Animal · SM +5 Baleen Whale [Monster Manual, page 282]
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 (KYOS: 7d+2 crushing). Reach C. | 9 | thrust 8d-1 crushing (KYOS: 7d+2 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 [Monster Manual, page 282]
- 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/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.
- 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.