Bat

Animal · 1 hex · SM -5 Bat [Monsters on Automatic, SRD coverage: mundane birds, fish and aquatic animals; answers Bat (SRD 5.1); Bat (SRD 3.5)]

A hand-sized insect hunter that navigates a pitch-dark cavern by sound alone and never touches a wall doing it. One is harmless. A roost disturbed at dusk is a wall of them coming out at once, which is worth a Fright Check and nothing else.

Attributes

ST1

DX14

IQ4

HT10

HP1

Will8

Per10

FP10

Basic Speed6

Basic Move12

Dodge9

DR0

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
BiteBite (14): 1d-7 cutting, Reach C. Barely a wound; the bat is a nuisance and a disease vector, not a threat.	14	1d-7 cutting	C

Traits (12)

• Acute Hearing 4
• Bestial
• Cannot Speak
• Flight (Winged)
• Fur
• Night Vision 5
• No Fine Manipulators
• Restricted Diet (Carnivore)
• Scanning Sense (Sonar)
• Sharp Teeth
• Short Lifespan 1
• Ultrahearing

Skills (2)

• 14Brawling
• 15Stealth

Notes

• GCS ancestry draft: gcs/bat.gct
• Independent build total: -101 points of racial traits plus 5 points of racial skills.
• Answers the SRD heading(s): Bat (SRD 5.1); Bat (SRD 3.5). 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: 0.03 kg. ST, Size Modifier and DR are checked against it; see the gurps-animal-sanity-check skill for the bands.
• Movement: ground Move 2; air Move 12 (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.
• Longest dimension about 25 cm with the wings out, which is the published table's SM -5 row.
• ST is the floor: 30 g of animal carrying nothing but itself.
• Perception is only moderately raised. The bat's edge is not general alertness but one extraordinary sense, and Scanning Sense, Ultrahearing and Acute Hearing 4 are where that is paid for.
• Ground Move is deliberately crippled: a bat on the floor drags itself.

Encounter rating

CER1

Offense5

Protection-9

Threat tierminor

Appearing8

Wandering7

Tags

• monsters-on-automatic
• ai-generated
• doa-authored
• srd-5-1
• srd-3-5
• animal
• mammal
• flier
• cave
• nocturnal
• wandering-encounter

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Where this one came from

Source record

Bat [Monsters on Automatic, SRD coverage: mundane birds, fish and aquatic animals]

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): Bat (SRD 5.1); Bat (SRD 3.5).
• Racial template: -101 points across 18 traits, plus 2 racial skill(s) worth 5 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.