The D&D Monster Conversion Thread

[Jürgen Hubert]

I recently got permission to put Collective Restraint's GURPS conversions of D&D Monsters on the GURPS Repository (I am currently up to "Dragon, Black Wyrm"), and it occurs to me that there must be lots of people who have converted D&D monsters to GURPS over the years. Time to gather them all in one place! If you have converted a D&D monster to GURPS, please share it here so that I (or someone else) can put it into the Repository. If you know of any netbooks or other online documents, please share the links to it - we do need permissions by the individual authors of these documents, of course, but before we can get permission we need to know that they exist.

To clarify, what I am looking for here are "Dungeon Fantasy"-style stat blocks, not racial writeups - there is a section for that, too, but it's not the main focus of this thread.

If you want to take your own stab at converting D&D monsters, a good source of them is the d20 SRD for the D&D 3.5 rules (some major iconic D&D monsters such as beholders and mind flayers are missing, but it's a good start), as well as the Pathfinder SRD - which is based on D&D 3.5 and has a lot of other "classic" D&D monsters from other sources.

The following conversion guidelines have served me fairly well:

GURPS ST = D&D Str
GURPS DX = 10 + (D&D Dex modifier)
GURPS HT = 10 + (D&D Con modifier)
GURPS IQ = 10 + (D&D Int modifier)
GURPS DR = (D&D natural armor modifier)/2

Of course, conversion is an art as much as it is a science - so if you have any insights of your own on converting D&D monsters, please share them!