Magical Beast · 3 hexes · SM +1 Ethereal Marauder (Enraged Eggplant; answers SRD 3.5)
A cobalt-violet predator on four running legs, low and flexible, with pearly ridges down its back and a mouth of small sharp teeth. It hunts from just outside the world, arriving beside its prey with no approach to hear and leaving the same way when the meal is over.
Attributes
ST15
DX10
IQ8
HT10
HP15
Will10
Per11
FP10
Basic Speed5
Basic Move7
Dodge8
DR1
Melee attacks
| Usage | Level | Damage | Reach |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sharp TeethSharp Teeth (13): thrust 1d+1 cutting, Reach C. | 13 | thrust 1d+1 cutting | C |
| Ethereal JauntEthereal Jaunt (14): The ethereal marauder can slip into the Ethereal Plane from the Material Plane and the other way around as per Jumper (p. B64). After using this ability, the marauder does not have to make Body Sense rolls. | 14 | The ethereal marauder can slip into the Ethereal Plane from the Material Plane and the other way around as per Jumper (p. B64). After using this ability, the marauder does not have to make Body Sense rolls | — |
Traits (8)
- Bestial
- Born Biter 2
- Cannot Speak
- Infravision
- No Manipulators
- Peripheral Vision
- Restricted Diet (Carnivore)
- Social Stigma (Monster)
Skills (2)
- 13Brawling
- 14Stealth
Notes
- GCS ancestry draft: gcs/ethereal-marauder.gct
- Source template total: 54 points.
- Library-rebuilt template total: 54 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 3 hexes.
Encounter rating
CER17
Offense11
Protection6
Threat tierminor
Appearing6
Wandering4
Tags
- srd-3-5
- magical-beast
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Where this one came from
- Source record
- Ethereal Marauder
- 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/ethereal-marauder.gct
- Source template total: 54 points.
- Library-rebuilt template total: 54 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 11, PR 6, CER 17, threat tier minor.
- Conversion baseline reported OR 12, PR 6, CER 18 (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 (gregarious): average number appearing 6, 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-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.
Enraged Eggplant GURPS monster conversions; used, adapted, and republished with unrestricted permission from the author. Portrait and tokens are AI-generated original art. Sources and credits.