Dire Shark

Animal · SM +4 Dire Shark (Enraged Eggplant; answers SRD 3.5)

A slate-grey shark long enough to swallow a rowing boat's crew one at a time, blunt-headed, with a mouth of triangular teeth set in rows. It tastes blood across a great distance of water and arrives without any warning at all.

Attributes

ST55

DX12

IQ2

HT12

HP55

Will10

Per12

FP12

Basic Speed6

Basic Move8

Dodge10

DR3

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
Sharp TeethSharp Teeth (14): thrust 7d+1 cutting, Reach C.	14	thrust 7d+1 cutting	C

Traits (17)

• Bad Temper (9)
• Cold-Blooded (50°)
• Combat Reflexes
• Discriminatory Taste
• Doesn’t Breathe (Gills)
• Enhanced Move 1 (Water)
• Injury Tolerance (No Neck)
• Night Vision 5
• No Legs (Aquatic)
• No Manipulators
• Peripheral Vision
• Pressure Support 2
• Restricted Diet (Carnivore)
• Subsonic Hearing
• Temperature Tolerance 2 (Cold)
• Vibration Sense (Water)
• Wild Animal (with Mute)

Skills (2)

• 14Brawling
• 13Survival (Salt-Water Sea)

Notes

• GCS ancestry draft: gcs/dire-shark.gct
• Source template total: 81 points.
• Library-rebuilt template total: 81 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.
• GCS template includes a +20-point reconciliation child requiring decomposition.

Encounter rating

CER101

Offense46

Protection55

Threat tiersevere

Appearing1

Wandering1

Tags

• srd-3-5
• animal

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Where this one came from

Source record

Dire Shark

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-shark.gct
• Source template total: 81 points.
• Library-rebuilt template total: 81 points.
• CER was computed from parsed Typical Stats using the Dungeons On Automatic baseline CER path.
• GCS ancestry reconciliation adjudicated: the published template total is 81 points and the parsed source children sum to 61, a difference of +20. Classified as grouped construction not decomposed — consistent with grouped abilities the prose parser did not split into individual children (alternative abilities, linked constructions, and spell or breath-weapon groups). The points are real and priced in the author's total; only the decomposition is missing. The authorized source total is preserved; the remaining manual step is opening gcs/dire-shark.gct in GCS to replace the reconciliation child with native constructions where the grouped ability can be decomposed.
• CER recomputed from the reviewed Typical Stats through the canonical Dungeons on Automatic CER path: OR 46, PR 55, CER 101, threat tier severe.
• Conversion baseline reported OR 47, PR 55, CER 102 (tier severe). 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 1, wandering weight 1. 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-b2-gcs-reconciliation); GCS fidelity check passed, DOA playability check passed.
• The source-total difference is classified and documented in conversionNotes; the authorized published total is preserved and the residual stays visible as a reconciliation child.
• Visual GCS verification of the .gct is not claimed by this decision; checks.gcsVisualPass is false.