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Raven

Animal · minor threat

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Animal · SM -3 Raven (Enraged Eggplant; answers SRD 3.5, SRD 5.1)

A glossy black bird with a heavy beak and an unsettlingly knowing eye. Ravens remember faces, work out latches and lids, take shiny things for no clear reason, and follow armies because they have learned what armies leave behind.

Attributes

ST3
DX13
IQ5
HT10
HP3
Will10
Per12
FP10
Basic Speed6
Basic Move2
Dodge9
DR0

Melee attacks

UsageLevelDamageReach
Sharp ClawsSharp Claws (15): thrust 1d-5 cutting. Reach C.15thrust 1d-5 cuttingC

Traits (9)

  • Acute Vision 2
  • Enhanced Move 1 (Air)
  • Feathers
  • Flight (Cannot Hover; Winged)
  • Foot Manipulators
  • Night Vision 6
  • No Fine Manipulators
  • Short Lifespan 1
  • Wild Animal

Skills (3)

  • 13Aerobatics
  • 15Brawling
  • 13Flight

Notes

  • GCS ancestry draft: gcs/raven.gct
  • Source template total: -105 points.
  • Library-rebuilt template total: -105 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

CER1
Offense-1
Protection-5
Threat tierminor
Appearing6
Wandering4

Tags

  • srd-3-5
  • srd-5-1
  • animal

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Where this one came from
Source record
Raven
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/raven.gct
  • Source template total: -105 points.
  • Library-rebuilt template total: -105 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 -1, PR -5, CER 1, threat tier minor.
  • Conversion baseline reported OR 0, PR -5, CER 1 (tier minor). 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 (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-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.

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.