Blood Hawk - Dungeons on Automatic Bestiary

Animal · 1 hex · SM -3 Blood Hawk [Monsters on Automatic, SRD coverage: mundane birds, fish and aquatic animals; answers Blood Hawk (SRD 5.1)]

A red-eyed raptor with none of a hawk's caution, hunting in flocks that mob anything warm-blooded crossing open ground. Individually one is a bird. Five arriving out of the sun, all going for the same face, is how travellers lose an eye.

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

GCS ancestry draft: gcs/blood-hawk.gct
Independent build total: -81 points of racial traits plus 2 points of racial skills.
Answers the SRD heading(s): Blood Hawk (SRD 5.1). 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: 1.5 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, 18 at a sprint (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.
Body about 60 cm; Size Modifier follows body length, not the wingspan, because the wings fold.
ST from Basic Lift: it can carry roughly its own 1.5 kg 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.

Encounter rating

CER7

Offense11

Protection-4

Threat tierminor

Appearing5

Wandering4

GCS v5 downloads

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.

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.