Mule - Dungeons on Automatic Bestiary

Animal · 2 hexes · SM +1 Mule [Monsters on Automatic, SRD coverage: mundane land animals; answers Mule (SRD 5.1); Mule (SRD 3.5)]

The pack animal of choice for anywhere a cart cannot go: stronger than a donkey, tougher than a horse, and immune to being talked into a bad idea. It carries an expedition's load up switchbacks all day, refuses one step onto rotten ground, and kicks anyone who insists.

Attributes

ST20

DX10

IQ4

HT13

HP20

Will9

Per7

FP13

Basic Speed5.75

Basic Move5

Dodge8

DR0

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
KickKick (8): 2d+1 crushing, Reach C,1. A mule kicks sideways and backwards, and its aim is better than anyone expects.	8	2d+1 crushing	C,1

Traits (14)

Acute Hearing 2
Bestial
Cannot Speak
Extra Legs (Four Legs)
Fur
Hooves
Horizontal
No Fine Manipulators
Perfect Balance
Peripheral Vision
Reduced Consumption 2
Restricted Diet (Herbivore)
Stubbornness
Terrain Adaptation (Bad Footing)

Skills (1)

10Brawling

Notes

GCS ancestry draft: gcs/mule.gct
Independent build total: -28 points of racial traits plus 1 points of racial skills.
Answers the SRD heading(s): Mule (SRD 5.1); Mule (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 (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

CER20

Offense8

Protection12

Threat tierminor

Appearing2

Wandering3

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Where this one came from

Source record: Mule [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): Mule (SRD 5.1); Mule (SRD 3.5).
Racial template: -28 points across 19 traits, plus 1 racial skill(s) worth 1 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.