Copper Dragon Wyrmling

Dragon · 2 hexes · SM +1 Copper Dragon Wyrmling [Monsters on Automatic, SRD coverage: dragon age and colour variants; answers Copper Dragon Wyrmling (SRD 5.1)]

Copper dragons are jokers, and the joke is usually at the expense of whoever came looking for the hoard. They are fast, hard to corner and genuinely funny, right up until they are not. The breath is acid. A wyrmling is newly out of the shell and already the size of a warhorse, with a full set of teeth and no judgement whatsoever about when to use them.

Attributes

ST18

DX12

IQ9

HT12

HP18

Will11

Per11

FP12

Basic Speed6

Basic Move12

Dodge9

DR4

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
BiteBite (14): 1d+1 impaling, Reach C,1. Teeth built to punch through bone and hold.	14	1d+1 impaling	C,1
ClawsClaws (14): 1d+3 cutting, Reach C,1. Cannot parry.	14	1d+3 cutting	C,1
TailTail (12): 1d+2 crushing, Reach C,2. Swept through the rear arc. Cannot parry.	12	1d+2 crushing	C,2
Wing BuffetWing Buffet (12): 1d+1 crushing, Reach C,2. A wing swept across the front arc, using the wings the creature's Flight already pays for. Knocks a lighter target down rather than wounding it. Cannot parry.	12	1d+1 crushing	C,2
Acid BreathAcid Breath (14): 3d corrosion, Reach Ranged, cone. A cone of acid that catches everything in front of the dragon. It costs the creature to use and cannot be repeated every second, which is the only reason a fight with one lasts more than a turn.	14	3d corrosion	Ranged, cone

Traits (19)

• Bad Temper (12)
• Combat Reflexes
• Damage Resistance 15 (Acid; Limited (one damage type))
• Damage Resistance 4
• Discriminatory Smell
• Enhanced Move 0.5 (Air)
• Extended Lifespan 5
• Extra Legs (Four Legs)
• Fangs
• Flight (Winged)
• Greed (12)
• Horizontal
• Infravision
• Nictitating Membrane 3
• Night Vision 4
• Peripheral Vision
• Striker (Tail; Crushing; Long +1) (Long +1)
• Talons
• Telescopic Vision 1

Skills (5)

• 14Brawling
• 14Innate Attack (Breath)
• 12Intimidation
• 12Stealth
• 12Tracking

Notes

• GCS ancestry draft: gcs/copper-dragon-wyrmling.gct
• Independent build total: 294 points of racial traits plus 18 points of racial skills.
• Answers the SRD heading(s): Copper Dragon Wyrmling (SRD 5.1). 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: 200 kg. ST, Size Modifier and DR are checked against it; see the gurps-animal-sanity-check skill for the bands.
• Movement: ground Move 4; air Move 12, 18 at a sprint (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.
• Breath damage is stated as literal dice rather than derived from ST: it is a property of the creature's element and age, not of how hard it can push.
• The breath is marked as costing fatigue, which halves its contribution to the rating. Without that a dragon would be rated as though it breathed every second, which no dragon does.
• Element immunity is built as heavily Limited Damage Resistance rather than as a special rule. It protects against one damage type and nothing else, and it deliberately does not count toward the record's published DR — a red dragon is not armoured against a sword by being immune to fire.
• Extra Attack, Frightful Presence, Extended Lifespan, Infravision and the wing buffet were added after a post-hoc comparison against the local Enraged Eggplant dragon conversions and the SRD stat blocks. A dragon that could only act once a turn and could not frighten anyone was not a dragon; the comparison surfaced the gap and the build is still ours.
• KNOWN DEFECT in the shared rating path, found by this batch and not worked around here. scripts/review/cer.mjs documents `usesFatigueOrSpell` as halving an attack's contribution, and damageContribution implements it — but combatProfileFromStats never copies the flag onto the profile, so the halving is dead code for damage and live only for afflictions. Sixteen of these forty dragons pick their breath as the best attack and are therefore rated as if they breathed every second. The acid breathers are worst hit, because corrosion carries a x2 damage multiplier: an ancient black dragon rates 227 against an ancient red's 174 on otherwise identical bodies. The fix belongs in cer.mjs and in the application it mirrors, not in these specs. Filed as issue #55 here and Zuljita/DungeonsOnAutomatic#432 in the application; the two must land together, because both implementations share the omission and the parity smoke test therefore passes while both are wrong.
• About 2.5 m nose to tail, which is the SM +1 row.
• ST from Basic Lift: it drags a deer to a place it feels safe eating.

Encounter rating

CER43

Offense25

Protection18

Threat tierstandard

Appearing1

Wandering3

Tags

• monsters-on-automatic
• ai-generated
• doa-authored
• srd-5-1
• dragon
• reptile
• apex
• hoard
• flier
• talker
• hills
• trickster
• colour-copper
• age-wyrmling

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Where this one came from

Source record

Copper Dragon Wyrmling [Monsters on Automatic, SRD coverage: dragon age and colour variants]

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): Copper Dragon Wyrmling (SRD 5.1).
• Racial template: 294 points across 26 traits, plus 5 racial skill(s) worth 18 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.