Animal · 2 hexes · SM +1 Mule (Monsters on Automatic; answers SRD 3.5, SRD 5.1)
The pack animal of choice anywhere a cart cannot go: stronger than a donkey, tougher than a horse, and impossible to talk into a bad idea. It carries an expedition's load up switchbacks all day, refuses a single step onto rotten ground, and kicks whoever 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
- Racial cost: -28 points of traits plus 1 point of skills.
- Movement: ground Move 5 (primary).
Encounter rating
CER20
Offense8
Protection12
Threat tierminor
Appearing2
Wandering3
Tags
- monsters-on-automatic
- ai-generated
- doa-authored
- srd-5-1
- srd-3-5
- animal
- mammal
- urban
- beast-of-burden
- domestic
- mount
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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.
- 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/mule.gct
- The published Move folds this creature's Enhanced Move into a single figure.
- 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.
- 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.
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.