Animal · 2 hexes · SM +1 Bear, Black [Monsters on Automatic, SRD coverage: mundane land animals; answers Black Bear (SRD 5.1); Bear, Black (SRD 3.5)]
A stocky forest bear that climbs better than it fights and would rather rob a camp than face one. It reads a clearing by scent long before it sees anyone, and most encounters end with it ambling off. A sow with cubs is the exception: she closes fast, swats with both forepaws, and does not bluff twice.
Attributes
Melee attacks
| Usage | Level | Damage | Reach |
|---|---|---|---|
| BiteBite (13): 2d-2 cutting, Reach C. | 13 | 2d-2 cutting | C |
| ClawsClaws (13): 2d-2 cutting, Reach C. Cannot parry. | 13 | 2d-2 cutting | C |
Traits (15)
- Acute Hearing 2
- Bad Temper (12)
- Bestial
- Cannot Speak
- Damage Resistance 1 (Tough Skin)
- Discriminatory Smell
- Enhanced Move 0.5 (Ground)
- Extra Legs (Four Legs)
- Fur
- High Pain Threshold
- Horizontal
- Night Vision 3
- No Fine Manipulators
- Sharp Claws
- Sharp Teeth
Skills (4)
- 13Brawling
- 12Climbing
- 12Swimming
- 10Tracking
Notes
- GCS ancestry draft: gcs/black-bear.gct
- Independent build total: -11 points of racial traits plus 13 points of racial skills.
- Answers the SRD heading(s): Black Bear (SRD 5.1); Bear, Black (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.
- Movement: ground Move 5, 7 at a sprint (primary). The published Move folds this creature's Enhanced Move into a single figure.
- 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.
- Enhanced Move covers the short charge; a black bear does not sustain that pace.
Encounter rating
Tags
- monsters-on-automatic
- ai-generated
- doa-authored
- srd-5-1
- srd-3-5
- animal
- mammal
- omnivore
- forest
- wandering-encounter
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Where this one came from
- Source record
- Bear, Black [Monsters on Automatic, SRD coverage: mundane land 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): Black Bear (SRD 5.1); Bear, Black (SRD 3.5).
- Racial template: -11 points across 21 traits, plus 4 racial skill(s) worth 13 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.
Copyright 2026 Monsters on Automatic. GURPS-compatible monster statistics, ratings and prose authored for this package as an AI-generated first draft under project review. No SRD text, and no third-party GURPS conversion, is reproduced. Portrait and tokens are AI-generated original art. Sources and credits.