Salt Mephit - Dungeons on Automatic Bestiary

Outsider (Earth) · SM -1 Salt Mephit [Monster Manual, page 184]

Attributes

ST9

DX10

IQ9

HT11

HP9

Will9

Per9

FP11

Basic Speed5.25

Basic Move5

Dodge8

DR1

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
Blunt ClawsBlunt Claws (10): thrust 1d-2 crushing (KYOS: 1d-3 crushing), Reach C.	10	thrust 1d-2 crushing (KYOS: 1d-3 crushing)	C
Breath WeaponBreath Weapon (13): A 10-yard jet of salt crystals erupts from the mephit’s mouth. It uses Innate Attack (Breath) to hit. Don’t apply range penalties; treat this as a long melee weapon rather than a ranged attack. It does 1d small piercing damage, and has a 1/2D range of 5 yards. If any damage penetrates the target’s DR, he must make a HT roll, at -1 per 2 points of injury or suffer from itching skin and eyes for (20 – HT) minutes. The target is at -2 to DX for the duration of the itch. Scratching for one full second relieves the itch, but the target can do nothing else while scratching. This ability costs 1 FP to use.	13	A 10-yard jet of salt crystals erupts from the mephit’s mouth. It uses Innate Attack (Breath) to hit. Don’t apply range penalties; treat this as a long melee weapon rather than a ranged attack. It does 1d small piercing damage, and has a 1/2D range of 5 yards. If any damage penetrates the target’s DR, he must make a HT roll, at -1 per 2 points of injury or suffer from itching skin and eyes for (20 – HT) minutes. The target is at -2 to DX for the duration of the itch. Scratching for one full second relieves the itch, but the target can do nothing else while scratching. This ability costs 1 FP to use	—
Drain MoistureBy spending 4 FP, a salt mephit can drain moisture from the area around him. Every creature within 4 yards of him takes 1d fatigue damage. Treat FP lost to the attack identically to FP lost to dehydration for all purposes, notably recovery.	—	1d fatigue	4 yards

Traits (8)

Brittle
Curious (12)
Doesn’t Eat or Drink
Flight (Cannot Hover; Winged)
Infravision
Regeneration (Fast; Accessibility, Only if in an arid environment)
Skinny
Vulnerability (Sound, x2)

Skills (3)

12Brawling
10Innate Attack (Breath)
10Innate Attack (Gaze)

Notes

GCS ancestry draft: gcs/salt-mephit.gct
Source template total: 76 points.
Library-rebuilt template total: 76 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

CER5

Offense5

Protection0

Threat tierminor

Appearing4

Wandering4

GCS v5 downloads

Where this one came from

Source record: Salt Mephit [Monster Manual, page 184]
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.

GCS ancestry draft: gcs/salt-mephit.gct
Source template total: 76 points.
Library-rebuilt template total: 76 points.
CER was computed from parsed Typical Stats using the Dungeons On Automatic baseline CER path.
Issue #5: 1 special ability construction(s) restored (Drain Moisture). 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 5, PR 0, CER 5, threat tier minor.
Encounter metadata derived (default): average number appearing 4, 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.
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.

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.