Monitor Lizard

Animal · SM -1 Monitor Lizard (Enraged Eggplant; answers SRD 3.5)

A heavy ochre-brown lizard the size of a large dog, bow-legged, with a flicking forked tongue and a long muscular tail it uses like a club. It tastes the air to track carrion or prey, digs, climbs, swims, and eats considerably more than seems reasonable.

Attributes

ST7

DX12

IQ3

HT11

HP7

Will10

Per12

FP9

Basic Speed6

Basic Move6

Dodge10

DR2

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
Sharp TeethSharp Teeth (14): thrust 1d-4 cutting. Reach C. Anyone injured by this attack must roll against HT or gain Hemophilia (p. B138) for 30 minutes per point of margin of failure.	14	thrust 1d-4 cutting	C
Sharp ClawsSharp Claws (14): thrust 1d-4 cutting. Reach C.	14	thrust 1d-4 cutting	C
TailTail (14): thrust 1d-2 crushing. Reach C. Frontal hexes are attacked at -2. Cannot parry.	14	thrust 1d-2 crushing	C

Traits (28)

• Acute Taste and Smell 3
• Amphibious
• Born Biter 1
• Breath-Holding 4
• Burrower
• Clinging (Requires claw-holds)
• Cold-Blooded (65°)
• Combat Reflexes
• Discriminatory Smell
• Early Maturation 1
• Excellent Balance (Biological (Passive))
• Extra Legs (Four Legs)
• Gluttony (12)
• Hard to Kill 2
• Hard to Subdue 2
• Low Empathy
• Night Blindness
• No Fine Manipulators
• Peripheral Vision
• Reduced Consumption 2 (Cast-Iron Stomach)
• Restricted Diet (Carnivore)
• Scales
• Semi-Upright
• Short Lifespan 2
• Tail
• Terrain Adaptation (Undergrowth)
• Terrain Adaptation (Uneven)
• Wild Animal

Skills (7)

• 14Brawling
• 14Climbing
• 10Intimidation
• 12Stealth
• 12Survival (Island/Beach)
• 15Tracking
• 14Wrestling

Notes

• GCS ancestry draft: gcs/monitor-lizard.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.
• Antocoagulant (follow-up on Bite): Affliction 1 (HT; Biological (Passive), -5%; Disadvantage, Hemophilia, +30%; Extended Duration, 30x, +60%; Follow-Up, Bite, +0%) Resolve as stated by the construction; the source gives no separate resolution text.

Encounter rating

CER10

Offense5

Protection5

Threat tierminor

Appearing6

Wandering4

Tags

• srd-3-5
• animal

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Where this one came from

Source record

Monitor Lizard

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/monitor-lizard.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.
• Issue #5: 2 special ability construction(s) restored (Antocoagulant). 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 5, PR 5, CER 10, 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.