Bison

Animal · SM +2 Bison (Enraged Eggplant; answers SRD 3.5)

A high-shouldered dark-brown grazer with a woolly forequarter coat and short curved black horns. Placid in the ordinary way of cattle and completely unmanageable once a herd starts moving; the danger is rarely the one animal.

Attributes

ST24

DX9

IQ4

HT11

HP24

Will10

Per12

FP11

Basic Speed5

Basic Move8

Dodge8

DR1

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
HoovesHooves (11): thrust 3d-1 crushing, Reach C-1.	11	thrust 3d-1 crushing	C-1
Weak BiteWeak Bite (11): thrust 1d crushing, Reach C.	11	thrust 1d crushing	C

Traits (15)

• Bad Temper (12)
• Chummy
• Discriminatory Smell
• Enhanced Move 0.5 (Ground)
• Extra Legs (Four Legs)
• Fur
• Horizontal
• Night Vision 4
• No Fine Manipulators
• Peripheral Vision
• Restricted Diet (Herbivore)
• Short Lifespan 1
• Temperature Tolerance 1 (Cold)
• Ultrahearing
• Wild Animal

Skills (4)

• 11Brawling
• 10Intimidation
• 11Survival (Plains)
• 10Sumo Wrestling

Notes

• GCS ancestry draft: gcs/bison.gct
• Source template total: -19 points.
• Library-rebuilt template total: -19 points.
• CER was computed from parsed Typical Stats using the Dungeons On Automatic baseline CER path.
• Review attacks, special abilities, encounter frequency, treasure, grappling, and GCS modifiers before approval.

Encounter rating

CER30

Offense14

Protection16

Threat tierstandard

Appearing2

Wandering3

Tags

• srd-3-5
• animal

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Where this one came from

Source record

Bison

Source system

gurps_4e_fan_conversion / author_permission

Released under

cc_by_4_0

Conversion

0.2.0-reviewed

Review status

approved

Credit

Original GURPS conversion by Enraged Eggplant, from Monsters (May 11, 2024); adapted and republished with permission.

Description

Written by Dungeons on Automatic, released under cc_by_4_0

• GCS ancestry draft: gcs/bison.gct
• Source template total: -19 points.
• Library-rebuilt template total: -19 points.
• CER was computed from parsed Typical Stats using the Dungeons On Automatic baseline CER path.
• CER recomputed from the reviewed Typical Stats through the canonical Dungeons on Automatic CER path: OR 14, PR 16, CER 30, threat tier standard.
• Encounter metadata derived (gregarious): average number appearing 2, wandering weight 3. Encounter metadata derived for 0.2.0 from the reviewed threat tier and creature class (appearing: minor 4 / standard 2 / major 1 / severe 1, forced to 1 for solitary classes — including swarms, which are a single multi-body creature — and raised to 6 for gregarious minor creatures; wandering weight: minor 4 / standard 3 / major 2 / severe 1). The fan-conversion source states no appearing-in-numbers or wandering values, so these are derived, not source mechanics.
• Lair, treasure, and grappling remain unpopulated in 0.2.0 by package policy: the authorized fan-conversion source states no lair, treasure, or grappling values, and review declines to invent them. See review/policy/0.2.0-empty-field-policy.md.
• Description text is original Dungeons on Automatic prose written from this record's own converted statistics and from the project's art direction for the creature. It is not derived from the authorized fan-conversion source, which states no creature descriptions, and not from any SRD. It carries its own authorship and CC BY 4.0 terms in the description field. See review/policy/description-policy.md.
• Review approved by automated-mechanical-review on 2026-07-26 (batch ee-2026-07-26-b4-special-mechanics); GCS fidelity check passed, DOA playability check passed.
• Special-mechanics record. Mechanics the CER path cannot price are named per record in review/reports/cer-audit.md rather than folded into the number, and encounter counts are capped where a save-or-disable attack is present.