Animal · 3 hexes · SM +2 Horse, Heavy (Monsters on Automatic; answers SRD 3.5, SRD 5.1: Draft Horse)
The plow and wagon horse: heavy through the chest, slow to startle, strong enough to drag a loaded cart out of a flooded ford. It is not a fighting animal and will not carry anybody into a fight. It hauls what an expedition cannot and it eats accordingly.
Attributes
ST28
DX9
IQ4
HT12
HP28
Will8
Per8
FP12
Basic Speed5.25
Basic Move7
Dodge8
DR0
Melee attacks
| Usage | Level | Damage | Reach |
|---|---|---|---|
| HoovesHooves (8): 3d+2 crushing, Reach C,1. Shod rear hooves; a connecting kick breaks what it lands on. | 8 | 3d+2 crushing | C,1 |
Traits (13)
- Acute Hearing 3
- Bestial
- Cannot Speak
- Chummy
- Enhanced Move 0.5 (Ground)
- Extra Legs (Four Legs)
- Fur
- Hooves
- Horizontal
- Increased Consumption 1
- No Fine Manipulators
- Peripheral Vision
- Restricted Diet (Herbivore)
Skills (1)
- 10Brawling
Notes
- Racial cost: -50 points of traits plus 2 points of skills.
- Movement: ground Move 5, 7 at a sprint (primary).
Encounter rating
CER32
Offense14
Protection18
Threat tierstandard
Appearing2
Wandering3
Tags
- monsters-on-automatic
- ai-generated
- doa-authored
- srd-5-1
- srd-3-5
- animal
- mammal
- urban
- beast-of-burden
- domestic
- mount
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Where this one came from
- Source record
- Horse, Heavy [Monsters on Automatic, SRD coverage: mundane land 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): Draft Horse (SRD 5.1); Horse, Heavy (SRD 3.5).
- Racial template: -50 points across 19 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/heavy-horse.gct
- The published Move folds this creature's Enhanced Move into a single figure.
- 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.
- Added after a post-hoc comparison against independent GURPS fan conversions of this creature: Peripheral Vision. The comparison surfaced the gap; the build is still ours.
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.