Goblin

Humanoid (Goblinoid) · 1 hex · SM -2 Goblin (Monsters on Automatic; answers SRD 3.5, SRD 5.1)

Small, sour and numerous. One goblin is a nuisance and runs at the first real hit. Twelve of them in a tunnel they dug themselves, with spears and a hole in the ceiling, are a serious afternoon. They are not brave and they know it, so they do not fight anywhere they have not arranged in advance.

Attributes

ST9

DX11

IQ10

HT10

HP9

Will10

Per11

FP10

Basic Speed5.25

Basic Move5

Dodge8

DR0

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
ShortswordShortsword (12): 1d-1 cutting, Reach 1. Notched, too big for the hand holding it, and swung anyway.	12	1d-1 cutting	1
SpearSpear (12): 1d-1 impaling, Reach 1,2. The one goblin weapon that works, because it lets them fight three deep from behind each other.	12	1d-1 impaling	1,2
ShortbowShortbow (11): 1d+1 impaling, Reach Ranged, 100. Loosed in volleys from a gallery nobody looked up at. The damage is the bow's.	11	1d+1 impaling	Ranged, 100

Traits (4)

• Cowardice (12)
• Dark Vision
• Gregarious
• Social Stigma (Savage)

Skills (5)

• 12Shortsword
• 12Spear
• 11Bow
• 13Stealth
• 12Brawling

Notes

• Racial cost: 10 points of traits plus 20 points of skills.
• Body weight: 65 lb.
• Movement: ground Move 5 (primary).

Encounter rating

CER10

Offense11

Protection-1

Threat tierminor

Appearing8

Wandering5

Tags

• monsters-on-automatic
• ai-generated
• doa-authored
• srd-5-1
• srd-3-5
• humanoid
• goblinoid
• dungeon
• raider
• cowardly
• evil
• talker

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Where this one came from

Source record

Goblin [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): Goblin (SRD 5.1); Goblin (SRD 3.5).
• Racial template: 10 points across 7 traits, plus 5 racial skill(s) worth 20 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/goblin.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.
• About 3 ft 6 in standing, which reads on the SM -2 row.
• ST 9: weak for the fight it picks, which is the reason it picks it that way.
• Bloodlust is dropped from the goblinoid stock by name. Hobgoblins and bugbears finish what they start; a goblin's first instinct on a fight turning is to be elsewhere, and Cowardice replaces it.