Manticore

Magical Beast · 3 hexes · SM +2 Manticore (Enraged Eggplant; answers SRD 3.5, SRD 5.1)

A russet lion's body with dark red-brown batlike wings and a broad, unsettlingly humanlike maned head. The tail ends in a dense fan of black spikes it throws in volleys from the air, and it is clever enough to do that from out of reach and wait.

Attributes

ST24

DX13

IQ8

HT13

HP24

Will12

Per12

FP13

Basic Speed6.5

Basic Move9

Dodge10

DR2

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
Sharp TeethSharp Teeth (16): thrust 2d+2 cutting, Reach C.	16	thrust 2d+2 cutting	C
Sharp ClawsSharp Claws (16): thrust 2d+2 cutting, Reach C-1.	16	thrust 2d+2 cutting	C-1
Fling SpikesFling Spikes (16): 1d+1 impaling, RoF 6, Range 25/50. Can launch no more than 24 spikes per day.	16	1d+1 impaling, RoF 6, Range 25/50. Can launch no more than 24 spikes per day	—

Traits (19)

• Bestial
• Born Biter 2
• Catfall
• Combat Reflexes
• Discriminatory Smell
• Extra Attack 1
• Extra Legs (Four Legs)
• Flight (Cannot Hover; Winged)
• Hidebound
• Horizontal
• Infravision
• Night Vision 5
• No Fine Manipulators
• Odious Racial Habit (Eats sapient beings)
• Perfect Balance
• Restricted Diet (Carnivore)
• Social Stigma (Monster)
• Tail
• Temperature Tolerance 1 (Hot)

Skills (6)

• 16Brawling
• 16Innate Attack (Projectile)
• 14Jumping
• 14Observation
• 14Stealth
• 14Wrestling

Notes

• GCS ancestry draft: gcs/manticore.gct
• Source template total: 183 points.
• Library-rebuilt template total: 183 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 1,000 lbs.

Encounter rating

CER52

Offense26

Protection26

Threat tierstandard

Appearing2

Wandering3

Tags

• srd-3-5
• srd-5-1
• magical-beast

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Where this one came from

Source record

Manticore

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/manticore.gct
• Source template total: 183 points.
• Library-rebuilt template total: 183 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 26, PR 26, CER 52, threat tier standard.
• Encounter metadata derived (gregarious): average number appearing 2, wandering weight 3. 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.