Crocodile

Animal · 3 hexes · SM +2 Crocodile (Monsters on Automatic; answers SRD 3.5, SRD 5.1)

Thirteen feet of armored reptile lying in the shallows, looking exactly like a waterlogged log. It takes prey at the water's edge, drags it under and drowns it, and its hide turns a spear that would go through anything short of a dragon. On land it is slow enough to outrun. In the water it is not losing.

Attributes

ST20

DX10

IQ3

HT12

HP20

Will9

Per10

FP12

Basic Speed5.5

Basic Move5

Dodge8

DR4

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
BiteBite (12): 2d-2 cutting, Reach C. Closes and holds; the crocodile does not let go to bite again.	12	2d-2 cutting	C
Death RollDeath Roll: Reach C. Against a target it already has in its jaws, the crocodile rolls its whole body. No attack roll; the victim rolls ST or DX to break the grip or is dragged under and drowned.	—	—	C

Traits (17)

• Amphibious
• Bestial
• Bloodlust (12)
• Breath-Holding 3
• Cannot Speak
• Cold-Blooded
• Damage Resistance 4
• Enhanced Move 0.5 (Water)
• Extra Legs (Four Legs)
• Horizontal
• Nictitating Membrane 2
• No Fine Manipulators
• Peripheral Vision
• Rapid Healing
• Resistant to Disease (+3)
• Restricted Diet (Carnivore)
• Sharp Teeth

Skills (4)

• 12Brawling
• 12Stealth
• 13Swimming
• 11Tracking

Notes

• Racial cost: -28 points of traits plus 18 points of skills.
• Body weight: 750 lb.
• Movement: ground Move 5; water Move 5, 7 at a sprint (primary).

Encounter rating

CER30

Offense15

Protection15

Threat tierstandard

Appearing2

Wandering4

Tags

• monsters-on-automatic
• ai-generated
• doa-authored
• srd-5-1
• srd-3-5
• animal
• reptile
• aquatic
• swamp
• ambusher
• predator

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Where this one came from

Source record

Crocodile [Monsters on Automatic, SRD coverage: mundane birds, fish and aquatic 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): Crocodile (SRD 5.1); Crocodile (SRD 3.5).
• Racial template: -28 points across 22 traits, plus 4 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.
• 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/crocodile.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.
• Thirteen feet nose to tail puts it on the SM +2 row. Length, not mass, is what the published table reads.
• ST from Basic Lift: it drags an 175 lb. carcass into the water, which is the job its strength has to do.
• DR is full armor rather than Tough Skin: osteoderms are bone plates, not thick hide.
• Added after a post-hoc comparison against independent GURPS fan conversions of this creature: Peripheral Vision; Rapid Healing; Resistant To Disease; the Tracking skill, which a creature with Discriminatory Smell should always have. The comparison surfaced the gap; the build is still ours.