Animal · 2 hexes · SM +1 Giant Lizard [Monsters on Automatic, SRD coverage: mundane birds, fish and aquatic animals; answers Giant Lizard (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 easily as it crosses the floor. Deep folk keep them as mounts and pack beasts; left wild they are unhurried, unfrightened, and entirely willing to eat a person.
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
- GCS ancestry draft: gcs/giant-lizard.gct
- Independent build total: -46 points of racial traits plus 16 points of racial skills.
- Answers the SRD heading(s): Giant Lizard (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.
- Body mass used to scale this build: 150 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.
- Three metres nose to tail, which is the SM +1 row.
- ST from Basic Lift: it carries a 40 kg 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.
Encounter rating
CER18
Offense10
Protection8
Threat tierminor
Appearing2
Wandering5
Tags
- monsters-on-automatic
- ai-generated
- doa-authored
- srd-5-1
- animal
- reptile
- predator
- underground
- warm
- wandering-encounter
- 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.
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.