Hawk

Animal · 1 hex · SM -4 Hawk (Monsters on Automatic; answers SRD 3.5, SRD 5.1)

A hawk picks a mouse out of grass from the top of a tower, and its dive arrives ahead of the sound of it. As a wandering encounter it is scenery. As a trained bird it is a scout, a messenger and the reason a hunting party eats, and a falconer's hawk is worth more than his horse.

Attributes

ST2

DX15

IQ4

HT10

HP2

Will10

Per13

FP10

Basic Speed6.25

Basic Move12

Dodge9

DR0

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
TalonsTalons (16): 1d-5 cutting, Reach C. Delivered at the end of a stoop. Cannot parry.	16	1d-5 cutting	C
BeakBeak (16): 1d-7 piercing, Reach C.	16	1d-7 piercing	C

Traits (10)

• Acute Vision 3
• Bestial
• Cannot Speak
• Enhanced Move 1 (Air)
• Flight (Winged)
• No Fine Manipulators
• Restricted Diet (Carnivore)
• Sharp Beak
• Talons
• Telescopic Vision 2

Skills (1)

• 16Brawling

Notes

• Racial cost: -43 points of traits plus 2 points of skills.
• Body weight: 2 lb.
• Movement: ground Move 2; air Move 12, 24 at a sprint (primary).

Encounter rating

CER4

Offense10

Protection-6

Threat tierminor

Appearing1

Wandering6

Tags

• monsters-on-automatic
• ai-generated
• doa-authored
• srd-5-1
• srd-3-5
• animal
• bird
• forest
• plains
• predator
• familiar
• trained
• flier

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Where this one came from

Source record

Hawk [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): Hawk (SRD 5.1); Hawk (SRD 3.5).
• Racial template: -43 points across 16 traits, plus 1 racial skill(s) worth 2 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/hawk.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 20 inches, which is the SM -4 row.
• Perception is deliberately exceptional: eyesight is the one thing a hawk is unarguably exceptional at, and Acute Vision and Telescopic Vision sit on top of it.