Giant Sea Horse

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

Sea elves and sahuagin both ride these, and a good one costs more than a good horse. It is armored in bony rings, placid to the point of stubbornness, and slower than most things that would like to eat it. Handled well it will carry a rider all day. Handled badly it simply stops.

Attributes

ST18

DX13

IQ3

HT11

HP18

Will8

Per9

FP11

Basic Speed6

Basic Move3

Dodge9

DR3

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
RamRam (13): 1d+2 crushing, Reach C. Driven with the whole body; the armored snout is the only part of it built to hit anything.	13	1d+2 crushing	C

Traits (10)

• Bestial
• Cannot Speak
• Cold-Blooded
• Damage Resistance 3
• Doesn't Breathe (Gills) (Gills)
• No Fine Manipulators
• No Legs (Aquatic)
• Peripheral Vision
• Restricted Diet (Carnivore)
• Striker (Horns; Crushing) (Snout)

Skills (1)

• 13Brawling

Notes

• Racial cost: -39 points of traits plus 1 point of skills.
• Body weight: 400 lb.
• Movement: ground Move 3; water Move 3 (primary).

Encounter rating

CER19

Offense7

Protection12

Threat tierminor

Appearing2

Wandering3

Tags

• monsters-on-automatic
• ai-generated
• doa-authored
• srd-5-1
• animal
• fish
• aquatic
• ocean
• reef
• domestic
• mount

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Where this one came from

Source record

Giant Sea Horse [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 Sea Horse (SRD 5.1).
• Racial template: -39 points across 17 traits, plus 1 racial skill(s) worth 1 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-sea-horse.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 from crown to curled tail, which is the SM +1 row.
• ST is set by what a mount has to do: Basic Lift must carry an armed rider. That raised it from an earlier draft, where it had been scaled from mass and could not have borne one.
• Deliberately slow: Basic Move is bought down, because a sea horse's whole body plan trades speed for armor and station-keeping.
• 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.