Giant Toad

Animal · 1 hex · SM +0 Giant Toad [Monsters on Automatic, SRD coverage: mundane birds, fish and aquatic animals; answers Giant Toad (SRD 5.1)]

A toad the size of a hound, sitting so still in the reeds that it reads as a stone until the tongue comes out. It eats anything it can get into its mouth, which at this size includes a halfling, and its skin sweats a poison that punishes anyone who grabs it.

Attributes

ST12

DX12

IQ3

HT13

HP12

Will8

Per9

FP13

Basic Speed6.25

Basic Move6

Dodge9

DR0

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
BiteBite (14): 1d-2 crushing, Reach C. The toad swallows what it can and works on the rest.	14	1d-2 crushing	C
TongueTongue (14): 1d-3 crushing, Reach C,1. Lashes out a hex, sticks, and drags a lighter target into reach of the mouth.	14	1d-3 crushing	C,1
Toxic SkinToxic Skin: Reach C. Anything that bites or grapples the toad bare-handed rolls HT or is nauseated and blurred of vision for minutes. No attack roll; contact alone does it.	—	—	C

Traits (12)

• Amphibious
• Bestial
• Cannot Speak
• Cold-Blooded
• Extra Legs (Four Legs)
• Horizontal
• Night Vision 5
• No Fine Manipulators
• Peripheral Vision
• Restricted Diet (Carnivore)
• Striker (Tongue; Crushing; Long +1) (Long +1)
• Super Jump 1

Skills (3)

• 14Brawling
• 14Jumping
• 13Stealth

Notes

• GCS ancestry draft: gcs/giant-toad.gct
• Independent build total: -44 points of racial traits plus 12 points of racial skills.
• Answers the SRD heading(s): Giant Toad (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: 100 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); water Move 6. 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.
• About 1.5 m gathered, which is the SM 0 row. An earlier draft had it a step larger, sized from mass rather than from the published length table.
• ST from Basic Lift: it swallows something the weight of a halfling.
• DR 0 is deliberate. An amphibian's skin is thin, wet and permeable — which is also what makes the toxin work. The toughness is in HT and HP, not hide.
• 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.

Encounter rating

CER18

Offense13

Protection5

Threat tierminor

Appearing2

Wandering4

Tags

• monsters-on-automatic
• ai-generated
• doa-authored
• srd-5-1
• animal
• amphibian
• aquatic
• swamp
• ambusher
• wandering-encounter
• poisonous

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Where this one came from

Source record

Giant Toad [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 Toad (SRD 5.1).
• Racial template: -44 points across 18 traits, plus 3 racial skill(s) worth 12 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.