Bat Swarm

Animal · SM +0 Bat Swarm (Enraged Eggplant; answers SRD 3.5)

A living cloud of hundreds of cave bats pouring out of a ceiling crack in a spiral. Individually they are nothing; together they fill the room, foul torches, tangle in hair and armour, and make it impossible to see or hear anything useful.

Attributes

ST4

DX12

IQ3

HT12

HP8

Will10

Per12

FP10

Basic Speed6

Basic Move2

Dodge9

DR0

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
Swarm BiteNo attack roll and no active defense. The swarm steps into close combat; the target automatically takes 1d cutting as large-area injury, reduced by DR normally. The only escape is to retreat or dodge-and-drop at least one yard away before the swarm acts.	no roll	1d cutting	C

Traits (7)

• Foot Manipulators
• Fur
• Night Vision 9
• No Fine Manipulators
• Short Lifespan 1
• Sonar (Accessibility, Not in water)
• Wild Animal

Skills (4)

• 13Aerobatics
• 13Flight
• 13Survival (Plains)
• 13Stealth

Notes

• GCS ancestry draft: gcs/bat-swarm.gct
• Source template total: 17 points.
• Library-rebuilt template total: 17 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.
• Swarm: the swarm is dispersed at 0 HP and destroyed at -HP. It cannot be slammed or grappled, is immune to crippling injuries, and takes reduced damage from most physical blows (Diffuse, flying swarm).

Encounter rating

CER18

Offense16

Protection2

Threat tierminor

Appearing1

Wandering4

Tags

• srd-3-5
• animal

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Where this one came from

Source record

Bat Swarm

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/bat-swarm.gct
• Source template total: 17 points.
• Library-rebuilt template total: 17 points.
• CER was computed from parsed Typical Stats using the Dungeons On Automatic baseline CER path.
• Issue #5: the automatic swarm bite was added from the source's Cosmic (no die roll required, no active defense allowed) construction. Rated as an auto-hit attack, which raises the offense rating over the empty-attack baseline.
• CER recomputed from the reviewed Typical Stats through the canonical Dungeons on Automatic CER path: OR 16, PR 2, CER 18, threat tier minor.
• Conversion baseline reported OR -4, PR 2, CER 1 (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 (solitary): average number appearing 1, 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.