Giant Lizard

Animal · 2 hexes · SM +1 Giant Lizard (Monsters on Automatic; answers SRD 5.1)

A monitor grown to the length of a horse, tasting the air with a forked tongue and climbing a cave wall as readily as it crosses the floor. Deep folk keep them as mounts and pack animals. Wild ones are unhurried and unfrightened, and they will eat a person if the opportunity is convenient.

Attributes

ST14

DX12

IQ3

HT12

HP14

Will8

Per10

FP12

Basic Speed6

Basic Move6

Dodge9

DR2

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
BiteBite (14): 1d-1 cutting, Reach C. A filthy wound; bites that do not kill often fester.	14	1d-1 cutting	C
ClawsClaws (14): 1d-1 cutting, Reach C. Cannot parry.	14	1d-1 cutting	C

Traits (13)

• Bestial
• Cannot Speak
• Cold-Blooded
• Damage Resistance 2 (Tough Skin)
• Discriminatory Smell
• Extra Legs (Four Legs)
• Horizontal
• Night Vision 3
• No Fine Manipulators
• Peripheral Vision
• Restricted Diet (Carnivore)
• Sharp Claws
• Sharp Teeth

Skills (3)

• 14Brawling
• 14Climbing
• 11Tracking

Notes

• Racial cost: -46 points of traits plus 16 points of skills.
• Body weight: 350 lb.
• Movement: ground Move 6 (primary).

Encounter rating

CER18

Offense10

Protection8

Threat tierminor

Appearing2

Wandering5

Tags

• monsters-on-automatic
• ai-generated
• doa-authored
• srd-5-1
• animal
• reptile
• jungle
• underground
• predator
• mount

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Where this one came from

Source record

Giant Lizard [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): Giant Lizard (SRD 5.1).
• Racial template: -46 points across 19 traits, plus 3 racial skill(s) worth 16 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/giant-lizard.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.
• Ten feet nose to tail, which is the SM +1 row.
• ST from Basic Lift: it carries a 90 lb. carcass up a rock face.
• Added after a post-hoc comparison against independent GURPS fan conversions of this creature: Peripheral Vision; the Tracking skill, which a creature with Discriminatory Smell should always have. The comparison surfaced the gap; the build is still ours.