Animal · SM +4 Dire Shark [Monster Manual, page 64]
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 (KYOS: 8d+1 cutting), Reach C. | 14 | thrust 7d+1 cutting (KYOS: 8d+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 [Monster Manual, page 64]
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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