Giant Ape

Animal · SM +3 Giant Ape (Enraged Eggplant; answers SRD 5.1)

An ape built to a scale that makes a bear look reasonable, thickly furred, with arms long enough to reach a rooftop. It climbs anything, throws what it can lift, and its temper is short in a way that leaves very little warning.

Attributes

ST35

DX12

IQ5

HT12

HP50

Will10

Per12

FP12

Basic Speed6

Basic Move8

Dodge9

DR2

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
Sharp TeethSharp Teeth (14): thrust 4d+2 cutting, Reach C.	14	thrust 4d+2 cutting	C
PunchPunch (14): thrust 4d+2 crushing, Reach C-2.	14	thrust 4d+2 crushing	C-2

Traits (14)

• Bad Temper (12)
• Brachiator
• Bully (15)
• Extra Arms 2 (Foot Manipulators; Temporary Disadvantage, Ham-Fisted 2)
• Extra Legs (Four Legs)
• Fur
• Ham-Fisted 1
• Impulsiveness (9)
• Lifting ST 2
• Perfect Balance
• Semi-Upright
• Short Lifespan 1
• Terrain Adaptation (Uneven)
• Wild Animal

Skills (5)

• 12Brawling
• 14Climbing
• 12Survival (Jungle)
• 12Throwing
• 12Wrestling

Notes

• GCS ancestry draft: gcs/giant-ape.gct
• Source template total: 201 points.
• Library-rebuilt template total: 201 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

CER78

Offense32

Protection46

Threat tiermajor

Appearing1

Wandering2

Tags

• srd-5-1
• animal

GCS v5 downloads

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Where this one came from

Source record

Giant Ape

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/giant-ape.gct
• Source template total: 201 points.
• Library-rebuilt template total: 201 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 32, PR 46, CER 78, threat tier major.
• Encounter metadata derived (gregarious): average number appearing 1, wandering weight 2. 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.