Magical Beast (Cold) · 3 hexes · SM +1 Winter Wolf [Monster Manual, page 256]
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 (KYOS: 2d+1 cutting) + 1d follow-up non-incendiary burning, Reach C. | 14 | thrust 1d+1 cutting (KYOS: 2d+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 (KYOS: 1d+2) 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 (KYOS: 1d+2) 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 (22)
- Bad Temper (12)
- Bestial
- Born Biter 2
- Chummy
- Combat Reflexes
- Discriminatory Smell
- 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)
- 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 [Monster Manual, page 256]
- 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/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.
- 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.
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