Giant Scorpion

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

Eight feet of black chitin that takes hold with the claws and takes its time with the tail. The shell turns most weapons and the pincers do not let go. The sting is what actually kills; everything before it is the scorpion arranging matters to suit itself.

Attributes

ST17

DX11

IQ1

HT12

HP17

Will8

Per9

FP12

Basic Speed5.75

Basic Move5

Dodge8

DR4

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
StingSting (13): 1d+2 impaling, Reach C,1. Arched over the back and driven down. Roll HT or the limb goes numb, then the chest does; a second sting on a failed victim is usually the end of it.	13	1d+2 impaling	C,1
PincerPincer (13): 1d+1 cutting, Reach C,1. Grabs and holds the target still for the sting. Cannot parry.	13	1d+1 cutting	C,1

Traits (16)

• Bestial
• Cannot Speak
• Cold-Blooded
• Damage Resistance 4
• Extra Legs (Eight Legs)
• Horizontal
• Injury Tolerance (No Brain)
• Injury Tolerance (No Neck)
• Injury Tolerance (No Vitals)
• Night Vision 5
• No Fine Manipulators
• Peripheral Vision
• Restricted Diet (Carnivore)
• Sharp Claws (Pincers)
• Striker (Sting; Impaling)
• Vibration Sense (Air)

Skills (1)

• 13Brawling

Notes

• Racial cost: -25 points of traits plus 4 points of skills.
• Body weight: 250 lb.
• Movement: ground Move 5 (primary).

Encounter rating

CER32

Offense21

Protection11

Threat tierstandard

Appearing1

Wandering3

Tags

• monsters-on-automatic
• ai-generated
• doa-authored
• srd-5-1
• animal
• arthropod
• vermin
• desert
• underground
• venomous

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Where this one came from

Source record

Giant Scorpion [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 Scorpion (SRD 5.1).
• Racial template: -25 points across 22 traits, plus 1 racial skill(s) worth 4 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-scorpion.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 8 feet including the tail, which is the SM +1 row.
• ST from Basic Lift: it drags a human body into a burrow.
• Rating caveat for review: the giant spider out-rates this creature, which is not obviously right. The cause is in the rating path, not the build — a binding is scored at its raw ST while a disabling ability is scored at one point per five, so the spider's web (ST 16) contributes 16 while this scorpion's lethal venom (30 points) contributes 6. Only the better of the two is counted per creature, so the spider's own venom is also discarded. Recorded rather than tuned around; the fix belongs in the CER path.
• 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.