Gnoll - Dungeons on Automatic Bestiary

Humanoid (Gnoll) · 1 hex · SM +0 Gnoll [Monsters on Automatic, SRD coverage: humanoid folk and their sub-races; answers Gnoll (SRD 5.1); Gnoll (SRD 3.5)]

Hyena-headed raiders who hunt in packs and take the long way round to get behind you. Gnolls follow a scent for days, are audibly delighted by a fight going their way, and stop to eat before the fight is properly over — which is the only mercy anyone gets from them. A camp they have passed through is recognisable from a distance by the smell.

Attributes

ST13

DX11

IQ10

HT11

HP13

Will10

Per12

FP11

Basic Speed5.5

Basic Move5

Dodge8

DR0

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
BattleaxeBattleaxe (12): 2d+1 cutting, Reach 1. Taken off somebody, kept badly, and still perfectly effective.	12	2d+1 cutting	1
BiteBite (12): 1d-1 cutting, Reach C. Used the moment the target is down, and often instead of finishing the fight.	12	1d-1 cutting	C
ShortbowShortbow (11): 1d+1 impaling, Reach Ranged, 100. Loosed at anything running away. The damage is the bow's.	11	1d+1 impaling	Ranged, 100

Traits (8)

Acute Hearing 2
Bad Smell
Bloodlust (12)
Dark Vision
Discriminatory Smell
Gluttony (12)
Sharp Teeth
Social Stigma (Savage)

Skills (6)

12Axe/Mace
12Brawling
11Bow
14Tracking
11Intimidation
11Stealth

Notes

GCS ancestry draft: gcs/gnoll.gct
Independent build total: 80 points of racial traits plus 22 points of racial skills.
Answers the SRD heading(s): Gnoll (SRD 5.1); Gnoll (SRD 3.5). 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: 110 kg. ST, Size Modifier and DR are checked against it; see the gurps-animal-sanity-check skill for the bands.
Movement: ground Move 5 (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.
About 2.1 m standing, which reads on the SM 0 row rather than the +1 row at 2.7 m.
ST 13 from Basic Lift: a gnoll carries a laden pack and a stolen goat across a day's open ground.
Discriminatory Smell with Tracking bought on top of it. The trait is the nose; the skill is what it does with a two-day-old trail, and a gnoll that had one without the other would not be the thing that follows a caravan for a week.

Encounter rating

CER18

Offense14

Protection4

Threat tierminor

Appearing6

Wandering4

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Where this one came from

Source record: Gnoll [Monsters on Automatic, SRD coverage: humanoid folk and their sub-races]
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): Gnoll (SRD 5.1); Gnoll (SRD 3.5).
Racial template: 80 points across 12 traits, plus 6 racial skill(s) worth 22 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.