Digester - Dungeons on Automatic Bestiary

Magical Beast · 3 hexes · SM +1 Digester (Enraged Eggplant; answers SRD 3.5)

A long, low armoured predator in ochre and slate on four clawed legs, with a small weak-toothed mouth and a swollen throat sac it does not use for calling. The sac holds acid, which it sprays in a cone hot enough to strip a body down, then laps up what remains.

Attributes

ST16

DX12

IQ4

HT11

HP16

Will10

Per10

FP11

Basic Speed6

Basic Move9

Dodge9

DR1

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
Sharp ClawsSharp Claws (13): thrust 1d+1 cutting, Reach C-1. On a miss requires a DX roll to avoid falling.	13	thrust 1d+1 cutting	C-1
Acid SprayAcid Spray (13): A digester can spray acid from a tubelike orifice in its forehead. This attack has no Acc, and has 1/2D 5 and Max 10. This attack is a continuous stream, like a flamethrower. Treat it as a melee weapon with a very long reach rather than as a ranged weapon. Do not apply penalties for target range and speed. This attack deals 4d corrosion damage. Each use costs 2 FP.	13	A digester can spray acid from a tubelike orifice in its forehead. This attack has no Acc, and has 1/2D 5 and Max 10. This attack is a continuous stream, like a flamethrower. Treat it as a melee weapon with a very long reach rather than as a ranged weapon. Do not apply penalties for target range and speed. This attack deals 4d corrosion damage. Each use costs 2 FP	rather than as a ranged weapon

Traits (8)

Chameleon 1
Discriminatory Smell
Increased Consumption 1
Nigh Vision 5
No Fine Manipulators
Restricted Diet (Carnivore)
Weak Bite
Wild Animal

Skills (6)

13Brawling
13Innate Attack (Breath)
15Jumping
15Running
12Stealth
12Tracking

Notes

GCS ancestry draft: gcs/digester.gct
Source template total: -14 points.
Library-rebuilt template total: 6 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.
Exact GCS library matches change the template by +20 point(s).
Size 3 hexes.

Encounter rating

CER33

Offense23

Protection10

Threat tierstandard

Appearing2

Wandering3

GCS v5 downloads

Where this one came from

Source record: Digester
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/digester.gct
Source template total: -14 points.
Library-rebuilt template total: 6 points.
CER was computed from parsed Typical Stats using the Dungeons On Automatic baseline CER path.
GCS cost adjudication for "IQ-6": the source states -140 points and the native GCS library computes -120. Adopted the native library value of -120. Reduced IQ is -20 per level (B15), so IQ-6 is -120. The stated -140 prices seven levels.
CER recomputed from the reviewed Typical Stats through the canonical Dungeons on Automatic CER path: OR 23, PR 10, CER 33, threat tier standard.
Conversion baseline reported OR 21, PR 10, CER 31 (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 (gregarious): 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-b1-gcs-costs); GCS fidelity check passed, DOA playability check passed.
Every exact-identity cost discrepancy on this record is adjudicated against the published GURPS cost table in review/reports/gcs-adjudication.md; the adopted value and its basis are recorded in conversionNotes.
Visual GCS verification of the .gct is not claimed by this decision; checks.gcsVisualPass is false.

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.