Dragon · SM +3 Black Dragon [Monster Manual, page 70]
Attributes
ST25
DX10
IQ12
HT15
HP25
Will13
Per14
FP20
Basic Speed6.25
Basic Move7
Dodge9
DR3
Melee attacks
| Usage | Level | Damage | Reach |
|---|---|---|---|
| BiteBite (14): thrust 3d-1 impaling, Reach C-1. | 14 | thrust 3d-1 impaling | C-1 |
| Front ClawFront Claw (14): thrust 3d-1 cutting or impaling, Reach C-2. | 14 | thrust 3d-1 cutting or impaling | C-2 |
| Hind ClawHind Claw (12): thrust 3d cutting or impaling, Reach C-2. | 12 | thrust 3d cutting or impaling | C-2 |
| WingWing (14): thrust 3d crushing, Reach C-3, can only attack front and side hexes. | 14 | thrust 3d crushing | C-3, can only attack front and side hexes |
| TailTail (12): thrust 3d crushing, Reach C-3. | 12 | thrust 3d crushing | C-3 |
| HornsHorns (14): thrust 3d impaling, Reach C-1. | 14 | thrust 3d impaling | C-1 |
| Breathe AcidBreathe Acid (14): The dragon breathes out a stream of acid, dealing thrust 1d+2 corrosion damage as large-area injury. This is a cone attack that uses rules from Area and Spreading Attacks (pp. B413-414). The cone is 1-yard wide and has a length of 5 yards (ST/5). Each use costs 2 FP. It is possible to make the cone wider by using the rules from Cones of Power (GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Monsters 4: Dragons, p. 10). | 14 | The dragon breathes out a stream of acid, dealing thrust 1d+2 corrosion damage as large-area injury. This is a cone attack that uses rules from Area and Spreading Attacks (pp. B413-414). The cone is 1-yard wide and has a length of 5 yards (ST/5). Each use costs 2 FP. It is possible to make the cone wider by using the rules from Cones of Power (GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Monsters 4: Dragons, p. 10) | — |
Traits (47)
- Amphibious
- Bad Grip 2
- Bad Temper (9)
- Callous
- Discriminatory Smell
- Discriminatory Taste
- Doesn’t Breathe (Gills)
- Dull Touch 6
- Enhanced Move 0.5 (Air)
- Enhanced Move 1 (Ground)
- Extended Lifespan 5
- Extra Attack 1
- Extra Legs (Four Legs)
- Eye for Distance
- Flexibility
- Flight (Cannot Hover; Winged)
- Greed (12)
- Ham-Fisted 1
- High Pain Threshold
- Horizontal
- Immunity to Noxious Acidic Effects
- Immunity to Paralysis
- Immunity to Sleep
- Infravision
- Internal Sealed (Acid-Resistant Only)
- Loner (12)
- Magic Resistance 1 (Improved)
- Methodical
- Miserliness (12)
- Nictitating Membrane 3
- Night Vision 7
- Odious Racial Habit (Eats sapient beings)
- Parabolic Hearing 1
- Penetrating Voice
- Peripheral Vision
- Pressure Support 1
- Protected Vision
- Reduced Consumption 3
- Scales
- Sealed (Acid-Resistant Only)
- Selfish (12)
- Speak Underwater
- Staid
- Temperature Tolerance 6
- Unfazeable
- Universal Digestion (Matter Eater)
- Vibration Sense (Air)
Skills (7)
- 14Brawling
- 12Diplomacy
- 12Fast-Talk
- 14Innate Attack (Breath)
- 14Innate Attack (Gaze)
- 14Survival (Swampland)
- 12Tactics
Notes
- GCS ancestry draft: gcs/black-dragon.gct
- Source template total: 721 points.
- Library-rebuilt template total: 721 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
CER74
Offense36
Protection38
Threat tiermajor
Appearing1
Wandering2
Tags
- srd-3-5
- dragon
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Where this one came from
- Source record
- Black Dragon [Monster Manual, page 70]
- 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/black-dragon.gct
- Source template total: 721 points.
- Library-rebuilt template total: 721 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 36, PR 38, CER 74, threat tier major.
- Conversion baseline reported OR 37, PR 38, CER 75 (tier major). 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 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.