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Hell Hound

Outsider (Evil, Fire, Lawful) · minor threat

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Outsider (Evil, Fire, Lawful) · SM +0 Hell Hound (Enraged Eggplant; answers SRD 3.5, SRD 5.1)

A lean coal-black hound with ember-orange eyes and a mouth that glows with contained heat, faint red cracks showing through short fur. Its bite burns as it closes, it can breathe a gout of fire, and it hunts in packs with more coordination than a wolf.

Attributes

ST10
DX12
IQ7
HT12
HP10
Will10
Per12
FP15
Basic Speed6
Basic Move9
Dodge9
DR1

Melee attacks

UsageLevelDamageReach
Fiery BiteFiery Bite (14): thrust 1d-2 cutting plus follow-up 1d-1 burning, Reach C.14thrust 1d-2 cutting plus follow-up 1d-1 burningC
Breathe FireBreathe Fire (14): The hell hound breathes out a blast of fire, dealing thrust 1d-2 burning damage as large-area injury. This is a cone attack that uses rules from Area and Spreading Attacks (pp. B413-414). The cone is 1-yard wide and has a length of 2 yards (ST/5). Each use costs 2 FP. It is possible to make the cone wider by using the rules from Cones of Power (GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Monsters 4: Dragons, p. 10).14The hell hound breathes out a blast of fire, dealing thrust 1d-2 burning damage as large-area injury. This is a cone attack that uses rules from Area and Spreading Attacks (pp. B413-414). The cone is 1-yard wide and has a length of 2 yards (ST/5). Each use costs 2 FP. It is possible to make the cone wider by using the rules from Cones of Power (GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Monsters 4: Dragons, p. 10)

Traits (23)

  • Axiomatic Touch
  • Bad Smell
  • Bestial
  • Bloodlust (12)
  • Born Biter 2
  • Cannot Speak
  • Chummy
  • Discriminatory Smell
  • Early Maturation 4
  • Enhanced Move 0.5 (Ground)
  • Extra Legs (Four Legs)
  • Fur
  • Hidebound
  • Horizontal
  • Immunity to Noxious Fire Effects
  • Night Vision 5
  • No Fine Manipulators
  • Reduced Consumption 2 (Cast-Iron Stomach)
  • Silence 2
  • Temperature Tolerance 3 (Hot)
  • Unholy Touch
  • Vulnerability (Cold, x2)
  • Vulnerability (Holy Weapons, x2)

Skills (4)

  • 14Brawling
  • 14Innate Attack (Breath)
  • 16Stealth
  • 17Tracking

Notes

  • GCS ancestry draft: gcs/hell-hound.gct
  • Source template total: 46 points.
  • Library-rebuilt template total: 46 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.
  • Weight 120 lbs.

Encounter rating

CER19
Offense14
Protection5
Threat tierminor
Appearing4
Wandering4

Tags

  • srd-3-5
  • srd-5-1
  • outsider
  • evil
  • fire
  • lawful

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Where this one came from
Source record
Hell Hound
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/hell-hound.gct
  • Source template total: 46 points.
  • Library-rebuilt template total: 46 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 14, PR 5, CER 19, threat tier minor.
  • Conversion baseline reported OR 15, PR 5, CER 20 (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 (default): average number appearing 4, 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.

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