Giant Bombardier Beetle

Vermin · SM +0 Giant Bombardier Beetle (Enraged Eggplant; answers SRD 3.5)

A dog-sized beetle in dull brown chitin that smells strongly of something gone wrong. Prodded, it turns its abdomen towards the problem and sprays a jet of boiling caustic fluid, which discourages most things from prodding it twice.

Attributes

ST10

DX10

IQ1

HT11

HP10

Will8

Per10

FP11

Basic Speed5.25

Basic Move5

Dodge8

DR2

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
Sharp TeethSharp Teeth (10): thrust 1d-3 cutting, Reach C.	10	thrust 1d-3 cutting	C
Acid SprayAcid Spray (10): 1d corrosion, costs 1 FP, takes 5 seconds to recharge. Range 5/10, cone with a maximum width of 5 yards.	10	1d corrosion, costs 1 FP, takes 5 seconds to recharge. Range 5/10, cone with a maximum width of 5 yards	—

Traits (12)

• Bad Smell
• Cold-Blooded (50°)
• Extra Legs (Six Legs; Cannot Kick)
• Horizontal
• Infravision
• Nictitating Membrane 1
• No Fine Manipulators
• Peripheral Vision
• Reduced Consumption 4 (Cast-Iron Stomach)
• Restricted Diet (Carnivore)
• Short Lifespan 3
• Wild Animal

Skills (1)

• 10Innate Attack (Breath)

Notes

• GCS ancestry draft: gcs/giant-bombardier-beetle.gct
• Source template total: -152 points.
• Library-rebuilt template total: -152 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

CER8

Offense7

Protection1

Threat tierminor

Appearing6

Wandering4

Tags

• srd-3-5
• vermin

GCS v5 downloads

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Where this one came from

Source record

Giant Bombardier Beetle

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-bombardier-beetle.gct
• Source template total: -152 points.
• Library-rebuilt template total: -152 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 7, PR 1, CER 8, threat tier minor.
• Conversion baseline reported OR 8, PR 1, CER 9 (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.