Locust Swarm - Dungeons on Automatic Bestiary

Locust Swarm top-down flat-top hex token

Swarm · 1 hex · SM +0 Locust Swarm [Monsters on Automatic, SRD coverage: swarms; answers Locust Swarm (SRD 3.5)]

It is not really trying to hurt anyone. A locust swarm is a wall of insects that strips a season's crop in an afternoon and happens to be crossing the road, and the danger to a party 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 defence. 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

GCS ancestry draft: gcs/locust-swarm.gct
Independent build total: -63 points of racial traits plus 0 points of racial skills.
Answers the SRD heading(s): Locust Swarm (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.
Body mass used to scale this build: 3 kg. ST, Size Modifier and DR are checked against it; see the gurps-animal-sanity-check skill for the bands.
Movement: ground Move 3; air Move 11 (primary). The published Move is the primary medium's cruising Move; sprint figures are stated here and not folded into it.
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.
One hex, which is the game entity. A true plague is many of these across a horizon, and a GM wanting that should place several rather than enlarging one.
The threat is obscurement rather than injury, which is why the disabling ability carries more of the rating than the damage does.

Encounter rating

CER13

Offense22

Protection-9

Threat tierminor

Appearing1

Wandering3

GCS v5 downloads

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.

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.