Elephant - Dungeons on Automatic Bestiary

Animal · 7 hexes · SM +3 Elephant [Monsters on Automatic, SRD coverage: mundane land animals; answers Elephant (SRD 5.1); Elephant (SRD 3.5)]

Six tons of animal that is not remotely stupid, moving in a family group led by the oldest cow. Left alone it ignores people entirely. Provoked, or separated from a calf, it comes forward at a speed nothing that size should manage, and it does not need the tusks to end the argument.

Attributes

ST45

DX9

IQ5

HT12

HP45

Will10

Per10

FP12

Basic Speed5.25

Basic Move7

Dodge8

DR3

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
TusksTusks (10): 5d impaling, Reach C,1.	10	5d impaling	C,1
TrampleTrample (8): 5d crushing, Reach C. Against a target already down.	8	5d crushing	C
TrunkTrunk (10): 5d-1 crushing, Reach C,1. Also used to grab and throw.	10	5d-1 crushing	C,1

Traits (14)

Acute Hearing 2
Bad Temper (12)
Bestial
Cannot Speak
Damage Resistance 3 (Tough Skin)
Discriminatory Smell
Enhanced Move 0.5 (Ground)
Extra Arm (Trunk; Extra-Flexible)
Extra Legs (Four Legs)
Gregarious
Horizontal
Increased Consumption 2
Restricted Diet (Herbivore)
Striker (Tusks; Impaling)

Skills (1)

10Brawling

Notes

GCS ancestry draft: gcs/elephant.gct
Independent build total: 176 points of racial traits plus 2 points of racial skills.
Answers the SRD heading(s): Elephant (SRD 5.1); Elephant (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, 7 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 trunk is a fine manipulator, so this build drops No Fine Manipulators from the quadruped set.

Encounter rating

CER78

Offense38

Protection40

Threat tiermajor

Appearing4

Wandering2

GCS v5 downloads

Where this one came from

Source record: Elephant [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): Elephant (SRD 5.1); Elephant (SRD 3.5).
Racial template: 176 points across 20 traits, plus 1 racial skill(s) worth 2 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.