Animal · 3 hexes · SM +2 Horse, Heavy [Monsters on Automatic, SRD coverage: mundane land animals; answers Draft Horse (SRD 5.1); Horse, Heavy (SRD 3.5)]
The plough and wagon horse: heavy through the chest, slow to startle, and strong enough to drag a loaded cart out of a flooded ford. It is not a fighting animal and will not carry anyone into one, but it hauls what an expedition cannot and 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
- GCS ancestry draft: gcs/heavy-horse.gct
- Independent build total: -50 points of racial traits plus 2 points of racial skills.
- Answers the SRD heading(s): Draft Horse (SRD 5.1); Horse, Heavy (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.
- Movement: ground Move 5, 7 at a sprint (primary). The published Move folds this creature's Enhanced Move into a single figure.
- 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.
- 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.
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
- domestic
- mount
- beast-of-burden
- draft
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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.
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.