Dire Bat

Animal · 3 hexes · SM +1 Dire Bat (Enraged Eggplant; answers SRD 3.5)

A charcoal-furred bat with a wingspan wide enough to fill a corridor, huge pointed ears and a mouth of fine sharp teeth. It navigates by sound in complete darkness, hunts on the wing, and is far more startling than it is deadly.

Attributes

ST14

DX12

IQ4

HT12

HP14

Will10

Per12

FP12

Basic Speed6

Basic Move2

Dodge9

DR2

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
ClawsClaws (12): thrust 1d-1 crushing, Reach C-1.	12	thrust 1d-1 crushing	C-1
Sharp TeethSharp Teeth (12): thrust 1d-1 cutting, Reach C.	12	thrust 1d-1 cutting	C

Traits (9)

• Enhanced Move 1 (Air)
• Flight (Cannot Hover; Winged)
• Foot Manipulators
• Fur
• Night Vision 9
• No Fine Manipulators
• Short Lifespan 1
• Sonar (Accessibility, In air; Biological (Passive); Restricted Arc, 60°; Targeting)
• Wild Animal

Skills (4)

• 13Aerobatics
• 13Flight
• 13Survival (Plains)
• 13Stealth

Notes

• GCS ancestry draft: gcs/dire-bat.gct
• Source template total: -15 points.
• Library-rebuilt template total: -15 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 3 hexes; Weight 200 lbs.

Encounter rating

CER14

Offense4

Protection10

Threat tierminor

Appearing6

Wandering4

Tags

• srd-3-5
• animal

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Where this one came from

Source record

Dire Bat

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-bat.gct
• Source template total: -15 points.
• Library-rebuilt template total: -15 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 4, PR 10, CER 14, threat tier minor.
• Conversion baseline reported OR 5, PR 10, CER 15 (tier minor). 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 6, wandering weight 4. 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-b4-special-mechanics); GCS fidelity check passed, DOA playability check passed.
• Special-mechanics record. Mechanics the CER path cannot price are named per record in review/reports/cer-audit.md rather than folded into the number, and encounter counts are capped where a save-or-disable attack is present.