Shadow

Undead · SM +0 Shadow (Enraged Eggplant; answers SRD 3.5, SRD 5.1)

A human-shaped absence rather than a figure: layered translucent black, hands drawn out too long, no legs at all, drifting a few inches clear of the floor. Its touch draws the strength out of a body by degrees, ordinary blows pass through it, and direct sunlight burns it away.

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 + follow-up affliction (resisted by HT, cumulative -2 penalty to ST for margin of failure minutes), Reach C.	10	thrust 1d-3 toxic + follow-up affliction (resisted by HT, cumulative -2 penalty to ST for margin of failure minutes)	C

Traits (27)

• 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)
• Hidebound
• Immunity to Metabolic Hazards
• Immunity to Pain
• Injury Tolerance (Diffuse; Infiltration)
• Intolerance (Living)
• No Fine Manipulators
• No Sense of Smell/Taste
• Not Subject to Fatigue
• 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

Tags

• srd-3-5
• srd-5-1
• undead

GCS v5 downloads

• ↓ Character sheet (.gcs)Open directly in GCS
• ↓ Ancestry template (.gct)Apply to any character

Where this one came from

Source record

Shadow

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/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.
• 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.