Awakened Shrub

Plant · 1 hex · SM -2 Awakened Shrub [Monsters on Automatic, SRD coverage: constructs, animated objects and awakened plants; answers Awakened Shrub (SRD 5.1)]

A waist-high bush that has been given a mind and, unfortunately for it, a full understanding of its situation. It talks, it remembers who planted it, and it is entirely unable to defend itself against anything with an axe. Most awakened shrubs are somebody's informant.

Attributes

ST5

DX8

IQ10

HT10

HP5

Will12

Per11

FP10

Basic Speed4.5

Basic Move2

Dodge7

DR0

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
RakeRake (8): 1d-5 cutting, Reach C. Thorns dragged across whatever is in reach. Cannot parry.	8	1d-5 cutting	C

Traits (7)

• Doesn't Sleep
• Extra Legs (Many Legs) (Root Cluster)
• Immunity to Metabolic Hazards
• Injury Tolerance (No Blood)
• Injury Tolerance (No Brain)
• Injury Tolerance (No Vitals)
• Sharp Claws (Thorny Branches)

Skills (1)

• 8Brawling

Notes

• GCS ancestry draft: gcs/awakened-shrub.gct
• Independent build total: 0 points of racial traits plus 1 points of racial skills.
• Answers the SRD heading(s): Awakened Shrub (SRD 5.1). Only the creature identity is taken from the SRD; the GURPS statistics, ratings and prose are this project's own work and reproduce no SRD text.
• Typical Stats, damage and ratings are derived from the racial template, not authored beside it, so the sheet and the stat block cannot disagree.
• Body mass used to scale this build: 20 kg. ST, Size Modifier and DR are checked against it; see the gurps-animal-sanity-check skill for the bands.
• Movement: ground Move 2 (primary). The published Move is the primary medium's cruising Move; sprint figures are stated here and not folded into it.
• Treasure and grappling are not authored for this batch and ship as explicit nulls; `lair` carries a short habitat note, because where a wandering animal dens is an encounter fact rather than a loot one.
• About a metre across, which is the SM -2 row.
• IQ 10 and no Cannot Speak: an awakened plant is awake in the full sense and holds a conversation, which is the whole reason a GM puts one in a scene.
• Fire is the obvious answer to it and the build does not pretend otherwise. Vulnerability is not modelled as a trait here because the package has no vulnerability contract yet; a GM should simply rule it.

Encounter rating

CER1

Offense-8

Protection-5

Threat tierminor

Appearing1

Wandering3

Tags

• monsters-on-automatic
• ai-generated
• doa-authored
• srd-5-1
• plant
• awakened
• forest
• talker
• harmless

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Where this one came from

Source record

Awakened Shrub [Monsters on Automatic, SRD coverage: constructs, animated objects and awakened plants]

Source system

doa_fixture / doa_authored

Released under

cc_by_4_0

Conversion

0.1.0-srd-independent-build

Review status

approved

Credit

Monster statistics, ratings and description prose by Monsters on Automatic; AI-generated first draft, project-reviewed, released under CC BY 4.0.

Description

Written by Dungeons on Automatic, released under cc_by_4_0

• Independently authored GURPS build. The SRD supplies the creature identity this record answers to and nothing else: no SRD statistics, wording or presentation is reproduced, and no third-party GURPS conversion was used as an input.
• Answers the SRD heading(s): Awakened Shrub (SRD 5.1).
• Racial template: 0 points across 12 traits, plus 1 racial skill(s) worth 1 points.
• Every trait is drawn from the project's controlled GURPS vocabulary in scripts/srd/trait-library.mjs, which carries the page reference and published cost for each entry.
• sourceSystem is recorded as doa_fixture because that is the package contract's value for project-authored material; the SRD headings this record answers are in provenance.coversSourceIdentities.
• Ratings are recomputed through the consumer CER path on every build, so a mechanics change cannot leave a stale rating behind.