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Cachalot Whale

Animal · severe threat

Cachalot Whale bestiary portrait
Cachalot Whale top-down encounter tokenCachalot Whale top-down flat-top hex token

Animal · SM +6 Cachalot Whale [Monster Manual, page 283]

Attributes

ST110
DX10
IQ5
HT11
HP110
Will10
Per12
FP11
Basic Speed5.25
Basic Move7
Dodge9
DR8

Melee attacks

UsageLevelDamageReach
Sharp TeethSharp Teeth (12): thrust 15d cutting (KYOS: 10d+1 cutting). Reach C.12thrust 15d cutting (KYOS: 10d+1 cutting)C

Traits (15)

  • Born Biter 3
  • Combat Reflexes
  • Discriminatory Hearing
  • Doesn’t Breathe (Oxygen Storage, x100)
  • Enhanced Move 0.5 (Water)
  • Injury Tolerance (No Neck)
  • Night Vision 6
  • No Legs (Aquatic)
  • No Manipulators
  • Peripheral Vision
  • Pressure Support 2
  • Restricted Diet (Carnivore)
  • Speak Underwater
  • Temperature Tolerance 3 (Cold)
  • Wild Animal

Skills (3)

  • 12Brawling
  • 13Survival (Open Ocean)
  • 12Wrestling

Notes

  • GCS ancestry draft: gcs/cachalot-whale.gct
  • Source template total: 213 points.
  • Library-rebuilt template total: 213 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

CER195
Offense83
Protection112
Threat tiersevere
Appearing1
Wandering1

Tags

  • srd-3-5
  • animal

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Where this one came from
Source record
Cachalot Whale [Monster Manual, page 283]
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/cachalot-whale.gct
  • Source template total: 213 points.
  • Library-rebuilt template total: 213 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 83, PR 112, CER 195, threat tier severe.
  • Conversion baseline reported OR 84, PR 112, CER 196 (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 (solitary): average number appearing 1, wandering weight 1. 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-b3-cer-tails); GCS fidelity check passed, DOA playability check passed.
  • CER tail record. The rating was recomputed through the consumer CER path and the tail was read against package peers in review/reports/cer-audit.md; a floor of 1 reflects a genuinely feeble creature and a severe rating tracks the record's own HP, DR and damage.

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.