Ghast

Undead · SM +0 Ghast (Enraged Eggplant; answers SRD 3.5, SRD 5.1)

A taller, stronger ghoul in ash-black, with raised bony shoulder ridges and the same elongated jaw. The stench off it is bad enough to stop a fighter mid-swing, and unlike the common sort it is not turned away by the usual protections.

Attributes

ST14

DX11

IQ10

HT10

HP14

Will10

Per10

FP—

Basic Speed5.25

Basic Move5

Dodge8

DR—

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
Sharp TeethSharp Teeth (13): thrust 1d cutting + follow-up disease (ghoul fever), Reach C.	13	thrust 1d cutting + follow-up disease (ghoul fever)	C
Sharp ClawsSharp Claws (13): thrust 1d cutting + follow-up paralysis (resisted by HT; margin of failure seconds, then physical stun), Reach C.	13	thrust 1d cutting + follow-up paralysis (resisted by HT; margin of failure seconds, then physical stun)	C
StenchAffliction 1 (HT; Always On, -20%; Area Effect, 4 yards, +100%; Aura, +80%; Melee Attack, Reach C, -30%; Nauseated, +30%; Respiratory Agent, +50%) Resolve as stated by the construction; the source gives no separate resolution text.	—	—	C

Traits (20)

• Appearance (Monstrous; Universal)
• Bad Smell
• Carrier (Must die of ghoul fever)
• Dark Vision
• Disturbing Voice
• Doesn’t Breathe
• Doesn’t Eat or Drink
• Doesn’t Sleep
• Enhanced Unnatural
• Frightens Animals
• Immunity to Metabolic Hazards
• Immunity to Pain
• Injury Tolerance (Unliving, No Blood)
• Not Subject to Fatigue
• Odious Racial Habit (Eats sapient beings)
• Social Stigma (Dead)
• Temperature Tolerance 10
• Unaging
• Uncontrollable Appetite (6) (Living Flesh)
• Unhealing (Total)

Skills (2)

• 13Brawling
• 13Stealth

Notes

• GCS ancestry draft: gcs/ghast.gct
• Source template total: 60 points.
• Library-rebuilt template total: 60 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.

Encounter rating

CER18

Offense14

Protection4

Threat tierminor

Appearing4

Wandering4

Tags

• srd-3-5
• srd-5-1
• undead

GCS v5 downloads

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

Where this one came from

Source record

Ghast

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/ghast.gct
• Source template total: 60 points.
• Library-rebuilt template total: 60 points.
• CER was computed from parsed Typical Stats using the Dungeons On Automatic baseline CER path.
• Issue #5: 1 special ability construction(s) restored (Stench) and 1 annotated with the source's stated cost. 2 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 4, CER 18, threat tier minor.
• Conversion baseline reported OR 8, PR 4, CER 12 (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-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.