Cheetah

Animal · 2 hexes · SM +1 Cheetah (Monsters on Automatic; answers 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 few seconds, knocking its quarry off its feet at the end of the run. Caught at that moment it is exhausted and light-boned, and it will give up the kill rather than fight for 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

• Racial cost: 18 points of traits plus 16 points of skills.
• Movement: ground Move 6, 24 at a sprint (primary).

Encounter rating

CER32

Offense28

Protection4

Threat tierstandard

Appearing1

Wandering3

Tags

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

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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.
• 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/cheetah.gct
• The published Move folds this creature's Enhanced Move into a single figure.
• 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.
• 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.