Vargouille - Dungeons on Automatic Bestiary

Outsider (Evil) · SM -3 Vargouille [Monster Manual, page 254]

Attributes

ST3

DX11

IQ7

HT10

HP3

Will10

Per10

FP10

Basic Speed5.25

Basic Move10

Dodge8

DR—

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
Sharp TeethSharp Teeth (13): thrust 1d-5 cutting (KYOS: 1d-9 cutting) + follow-up 1 toxic (3 1-hour cycles; Resisted with HT), Reach C. Poison: Toxic Attack 1 (Cyclic, 1 hour, 3 cycles, Resistible, +20%; Follow-Up, Sharp Teeth, +0%; Resistible, HT, -35%) Resolve as stated by the construction; the source gives no separate resolution text.	13	thrust 1d-5 cutting (KYOS: 1d-9 cutting) + follow-up 1 toxic (3 1-hour cycles; Resisted with HT)	C
KissKiss (13): A vargouille can kiss a target by making a successful unarmed attack against the target’s unprotected face. An affected opponent must succeed on a HT roll or begin a terrible transformation that turns the creature into a vargouille within 24 hours (and often much sooner; roll 1d separately for each phase of the transformation). First, over a period of 1d hours, all the victim’s hair falls out. Within another 1d hours thereafter, the ears grow into leathery wings, tentacles sprout on the chin and scalp, and the teeth become long, pointed fangs. During the next 1d hours, the victim takes loses 1 IQ each hour (maximum 3). The transformation is complete 1d hours later, when the subject experiences a heart attack and, if not resuscitated, the head breaks free of the body (which promptly dies) and becomes a vargouille. This transformation is interrupted by sunlight (it can delay death), but to reverse the transformation requires Cure Disease at -3 or Remove Curse. Dispel Magic will not lift this effect.	13	A vargouille can kiss a target by making a successful unarmed attack against the target’s unprotected face. An affected opponent must succeed on a HT roll or begin a terrible transformation that turns the creature into a vargouille within 24 hours (and often much sooner; roll 1d separately for each phase of the transformation). First, over a period of 1d hours, all the victim’s hair falls out. Within another 1d hours thereafter, the ears grow into leathery wings, tentacles sprout on the chin and scalp, and the teeth become long, pointed fangs. During the next 1d hours, the victim takes loses 1 IQ each hour (maximum 3). The transformation is complete 1d hours later, when the subject experiences a heart attack and, if not resuscitated, the head breaks free of the body (which promptly dies) and becomes a vargouille. This transformation is interrupted by sunlight (it can delay death), but to reverse the transformation requires Cure Disease at -3 or Remove Curse. Dispel Magic will not lift this effect	—
ShriekWhen a creature hears the shriek of a vargouille, it must roll a Fright Check. If a victim succeeds at his Fright Check, he will be unaffected by this ability for one hour.	—	—	—

Traits (11)

Appearance (Hideous)
Flight (Winged)
Infravision
Injury Tolerance (No Head, No Neck)
No Legs (Aerial)
No Manipulators
Odious Racial Habit (Eats sapient beings)
Reduced Consumption 4 (Cast-Iron Stomach)
Restricted Diet (Carnivore)
Social Stigma (Monster)
Unholy Touch

Skills (1)

13Brawling

Notes

GCS ancestry draft: gcs/vargouille.gct
Source template total: -71 points.
Library-rebuilt template total: -71 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

CER12

Offense19

Protection-7

Threat tierminor

Appearing4

Wandering4

GCS v5 downloads

Where this one came from

Source record: Vargouille [Monster Manual, page 254]
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/vargouille.gct
Source template total: -71 points.
Library-rebuilt template total: -71 points.
CER was computed from parsed Typical Stats using the Dungeons On Automatic baseline CER path.
Issue #5: 2 special ability construction(s) restored (Shriek, Poison) and 1 annotated with the source's stated cost. 2 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 19, PR -7, CER 12, threat tier minor.
Conversion baseline reported OR 11, PR -7, CER 4 (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.