Bat

Animal · 1 hex · SM -5 Bat (Monsters on Automatic; answers SRD 3.5, SRD 5.1)

A small brown insect-eater, common wherever there is a cave roof, a belfry or a hollow tree to hang from. Bats hunt on the wing in complete darkness, steering by sound, and one of them can do nothing whatever to a person. A whole roost coming out of a shaft at dusk is loud and unnerving, and that is the extent of it.

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

• Racial cost: -101 points of traits plus 5 points of skills.
• Body weight: 1 oz.
• Movement: ground Move 2; air Move 12 (primary).
• A bat on the floor drags itself. The ground Move is not a misprint.

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
• underground
• swarm-forming
• familiar
• flier
• nocturnal

GCS v5 downloads

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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.
• Typical Stats, damage and ratings are derived from the racial template rather than authored beside it, so the sheet and the stat block cannot disagree.
• GCS ancestry draft: gcs/bat.gct
• The published Move is the primary medium's cruising Move; sprint figures are stated in the movement note and not folded into it.
• Treasure and grappling are not authored for this record and ship as explicit nulls, which reads as known absent rather than forgotten; `lair` carries a short habitat note instead, because where a creature dens is an encounter fact rather than a loot one.
• Body mass is the figure the build was scaled from and the one fact that makes it checkable; see the gurps-animal-sanity-check skill for the bands.
• Longest dimension about 10 inches with the wings out, which is the published table's SM -5 row.
• ST is the floor: an ounce 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.