Oni

Giant · 2 hexes · SM +1 Oni (Monsters on Automatic; answers SRD 3.5: Ogre Mage, SRD 5.1)

An ogre with a sorcerer's education and centuries of practice at being somebody's neighbor. In its own shape it is a horned blue giant with a glaive. In the shape it usually wears it is a well-liked man in a mountain village. It flies, it vanishes, it heals whatever is done to it, and it would much rather charm the guard than fight the party.

Attributes

ST22

DX11

IQ13

HT12

HP22

Will15

Per14

FP12

Basic Speed5.75

Basic Move5

Dodge8

DR3

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
GlaiveGlaive (13): 4d+3 cutting, Reach 1,2. Kept on the wall of the house it took, and reached for without changing shape first.	13	4d+3 cutting	1,2
Cone of ColdCone of Cold (14): 6d burning, Reach Ranged, cone. A breath of killing cold across the front arc. It costs the oni to use and cannot be repeated every second.	14	6d burning	Ranged, cone
CharmCharm: Reach Ranged, 10. One person is told to stop, and rolls against Will to not. The oni much prefers this to the glaive, because a charmed guard opens the door.	—	—	Ranged, 10

Traits (11)

• Appearance (Ugly)
• Combat Reflexes
• Damage Resistance 3 (Tough Skin)
• Dark Vision
• Flight
• High Pain Threshold
• Invisibility (Switchable)
• Magic Resistance 2
• Morph (Limited (humanoid forms))
• Regeneration (Slow)
• Social Stigma (Monster)

Skills (6)

• 13Two-Handed Sword
• 13Brawling
• 14Innate Attack
• 15Acting
• 17Intimidation
• 12Stealth

Notes

• Racial cost: 437 points of traits plus 40 points of skills.
• Body weight: 700 lb.
• Movement: ground Move 5 (primary); air Move 11.
• Oni in SRD 5.1 and Ogre Mage in SRD 3.5 are one creature, and this is both. The flight comes from the older heading and is kept.
• The breath costs the creature to use and cannot be repeated every second; the published rating does not yet discount it for that.

Encounter rating

CER61

Offense36

Protection25

Threat tiermajor

Appearing1

Wandering2

Tags

• monsters-on-automatic
• ai-generated
• doa-authored
• srd-5-1
• srd-3-5
• giant
• ogre
• oni
• shapechanger
• mountain
• cold
• spellcaster
• evil
• talker
• flier

GCS v5 downloads

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Where this one came from

Source record

Oni [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): Oni (SRD 5.1); Ogre Mage (SRD 3.5).
• Racial template: 437 points across 17 traits, plus 6 racial skill(s) worth 40 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/oni.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 10 feet standing, which is the SM +1 row; Strength carries the published -10% size discount.
• ST 22 from Basic Lift, a step above the common ogre, which is the difference the older and better-fed creature earns.
• Morph is bought at published cost with a -20% limitation to humanoid forms, which is what the creature actually does. The alternative was a special rule, and a special rule is a claim rather than a build.
• Bad Smell and Gluttony are dropped from the ogre stock by name. An oni that could not sit at a table without being noticed could not do the only thing that makes it different from an ogre.
• The breath is marked as costing fatigue, which is meant to halve its contribution to the rating. Issue #55 records that the shared rating path drops that flag on the damage term; the flag is stated correctly here and the fix belongs in cer.mjs.