Vermin · SM +0 Giant Wasp (Enraged Eggplant; answers SRD 3.5, SRD 5.1)
A lean carmine-and-charcoal wasp with a narrow waist, hooked mandibles and a long ivory sting, big enough to carry off a small animal. Unlike its cousin the bee it is a hunter, and it paralyses prey to stock a nest rather than killing it outright.
Attributes
ST10
DX10
IQ2
HT12
HP10
Will9
Per12
FP12
Basic Speed5.5
Basic Move4
Dodge8
DR1
Melee attacks
| Usage | Level | Damage | Reach |
|---|---|---|---|
| StingSting (11): thrust 1d-1 impaling plus follow-up 1d-2 toxic (4 1-minute cycles, resisted by HT, -2 DX after loss of 1/3 HP), Reach C. Poison: Toxic Attack 1d-2 (Cyclic, 1 minute, 4 cycles, Resistible, +80%; Follow-Up, Sting, +0%; Resistible, HT, -30%; Symptoms, 1/3 HP, -2 DX, +60%) Resolve as stated by the construction; the source gives no separate resolution text. | 11 | thrust 1d-1 impaling plus follow-up 1d-2 toxic (4 1-minute cycles, resisted by HT, -2 DX after loss of 1/3 HP) | C |
| MandiblesMandibles (11): thrust 1d-3 cutting, Reach C. | 11 | thrust 1d-3 cutting | C |
Traits (13)
- Absolute Direction
- Cold-Blooded (50°)
- Discriminatory Smell
- Extra Legs (Six Legs; Cannot Kick)
- Flight (Small Wings)
- Horizontal
- Night Vision 9
- No Fine Manipulators
- Peripheral Vision
- Polarization Detection
- Restricted Diet (Carnivore)
- Short Lifespan 2
- Wild Animal
Skills (4)
- 11Brawling
- 10Survival (Plains)
- 10Survival (Woodlands)
- 10Tracking
Notes
- GCS ancestry draft: gcs/giant-wasp.gct
- Source template total: -63 points.
- Library-rebuilt template total: -63 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.
- GCS template includes a -3-point reconciliation child requiring decomposition.
Encounter rating
CER8
Offense6
Protection2
Threat tierminor
Appearing6
Wandering4
Tags
- srd-3-5
- srd-5-1
- vermin
GCS v5 downloads
Where this one came from
- Source record
- Giant Wasp
- 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-wasp.gct
- Source template total: -63 points.
- Library-rebuilt template total: -63 points.
- CER was computed from parsed Typical Stats using the Dungeons On Automatic baseline CER path.
- Issue #5: 1 special ability construction(s) restored (Poison). No disabling construction on this record carries a cost the affliction term can score.
- GCS ancestry reconciliation adjudicated: the published template total is -63 points and the parsed source children sum to -60, a difference of -3. Classified as small arithmetic residual — a small residual consistent with rounding and per-level arithmetic in the published total; the rebuilt template keeps the author's total and carries the difference as an explicit reconciliation child. The authorized source total is preserved; the remaining manual step is opening gcs/giant-wasp.gct in GCS to replace the reconciliation child with native constructions where the grouped ability can be decomposed.
- CER recomputed from the reviewed Typical Stats through the canonical Dungeons on Automatic CER path: OR 6, PR 2, CER 8, threat tier minor.
- Conversion baseline reported OR 7, PR 2, 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-b2-gcs-reconciliation); GCS fidelity check passed, DOA playability check passed.
- The source-total difference is classified and documented in conversionNotes; the authorized published total is preserved and the residual stays visible as a reconciliation child.
- Visual GCS verification of the .gct is not claimed by this decision; checks.gcsVisualPass is false.
Enraged Eggplant GURPS monster conversions; used, adapted, and republished with unrestricted permission from the author. Portrait and tokens are AI-generated original art. Sources and credits.