Blood Hawk

Animal · 1 hex · SM -3 Blood Hawk (Monsters on Automatic; answers SRD 5.1)

Red-eyed raptors with none of a hawk's caution. They hunt in flocks over open ground and will mob anything warm-blooded that crosses it, five or six arriving together and all going for the same face. Travelers who meet a flock in the open tend to lose an eye rather than a life.

Attributes

ST3

DX14

IQ4

HT11

HP3

Will10

Per12

FP11

Basic Speed6.25

Basic Move12

Dodge9

DR0

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
TalonsTalons (15): 1d-4 cutting, Reach C. Struck on the stoop, at the eyes and scalp. Cannot parry.	15	1d-4 cutting	C
BeakBeak (15): 1d-6 piercing, Reach C.	15	1d-6 piercing	C

Traits (12)

• Acute Vision 2
• Bestial
• Bloodlust (12)
• Cannot Speak
• Enhanced Move 0.5 (Air)
• Flight (Winged)
• Gregarious
• No Fine Manipulators
• Restricted Diet (Carnivore)
• Sharp Beak
• Talons
• Telescopic Vision 1

Skills (1)

• 15Brawling

Notes

• Racial cost: -81 points of traits plus 2 points of skills.
• Body weight: 3.5 lb.
• Movement: ground Move 2; air Move 12, 18 at a sprint (primary).

Encounter rating

CER7

Offense11

Protection-4

Threat tierminor

Appearing5

Wandering4

Tags

• monsters-on-automatic
• ai-generated
• doa-authored
• srd-5-1
• animal
• bird
• mountain
• predator
• flock
• flier

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Where this one came from

Source record

Blood Hawk [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): Blood Hawk (SRD 5.1).
• Racial template: -81 points across 19 traits, plus 1 racial skill(s) worth 2 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/blood-hawk.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.
• Body about 2 feet; Size Modifier follows body length, not the wingspan, because the wings fold.
• ST from Basic Lift: it can carry roughly its own weight for a short flight.
• Will is high for a bird of this size and that is the point of the creature — it commits to a target that could kill it.