Giant Vulture

Animal · 1 hex · SM +0 Giant Vulture (Monsters on Automatic; answers SRD 5.1)

A carrion bird with a ten-foot wingspan and enough sense to recognize a party that is losing. Giant vultures will circle a struggling group for a day, then come down together and start on whoever stopped moving. They are not always careful about checking first.

Attributes

ST7

DX11

IQ5

HT12

HP7

Will10

Per13

FP12

Basic Speed5.75

Basic Move11

Dodge8

DR0

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
BeakBeak (12): 1d-4 piercing, Reach C. A hooked beak built for opening a carcass.	12	1d-4 piercing	C
TalonsTalons (12): 1d-2 cutting, Reach C. Cannot parry.	12	1d-2 cutting	C

Traits (13)

• Acute Vision 3
• Bad Smell
• Bestial
• Cannot Speak
• Discriminatory Smell
• Enhanced Move 0.5 (Air)
• Flight (Winged)
• Gregarious
• No Fine Manipulators
• Restricted Diet (Carrion)
• Sharp Beak
• Talons
• Telescopic Vision 1

Skills (2)

• 12Brawling
• 14Tracking

Notes

• Racial cost: -46 points of traits plus 6 points of skills.
• Body weight: 90 lb.
• Movement: ground Move 2; air Move 11, 16 at a sprint (primary).

Encounter rating

CER10

Offense11

Protection-1

Threat tierminor

Appearing4

Wandering4

Tags

• monsters-on-automatic
• ai-generated
• doa-authored
• srd-5-1
• animal
• bird
• desert
• scavenger
• flock
• flier

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Where this one came from

Source record

Giant Vulture [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 Vulture (SRD 5.1).
• Racial template: -46 points across 20 traits, plus 2 racial skill(s) worth 6 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-vulture.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.
• Body about 5 feet, which is the SM 0 row; the ten-foot span is wingspan and the wings fold. An earlier draft sized it from the span.
• IQ 5 is deliberate. The SRD presents these as calculating rather than merely hungry, and Will and Per follow from it.
• 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.