Plant · SM +0 Shambling Mound [Monster Manual, page 222]
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 (KYOS: 2d+1 crushing), Reach C. | 12 | thrust 2d crushing (KYOS: 2d+1 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
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Where this one came from
- Source record
- Shambling Mound [Monster Manual, page 222]
- 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/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.
- 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.