Duergar

Humanoid (Dwarf) · 1 hex · SM -1 Duergar (Monsters on Automatic; answers SRD 3.5, SRD 5.1)

Gray, hairless dwarves who kept the craft and lost everything else. Duergar work their mines with slave labor, resent every hour of it, and carry a joylessness that reads as menace long before anyone draws. They can also stop being visible, which they do without ceremony and about four seconds before it matters.

Attributes

ST11

DX10

IQ10

HT12

HP11

Will11

Per11

FP12

Basic Speed5.5

Basic Move4

Dodge8

DR0

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
War PickWar Pick (12): 1d+2 impaling, Reach 1. Punched through mail. Duergar generally open the fight already invisible and standing closer than anyone believed possible.	12	1d+2 impaling	1
Shield BashShield Bash (12): 1d-1 crushing, Reach 1. Used to pin somebody against the gallery wall while the pick works.	12	1d-1 crushing	1

Traits (7)

• Bad Temper (12)
• Dark Vision
• Extended Lifespan 2
• Invisibility (Switchable)
• Magic Resistance 2
• Resistant to Poison (+3)
• Stubbornness

Skills (4)

• 12Axe/Mace
• 12Shield
• 11Stealth
• 13Intimidation

Notes

• Racial cost: 102 points of traits plus 24 points of skills.
• Body weight: 150 lb.
• Movement: ground Move 4 (primary).
• The enlargement a duergar can call is not on the stat block. It changes size, Strength and reach for a few minutes, and running it is the GM's job.
• Mail and a heavy shield are the usual kit and are not in this record's DR.
• The encounter figure of eight is the creature. A goblin on its own behaves like a different monster and should be run as one.

Encounter rating

CER17

Offense13

Protection4

Threat tierminor

Appearing4

Wandering3

Tags

• monsters-on-automatic
• ai-generated
• doa-authored
• srd-5-1
• srd-3-5
• humanoid
• dwarf
• duergar
• underground
• evil
• miner
• slaver
• talker

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Where this one came from

Source record

Duergar [Monsters on Automatic, SRD coverage: humanoid folk and their sub-races]

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): Duergar (SRD 5.1); Duergar (SRD 3.5).
• Racial template: 102 points across 12 traits, plus 4 racial skill(s) worth 24 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/duergar.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.
• About 4 ft 3 in standing, which is the SM -1 row.
• ST 11 from the dwarf stock: the frame is the same, and nothing about the gray did anything to it.
• Invisibility is bought Switchable at the published +10%. Always-on invisibility would describe a creature its own war band could not see, which is not this one.