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Camel

Animal · standard threat

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Animal · 3 hexes · SM +2 Camel [Monsters on Automatic, SRD coverage: mundane land animals; answers Camel (SRD 5.1); Camel (SRD 3.5)]

A long-legged pack animal built to cross ground that kills horses, carrying its own water and shrugging off heat, glare and blown sand behind a second eyelid. It is unhurried, enormously strong for its frame, and thoroughly bad-tempered: it spits, bites, and remembers who deserved it.

Attributes

ST24
DX9
IQ4
HT12
HP24
Will8
Per7
FP12
Basic Speed5.25
Basic Move7
Dodge8
DR0

Melee attacks

UsageLevelDamageReach
BiteBite (10): 2d cutting, Reach C. A camel bites to settle arguments, including with its own driver.102d cuttingC
KickKick (8): 2d+3 crushing, Reach C,1.82d+3 crushingC,1

Traits (15)

  • Bad Temper (12)
  • Bestial
  • Cannot Speak
  • Enhanced Move 0.5 (Ground)
  • Extra Legs (Four Legs)
  • Fur
  • Hooves
  • Horizontal
  • Nictitating Membrane 2
  • No Fine Manipulators
  • Peripheral Vision
  • Reduced Consumption 3 (Water Only)
  • Restricted Diet (Herbivore)
  • Sharp Teeth
  • Temperature Tolerance 3 (Heat)

Skills (1)

  • 10Brawling

Notes

  • GCS ancestry draft: gcs/camel.gct
  • Independent build total: -63 points of racial traits plus 2 points of racial skills.
  • Answers the SRD heading(s): Camel (SRD 5.1); Camel (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.
  • Added after a post-hoc comparison against independent GURPS fan conversions of this creature: Peripheral Vision. The comparison surfaced the gap; the build is still ours.

Encounter rating

CER28
Offense14
Protection14
Threat tierstandard
Appearing4
Wandering3

Tags

  • monsters-on-automatic
  • ai-generated
  • doa-authored
  • srd-5-1
  • srd-3-5
  • animal
  • mammal
  • mount
  • domestic
  • desert
  • beast-of-burden

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Where this one came from
Source record
Camel [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): Camel (SRD 5.1); Camel (SRD 3.5).
  • Racial template: -63 points across 21 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.