Ettercap

Aberration · SM +0 Ettercap (Enraged Eggplant; answers SRD 3.5, SRD 5.1)

A hunched, carapaced humanoid in bark-brown and charcoal, with a cluster of small black eyes and two short fangs. It keeps spiders the way a farmer keeps dogs, strings the approaches to its lair with web and deadfall, and prefers a victim already tangled.

Attributes

ST12

DX12

IQ7

HT10

HP12

Will10

Per10

FP10

Basic Speed5.5

Basic Move5

Dodge8

DR0

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
Sharp ClawsSharp Claws (12): thrust 1d-2 cutting, Reach C.	12	thrust 1d-2 cutting	C
Poisonous BitePoisonous Bite (12): thrust 1d-2 impaling + follow-up 1d-1 toxic (3 1-hour cycles, HT-3 to resist, Symptoms -3 DX (2/3 HP), Reach C.	12	thrust 1d-2 impaling + follow-up 1d-1 toxic (3 1-hour cycles, HT-3 to resist, Symptoms -3 DX (2/3 HP)	C
WebWeb (12): Binding 10, Area of effect – 2 yards, stays for 10 seconds, range 10, costs 1 FP.	12	Binding 10, Area of effect – 2 yards, stays for 10 seconds, range 10, costs 1 FP	—

Traits (14)

• Animal Empathy (Specialized, Spiders)
• Appearance (Hideous)
• Bad Grip 2
• Climbing Line
• Clinging
• Cold-Blooded (50°)
• Early Maturation 1
• Night Vision 5
• Odious Racial Habit (Eats sapient beings)
• Peripheral Vision
• Restricted Diet (Carnivore)
• Short Lifespan 1
• Social Stigma (Monster)
• Subsonic Hearing (Biological (Passive); Melee Attack, Reach C)

Skills (2)

• 12Innate Attack (Projectile)
• 12Traps/TL3

Notes

• GCS ancestry draft: gcs/ettercap.gct
• Source template total: 38 points.
• Library-rebuilt template total: 38 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.
• Weight 200 lbs.

Encounter rating

CER16

Offense14

Protection2

Threat tierminor

Appearing1

Wandering4

Tags

• srd-3-5
• srd-5-1
• aberration

GCS v5 downloads

• ↓ Character sheet (.gcs)Open directly in GCS
• ↓ Ancestry template (.gct)Apply to any character

Where this one came from

Source record

Ettercap

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/ettercap.gct
• Source template total: 38 points.
• Library-rebuilt template total: 38 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.
• CER recomputed from the reviewed Typical Stats through the canonical Dungeons on Automatic CER path: OR 14, PR 2, CER 16, threat tier minor.
• Conversion baseline reported OR 5, PR 2, 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 (solitary): average number appearing 1, 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.