Dire Lion

Animal · 11 hexes · SM +2 Dire Lion (Enraged Eggplant; answers SRD 3.5)

A tawny cat the size of a draught horse, dark-maned, moving with the same patient economy as a lion a tenth its weight. It hears a heartbeat across a clearing. What it pins does not get up again.

Attributes

ST27

DX13

IQ4

HT12

HP27

Will10

Per12

FP10

Basic Speed6.5

Basic Move10

Dodge10

DR3

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
Sharp TeethSharp Teeth (15): thrust 3d+1 cutting, Reach C.	15	thrust 3d+1 cutting	C
Sharp ClawsSharp Claws (15): thrust 3d+1 cutting, Reach C-1.	15	thrust 3d+1 cutting	C-1

Traits (22)

• Acute Hearing 2
• Born Biter 2
• Callous
• Catfall
• Combat Reflexes
• Discriminatory Smell
• Extra Legs (Four Legs)
• Flexibility
• Fur
• Horizontal
• Night Vision 6
• No Fine Manipulators
• Parabolic Hearing 2
• Penetrating Voice
• Perfect Balance
• Restricted Diet (Carnivore)
• Short Lifespan 2
• Tail
• Temperature Tolerance 1 (Cold)
• Terrain Adaptation (Uneven)
• Ultrahearing
• Wild Animal

Skills (5)

• 15Brawling
• 13Intimidation
• 13Jumping
• 15Stealth
• 15Wrestling

Notes

• GCS ancestry draft: gcs/dire-lion.gct
• Source template total: 119 points.
• Library-rebuilt template total: 119 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 11 hexes; Weight 3,500 lbs.

Encounter rating

CER53

Offense26

Protection27

Threat tierstandard

Appearing2

Wandering3

Tags

• srd-3-5
• animal

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Where this one came from

Source record

Dire Lion

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-lion.gct
• Source template total: 119 points.
• Library-rebuilt template total: 119 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 27, CER 53, threat tier standard.
• Conversion baseline reported OR 27, PR 27, CER 54 (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.