Giant Shark

Animal · 5 hexes · SM +3 Giant Shark (Monsters on Automatic; answers SRD 5.1)

Twenty feet of shark that has stopped regarding boats as too large to try. It comes up from below and behind, takes one bite, then circles while the target bleeds. The skin is rough enough to take the hide off a hand that grabs it.

Attributes

ST35

DX11

IQ3

HT14

HP35

Will9

Per10

FP14

Basic Speed6.25

Basic Move6

Dodge9

DR3

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
BiteBite (13): 4d-2 cutting, Reach C. Rows of serrated teeth on jaws wide enough to take a rower and his oar together.	13	4d-2 cutting	C

Traits (14)

• Bestial
• Bloodlust (12)
• Cannot Speak
• Damage Resistance 3 (Tough Skin)
• Discriminatory Smell
• Doesn't Breathe (Gills) (Gills)
• Enhanced Move 1 (Water)
• High Pain Threshold
• No Fine Manipulators
• No Legs (Aquatic)
• Pressure Support 1
• Restricted Diet (Carnivore)
• Sharp Teeth
• Vibration Sense (Water)

Skills (2)

• 13Brawling
• 11Tracking

Notes

• Racial cost: 57 points of traits plus 8 points of skills.
• Body weight: 4,000 lb.
• Movement: ground Move 6; water Move 6, 12 at a sprint (primary).

Encounter rating

CER60

Offense25

Protection35

Threat tiermajor

Appearing1

Wandering2

Tags

• monsters-on-automatic
• ai-generated
• doa-authored
• srd-5-1
• animal
• fish
• aquatic
• ocean
• open-water
• apex
• predator

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Where this one came from

Source record

Giant Shark [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 Shark (SRD 5.1).
• Racial template: 57 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.
• 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-shark.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.
• Twenty feet, which is the SM +3 row.
• ST from Basic Lift: it carries off a 550 lb. piece of whatever it bit.
• Added after a post-hoc comparison against independent GURPS fan conversions of this creature: the Tracking skill, which a creature with Discriminatory Smell should always have. The comparison surfaced the gap; the build is still ours.