Hobgoblin

Humanoid (Goblinoid) · 1 hex · SM +0 Hobgoblin (Monsters on Automatic; answers SRD 3.5, SRD 5.1)

The goblinoid that got organized. Hobgoblins drill, post sentries, hold a line when it is losing and rotate the front rank while they do it, so six of them are a harder problem than twenty goblins and a much worse surprise. They are not frightened of adventurers. They have a standing plan for adventurers.

Attributes

ST12

DX11

IQ10

HT11

HP12

Will11

Per10

FP11

Basic Speed5.5

Basic Move5

Dodge8

DR0

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
LongswordLongsword (13): 1d+3 cutting, Reach 1. Drilled with, maintained, and used in a line with somebody else's shield on the flank.	13	1d+3 cutting	1
Shield BashShield Bash (13): 1d-1 crushing, Reach 1. The line steps forward together. This is what steps forward first.	13	1d-1 crushing	1
LongbowLongbow (12): 1d+2 impaling, Reach Ranged, 200. Volleyed on command from the rank behind. The damage is the bow's.	12	1d+2 impaling	Ranged, 200

Traits (5)

• Bloodlust (12)
• Combat Reflexes
• Dark Vision
• Fearlessness 2
• Social Stigma (Savage)

Skills (5)

• 13Broadsword
• 13Shield
• 12Bow
• 12Brawling
• 10Tactics

Notes

• Racial cost: 79 points of traits plus 22 points of skills.
• Body weight: 200 lb.
• Movement: ground Move 5 (primary).
• Mail and a shield are standard issue and are not in this record's DR, so a hobgoblin met in the field is better protected than the stat block says.

Encounter rating

CER18

Offense13

Protection5

Threat tierminor

Appearing6

Wandering4

Tags

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

GCS v5 downloads

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Where this one came from

Source record

Hobgoblin [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): Hobgoblin (SRD 5.1); Hobgoblin (SRD 3.5).
• Racial template: 79 points across 9 traits, plus 5 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.
• 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/hobgoblin.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 6 ft 3 in standing, which is the SM 0 row.
• ST 12 from Basic Lift: a soldier's frame carrying a soldier's load all day.
• Combat Reflexes and Fearlessness are the record. A hobgoblin without them is an orc in better kit, and the whole reason the creature exists is that it does not break.