Retriever

Construct · SM +1 Retriever (Enraged Eggplant; answers SRD 3.5)

A headless oval of black iron on four long walking legs, with four shorter scythe arms folded against the body and mandibles set in the front rim. It is a hunting machine built to fetch one named thing, it does not stop, and it cannot be reasoned with because there is nothing in it to reason with.

Attributes

ST22

DX12

IQ0

HT13

HP22

Will10

Per14

FP—

Basic Speed6.25

Basic Move8

Dodge10

DR4

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
MandiblesMandibles (16): thrust 2d+1 cutting plus follow-up 1d-1 toxic (5 1-hour cycles, resisted by HT-2, -2 HT after loss of 1/3 HP, severe pain after loss of ½ HP), Reach C.	16	thrust 2d+1 cutting plus follow-up 1d-1 toxic (5 1-hour cycles, resisted by HT-2, -2 HT after loss of 1/3 HP, severe pain after loss of ½ HP)	C
TalonsTalons (16): thrust 2d+1 cutting or impaling, Reach C-1.	16	thrust 2d+1 cutting or impaling	C-1
Find TargetFind Target (14): The retriever can “home in” on anyone or anything, provided he has a piece of it (or something deeply connected to it) to attune to. Attuning requires one second, as long as the retriever has anything even remotely related to that subject to focus on.	14	The retriever can “home in” on anyone or anything, provided he has a piece of it (or something deeply connected to it) to attune to. Attuning requires one second, as long as the retriever has anything even remotely related to that subject to focus on	—

Traits (34)

• Absolute Direction
• Affected by Magnetism
• Affected by Rust
• Ambidexterity
• Automaton
• Cannot Learn
• Dark Vision
• Doesn’t Breathe
• Doesn’t Eat or Drink
• Doesn’t Sleep
• ER 5 (Magic)
• Extra Arms 2
• Extra Attack 1
• Extra Legs (Four Legs; Cannot Kick; Long 1)
• High Pain Threshold
• Immunity to Metabolic Hazards
• Immunity to Mind Control
• Injury Tolerance (No Blood, No Eyes, No Head, No Neck, No Vitals, Unliving)
• Mute
• No Fine Manipulators
• No Sense of Smell/Taste
• Not Subject to Fatigue
• Numb
• Pressure Support 2
• Regeneration (Regular; Magical)
• Reprogrammable
• Social Stigma (Valuable Property)
• Sterile
• Taboo Trait (Fixed IQ)
• Unaging
• Unfazeable
• Unnatural
• Vacuum Support
• Wealth (Dead Broke)

Skills (3)

• 16Brawling
• 16Innate Attack (Gaze)
• 18Tracking

Notes

• GCS ancestry draft: gcs/retriever.gct
• Source template total: 262 points.
• Library-rebuilt template total: 262 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

CER57

Offense24

Protection33

Threat tierstandard

Appearing1

Wandering3

Tags

• srd-3-5
• construct

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Where this one came from

Source record

Retriever

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/retriever.gct
• Source template total: 262 points.
• Library-rebuilt template total: 262 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 24, PR 33, CER 57, threat tier standard.
• Encounter metadata derived (solitary): average number appearing 1, 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.