Frog - Dungeons on Automatic Bestiary

Animal · 1 hex · SM -7 Frog (Monsters on Automatic; answers SRD 5.1)

An ordinary pond frog, present by the hundred in any wetland and no danger to anything larger than a moth. Frogs matter at the table as familiars, as spell components, and as background — a marsh that suddenly goes quiet has told the party something.

Attributes

ST1

DX13

IQ3

HT9

HP1

Will8

Per9

FP9

Basic Speed5.5

Basic Move5

Dodge8

DR0

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
BiteBite (13): 1d-7 crushing, Reach C. It eats flies. This entry is included for completeness.	13	1d-7 crushing	C

Traits (12)

Amphibious
Bestial
Cannot Speak
Cold-Blooded
Extra Legs (Four Legs)
Horizontal
Night Vision 5
No Fine Manipulators
Peripheral Vision
Restricted Diet (Carnivore)
Short Lifespan 1
Super Jump 1

Skills (2)

13Brawling
15Jumping

Notes

Racial cost: -158 points of traits plus 5 points of skills.
Body weight: 2 oz.
Movement: ground Move 5 (primary); water Move 5.

Encounter rating

CER1

Offense-2

Protection-12

Threat tierminor

Appearing10

Wandering8

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Where this one came from

Source record: Frog [Monsters on Automatic, SRD coverage: mundane birds, fish and aquatic 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): Frog (SRD 5.1).
Racial template: -158 points across 18 traits, plus 2 racial skill(s) worth 5 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/frog.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 5 inches nose to vent with the legs gathered, which is the SM -7 row. An earlier draft had it three steps larger because it was sized from a mass band rather than from the published length table.
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.