Giant Fire Beetle

Vermin · SM -2 Giant Fire Beetle (Enraged Eggplant; answers SRD 3.5, SRD 5.1)

A beetle the length of a forearm with two luminous glands above its eyes that shed a steady red glow for days after it dies. It is barely a threat, and the glands are worth collecting, which is why anyone bothers with them at all.

Attributes

ST6

DX10

IQ1

HT10

HP6

Will8

Per10

FP10

Basic Speed5.25

Basic Move5

Dodge8

DR1

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
Sharp TeethSharp Teeth (10): thrust 1d-5 cutting, Reach C.	10	thrust 1d-5 cutting	C

Traits (11)

• Cold-Blooded (50°)
• Extra Legs (Six Legs; Cannot Kick)
• Horizontal
• Illumination
• Infravision
• Nictitating Membrane 1
• No Fine Manipulators
• Peripheral Vision
• Reduced Consumption 2 (Cast-Iron Stomach)
• Short Lifespan 3
• Wild Animal

Notes

• GCS ancestry draft: gcs/giant-fire-beetle.gct
• Source template total: -205 points.
• Library-rebuilt template total: -205 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

CER1

Offense-3

Protection-5

Threat tierminor

Appearing6

Wandering4

Tags

• srd-3-5
• srd-5-1
• vermin

GCS v5 downloads

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

Where this one came from

Source record

Giant Fire 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-fire-beetle.gct
• Source template total: -205 points.
• Library-rebuilt template total: -205 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 -3, PR -5, CER 1, threat tier minor.
• Conversion baseline reported OR -2, PR -5, CER 1 (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-b3-cer-tails); GCS fidelity check passed, DOA playability check passed.
• CER tail record. The rating was recomputed through the consumer CER path and the tail was read against package peers in review/reports/cer-audit.md; a floor of 1 reflects a genuinely feeble creature and a severe rating tracks the record's own HP, DR and damage.