Silver Dragon - Dungeons on Automatic Bestiary

Silver Dragon top-down flat-top hex token

Dragon (Cold) · SM +3 Silver Dragon [Monster Manual, page 86]

Attributes

ST25

DX10

IQ12

HT15

HP25

Will13

Per14

FP20

Basic Speed6.25

Basic Move7

Dodge9

DR3

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
BiteBite (14): thrust 3d-1 impaling, Reach C-1.	14	thrust 3d-1 impaling	C-1
Front ClawFront Claw (14): thrust 3d-1 cutting or impaling, Reach C-2.	14	thrust 3d-1 cutting or impaling	C-2
Hind ClawHind Claw (12): thrust 3d cutting or impaling, Reach C-2.	12	thrust 3d cutting or impaling	C-2
WingWing (14): thrust 3d crushing, Reach C-3, can only attack front and side hexes.	14	thrust 3d crushing	C-3, can only attack front and side hexes
TailTail (12): thrust 3d crushing, Reach C-3.	12	thrust 3d crushing	C-3
Breathe FrostBreathe Frost (14): The dragon breathes out a blast of extremely cold vapor, dealing thrust 2d non-incendiary burning damage as large-area injury. Targets injured by this attack must make an HT roll, at -1 per 2 points of injury, or take a -2 penalty to DX and become Numb (p. B146) for (20-HT) minutes (minimum 1 minute). This is a cone attack that uses rules from Area and Spreading Attacks (pp. B413-414). The cone is 1-yard wide and has a length of 5 yards (ST/5). Each use costs 2 FP. It is possible to make the cone wider by using the rules from Cones of Power (GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Monsters 4: Dragons, p. 10). It will blow out any ordinary fire (candle, lantern, torch, etc.).	14	The dragon breathes out a blast of extremely cold vapor, dealing thrust 2d non-incendiary burning damage as large-area injury. Targets injured by this attack must make an HT roll, at -1 per 2 points of injury, or take a -2 penalty to DX and become Numb (p. B146) for (20-HT) minutes (minimum 1 minute). This is a cone attack that uses rules from Area and Spreading Attacks (pp. B413-414). The cone is 1-yard wide and has a length of 5 yards (ST/5). Each use costs 2 FP. It is possible to make the cone wider by using the rules from Cones of Power (GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Monsters 4: Dragons, p. 10). It will blow out any ordinary fire (candle, lantern, torch, etc.)	—
Breathe Paralyzing GasBreathe Paralyzing Gas (14): Alternatively, the dragon may breathe out a stream of paralyzing gas. This is a cone attack that uses rules from Area and Spreading Attacks (pp. B413-414). The cone is 1-yard wide and has a length of 5 yards (ST/5). Each use costs 2 FP. It is possible to make the cone wider by using the rules from Cones of Power (GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Monsters 4: Dragons, p. 10). Creatures who breathe the gas must roll against HT or be paralyzed for 2 seconds times margin of failure. After that, the subject is stunned (p. B420) and may roll vs. HT once per second to recover.	14	Alternatively, the dragon may breathe out a stream of paralyzing gas. This is a cone attack that uses rules from Area and Spreading Attacks (pp. B413-414). The cone is 1-yard wide and has a length of 5 yards (ST/5). Each use costs 2 FP. It is possible to make the cone wider by using the rules from Cones of Power (GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Monsters 4: Dragons, p. 10). Creatures who breathe the gas must roll against HT or be paralyzed for 2 seconds times margin of failure. After that, the subject is stunned (p. B420) and may roll vs. HT once per second to recover	—

Traits (40)

Bad Grip 2
Discriminatory Smell
Discriminatory Taste
Dull Touch 6
Enhanced Move 0.5 (Air)
Enhanced Move 1 (Ground)
Extended Lifespan 5
Extra Attack 1
Extra Legs (Four Legs)
Eye for Distance
Flexibility
Flight (Cannot Hover; Winged)
Greed (12)
Ham-Fisted 1
High Pain Threshold
Horizontal
Immunity to Noxious Cold Effects
Immunity to Paralysis
Immunity to Sleep
Infravision
Loner (12)
Magic Resistance 1 (Improved)
Methodical
Miserliness (12)
Nictitating Membrane 3
Night Vision 7
Parabolic Hearing 1
Penetrating Voice
Peripheral Vision
Protected Vision
Reduced Consumption 3
Scales
Selfish (12)
Staid
Temperature Tolerance 6
Unfazeable
Universal Digestion (Matter Eater)
Vibration Sense (Air)
Vulnerability (Fire, x2)
Walk on Air (Magical; Specific, Water Vapor)

Skills (5)

14Brawling
12Diplomacy
12Fast-Talk
14Innate Attack (Breath)
12Tactics

Notes

GCS ancestry draft: gcs/silver-dragon.gct
Source template total: 734 points.
Library-rebuilt template total: 734 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.
GCS template includes a +17-point reconciliation child requiring decomposition.

Encounter rating

CER76

Offense38

Protection38

Threat tiermajor

Appearing1

Wandering2

GCS v5 downloads

Where this one came from

Source record: Silver Dragon [Monster Manual, page 86]
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/silver-dragon.gct
Source template total: 734 points.
Library-rebuilt template total: 734 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.
GCS ancestry reconciliation adjudicated: the published template total is 734 points and the parsed source children sum to 717, a difference of +17. Classified as grouped construction not decomposed — consistent with grouped abilities the prose parser did not split into individual children (alternative abilities, linked constructions, and spell or breath-weapon groups). The points are real and priced in the author's total; only the decomposition is missing. The authorized source total is preserved; the remaining manual step is opening gcs/silver-dragon.gct in GCS to replace the reconciliation child with native constructions where the grouped ability can be decomposed.
CER recomputed from the reviewed Typical Stats through the canonical Dungeons on Automatic CER path: OR 38, PR 38, CER 76, threat tier major.
Conversion baseline reported OR 35, PR 38, CER 73 (tier major). 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 (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.
Review approved by automated-mechanical-review on 2026-07-26 (batch ee-2026-07-26-b2-gcs-reconciliation); GCS fidelity check passed, DOA playability check passed.
The source-total difference is classified and documented in conversionNotes; the authorized published total is preserved and the residual stays visible as a reconciliation child.
Visual GCS verification of the .gct is not claimed by this decision; checks.gcsVisualPass is false.

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