Notes
- GCS ancestry draft: gcs/baleen-whale.gct
- Source template total: 72 points.
- Library-rebuilt template total: 72 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.
Encounter rating
CER93
Offense25
Protection68
Threat tiermajor
Appearing1
Wandering2
Tags
- srd-3-5
- animal
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Where this one came from
- Source record
- Baleen Whale
- 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/baleen-whale.gct
- Source template total: 72 points.
- Library-rebuilt template total: 72 points.
- CER was computed from parsed Typical Stats using the Dungeons On Automatic baseline CER path.
- CER recomputed from the reviewed Typical Stats through the canonical Dungeons on Automatic CER path: OR 25, PR 68, CER 93, threat tier major.
- Encounter metadata derived (solitary): average number appearing 1, wandering weight 2. 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.
Enraged Eggplant GURPS monster conversions; used, adapted, and republished with unrestricted permission from the author. Portrait and tokens are AI-generated original art. Sources and credits.