Undead · SM +0 Spectre [Monster Manual, page 232]
Attributes
Melee attacks
| Usage | Level | Damage | Reach |
|---|---|---|---|
| PunchPunch (12): thrust 1d-4 crushing (KYOS: 1d-5 crushing), Reach C. Only usable against insubstantial beings. | 12 | thrust 1d-4 crushing (KYOS: 1d-5 crushing) | C |
| Energy DrainEnergy Drain (12): thrust 1d-3 toxic (KYOS: 1d-4 toxic) + follow-up affliction (resisted by HT, cumulative -1 penalty to ST, DX, IQ, and HT for margin of failure minutes). Can be used both against substantial and insubstantial beings. | 12 | thrust 1d-3 toxic (KYOS: 1d-4 toxic) + follow-up affliction (resisted by HT, cumulative -1 penalty to ST, DX, IQ, and HT for margin of failure minutes). Can be used both against substantial and insubstantial beings | — |
Traits (19)
- Dark Vision
- Doesn’t Breathe
- Doesn’t Eat or Drink
- Doesn’t Sleep
- Dominance (Fatal Beating)
- Dread (Religious Symbols; 5 yards)
- Dread (Sunlight)
- Frightens Animals
- High Pain Threshold
- Immunity to Metabolic Hazards
- Injury Tolerance (Homogenous, No Blood)
- Insubstantiality (Affect Substantial; Always On)
- Intolerance (Living)
- No Sense of Smell/Taste
- Social Stigma (Dead)
- Sterile
- Unaging
- Unnatural
- Weakness (Sunlight; 1d/minute)
Skills (1)
- 12Stealth
Notes
- GCS ancestry draft: gcs/spectre.gct
- Source template total: 231 points.
- Library-rebuilt template total: 231 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
Tags
- srd-3-5
- undead
GCS v5 downloads
Where this one came from
- Source record
- Spectre [Monster Manual, page 232]
- 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/spectre.gct
- Source template total: 231 points.
- Library-rebuilt template total: 231 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 17, PR 1, CER 18, threat tier minor.
- Conversion baseline reported OR 4, PR 1, CER 5 (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.
- 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.

