Earth Mephit

Outsider (Earth, Mephit) · SM -1 Earth Mephit (Enraged Eggplant; answers SRD 3.5)

A compact mephit of layered slate and granite with heavy stone wings that ought not to work and do anyway. It is the slowest and sturdiest of its kind, presses itself against rock and vanishes into it, and spits a burst of grit and splinters.

Attributes

ST9

DX10

IQ9

HT11

HP9

Will9

Per10

FP11

Basic Speed5.25

Basic Move5

Dodge8

DR2

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
Sharp ClawsSharp Claws (12): thrust 1d-2 cutting, Reach C.	12	thrust 1d-2 cutting	C
Breath WeaponBreath Weapon (12): An earth mephit may spend 1 FP to spew forth a blast of rock shards and pebbles. This blast does 1d crushing damage and has a 1/2D range of 5 yards.	12	An earth mephit may spend 1 FP to spew forth a blast of rock shards and pebbles. This blast does 1d crushing damage and has a 1/2D range of 5 yards	—

Traits (9)

• Curious (12)
• Doesn’t Eat or Drink
• Flight (Cannot Hover; Winged)
• Infravision
• Limited Camouflage (Stone)
• Odious Racial Habit (Vulgar and annoying behavior)
• Regeneration (Fast; Accessibility, Only underground or buried up to its waist in earth)
• Unaging
• Vulnerability (Sound, x2)

Skills (3)

• 12Aerobatics
• 12Brawling
• 12Innate Attack (Breath)

Notes

• GCS ancestry draft: gcs/earth-mephit.gct
• Source template total: 110 points.
• Library-rebuilt template total: 110 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 -30-point reconciliation child requiring decomposition.

Encounter rating

CER10

Offense9

Protection1

Threat tierminor

Appearing4

Wandering4

Tags

• srd-3-5
• outsider
• earth
• mephit

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Where this one came from

Source record

Earth Mephit

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/earth-mephit.gct
• Source template total: 110 points.
• Library-rebuilt template total: 110 points.
• CER was computed from parsed Typical Stats using the Dungeons On Automatic baseline CER path.
• Issue #5: 0 special ability construction(s) restored and 1 annotated with the source's stated cost. 1 save-or-disable construction(s) are scored through the affliction term at the source's stated point cost, or at Binding ST where the source builds the ability as a Binding.
• GCS ancestry reconciliation adjudicated: the published template total is 110 points and the parsed source children sum to 140, a difference of -30. 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/earth-mephit.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 9, PR 1, CER 10, threat tier minor.
• Conversion baseline reported OR 6, PR 1, CER 7 (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 (default): average number appearing 4, 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-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.