Hunter Shark

Animal · 3 hexes · SM +2 Hunter Shark (Monsters on Automatic; answers SRD 5.1)

Twelve feet of shark that has decided a swimmer is food. It tracks blood across half a mile of open water and closes from whichever side has no eyes on it. There is nothing malicious in this. Sharks are simply very good at one thing.

Attributes

ST24

DX12

IQ3

HT13

HP24

Will9

Per10

FP13

Basic Speed6.25

Basic Move6

Dodge9

DR2

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
BiteBite (14): 2d cutting, Reach C. One pass, one bite, and away before anything can answer it.	14	2d cutting	C

Traits (13)

• Bestial
• Bloodlust (12)
• Cannot Speak
• Damage Resistance 2 (Tough Skin)
• Discriminatory Smell
• Doesn't Breathe (Gills) (Gills)
• Enhanced Move 1 (Water)
• No Fine Manipulators
• No Legs (Aquatic)
• Pressure Support 1
• Restricted Diet (Carnivore)
• Sharp Teeth
• Vibration Sense (Water)

Skills (2)

• 14Brawling
• 11Tracking

Notes

• Racial cost: 27 points of traits plus 8 points of skills.
• Body weight: 900 lb.
• Movement: ground Move 6; water Move 6, 12 at a sprint (primary).

Encounter rating

CER38

Offense18

Protection20

Threat tierstandard

Appearing2

Wandering3

Tags

• monsters-on-automatic
• ai-generated
• doa-authored
• srd-5-1
• animal
• fish
• aquatic
• coastal
• ocean
• predator

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Where this one came from

Source record

Hunter Shark [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): Hunter Shark (SRD 5.1).
• Racial template: 27 points across 19 traits, plus 2 racial skill(s) worth 8 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/hunter-shark.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.
• Twelve feet, which is the SM +2 row.
• ST from Basic Lift: it takes a 265 lb. piece away with it.
• Added after a post-hoc comparison against independent GURPS fan conversions of this creature: the Tracking skill, which a creature with Discriminatory Smell should always have. The comparison surfaced the gap; the build is still ours.