Nightcrawler

Undead · SM +7 Nightcrawler (Enraged Eggplant; answers SRD 3.5)

An enormous eyeless worm of matte black and midnight-violet corpse plate, boring through the earth with a crescent of teeth at the front and a recurved stinger at the tail. Living things nearby simply stop being alive. It is as clever as any general and entirely dead.

Attributes

ST90

DX10

IQ13

HT17

HP90

Will15

Per15

FP—

Basic Speed6.5

Basic Move6

Dodge10

DR9

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
StingerStinger (15): thrust 16d-1 impaling plus follow-up 1d toxic (4 1-minute cycles, resisted by HT-5, -6 ST after loss of 1/3 HP), Reach C-10 (from the tail). Poison: Toxic Attack 1d (Cyclic, 1 minute, 4 cycles, Resistible, +80%; Follow-Up, Stinger, +0%; Resistible, HT-5, -5%; Symptoms, 1/3 HP, -6 ST, +90%) Resolve as stated by the construction; the source gives no separate resolution text.	15	thrust 16d-1 impaling plus follow-up 1d toxic (4 1-minute cycles, resisted by HT-5, -6 ST after loss of 1/3 HP)	C-10 (from the tail)
FangsFangs (15): thrust 12d+2 impaling, Reach C.	15	thrust 12d+2 impaling	C

Traits (27)

• Appearance (Monstrous; Universal)
• Combat Reflexes
• Dark Vision
• Doesn’t Breathe
• Doesn’t Eat or Drink
• Doesn’t Sleep
• High Pain Threshold
• Immunity to Metabolic Hazards
• Immunity to Mind Control
• Immunity to Noxious Cold Effects
• Injury Tolerance (No Blood; No Neck; Unliving)
• Internal DR 4 (Tough Skin)
• Lifebane
• Magic Resistance 3 (Improved)
• No Legs (Slithers)
• No Manipulators
• Not Subject to Fatigue
• Pressure Support 1
• Social Stigma (Monster)
• Subsonic Hearing (Melee Attack, Reach C)
• Telesend (Magical; Universal)
• Temperature Tolerance 5 (Cold)
• Tunneling (Move 3)
• Unaging
• Vacuum Support
• Vulnerability (Silver, x2)
• Weakness (Sunlight; 1d per minute)

Skills (7)

• 15Brawling
• 15Engineer (Mining)
• 15Expert Skill (Thanatology)
• 15Innate Attack (Beam)
• 15Innate Attack (Gaze)
• 15Occultism
• 12Thaumatology

Notes

• GCS ancestry draft: gcs/nightcrawler.gct
• Source template total: 725 points.
• Library-rebuilt template total: 725 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

CER225

Offense117

Protection108

Threat tiersevere

Appearing1

Wandering1

Tags

• srd-3-5
• undead

GCS v5 downloads

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Where this one came from

Source record

Nightcrawler

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/nightcrawler.gct
• Source template total: 725 points.
• Library-rebuilt template total: 725 points.
• CER was computed from parsed Typical Stats using the Dungeons On Automatic baseline CER path.
• Issue #5: 1 special ability construction(s) restored (Poison). 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 117, PR 108, CER 225, threat tier severe.
• Conversion baseline reported OR 115, PR 108, CER 223 (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.