Clay Golem - Dungeons on Automatic Bestiary

Construct · 2 hexes · SM +1 Clay Golem (Monsters on Automatic; answers SRD 3.5, SRD 5.1)

Eight feet of fired clay in a rough human shape, standing in front of whatever it was made to guard. It is slow, it is not clever, and very little a blade does to it matters. Damage makes it worse rather than better: past a point it stops guarding and starts attacking, and there is no calling it off after that.

Attributes

ST30

DX9

IQ1

HT14

HP40

Will10

Per9

FP16

Basic Speed5.75

Basic Move5

Dodge8

DR6

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
SlamSlam (11): 3d crushing, Reach C. A fist of fired clay the size of a helmet. It does not wind up and it does not stop.	11	3d crushing	C

Traits (13)

Berserk (12)
Cannot Speak
Damage Resistance 6
Doesn't Breathe
Doesn't Eat or Drink
Doesn't Sleep
High Pain Threshold
Immunity to Metabolic Hazards
Injury Tolerance (No Blood)
Injury Tolerance (No Brain)
Injury Tolerance (No Vitals)
Injury Tolerance (Unliving)
Unfazeable

Skills (1)

11Brawling

Notes

Racial cost: 276 points of traits plus 4 points of skills.
Body weight: 1,300 lb.
Movement: ground Move 5 (primary).

Encounter rating

CER67

Offense17

Protection50

Threat tiermajor

Appearing1

Wandering2

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Where this one came from

Source record: Clay Golem [Monsters on Automatic, SRD coverage: constructs, animated objects and awakened plants]
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): Clay Golem (SRD 5.1); Clay Golem (SRD 3.5).
Racial template: 276 points across 21 traits, plus 1 racial skill(s) worth 4 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/clay-golem.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.
Eight feet, which is the SM +1 row.
Unliving rather than Homogenous: a golem is at least built like a body, with limbs that can be broken off, which a rug or a sword is not.
Berserk is the creature's defining behavior and is bought as the published disadvantage rather than written only into the prose.

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.