Death Dog

Monstrosity · 1 hex · SM +0 Death Dog [Monsters on Automatic, SRD coverage: mundane land animals; answers Death Dog (SRD 5.1)]

A two-headed hound the colour of dust, running the dry country in pairs and hating everything upright. Both heads bite, both heads watch, and neither can be approached blind. What kills travellers is rarely the wound itself but what grows in it afterwards, which is slow, visible, and does not stop on its own.

Attributes

ST13

DX13

IQ5

HT13

HP13

Will10

Per11

FP13

Basic Speed6.5

Basic Move6

Dodge9

DR1

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
BiteBite (15): 1d-1 cutting, Reach C. Anyone bitten rolls HT. On a failure the wound will not close: it goes grey at the edges and spreads, costing 1 HP a day until the rot is cured by magic or by cutting well past the margin. The lost HP does not return until the disease is stopped.	15	1d-1 cutting	C

Traits (16)

• Acute Hearing 2
• Bad Temper (12)
• Bestial
• Bloodlust (12)
• Cannot Speak
• Damage Resistance 1 (Tough Skin)
• Dark Vision
• Discriminatory Smell
• Extra Attack 1
• Extra Legs (Four Legs)
• Fur
• Horizontal
• No Fine Manipulators
• Peripheral Vision
• Restricted Diet (Carnivore)
• Sharp Teeth

Skills (3)

• 15Brawling
• 14Stealth
• 12Tracking

Notes

• GCS ancestry draft: gcs/death-dog.gct
• Independent build total: 38 points of racial traits plus 12 points of racial skills.
• Answers the SRD heading(s): Death Dog (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.
• Movement: ground Move 6 (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.
• The disease is priced as a 30-point disabling ability so the rating path can see it; see review/policy/cer-scope-policy.md.

Encounter rating

CER27

Offense18

Protection9

Threat tierstandard

Appearing2

Wandering3

Tags

• monsters-on-automatic
• ai-generated
• doa-authored
• srd-5-1
• monstrosity
• beast
• predator
• desert
• plains
• wandering-encounter
• diseased

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Where this one came from

Source record

Death Dog [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): Death Dog (SRD 5.1).
• Racial template: 38 points across 22 traits, plus 3 racial skill(s) worth 12 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.