Bugbear - Dungeons on Automatic Bestiary

Humanoid (Goblinoid) · 1 hex · SM +0 Bugbear [Monsters on Automatic, SRD coverage: humanoid folk and their sub-races; answers Bugbear (SRD 5.1); Bugbear (SRD 3.5)]

Two metres of goblin-kin with a hunter's patience and a bully's instincts. The remarkable thing about a bugbear is how quietly something that size moves: parties usually meet one at the moment it decides to be met, which is a moment it chose some time ago. It smells appalling, and somehow that is never the warning it should be.

Attributes

ST14

DX11

IQ10

HT11

HP14

Will10

Per11

FP11

Basic Speed5.5

Basic Move5

Dodge8

DR1

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
MorningstarMorningstar (12): 2d+3 crushing, Reach 1. Swung from behind, ideally at somebody who has not turned round yet.	12	2d+3 crushing	1
JavelinJavelin (13): 1d+1 impaling, Reach Ranged, 15. Thrown to open an ambush, from the dark, at the person carrying the light.	13	1d+1 impaling	Ranged, 15

Traits (7)

Acute Hearing 2
Bad Smell
Bloodlust (12)
Damage Resistance 1 (Tough Skin)
Dark Vision
Silence 2
Social Stigma (Savage)

Skills (4)

12Axe/Mace
12Brawling
14Stealth
13Thrown Weapon

Notes

GCS ancestry draft: gcs/bugbear.gct
Independent build total: 87 points of racial traits plus 22 points of racial skills.
Answers the SRD heading(s): Bugbear (SRD 5.1); Bugbear (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.
Body mass used to scale this build: 115 kg. ST, Size Modifier and DR are checked against it; see the gurps-animal-sanity-check skill for the bands.
Movement: ground Move 5 (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.
About 2.1 m standing, which reads on the published table as the SM 0 row rather than the +1 row at 2.7 m.
ST 14 from Basic Lift: it carries a body over one shoulder without slowing to a walk.
Silence 2 is the whole creature. It is bought as the published advantage rather than left to the Stealth skill, because the skill is what it does with the quiet and the quiet is what it is.
DR 1 is hide, not armour: bugbears mostly wear leather, and that DR is not in this record. See decision 11 in the build policy.

Encounter rating

CER18

Offense12

Protection6

Threat tierminor

Appearing3

Wandering4

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Where this one came from

Source record: Bugbear [Monsters on Automatic, SRD coverage: humanoid folk and their sub-races]
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): Bugbear (SRD 5.1); Bugbear (SRD 3.5).
Racial template: 87 points across 11 traits, plus 4 racial skill(s) worth 22 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.