Dire Ape

Animal · SM +1 Dire Ape (Enraged Eggplant; answers SRD 3.5)

A vast iron-grey primate, barrel-chested, with pillar-thick arms scarred from use and pale amber eyes. It swings through heavy timber as easily as its smaller cousins and hits with force enough to end a fight in one blow. Bad-tempered, and very hard to discourage.

Attributes

ST26

DX10

IQ6

HT12

HP26

Will10

Per11

FP12

Basic Speed5.5

Basic Move7

Dodge8

DR2

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
Sharp TeethSharp Teeth (13): thrust 3d-1 cutting, Reach C.	13	thrust 3d-1 cutting	C
PunchPunch (13): thrust 3d-1 crushing, Reach C-1.	13	thrust 3d-1 crushing	C-1

Traits (14)

• Bad Temper (12)
• Brachiator
• Extra Arms 2 (Foot Manipulators; Temporary Disadvantage, Ham-Fisted 2)
• Extra Legs (Four Legs)
• Fur
• Ham-Fisted 1
• Impulsiveness (9)
• Lifting ST 2
• Night Vision 5
• Perfect Balance
• Semi-Upright
• Short Lifespan 1
• Terrain Adaptation (Uneven)
• Wild Animal

Skills (4)

• 13Brawling
• 14Climbing
• 13Survival (Jungle)
• 13Wrestling

Notes

• GCS ancestry draft: gcs/dire-ape.gct
• Source template total: 125 points.
• Library-rebuilt template total: 125 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

CER40

Offense20

Protection20

Threat tierstandard

Appearing2

Wandering3

Tags

• srd-3-5
• animal

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Where this one came from

Source record

Dire Ape

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/dire-ape.gct
• Source template total: 125 points.
• Library-rebuilt template total: 125 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 20, PR 20, CER 40, threat tier standard.
• Conversion baseline reported OR 21, PR 20, CER 41 (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-b5-cer-drift); GCS fidelity check passed, DOA playability check passed.
• The conversion baseline's published ratings disagreed with the consumer CER path; the reviewed ratings come from the consumer implementation and the difference is recorded in conversionNotes.