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Donkey

Animal · minor threat

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

Short, patient and surefooted, carrying a third of its own weight up tracks a horse would refuse. It eats what it finds, drinks little, and stops dead when it judges the next step unsafe. Handlers call that stubbornness; more of them have been saved by it than killed by it.

Attributes

ST18
DX10
IQ4
HT12
HP18
Will9
Per7
FP12
Basic Speed5.5
Basic Move5
Dodge8
DR0

Melee attacks

UsageLevelDamageReach
KickKick (8): 1d+3 crushing, Reach C,1.81d+3 crushingC,1
BiteBite (10): 1d crushing, Reach C. Only when it has no way out.101d crushingC

Traits (14)

  • Acute Hearing 3
  • Bestial
  • Cannot Speak
  • Extra Legs (Four Legs)
  • Fur
  • Hooves
  • Horizontal
  • No Fine Manipulators
  • Perfect Balance
  • Peripheral Vision
  • Reduced Consumption 2
  • Restricted Diet (Herbivore)
  • Stubbornness
  • Terrain Adaptation (Bad Footing)

Skills (1)

  • 10Brawling

Notes

  • GCS ancestry draft: gcs/donkey.gct
  • Independent build total: -46 points of racial traits plus 1 points of racial skills.
  • Answers the SRD heading(s): Donkey (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 5 (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.
  • Added after a post-hoc comparison against independent GURPS fan conversions of this creature: Peripheral Vision. The comparison surfaced the gap; the build is still ours.

Encounter rating

CER15
Offense6
Protection9
Threat tierminor
Appearing1
Wandering3

Tags

  • monsters-on-automatic
  • ai-generated
  • doa-authored
  • srd-3-5
  • animal
  • mammal
  • domestic
  • beast-of-burden
  • mount

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Where this one came from
Source record
Donkey [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): Donkey (SRD 3.5).
  • Racial template: -46 points across 19 traits, plus 1 racial skill(s) worth 1 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.

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.