Magical Beast · SM +7 Purple Worm (Enraged Eggplant; answers SRD 3.5, SRD 5.1)
An immense segmented worm, blind and eyeless, boring through solid rock on nothing but muscle and appetite. It smells and feels its way, swallows whatever it meets whole, and digests bone, iron and stone alike. A tunnel of the right diameter is the only warning anyone usually gets.
Attributes
ST90
DX9
IQ2
HT17
HP90
Will10
Per10
FP32
Basic Speed6.5
Basic Move6
Dodge9
DR7
Melee attacks
| Usage | Level | Damage | Reach |
|---|---|---|---|
| StingerStinger (11): thrust 16d-1 impaling plus follow-up 1d toxic (4 1-minute cycles, resisted by HT-4, -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-4, -10%; Symptoms, 1/3 HP, -6 ST, +90%) Resolve as stated by the construction; the source gives no separate resolution text. | 11 | thrust 16d-1 impaling plus follow-up 1d toxic (4 1-minute cycles, resisted by HT-4, -6 ST after loss of 1/3 HP) | C-10 (from the tail) |
| FangsFangs (11): thrust 12d+2 impaling, Reach C. | 11 | thrust 12d+2 impaling | C |
Traits (13)
- Amphibious
- Blindness
- Discriminatory Smell
- Double-Jointed
- Horizontal
- Injury Tolerance (No Eyes, No Head, No Neck, No Vitals)
- No Legs (Slithers)
- No Manipulators
- Pressure Support 1
- Subsonic Hearing (Biological (Passive); Melee Attack, Reach C)
- Tunneling (Move 3)
- Universal Digestion
- Wild Animal
Skills (1)
- 11Brawling
Notes
- GCS ancestry draft: gcs/purple-worm.gct
- Source template total: 194 points.
- Library-rebuilt template total: 194 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 -15-point reconciliation child requiring decomposition.
Encounter rating
CER231
Offense135
Protection96
Threat tiersevere
Appearing1
Wandering1
Tags
- srd-3-5
- srd-5-1
- magical-beast
GCS v5 downloads
Where this one came from
- Source record
- Purple Worm
- 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/purple-worm.gct
- Source template total: 194 points.
- Library-rebuilt template total: 194 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.
- GCS ancestry reconciliation adjudicated: the published template total is 194 points and the parsed source children sum to 209, a difference of -15. 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/purple-worm.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 135, PR 96, CER 231, threat tier severe.
- Conversion baseline reported OR 133, PR 96, CER 229 (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-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.
Enraged Eggplant GURPS monster conversions; used, adapted, and republished with unrestricted permission from the author. Portrait and tokens are AI-generated original art. Sources and credits.