Balor

Outsider (Chaotic, Evil, Tanar’ri) · 4 hexes · SM +2 Balor (Enraged Eggplant; answers SRD 3.5, SRD 5.1)

An ember-black giant of a fiend, horned and wreathed in heat, with vast smoke-dark wings, an obsidian greatsword in one hand and a flaming whip in the other. It is fast, clever and magnificently persuasive when it chooses. Most of what threatens it is destroyed before it has finished speaking.

Attributes

ST35

DX13

IQ14

HT15

HP35

Will15

Per14

FP15

Basic Speed7

Basic Move7

Dodge11

DR6

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
Vorpal Sword (SM+2)Vorpal Sword (SM+2) (18): swing 7d cutting, Reach 2-3 or thrust 5d impaling, Reach 2-3. This thrusting greatsword (LT70, B274) can be vorpalized by the wielder for 1 hour by taking a Concentrate maneuver and spending 1 FP. Once vorpalized, the sword will deal an additional 3d of follow-up (p. B105) cutting damage on neck swings. This additional damage causes no blunt trauma and no knockback. Additionally, the wielder of the weapon gets a +1 bonus to his weapon skill when making cutting swings that target necks.	18	swing 7d cutting	2-3 or thrust 5d impaling, Reach 2-3
Flaming Whip (SM+2; 7 yards)Flaming Whip (SM+2; 7 yards) (18): swing 6d(0.5) crushing + 3d follow-up burning, Reach 3-14*, -2U Parry. Additional rules for disarming, cracking, and entangling with the whip are detailed on B405.	18	swing 6d(0.5) crushing + 3d follow-up burning	3-14*, -2U Parry
Sharp ClawsSharp Claws (18): thrust 4d+2 cutting, Reach C-1.	18	thrust 4d+2 cutting	C-1
Sharp TeethSharp Teeth (18): thrust 4d+2 cutting, Reach C.	18	thrust 4d+2 cutting	C
Death ThroesWhen the balor dies, its body explodes, dealing 10d burn ex damage.	—	10d burning	—
Flaming BodyAnything that touches the balor takes 2d burning damage.	no roll	2d burning	C

Traits (25)

• Anarchic Touch
• Appearance (Hideous)
• Bad Temper (9)
• Bloodlust (12)
• Bully (9)
• Callous
• Charisma 3
• Combat Reflexes
• Doesn’t Eat or Drink
• Extra Attack 1
• Flight (Cannot Hover; Winged)
• Immunity to Electrical Conduction
• Immunity to Noxious High-Temperature (Electricity and Fire) Effects
• Immunity to Poison
• Infravision
• Magic Resistance 3 (Improved)
• Sadism (12)
• See Invisible (Magical; Magical; True Sight)
• Selfish (9)
• Social Stigma (Monster)
• Telesend (Magical; Universal)
• Unaging
• Unholy Touch
• Vulnerability (Cold Iron, x2)
• Vulnerability (Holy Weapons, x2)

Skills (8)

• 18Brawling
• 18Broadsword
• 18Force Whip
• 18Innate Attack (Gaze)
• 16Occultism
• 16Thaumatology
• 18Whip
• 18Wrestling

Notes

• GCS ancestry draft: gcs/balor.gct
• Source template total: 585 points.
• Library-rebuilt template total: 585 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 4 hexes; Weight 4,500 lbs.

Encounter rating

CER99

Offense51

Protection48

Threat tiermajor

Appearing1

Wandering2

Tags

• srd-3-5
• srd-5-1
• outsider
• chaotic
• evil
• tanar-ri
• demon
• fiend

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Where this one came from

Source record

Balor

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/balor.gct
• Source template total: 585 points.
• Library-rebuilt template total: 585 points.
• CER was computed from parsed Typical Stats using the Dungeons On Automatic baseline CER path.
• Issue #5: 2 special ability construction(s) restored (Death Throes, Flaming Body). 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 51, PR 48, CER 99, threat tier major.
• Conversion baseline reported OR 52, PR 48, CER 100 (tier severe). 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 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.