Elemental (Water) · SM -3 Water Elemental [Monster Manual, page 98]
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 (KYOS: 1d-10 crushing), Reach C. | 8 | thrust 1d-6 crushing (KYOS: 1d-10 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 [Monster Manual, page 98]
- 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/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.
- 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.
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