Shadow - Dungeons on Automatic Bestiary

Undead · SM +0 Shadow [Monster Manual, page 221]

Attributes

ST8

DX10

IQ7

HT10

HP8

Will8

Per11

FP—

Basic Speed5

Basic Move5

Dodge8

DR—

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
Strength DrainStrength Drain (10): thrust 1d-3 toxic (KYOS: 1d-4 toxic) + follow-up affliction (resisted by HT, cumulative -2 penalty to ST for margin of failure minutes), Reach C.	10	thrust 1d-3 toxic (KYOS: 1d-4 toxic) + follow-up affliction (resisted by HT, cumulative -2 penalty to ST for margin of failure minutes)	C

Traits (25)

Cannot Speak
Dark Vision
Doesn’t Breathe
Doesn’t Eat or Drink
Doesn’t Sleep
Dominance (Fatal Beating; No Onset TIme)
Enhanced Unnatural
Flight (Magical; Slow)
Immunity to Metabolic Hazards
Immunity to Pain
Injury Tolerance (Diffuse; Infiltration)
Intolerance (Living)
No Fine Manipulators
No Sense of Smell/Taste
Numb
Pressure Support
Revulsion (Silkstone)
Social Stigma (Dead)
Sterile
Unaging
Uncontrollable Appetite (9) (Strength Drain)
Unhealing (Total)
Vacuum Support
Weakness (Sunlight; 1d per minute)
Wealth (Dead Broke)

Skills (1)

11Stealth

Notes

GCS ancestry draft: gcs/shadow.gct
Source template total: 12 points.
Library-rebuilt template total: 12 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

CER8

Offense12

Protection-4

Threat tierminor

Appearing4

Wandering4

GCS v5 downloads

Where this one came from

Source record: Shadow [Monster Manual, page 221]
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/shadow.gct
Source template total: 12 points.
Library-rebuilt template total: 12 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.
CER recomputed from the reviewed Typical Stats through the canonical Dungeons on Automatic CER path: OR 12, PR -4, CER 8, threat tier minor.
Conversion baseline reported OR 0, PR -4, 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 (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-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.