Violet Fungus

Fungus · SM +0 Violet Fungus (Enraged Eggplant; answers SRD 3.5, SRD 5.1)

A folded purple cap on a mottled grey-violet stalk, indistinguishable from ordinary cave fungus until the four long tentacles come out. Their touch rots flesh where it lands. It grows in stands, often among shriekers, which is not a coincidence.

Attributes

ST10

DX7

IQ1

HT11

HP10

Will5

Per7

FP11

Basic Speed4.5

Basic Move1

Dodge7

DR1

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
TentacleTentacle (7): thrust 1d-3 crushing + linked 1d-1 fatigue (contact agent, resistible with HT), Reach C.	7	thrust 1d-3 crushing + linked 1d-1 fatigue (contact agent, resistible with HT)	C
PoisonFatigue Attack 1d-1 (Contact Agent, -30%; Link, Tentacle, +10%; Resistible, HT, -30%) Resolve as stated by the construction; the source gives no separate resolution text.	no roll	1d-1 fatigue	—

Traits (16)

• Bestial
• Blindness
• Cannot Learn
• Deafness
• Doesn’t Breathe (Oxygen Absorption)
• Extra-Flexible Arms
• Extra Arms 2 (Extra-Flexible)
• Injury Tolerance (Homogenous, No Blood, No Eyes, No Head, No Neck)
• Immunity to Metabolic Hazards
• Immunity to Mind Control
• Mute
• No Fine Manipulators
• Numb
• Reduced Consumption 4 (Cast-Iron Stomach)
• Slow Eater
• Vibration Sense (Air)

Notes

• GCS ancestry draft: gcs/violet-fungus.gct
• Source template total: -172 points.
• Library-rebuilt template total: -172 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

CER1

Offense-6

Protection-5

Threat tierminor

Appearing1

Wandering4

Tags

• srd-3-5
• srd-5-1
• fungus

GCS v5 downloads

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• ↓ Ancestry template (.gct)Apply to any character

Where this one came from

Source record

Violet Fungus

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/violet-fungus.gct
• Source template total: -172 points.
• Library-rebuilt template total: -172 points.
• CER was computed from parsed Typical Stats using the Dungeons On Automatic baseline CER path.
• Issue #5: 1 special ability construction(s) restored (Poison). No disabling construction on this record carries a cost the affliction term can score.
• CER recomputed from the reviewed Typical Stats through the canonical Dungeons on Automatic CER path: OR -6, PR -5, CER 1, threat tier minor.
• Conversion baseline reported OR -5, PR -5, CER 1 (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 (solitary): average number appearing 1, 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.
• 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-b3-cer-tails); GCS fidelity check passed, DOA playability check passed.
• CER tail record. The rating was recomputed through the consumer CER path and the tail was read against package peers in review/reports/cer-audit.md; a floor of 1 reflects a genuinely feeble creature and a severe rating tracks the record's own HP, DR and damage.