Animal · 3 hexes · SM +2 Elk (Monsters on Automatic; answers SRD 5.1)
A deer the size of a horse, carrying a rack wide enough to catch on branches. Out of season it is meat that runs away. In the rut a bull is loud, sleepless and looking for something to fight, and a party crossing his meadow will do.
Attributes
ST22
DX11
IQ4
HT12
HP22
Will8
Per9
FP12
Basic Speed5.75
Basic Move10
Dodge8
DR0
Melee attacks
| Usage | Level | Damage | Reach |
|---|---|---|---|
| AntlersAntlers (12): 2d impaling, Reach C,1. | 12 | 2d impaling | C,1 |
| HoovesHooves (10): 2d+2 crushing, Reach C,1. Front hooves, brought down on a target that has gone down. | 10 | 2d+2 crushing | C,1 |
Traits (14)
- Acute Hearing 1
- Bad Temper (12)
- Bestial
- Cannot Speak
- Discriminatory Smell
- Enhanced Move 1 (Ground)
- Extra Legs (Four Legs)
- Fur
- Hooves
- Horizontal
- No Fine Manipulators
- Peripheral Vision
- Restricted Diet (Herbivore)
- Striker (Antlers; Impaling)
Skills (2)
- 12Brawling
- 13Running
Notes
- Racial cost: -11 points of traits plus 6 points of skills.
- Movement: ground Move 5, 10 at a sprint (primary).
Encounter rating
CER34
Offense22
Protection12
Threat tierstandard
Appearing5
Wandering6
Tags
- monsters-on-automatic
- ai-generated
- doa-authored
- srd-5-1
- animal
- mammal
- forest
- mountain
- prey
- herd
- game
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Where this one came from
- Source record
- Elk [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): Elk (SRD 5.1).
- Racial template: -11 points across 20 traits, plus 2 racial skill(s) worth 6 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/elk.gct
- The published Move folds this creature's Enhanced Move into a single figure.
- 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.
- 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.
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.