Centipede Swarm

Swarm · 1 hex · SM +0 Centipede Swarm [Monsters on Automatic, SRD coverage: swarms; answers Centipede Swarm (SRD 3.5)]

The floor moves. A thousand hand-length centipedes pouring out from under a flagstone, going up boots and into sleeves, and each bite is nothing until you have taken forty of them. Stamping helps less than it should.

Attributes

ST4

DX12

IQ1

HT11

HP4

Will8

Per9

FP11

Basic Speed5.75

Basic Move5

Dodge8

DR0

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
Swarming BitesSwarming Bites: 1d-3 impaling, Reach C. Everything in the swarm's hex is bitten, with no attack roll and no defence. Roll HT against the accumulated venom or lose the use of a limb to cramp and swelling.	no roll	1d-3 impaling	C

Traits (11)

• Bestial
• Cannot Speak
• Clinging
• Cold-Blooded
• Extra Legs (Many Legs)
• Fangs (Forcipules)
• Injury Tolerance (Diffuse)
• Night Vision 5
• No Fine Manipulators
• Restricted Diet (Carnivore)
• Vibration Sense (Air)

Notes

• GCS ancestry draft: gcs/centipede-swarm.gct
• Independent build total: -25 points of racial traits plus 0 points of racial skills.
• Answers the SRD heading(s): Centipede Swarm (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: 5 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.
• One hex of swarm, which is where the Size Modifier comes from; no individual in it is larger than a finger.
• Damage is stated as literal dice rather than derived from ST. A swarm has no meaningful Strength — the injury comes from how many mouths are in the hex.

Encounter rating

CER13

Offense20

Protection-7

Threat tierminor

Appearing1

Wandering4

Tags

• monsters-on-automatic
• ai-generated
• doa-authored
• srd-3-5
• swarm
• animal
• vermin
• underground
• venomous
• wandering-encounter

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Where this one came from

Source record

Centipede Swarm [Monsters on Automatic, SRD coverage: swarms]

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): Centipede Swarm (SRD 3.5).
• Racial template: -25 points across 17 traits, plus 0 racial skill(s) worth 0 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.