Shambling Mound

Plant · SM +0 Shambling Mound (Enraged Eggplant; answers SRD 3.5, SRD 5.1)

A heap of rotting creeper and layered vegetation, roughly man-shaped, that reads as a compost pile until it stands up. Fire barely marks it and lightning actively feeds it. It wraps what it catches in vine and squeezes.

Attributes

ST20

DX10

IQ7

HT13

HP40

Will10

Per10

FP13

Basic Speed5.75

Basic Move4

Dodge8

DR1

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
Vine SlamVine Slam (12): thrust 2d crushing, Reach C.	12	thrust 2d crushing	C

Traits (21)

• Amphibious
• Bestial
• Constriction Attack
• Doesn’t Breathe
• Doesn’t Sleep
• Double-Jointed
• Extra-Flexible Arms
• Hidebound
• Immunity to Electrical Conduction
• Immunity to Metabolic Hazards
• Immunity to Mind Control
• Immunity to Noxious Electrical Effects
• Immunity to Noxious Fire Effects
• Infravision
• Injury Tolerance (No Blood, No Head (still has a brain), No Neck, No Vitals, Unliving)
• Limited Camouflage (Plant)
• Mute
• Night Vision 5
• No Fine Manipulators
• Restricted Diet (Carnivore)
• Social Stigma (Monster)

Skills (3)

• 12Brawling
• 12Camouflage
• 12Survival (Woodlands)

Notes

• GCS ancestry draft: gcs/shambling-mound.gct
• Source template total: 379 points.
• Library-rebuilt template total: 379 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.
• Weight 3,800 lbs.

Encounter rating

CER44

Offense10

Protection34

Threat tierstandard

Appearing1

Wandering3

Tags

• srd-3-5
• srd-5-1
• plant

GCS v5 downloads

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

Where this one came from

Source record

Shambling Mound

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/shambling-mound.gct
• Source template total: 379 points.
• Library-rebuilt template total: 379 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 10, PR 34, CER 44, 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.