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Aberration · minor threat

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Aberration · 3 hexes · SM +1 Grick (Enraged Eggplant; answers SRD 3.5, SRD 5.1)

A long rubbery charcoal-brown worm with no limbs, its front ringed by four flexible tentacles around a small sharp beak. It clings to a tunnel wall or ceiling looking like wet rock, drops on whatever passes, and drags the remains back to the same crevice.

Attributes

ST15
DX12
IQ6
HT10
HP15
Will10
Per10
FP10
Basic Speed5.5
Basic Move5
Dodge8
DR2

Melee attacks

UsageLevelDamageReach
Sharp BeakSharp Beak (14): thrust 1d+1 large piercing, Reach C.14thrust 1d+1 large piercingC
TentacleTentacle (14): thrust 1d-3 crushing, Reach C.14thrust 1d-3 crushingC

Traits (18)

  • Clinging
  • Discriminatory Smell
  • Double-Jointed
  • Extra Arms 2 (Extra-Flexible; Weak (1/2 ST))
  • Extra Attack 1
  • Extra-Flexible Arms
  • Increased Consumption 1
  • Infravision
  • Injury Tolerance (No Neck)
  • Limited Camouflage (Rock)
  • Night Vision 7 (-7 is the native illumination level)
  • No Fine Manipulators
  • No Legs (Slithers)
  • Reduced Consumption 4 (Cast-Iron Stomach)
  • Restricted Diet (Fresh Meat)
  • Short Arms
  • Weak Arms (1/2 ST)
  • Wild Animal

Skills (3)

  • 14Brawling
  • 14Stealth
  • 14Tracking

Notes

  • GCS ancestry draft: gcs/grick.gct
  • Source template total: 41 points.
  • Library-rebuilt template total: 41 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.
  • Size 3 hexes; Weight 200 lbs.

Encounter rating

CER17
Offense10
Protection7
Threat tierminor
Appearing1
Wandering4

Tags

  • srd-3-5
  • srd-5-1
  • aberration

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Where this one came from
Source record
Grick
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/grick.gct
  • Source template total: 41 points.
  • Library-rebuilt template total: 41 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 10, PR 7, CER 17, threat tier minor.
  • Conversion baseline reported OR 11, PR 7, CER 18 (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 (solitary): average number appearing 1, 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-b5-cer-drift); GCS fidelity check passed, DOA playability check passed.
  • The conversion baseline's published ratings disagreed with the consumer CER path; the reviewed ratings come from the consumer implementation and the difference is recorded in conversionNotes.

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