Kraken - Dungeons on Automatic Bestiary

Magical Beast · 70 hexes · SM +9 Kraken (Enraged Eggplant; answers SRD 3.5, SRD 5.1)

A blue-black mantle the size of a warship with green-gold eyes, trailing six grasping arms and two much longer barbed hunting tentacles around a central beak. It is old, patient and genuinely intelligent. It takes ships apart at leisure and eats the crew afterwards.

Attributes

ST80

DX10

IQ13

HT14

HP160

Will15

Per13

FP14

Basic Speed6

Basic Move6

Dodge9

DR5

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
Tentacle GrappleTentacle Grapple (28): The tentacles are not very strong relative to the entire body, but the kraken has many of them. Wrestling at DX+2 gives the kraken a ST score of 82 for the purpose of grappling. The kraken has Constriction Attack. Effective skill 28 includes a +14 bonus for using 8 tentacles at once, Reach C-20 (two long tentacles have Reach C-30).	28	The tentacles are not very strong relative to the entire body, but the kraken has many of them. Wrestling at DX+2 gives the kraken a ST score of 82 for the purpose of grappling. The kraken has Constriction Attack. Effective skill 28 includes a +14 bonus for using 8 tentacles at once	C-20 (two long tentacles have Reach C-30)
Sharp BeakSharp Beak (10): thrust 9d-1 large piercing, Reach C.	10	thrust 9d-1 large piercing	C

Traits (26)

Ambidexterity
Bad Grip 1
Callous
Cold-Blooded (50°)
Constriction Attack
Doesn’t Breathe (Gills)
Enhanced Move 1 (Water; Costs Fatigue, 1 FP/minute)
Extended Lifespan 3
Extra Arms 6 (Extra-Flexible; Weak, 1/4 ST)
Extra-Flexible Arms
Infravision
Injury Tolerance (No Neck; No Vitals)
Invertebrate
Long Arms 1
Nictitating Membrane 5
Night Vision 5
No Legs (Aquatic)
Odious Racial Habit (Eats sapient beings)
Peripheral Vision
Polarization Detection
Pressure Support 2
Selfish (9)
Social Stigma (Monster)
Speak Underwater
Subsonic Hearing
Weak Arms, 1/4 ST

Skills (4)

13Innate Attack (Gaze)
14Survival (Open Ocean)
14Thaumatology
14Wrestling

Notes

GCS ancestry draft: gcs/kraken.gct
Source template total: 693 points.
Library-rebuilt template total: 693 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 70 hexes; Weight 500,000 lbs.
Ink: A kraken may fill a 32-yard-radius area with black ink. No one can see into the affected area, and no one within the affected area can see anything; see p. B394 for combat rules. In addition, this ink cloud imposes a -4 penalty on Smell rolls. A kraken can use this ability only 4 times per day, and only in water or zero-G. Once created, the cloud persists for 10 seconds, drifting with the current.

Encounter rating

CER216

Offense50

Protection166

Threat tiersevere

Appearing1

Wandering1

GCS v5 downloads

Where this one came from

Source record: Kraken
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/kraken.gct
Source template total: 693 points.
Library-rebuilt template total: 693 points.
CER was computed from parsed Typical Stats using the Dungeons On Automatic baseline CER path.
Issue #5: 1 special ability construction(s) restored. No disabling construction on this record carries a cost the affliction term can score.
CER recomputed from the reviewed Typical Stats through the canonical Dungeons on Automatic CER path: OR 50, PR 166, CER 216, threat tier severe.
Conversion baseline reported OR 51, PR 166, CER 217 (tier severe). 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 1. 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.

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.