Animal · 2 hexes · SM +1 Giant Hyena [Monsters on Automatic, SRD coverage: mundane land animals; answers Giant Hyena (SRD 5.1)]
Shoulder-high, sloped from front to back, and loud in the dark. Giant hyenas run in clans and are as happy taking a kill off something else as making their own. They follow a caravan for days without closing, waiting for someone to fall behind, and their jaws go through bone as a matter of routine.
Attributes
ST18
DX13
IQ4
HT13
HP18
Will8
Per9
FP13
Basic Speed6.5
Basic Move9
Dodge9
DR0
Melee attacks
| Usage | Level | Damage | Reach |
|---|---|---|---|
| BiteBite (15): 1d+1 cutting, Reach C. Jaws built to crack marrow bone; armour straps and shield rims fare no better. | 15 | 1d+1 cutting | C |
Traits (14)
- Acute Hearing 2
- Bestial
- Bloodlust (12)
- Cannot Speak
- Discriminatory Smell
- Enhanced Move 0.5 (Ground)
- Extra Legs (Four Legs)
- Fur
- Gregarious
- Horizontal
- Night Vision 4
- No Fine Manipulators
- Restricted Diet (Carnivore)
- Sharp Teeth
Skills (2)
- 15Brawling
- 10Tracking
Notes
- GCS ancestry draft: gcs/giant-hyena.gct
- Independent build total: -24 points of racial traits plus 8 points of racial skills.
- Answers the SRD heading(s): Giant Hyena (SRD 5.1). 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 6, 9 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.
Encounter rating
CER29
Offense18
Protection11
Threat tierstandard
Appearing4
Wandering4
Tags
- monsters-on-automatic
- ai-generated
- doa-authored
- srd-5-1
- animal
- mammal
- predator
- scavenger
- pack
- plains
- wandering-encounter
GCS v5 downloads
Where this one came from
- Source record
- Giant Hyena [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): Giant Hyena (SRD 5.1).
- Racial template: -24 points across 20 traits, plus 2 racial skill(s) worth 8 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.