Barghest

Outsider (Evil, Lawful) · 2 hexes · SM +0 Barghest (Enraged Eggplant; answers SRD 3.5)

A heavy, low-slung quadruped in soot-black fur striped with iron grey, with a broad hyena-like muzzle, ember eyes and oversized claws. It hunts thinking prey deliberately and for preference, and what it consumes is beyond the reach of any resurrection.

Attributes

ST14

DX11

IQ10

HT12

HP14

Will10

Per10

FP12

Basic Speed6

Basic Move8

Dodge10

DR2

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
Sharp TeethSharp Teeth (13): thrust 1d cutting, Reach C.	13	thrust 1d cutting	C
Sharp ClawsSharp Claws (13): thrust 1d cutting, Reach C.	13	thrust 1d cutting	C
Howl of DespairThe barghest may take a Ready maneuver to emit a howl. Any creature that hears it must roll a Fright Check using the Despair table at -2 (Pyramid #3-92, p. 29). If a victim succeeds at his Fright Check, he will be unaffected by this ability for one hour.	—	—	—

Traits (20)

• Appearance (Hideous)
• Axiomatic Touch
• Bad Grip 1
• Bloodlust (12)
• Born Biter 2
• Callous
• Combat Reflexes
• Discriminatory Smell
• Doesn’t Eat or Drink
• Eaten beings cannot be resurrected
• Extended Lifespan 1
• Fur
• Horizontal
• Infravision
• Odious Racial Habit (Eats sapient beings)
• Selfish (12)
• Social Stigma (Monster)
• Uncontrollable Appetite (12) (Souls)
• Unholy Touch
• Vulnerability (Holy Weapons, x2)

Skills (3)

• 13Brawling
• 13Stealth
• 13Tracking

Notes

• GCS ancestry draft: gcs/barghest.gct
• Source template total: 126 points.
• Library-rebuilt template total: 126 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.
• GCS template includes a -14-point reconciliation child requiring decomposition.
• Size 2 hexes.

Encounter rating

CER31

Offense18

Protection13

Threat tierstandard

Appearing2

Wandering3

Tags

• srd-3-5
• outsider
• evil
• lawful

GCS v5 downloads

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Where this one came from

Source record

Barghest

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/barghest.gct
• Source template total: 126 points.
• Library-rebuilt template total: 126 points.
• CER was computed from parsed Typical Stats using the Dungeons On Automatic baseline CER path.
• Issue #5: 1 special ability construction(s) restored (Howl of Despair). 1 save-or-disable construction(s) are scored through the affliction term at the source's stated point cost, or at Binding ST where the source builds the ability as a Binding.
• GCS ancestry reconciliation adjudicated: the published template total is 126 points and the parsed source children sum to 140, a difference of -14. Classified as grouped construction not decomposed — consistent with grouped abilities the prose parser did not split into individual children (alternative abilities, linked constructions, and spell or breath-weapon groups). The points are real and priced in the author's total; only the decomposition is missing. The authorized source total is preserved; the remaining manual step is opening gcs/barghest.gct in GCS to replace the reconciliation child with native constructions where the grouped ability can be decomposed.
• CER recomputed from the reviewed Typical Stats through the canonical Dungeons on Automatic CER path: OR 18, PR 13, CER 31, threat tier standard.
• Conversion baseline reported OR 13, PR 13, CER 26 (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 (default): average number appearing 2, 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.
• 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-b2-gcs-reconciliation); GCS fidelity check passed, DOA playability check passed.
• The source-total difference is classified and documented in conversionNotes; the authorized published total is preserved and the residual stays visible as a reconciliation child.
• Visual GCS verification of the .gct is not claimed by this decision; checks.gcsVisualPass is false.