Manta Ray

Animal · SM +2 Manta Ray (Enraged Eggplant; answers SRD 3.5)

A charcoal-grey diamond of a fish, wider than a man is tall, flying through open water on two enormous triangular wings. Its whip of a tail carries no barb and it eats nothing bigger than plankton; it is startling to meet and harmless to almost everything.

Attributes

ST19

DX8

IQ3

HT12

HP19

Will10

Per12

FP12

Basic Speed5

Basic Move7

Dodge10

DR1

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
BiteBite (8): thrust 1d+2 crushing. Reach C.	8	thrust 1d+2 crushing	C

Traits (16)

• Acute Taste and Smell 3
• Born Biter 2
• Cold-Blooded (50°)
• Discriminatory Smell
• Doesn’t Breathe (Gills)
• Enhanced Move 0.5 (Water)
• Injury Tolerance (No Neck)
• Night Vision 5
• No Legs (Aquatic)
• No Manipulators
• Peripheral Vision
• Pressure Support 1
• Reduced Consumption 3
• Restricted Diet (Plankton)
• Vibration Sense (Water)
• Wild Animal (with Mute)

Skills (1)

• 13Survival (Salt-Water Sea)

Notes

• GCS ancestry draft: gcs/manta-ray.gct
• Source template total: -59 points.
• Library-rebuilt template total: -59 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

CER23

Offense7

Protection16

Threat tierminor

Appearing6

Wandering4

Tags

• srd-3-5
• animal

GCS v5 downloads

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Where this one came from

Source record

Manta Ray

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/manta-ray.gct
• Source template total: -59 points.
• Library-rebuilt template total: -59 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 7, PR 16, CER 23, threat tier minor.
• 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-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.