Centaur - Dungeons on Automatic Bestiary

Monstrous Humanoid · 2 hexes · SM +1 Centaur (Monsters on Automatic; answers SRD 3.5, SRD 5.1)

Horse from the withers back, person from the withers up, and entirely one animal about it — a centaur does not ride, it runs. They are proud, easily offended, and better archers than anyone on foot should have to deal with, since they can shoot at a gallop and outrun whatever answers. Most trouble with centaurs starts with somebody crossing their grazing without asking.

Attributes

ST20

DX11

IQ10

HT11

HP20

Will10

Per12

FP11

Basic Speed5.5

Basic Move7

Dodge8

DR0

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
Heavy BowHeavy Bow (13): 2d impaling, Reach Ranged, 200. A bow no walking archer could draw, shot at a canter. The damage is the bow's, not the archer's arm.	13	2d impaling	Ranged, 200
LanceLance (12): 2d+1 impaling, Reach 1,2. Couched and delivered at speed, which is the only way a centaur ever wants to fight.	12	2d+1 impaling	1,2
HoovesHooves (10): 2d+1 crushing, Reach C,1. Reared and brought down. Cannot parry.	10	2d+1 crushing	C,1

Traits (5)

Combat Reflexes
Enhanced Move 1 (Ground)
Extra Legs (Four Legs)
Gregarious
Hooves

Skills (5)

13Bow
12Spear
12Brawling
13Survival
10Naturalist

Notes

Racial cost: 173 points of traits plus 22 points of skills.
Body weight: 1,300 lb.
Movement: ground Move 7, 14 at a sprint (primary).

Encounter rating

CER32

Offense20

Protection12

Threat tierstandard

Appearing4

Wandering3

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Where this one came from

Source record: Centaur [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): Centaur (SRD 5.1); Centaur (SRD 3.5).
Racial template: 173 points across 10 traits, plus 5 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.
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/centaur.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.
About 8 feet nose to tail, which reads nearer the SM +1 row than the SM 0 one.
ST 20 from Basic Lift and from what it demonstrably shifts: a centaur carries an armored rider's worth of gear at a trot all day and drags a felled tree clear of a track.
No No Fine Manipulators and no Horizontal. A centaur has hands and uses them, and the torso it aims and fights from stands upright however the barrel behind it is arranged.
Basic Move 7 rather than the 5 Basic Speed alone would give, plus Enhanced Move 1. A creature built on a horse's legs does not travel at a walking man's pace, and the point of a centaur is that nothing on foot gets away from it.
Enhanced Move is stated as a sprint in the movement note rather than folded into the published figure, so `move` stays the speed it fights at.

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.