Cheetah

Animal · 2 hexes · SM +1 Cheetah [Monsters on Automatic, SRD coverage: mundane land animals; answers Cheetah (SRD 3.5)]

The fastest thing on four legs and the least able to keep it up. A cheetah stalks to within a hundred yards, then spends everything it has in a run of a few seconds, knocking its quarry off its feet at the end of it. Caught at that moment it is exhausted and light-boned, and it knows it.

Attributes

ST12

DX14

IQ4

HT12

HP12

Will7

Per9

FP12

Basic Speed6.5

Basic Move24

Dodge9

DR0

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
BiteBite (16): 1d-2 cutting, Reach C. Aimed at the throat once the quarry is down.	16	1d-2 cutting	C
ClawsClaws (16): 1d-2 cutting, Reach C. Used to trip a running target rather than to wound. Cannot parry.	16	1d-2 cutting	C

Traits (15)

• Acute Hearing 2
• Acute Vision 3
• Bestial
• Cannot Speak
• Combat Reflexes
• Discriminatory Smell
• Enhanced Move 2 (Ground)
• Extra Legs (Four Legs)
• Fur
• Horizontal
• Night Vision 3
• No Fine Manipulators
• Restricted Diet (Carnivore)
• Sharp Claws
• Sharp Teeth

Skills (3)

• 16Brawling
• 13Running
• 16Stealth

Notes

• GCS ancestry draft: gcs/cheetah.gct
• Independent build total: 18 points of racial traits plus 16 points of racial skills.
• Answers the SRD heading(s): Cheetah (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 6, 24 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.
• Enhanced Move models the sprint. A cheetah that has run flat out is winded and disengages rather than fighting.
• Rating caveat for review: the CER path credits Move linearly, so the sprint alone contributes 18 of this record's offense rating and lands it beside a lion. At the table a cheetah is much the lesser fight. Either the encounter weight or the sprint's accessibility should carry the correction; this build does not pre-empt that decision.

Encounter rating

CER32

Offense28

Protection4

Threat tierstandard

Appearing1

Wandering3

Tags

• monsters-on-automatic
• ai-generated
• doa-authored
• srd-3-5
• animal
• mammal
• predator
• plains
• wandering-encounter

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Where this one came from

Source record

Cheetah [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): Cheetah (SRD 3.5).
• Racial template: 18 points across 21 traits, plus 3 racial skill(s) worth 16 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.