Dragon (Water) · SM +3 Bronze Dragon [Monster Manual, page 80]
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 |
| Breathe ElectricityBreathe Electricity (14): The dragon breathes out a bolt of lightning, dealing thrust 1d+2 burning surge damage as large-area injury. Wearing any metal armor anywhere means having DR 1 against it, if that would be worse for the victim. Anyone wounded must make a HT roll at -1 per 2 HP of injury or be stunned, rolling against HT each turn thereafter to recover. 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 bolt of lightning, dealing thrust 1d+2 burning surge damage as large-area injury. Wearing any metal armor anywhere means having DR 1 against it, if that would be worse for the victim. Anyone wounded must make a HT roll at -1 per 2 HP of injury or be stunned, rolling against HT each turn thereafter to recover. 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) | — |
| Breathe Repulsion GasBreathe Repulsion Gas (14): Alternatively, the dragon may breathe out a stream of repulsion gas. 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). Creatures who breathe the gas must roll against Will or be compelled to keep a distance of at least 11 yards from the dragon for margin of failure minutes. If outside forces bring the victim and the dragon closer together than that, the victim must move away as fast as he can, by the most direct route possible. He may do nothing else until he is beyond the range. If he you cannot put at least 11 yards of distance between himself and the dragon, this ability will render him helpless! | 14 | Alternatively, the dragon may breathe out a stream of repulsion gas. 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). Creatures who breathe the gas must roll against Will or be compelled to keep a distance of at least 11 yards from the dragon for margin of failure minutes. If outside forces bring the victim and the dragon closer together than that, the victim must move away as fast as he can, by the most direct route possible. He may do nothing else until he is beyond the range. If he you cannot put at least 11 yards of distance between himself and the dragon, this ability will render him helpless! | — |
Traits (42)
- Amphibious
- Bad Grip 2
- Discriminatory Smell
- Discriminatory Taste
- 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 Electrical Conduction
- Immunity to Noxious Electrical Effects
- Immunity to Paralysis
- Immunity to Sleep
- Infravision
- Loner (12)
- Magic Resistance 1 (Improved)
- Methodical
- Miserliness (12)
- Nictitating Membrane 3
- Night Vision 7
- Parabolic Hearing 1
- Penetrating Voice
- Peripheral Vision
- Pressure Support 1
- Protected Vision
- Reduced Consumption 3
- Scales
- Selfish (12)
- Speak Underwater
- Staid
- Temperature Tolerance 6
- Unfazeable
- Universal Digestion (Matter Eater)
- Vibration Sense (Air)
Skills (5)
- 14Brawling
- 12Diplomacy
- 12Fast-Talk
- 14Innate Attack (Breath)
- 12Tactics
Notes
- GCS ancestry draft: gcs/bronze-dragon.gct
- Source template total: 809 points.
- Library-rebuilt template total: 809 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 +50-point reconciliation child requiring decomposition.
Encounter rating
CER75
Offense37
Protection38
Threat tiermajor
Appearing1
Wandering2
Tags
- srd-3-5
- dragon
- water
GCS v5 downloads
Where this one came from
- Source record
- Bronze Dragon [Monster Manual, page 80]
- 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/bronze-dragon.gct
- Source template total: 809 points.
- Library-rebuilt template total: 809 points.
- CER was computed from parsed Typical Stats using the Dungeons On Automatic baseline CER path.
- Issue #5: 0 special ability construction(s) restored and 1 annotated with the source's stated cost. 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 809 points and the parsed source children sum to 759, a difference of +50. Classified as large grouped construction not decomposed — a large residual: this record's source entry groups a substantial block of abilities (typically spellcasting, breath weapons, or an alternative-ability set) into a single construction that the prose parser could not decompose. The author's published total is preserved and the residual stays visible as a reconciliation child rather than being silently absorbed. The authorized source total is preserved; the remaining manual step is opening gcs/bronze-dragon.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 37, PR 38, CER 75, threat tier major.
- Conversion baseline reported OR 35, PR 38, CER 73 (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-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.
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