Giant Ant - Dungeons on Automatic Bestiary

Animal · 1 hex · SM -1 Giant Ant [Monsters on Automatic, SRD coverage: vermin and monstrous arthropods; answers Giant Ant (SRD 3.5)]

Waist-high, armoured in chitin the colour of old blood, and never encountered alone. Giant ants work a territory the way a farm works a field, and what one finds the nest knows within the hour. They do not threaten and they do not retreat; they simply keep arriving.

Attributes

ST14

DX12

IQ2

HT12

HP14

Will9

Per9

FP12

Basic Speed6

Basic Move6

Dodge9

DR3

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
MandiblesMandibles (13): 1d-1 cutting, Reach C. Shears rather than bites; it will take a finger off and carry it home.	13	1d-1 cutting	C

Traits (14)

Bestial
Cannot Speak
Cold-Blooded
Damage Resistance 3
Discriminatory Smell
Extra Legs (Six Legs)
Gregarious
Horizontal
Injury Tolerance (No Brain)
Injury Tolerance (No Neck)
Injury Tolerance (No Vitals)
No Fine Manipulators
Sharp Teeth (Mandibles)
Tunneling

Skills (2)

13Brawling
10Tracking

Notes

GCS ancestry draft: gcs/giant-ant.gct
Independent build total: -16 points of racial traits plus 6 points of racial skills.
Answers the SRD heading(s): Giant Ant (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.
Body mass used to scale this build: 40 kg. ST, Size Modifier and DR are checked against it; see the gurps-animal-sanity-check skill for the bands.
Movement: ground Move 6 (primary). The published Move is the primary medium's cruising Move; sprint figures are stated here and not folded into it.
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.
About 1.5 m nose to abdomen, which is the SM -1 row.
ST looks high for 40 kg and is meant to: Basic Lift has to cover an ant carrying a load its own weight back to the nest, which is the one thing everybody knows ants do.
DR is full armour. Chitin is a shell, and a scratch that would bypass thick hide does not bypass it.
Added after a post-hoc comparison against independent GURPS fan conversions of this creature: the Tracking skill, which a creature with Discriminatory Smell should always have. The comparison surfaced the gap; the build is still ours.

Encounter rating

CER19

Offense9

Protection10

Threat tierminor

Appearing8

Wandering4

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Where this one came from

Source record: Giant Ant [Monsters on Automatic, SRD coverage: vermin and monstrous arthropods]
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): Giant Ant (SRD 3.5).
Racial template: -16 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.

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.