Winter Wolf

Magical Beast (Cold) · 3 hexes · SM +1 Winter Wolf (Enraged Eggplant; answers SRD 3.5, SRD 5.1)

A great wolf in frost-white fur, near invisible against snow, with a bite that burns cold and breath that comes out as a killing blast of it. It hunts in packs, talks, and is often found working for whatever larger thing has hired it.

Attributes

ST16

DX12

IQ9

HT12

HP16

Will11

Per13

FP12

Basic Speed6

Basic Move9

Dodge10

DR2

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
Freezing BiteFreezing Bite (14): thrust 1d+1 cutting + 1d follow-up non-incendiary burning, Reach C.	14	thrust 1d+1 cutting + 1d follow-up non-incendiary burning	C
Breathe FrostBreathe Frost (14): The wolf breathes out a blast of extremely cold vapor, dealing thrust 1d non-incendiary burning damage as large-area injury. Targets injured by this attack must make an HT roll, at -1 per 2 points of injury, or take a -2 penalty to DX and become Numb (p. B146) for (20-HT) minutes (minimum 1 minute). This is a cone attack that uses rules from Area and Spreading Attacks (pp. B413-414). The cone is 1-yard wide and has a length of 3 yards (ST/5). Each use costs 2 FP. It is possible to make the cone wider by using the rules from Cones of Power (GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Monsters 4: Dragons, p. 10). It will blow out any ordinary fire (candle, lantern, torch, etc.).	14	The wolf breathes out a blast of extremely cold vapor, dealing thrust 1d non-incendiary burning damage as large-area injury. Targets injured by this attack must make an HT roll, at -1 per 2 points of injury, or take a -2 penalty to DX and become Numb (p. B146) for (20-HT) minutes (minimum 1 minute). This is a cone attack that uses rules from Area and Spreading Attacks (pp. B413-414). The cone is 1-yard wide and has a length of 3 yards (ST/5). Each use costs 2 FP. It is possible to make the cone wider by using the rules from Cones of Power (GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Monsters 4: Dragons, p. 10). It will blow out any ordinary fire (candle, lantern, torch, etc.)	—

Traits (24)

• Bad Temper (12)
• Bestial
• Born Biter 2
• Chummy
• Combat Reflexes
• Discriminatory Smell
• Early Maturation 1
• Enhanced Move 0.5 (Ground)
• Extra Legs (Four Legs)
• Fur
• Horizontal
• Immunity to Noxious Cold Effects
• Infravision
• Limited Camouflage (Snow)
• Night Vision 5
• No Fine Manipulators
• Odious Racial Habit (Eats sapient beings)
• Penetrating Voice
• Reduced Consumption 2 (Cast-Iron Stomach)
• Short Lifespan 2
• Social Stigma (Monster)
• Tail
• Temperature Tolerance 5 (Cold)
• Vulnerability (Fire, x2)

Skills (8)

• 14Brawling
• 14Innate Attack (Breath)
• 11Intimidation
• 12Running
• 12Stealth
• 13Survival (Arctic)
• 17Tracking
• 14Wrestling

Notes

• GCS ancestry draft: gcs/winter-wolf.gct
• Source template total: 65 points.
• Library-rebuilt template total: 65 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.
• Size 3 hexes; Weight 450 lbs.

Encounter rating

CER32

Offense16

Protection16

Threat tierstandard

Appearing2

Wandering3

Tags

• srd-3-5
• srd-5-1
• magical-beast
• cold

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Where this one came from

Source record

Winter Wolf

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/winter-wolf.gct
• Source template total: 65 points.
• Library-rebuilt template total: 65 points.
• CER was computed from parsed Typical Stats using the Dungeons On Automatic baseline CER path.
• CER recomputed from the reviewed Typical Stats through the canonical Dungeons on Automatic CER path: OR 16, PR 16, CER 32, threat tier standard.
• Conversion baseline reported OR 17, PR 16, CER 33 (tier standard). 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 (gregarious): average number appearing 2, wandering weight 3. 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-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.