Animal · 1 hex · SM +0 Giant Vulture [Monsters on Automatic, SRD coverage: mundane birds, fish and aquatic animals; answers Giant Vulture (SRD 5.1)]
A carrion bird with a three-metre span and enough intelligence to work out that a struggling party will be dead soon. They circle for a day, drop to the ground as a group, and start on whoever stopped moving first — and they are not always careful about confirming it.
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
- GCS ancestry draft: gcs/giant-vulture.gct
- Independent build total: -46 points of racial traits plus 6 points of racial skills.
- Answers the SRD heading(s): Giant Vulture (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: 40 kg. ST, Size Modifier and DR are checked against it; see the gurps-animal-sanity-check skill for the bands.
- Movement: ground Move 2; air Move 11, 16 at a sprint (primary). 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.
- Body about 1.5 m, which is the SM 0 row; the three-metre 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.
Encounter rating
CER10
Offense11
Protection-1
Threat tierminor
Appearing4
Wandering4
Tags
- monsters-on-automatic
- ai-generated
- doa-authored
- srd-5-1
- animal
- bird
- flier
- scavenger
- desert
- wandering-encounter
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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.
Copyright 2026 Monsters on Automatic. GURPS-compatible monster statistics, ratings and prose authored for this package as an AI-generated first draft under project review. No SRD text, and no third-party GURPS conversion, is reproduced. Portrait and tokens are AI-generated original art. Sources and credits.