GCalc: Little known Feature - Auto CER Calculator

It's been out for a while, but some people are still surprised. I added automatic CER calculations that are pretty close to correct. Just upload a character sheet from either GCS or GCA to GCalc, and it will give you the CER automatically, helpful, right?

Encounter: (Inspired by Castlevania's) Succubus

Just like in my animes.

So GURPS has a Succubus, and that's fine. You can find it on p.66 of GURPS Horror. But, trying to think of something love themed (or the perversion thereof) and coming up blank, I decided to stat up a monster from a game series I like. No particular CER goals, let's just see where we can go with this.

Encounter: (Inspired by) Leechmonger

Hot leeches!

Monger - a salesperson. So what we are dealing with here is a monster that sells leeches... or no? Maybe it's a metaphor. Oh well, get ye into a horrid diseased swamp and deal with it, friends!

Encounter: (Inspired by) Adjudicator

Long tongue, fat knife, they scream
a runnin for their life-ife-ife.

I haven't written a monster in a while, so I feel like writing a monster. So here's a monster inspired by Demon's Souls.

Encounter: Indescribable Monkey

Mostly irrelevant.

A kinda play on words, despite that which is on Washizu's back is obviously a cat, we were talking about removing monkeys from one's back. This is a demonic enemy that slowly weighs down it's opponents with mental exhaustion until they are unfit to defend themselves. Let's see what we can get with that premise.

Encounter: Goblin Musketeer

I just like the picture.

So, I'm thinking of all the things I don't have in decent quantity for my players to fight, and I think ranged encounters are a bit low. I also don't have many specifically gun themed opponents as I mostly am borrowing the TL3...ish bestiaries of Dungeon Fantasy. So, I says to meself, let's make a musketeer type opponent for my TL4 campaign. My goal is 60 CER, or a slightly challenging enemy for a starting Dungeon Fantasy character. let's see how that goes.

Encounter: Freeze Bees

Honey has a cool minty burn.

So, making monsters with unusual mechanics that I don't use enough in my games, and I started thing cyclical and fatigue damage, then I thought, "why not both?" So, some kinda icy venom was where that leads me to, and that leads to bees. I am working on stronger monsters than my previous batch, so again, like yesterday, let's shoot for around 60.

Encounter: Beelzebuddy

What's cooking, good looking? ;)

I want to create something a bit terrifying, but still manageable because my players are getting stronger. I want to focus on something with an affliction because I don't have a lot of interesting monsters with affliction abilities that are strong enough, so let's go with a giant tsetse fly! My target CER today is 60, which is stronger than my usual target of 30. Let's get cracking.

CER: The Natural Encyclopedia: Breeder - Wolf, Shadow

Defiler.

Today, I'm covering the undead section of The Natural Encyclopedia. This one has a bunch of templates, which don't lend themselves to CER, but I'll do what I can, and consider this a lucky short break.

CER: Alternate Dungeons II

Giants and stuff.

I liked The Titan's House in the Alternate Dungeons II issue, and I enjoyed the enemy stats. Today's post is a quickie, but if you are like me, and like having encounter CERs ready to go, then this might save some time if you are thinking about porting this to another situation.

CER: Howling Tunnels Characters

A map?!

So, Ironemblem has a tumblr account where he's put together stats for a bunch of monsters. I like the monsters, but I also really like CER so I can gauge monster strength at a glance. So I asked, and he said it was fine to figure out the CER values for his monsters, so here you go.

Encounter: Dire Pelican

So, I'm doing some research for a dungeon, and I need some monstrous pelicans; giant monstrous

Dalmatian Pelican,
largest breed of pelican

pelicans. You know, according to the wikipedia article, they were believed to stab their own breast to feed their young if they couldn't catch fish for them? Weird. In any case, let me see if I can come up with something that will work for a campaign I'm developing for, and a target of, let's say, 50 CER.

CER: The Natural Encyclopedia: Ankou - Tommoraki, Outsider

Humbaba

The outsiders section of the bestiary is altogether 6 pages, and on top of that, it has a ton of flavor text so boiling some numbers down, and finishing the entire section shouldn't be awful.

CER: The Natural Encyclopedia: Vortex - Zimurgicanth

Water Bug, Giant

With this post, I'll be done with the Animal section of the bestiary, the majority, and the most densely packed section of the entire PDF, and the majority as well, so maybe I'll be going a bit faster hereon out?

CER: The Natural Encyclopedia: Snake, Snow - Volcano Beast

Spider, Jumping (Giant)?

5 more pages!

CER: The Natural Encyclopedia: Remora, Greater - Snake, Poisonous

Skoffins gonna scoff.

Wew, laddie, it's a deluge of numbers!

CER: The Natural Encyclopedia: Orthos - Ray, Sting (Giant)

That isn't a Ray, Sting (Giant), This! Is
a Ray, Sting (Giant)!

Haven't done one of these in a while, so let's do one of these!

CER: Adding Racial Templates To Blank Slates

Haha hahahaha.

Today, just creating a reference for this post here, with the CER values after applying some racial templates from Dungeon Fantasy 3.

CER: Some Empty Vessels

GIS  for "Generic Thug"

So, this might seem like a bit of a bare bones post, but I just had this thought that it might be useful to have some instances of the thug archetypes  My goal is to use some advice from How to Be a GURPS GM that I found for some basic martial builds, and create a very basic shell, to which someone might apply a racial template for diversity. The challenge is to make the characters fit into 20 CER, and I hope to hit the mark exactly, so let's see how that goes.

CER: The Natural Encyclopedia: Leopard - Octopus, Hide

Megatherium

Writer's block, no idea what to do, so here are some more CER values!