Shield Guardian

Construct · SM +1 Shield Guardian (Enraged Eggplant; answers SRD 3.5, SRD 5.1)

A heavy construct built to stand between its owner and harm, bound to an amulet that its owner wears. It takes wounds meant for them, closes its own damage steadily, and follows its instructions with no judgement whatsoever about what they are.

Attributes

ST23

DX10

IQ0

HT14

HP43

Will10

Per10

FP—

Basic Speed6

Basic Move5

Dodge10

DR7

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
PunchPunch (14): thrust 2d+2 crushing, Reach C-1.	14	thrust 2d+2 crushing	C-1

Traits (34)

• Affected by Magnetism
• Affected by Rust
• Automaton
• Cannot Learn
• Combat Reflexes
• Dark Vision
• Dependency (Attuned Amulet; Constantly)
• Doesn’t Breathe
• Doesn’t Eat or Drink
• Doesn’t Sleep
• Enhanced Block 2
• Enhanced Parry 2 (All parries)
• High Pain Threshold
• Immunity to Metabolic Hazards
• Immunity to Mind Control
• Injury Tolerance (No Blood, No Eyes, No Vitals, Unliving)
• Mute
• No Sense of Smell/Taste
• Not Subject to Fatigue
• Numb
• Regeneration (Refular)
• Reprogrammable
• Sacrificial Parry (Brawling)
• Shield-Wall Training
• Social Stigma (Valuable Property)
• Special Rapport (Amulet Wearer; Magical)
• Sterile
• Taboo Trait (Fixed IQ)
• Unaging
• Unfazeable
• Unhealing (Total)
• Unnatural
• Vacuum Support
• Wealth (Dead Broke)

Skills (1)

• 14Brawling

Notes

• GCS ancestry draft: gcs/shield-guardian.gct
• Source template total: 28 points.
• Library-rebuilt template total: 28 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 1,200 lbs.

Encounter rating

CER71

Offense12

Protection59

Threat tiermajor

Appearing1

Wandering2

Tags

• srd-3-5
• srd-5-1
• construct

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Where this one came from

Source record

Shield Guardian

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/shield-guardian.gct
• Source template total: 28 points.
• Library-rebuilt template total: 28 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 12, PR 59, CER 71, threat tier major.
• Encounter metadata derived (solitary): average number appearing 1, wandering weight 2. 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.