Dire Bear

Animal · 10 hexes · SM +2 Dire Bear (Enraged Eggplant; answers SRD 3.5)

A high-shouldered bear in dense frost-tipped umber fur, weighing as much as a loaded cart, standing up to better than twice a man's height. It is short-tempered, hard to put down, and hits with a paw wide enough to take a shield with the arm behind it.

Attributes

ST30

DX11

IQ4

HT13

HP30

Will12

Per12

FP13

Basic Speed6

Basic Move6

Dodge9

DR3

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
Blunt ClawsBlunt Claws (14): thrust 4d+1 crushing, Reach C-1.	14	thrust 4d+1 crushing	C-1
Sharp TeethSharp Teeth (14): thrust 3d+2 cutting, Reach C.	14	thrust 3d+2 cutting	C

Traits (13)

• Bad Temper (12)
• Discriminatory Smell
• Enhanced Move 0.5 (Ground)
• Extra Legs (Four Legs)
• Fur
• Hard to Subdue 2
• High Pain Threshold
• Night Vision 6
• No Fine Manipulators
• Semi-Upright
• Short Lifespan 1
• Temperature Tolerance 3 (Cold)
• Wild Animal

Skills (3)

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

Notes

• GCS ancestry draft: gcs/dire-bear.gct
• Source template total: 67 points.
• Library-rebuilt template total: 67 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 10 hexes; Weight 7,500 lbs.

Encounter rating

CER58

Offense26

Protection32

Threat tierstandard

Appearing2

Wandering3

Tags

• srd-3-5
• animal

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Where this one came from

Source record

Dire Bear

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-bear.gct
• Source template total: 67 points.
• Library-rebuilt template total: 67 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 26, PR 32, CER 58, threat tier standard.
• Conversion baseline reported OR 27, PR 32, CER 59 (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-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.