Swarm · 1 hex · SM +0 Locust Swarm (Monsters on Automatic; answers SRD 3.5)
A locust swarm is not trying to hurt anybody. It is a wall of insects that strips a season's crop in an afternoon and happens to be crossing the road. The danger is being inside it: blind, deafened, and unable to say anything without eating one.
Attributes
ST3
DX12
IQ1
HT10
HP3
Will8
Per9
FP10
Basic Speed5.5
Basic Move11
Dodge8
DR0
Melee attacks
| Usage | Level | Damage | Reach |
|---|---|---|---|
| Storm of BodiesStorm of Bodies: 1d-4 crushing, Reach C. No attack roll and no defense. The injury is trivial; the effect is that nobody in the hex can see, hear an order, or keep their mouth shut long enough to cast. | no roll | 1d-4 crushing | C |
Traits (8)
- Bestial
- Cannot Speak
- Cold-Blooded
- Extra Legs (Six Legs)
- Flight (Winged)
- Injury Tolerance (Diffuse)
- No Fine Manipulators
- Restricted Diet (Herbivore)
Notes
- Racial cost: -63 points of traits plus 0 points of skills.
- Body weight: 6.5 lb.
- Movement: ground Move 3; air Move 11 (primary).
- One hex is the game entity. A real plague is many of these across a horizon, so place several rather than enlarging one.
Encounter rating
CER13
Offense22
Protection-9
Threat tierminor
Appearing1
Wandering3
Tags
- monsters-on-automatic
- ai-generated
- doa-authored
- srd-3-5
- swarm
- animal
- vermin
- plains
- plague
- flier
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Where this one came from
- Source record
- Locust Swarm [Monsters on Automatic, SRD coverage: swarms]
- 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): Locust Swarm (SRD 3.5).
- Racial template: -63 points across 14 traits, plus 0 racial skill(s) worth 0 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/locust-swarm.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.
- The threat is obscurement rather than injury, which is why the disabling ability carries more of the rating than the damage does.
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.