Dire Wolf

Animal · 2 hexes · SM +1 Dire Wolf [Monsters on Automatic, SRD coverage: mundane land animals; answers Dire Wolf (SRD 5.1); Dire Wolf (SRD 3.5)]

A wolf grown to the size of a pony, hunting in packs that work a treeline the way soldiers work a hedgerow. They circle, they cut off the slowest, and they take turns. One is a serious fight; four is a plan being executed on you.

Attributes

ST18

DX13

IQ4

HT13

HP18

Will8

Per10

FP13

Basic Speed6.5

Basic Move12

Dodge9

DR1

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
BiteBite (15): 1d+1 cutting, Reach C. A dire wolf bites low and drives, trying to put its target on the ground for the rest of the pack.	15	1d+1 cutting	C

Traits (16)

• Acute Hearing 2
• Bestial
• Bloodlust (12)
• Cannot Speak
• Combat Reflexes
• Damage Resistance 1 (Tough Skin)
• Discriminatory Smell
• Enhanced Move 1 (Ground)
• Extra Legs (Four Legs)
• Fur
• Gregarious
• Horizontal
• Night Vision 5
• No Fine Manipulators
• Restricted Diet (Carnivore)
• Sharp Teeth

Skills (3)

• 15Brawling
• 14Stealth
• 11Tracking

Notes

• GCS ancestry draft: gcs/dire-wolf.gct
• Independent build total: 10 points of racial traits plus 12 points of racial skills.
• Answers the SRD heading(s): Dire Wolf (SRD 5.1); Dire Wolf (SRD 3.5). 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, 12 at a sprint (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 pack is the threat. Run these as a coordinated group, not as four separate rolls.

Encounter rating

CER34

Offense21

Protection13

Threat tierstandard

Appearing4

Wandering5

Tags

• monsters-on-automatic
• ai-generated
• doa-authored
• srd-5-1
• srd-3-5
• animal
• mammal
• predator
• pack
• forest
• mountain
• wandering-encounter

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Where this one came from

Source record

Dire Wolf [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): Dire Wolf (SRD 5.1); Dire Wolf (SRD 3.5).
• Racial template: 10 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.