Dire Badger

Animal · 2 hexes · SM +1 Dire Badger (Enraged Eggplant; answers SRD 3.5)

A barrel-bodied digger the size of a pony, silver-striped and scarred, on pillar-thick legs ending in oversized claws. It has all the smaller badger's temper and none of its limits: once it starts, it does not disengage, does not tire quickly, and does not appear to feel much.

Attributes

ST18

DX12

IQ4

HT14

HP18

Will12

Per12

FP14

Basic Speed6.25

Basic Move6

Dodge9

DR2

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
Blunt ClawsBlunt Claws (14): thrust 2d-1 crushing, Reach C-1.	14	thrust 2d-1 crushing	C-1
Sharp TeethSharp Teeth (14): thrust 1d+2 cutting, Reach C.	14	thrust 1d+2 cutting	C

Traits (11)

• Berserk (Battle Rage) (12)
• Extra Legs (Four Legs)
• Fur
• High Pain Threshold
• Horizontal
• Night Vision 6
• No Fine Manipulators
• Short Lifespan 1
• Temperature Tolerance 2 (Cold)
• Tunneling (Move 2)
• Wild Animal

Skills (3)

• 14Brawling
• 13Stealth
• 13Survival (Woodlands)

Notes

• GCS ancestry draft: gcs/dire-badger.gct
• Source template total: 38 points.
• Library-rebuilt template total: 38 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.
• Size 2 hexes; Weight 500 lbs.

Encounter rating

CER36

Offense16

Protection20

Threat tierstandard

Appearing2

Wandering3

Tags

• srd-3-5
• animal

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Where this one came from

Source record

Dire Badger

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-badger.gct
• Source template total: 38 points.
• Library-rebuilt template total: 38 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 16, PR 20, CER 36, threat tier standard.
• Conversion baseline reported OR 17, PR 20, CER 37 (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.