Nessian Warhound

Outsider (Evil, Fire, Lawful) · 3 hexes · SM +1 Nessian Warhound (Enraged Eggplant; answers SRD 3.5)

A hell hound bred up to the size of a draught horse, coal-black, mailed across the chest and shoulders in dark infernal links. Its jaws glow with the same heat and it breathes the same fire, but this one is a mount and a war beast, and it comes with a rider.

Attributes

ST16

DX12

IQ7

HT12

HP16

Will10

Per12

FP15

Basic Speed6

Basic Move10

Dodge10

DR3

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
Fiery BiteFiery Bite (15): thrust 1d+1 cutting plus follow-up 2d burning, Reach C.	15	thrust 1d+1 cutting plus follow-up 2d burning	C
Breathe FireBreathe Fire (14): The hell hound breathes out a blast of fire, dealing thrust 1d+1 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 3 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).	14	The hell hound breathes out a blast of fire, dealing thrust 1d+1 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 3 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 (24)

• Axiomatic Touch
• Bad Smell
• Bestial
• Bloodlust (12)
• Born Biter 2
• Cannot Speak
• Chummy
• Combat Reflexes
• Discriminatory Smell
• Early Maturation 3
• 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)

• 15Brawling
• 15Innate Attack (Breath)
• 16Stealth
• 17Tracking

Notes

• GCS ancestry draft: gcs/nessian-warhound.gct
• Source template total: 107 points.
• Library-rebuilt template total: 107 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.

Encounter rating

CER37

Offense21

Protection16

Threat tierstandard

Appearing2

Wandering3

Tags

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

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Where this one came from

Source record

Nessian Warhound

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/nessian-warhound.gct
• Source template total: 107 points.
• Library-rebuilt template total: 107 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 21, PR 16, CER 37, threat tier standard.
• Conversion baseline reported OR 22, PR 16, CER 38 (tier standard). 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 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.