Water Elemental

Elemental (Water) · SM -3 Water Elemental (Enraged Eggplant; answers SRD 3.5, SRD 5.1)

A coiling core of deep blue and turquoise water, foam-edged, with two flexible pseudopods for arms and two streams trailing where legs would be. It is impossible to hold and nearly impossible to hurt in its own element, and it drags what it catches under.

Attributes

ST3

DX8

IQ7

HT9

HP3

Will7

Per7

FP9

Basic Speed4.25

Basic Move4

Dodge7

DR—

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
PunchPunch (8): thrust 1d-6 crushing, Reach C.	8	thrust 1d-6 crushing	C
WhirlpoolWhen on or in a body of water, the elemental can create a whirlpool effect with itself at the center, affecting anything within 32 yards of its position. Roll 7d as for crushing damage, determine knockback, and then double the distance; however, the victim suffers no actual damage from the effect – just the consequences of being hurled around. As a special effect, knockback from this moves victims sideways (all clockwise or all anticlockwise; decide when triggering the attack) rather than away from the elemental.	—	1d crushing	4 yards

Traits (15)

• Amphibious
• Chameleon 1
• Dark Vision
• Doesn’t Breathe
• Doesn’t Eat or Drink (Food Only)
• Doesn’t Sleep
• Immunity to Metabolic Hazards
• Injury Tolerance (Diffuse)
• Invertebrate
• No Fine Manipulators
• Pressure Support 3
• Slippery 5
• Speak Underwater
• Unaging
• Vulnerability (Dehydration, x2)

Notes

• GCS ancestry draft: gcs/water-elemental.gct
• Source template total: 57 points.
• Library-rebuilt template total: 57 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.
• Height 2 ft., Weight 12 lb.

Encounter rating

CER1

Offense-7

Protection-13

Threat tierminor

Appearing1

Wandering4

Tags

• srd-3-5
• srd-5-1
• elemental
• water

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Where this one came from

Source record

Water Elemental

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/water-elemental.gct
• Source template total: 57 points.
• Library-rebuilt template total: 57 points.
• CER was computed from parsed Typical Stats using the Dungeons On Automatic baseline CER path.
• Issue #5: 1 special ability construction(s) restored (Whirlpool). 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 -7, PR -13, CER 1, threat tier minor.
• 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.