Nixie

Fey · SM -1 Nixie (Enraged Eggplant; answers SRD 3.5)

A small, green-skinned water fey of ponds and slow rivers, charming in a way that is difficult to argue with. Nixies are solitary and shy of strangers, breathe water, and can grant a guest the same trick for as long as they are welcome.

Attributes

ST7

DX12

IQ11

HT10

HP7

Will11

Per11

FP10

Basic Speed5.5

Basic Move4

Dodge8

DR—

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
PunchPunch (12): thrust 1d-4 crushing, Reach C.	12	thrust 1d-4 crushing	C
SM-1 ShortswordSM-1 Shortsword (13): swing 1d-2 cutting, Reach 1 or thrust 1d-2 impaling, Reach 1.	13	swing 1d-2 cutting	1 or thrust 1d-2 impaling, Reach 1
Grant Water BreathingGrant Water Breathing (11): A nixie may grant the ability to breathe water to any air-breathing creature. To do so, it must touch the subject, spend 1 FP, and make a Will roll. An unwilling target may resist in a Quick Contest of HT vs. the nixie’s Will, but a willing subject may waive its resistance roll. If the nixie makes its Will roll, the subject becomes able to breathe water for 30 minutes.	11	A nixie may grant the ability to breathe water to any air-breathing creature. To do so, it must touch the subject, spend 1 FP, and make a Will roll. An unwilling target may resist in a Quick Contest of HT vs. the nixie’s Will, but a willing subject may waive its resistance roll. If the nixie makes its Will roll, the subject becomes able to breathe water for 30 minutes	—

Traits (11)

• Amphibious
• Animal Empathy
• Appearance (Attractive; Universal)
• Charisma 2
• Doesn’t Breathe (Gills)
• Loner (12)
• Magic Resistance 2 (Improved)
• Night Vision 5
• Pressure Support 1
• Speak Underwater
• Vulnerability (Cold Iron, x2)

Skills (5)

• 14Acting
• 13Shortsword
• 13Singing
• 13Stealth
• 12Observation

Notes

• GCS ancestry draft: gcs/nixie.gct
• Source template total: 103 points.
• Library-rebuilt template total: 103 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.
• GCS template includes a +20-point reconciliation child requiring decomposition.

Encounter rating

CER2

Offense4

Protection-2

Threat tierminor

Appearing6

Wandering4

Tags

• srd-3-5
• fey

GCS v5 downloads

• ↓ Character sheet (.gcs)Open directly in GCS
• ↓ Ancestry template (.gct)Apply to any character

Where this one came from

Source record

Nixie

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/nixie.gct
• Source template total: 103 points.
• Library-rebuilt template total: 103 points.
• CER was computed from parsed Typical Stats using the Dungeons On Automatic baseline CER path.
• Issue #5: 0 special ability construction(s) restored and 1 annotated with the source's stated cost. 1 save-or-disable construction(s) are scored through the affliction term at the source's stated point cost, or at Binding ST where the source builds the ability as a Binding.
• GCS ancestry reconciliation adjudicated: the published template total is 103 points and the parsed source children sum to 83, a difference of +20. Classified as grouped construction not decomposed — consistent with grouped abilities the prose parser did not split into individual children (alternative abilities, linked constructions, and spell or breath-weapon groups). The points are real and priced in the author's total; only the decomposition is missing. The authorized source total is preserved; the remaining manual step is opening gcs/nixie.gct in GCS to replace the reconciliation child with native constructions where the grouped ability can be decomposed.
• CER recomputed from the reviewed Typical Stats through the canonical Dungeons on Automatic CER path: OR 4, PR -2, CER 2, 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-b2-gcs-reconciliation); GCS fidelity check passed, DOA playability check passed.
• The source-total difference is classified and documented in conversionNotes; the authorized published total is preserved and the residual stays visible as a reconciliation child.
• Visual GCS verification of the .gct is not claimed by this decision; checks.gcsVisualPass is false.