Kobold

Humanoid (Reptilian) · 1 hex · SM -2 Kobold (Monsters on Automatic; answers SRD 3.5, SRD 5.1)

Knee-high scaled things with dog-like snouts, and by some distance the best military engineers in any dungeon. A kobold in a fair fight is nothing. Kobolds do not have fair fights — they have pits, deadfalls, thirty of themselves, and a corridor whose safe route they know. Cold slows them and daylight makes them miserable.

Attributes

ST7

DX11

IQ10

HT10

HP7

Will10

Per11

FP10

Basic Speed5.25

Basic Move5

Dodge8

DR0

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
SpearSpear (12): 1d-2 impaling, Reach 1,2. Held at the far end and used from behind whatever is in the way.	12	1d-2 impaling	1,2
BiteBite (12): 1d-4 cutting, Reach C. What is left when the spear has been dropped and the corridor is full.	12	1d-4 cutting	C
SlingSling (11): 1d-3 crushing, Reach Ranged, 60. From a ledge, in the dark, at a party already dealing with something else.	11	1d-3 crushing	Ranged, 60

Traits (6)

• Cold-Blooded
• Cowardice (12)
• Dark Vision
• Gregarious
• Sharp Teeth
• Social Stigma (Savage)

Skills (5)

• 12Spear
• 11Sling
• 12Traps
• 13Stealth
• 12Brawling

Notes

• Racial cost: -14 points of traits plus 26 points of skills.
• Body weight: 45 lb.
• Movement: ground Move 5 (primary).
• Kobolds are reptiles. A cold gallery genuinely slows them down.

Encounter rating

CER1

Offense4

Protection-3

Threat tierminor

Appearing10

Wandering5

Tags

• monsters-on-automatic
• ai-generated
• doa-authored
• srd-5-1
• srd-3-5
• humanoid
• kobold
• reptile
• dungeon
• underground
• trapper
• cowardly
• evil
• talker

GCS v5 downloads

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Where this one came from

Source record

Kobold [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): Kobold (SRD 5.1); Kobold (SRD 3.5).
• Racial template: -14 points across 9 traits, plus 5 racial skill(s) worth 26 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/kobold.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 3 feet standing, which is the SM -2 row.
• ST 7: the weakest of the folk. Everything dangerous about a kobold happens before the fight starts.
• The traps are not built as attacks on this record. A pit is terrain the kobold made, not a thing the kobold does in a turn, and putting it on the stat block would rate every individual kobold as though it carried the whole mine around.