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Panther

Animal · minor threat

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Panther top-down encounter tokenPanther top-down flat-top hex token

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

A black leopard that hunts from above and is never seen beforehand. It works the canopy over a trail, drops onto whoever is walking last, and is gone up the trunk again with the body before the front of the column has turned round. Silence is most of what makes it dangerous.

Attributes

ST14
DX14
IQ4
HT12
HP14
Will8
Per10
FP12
Basic Speed6.5
Basic Move9
Dodge9
DR0

Melee attacks

UsageLevelDamageReach
BiteBite (16): 1d-1 cutting, Reach C.161d-1 cuttingC
ClawsClaws (16): 1d-1 cutting, Reach C. Cannot parry.161d-1 cuttingC

Traits (17)

  • Acute Hearing 2
  • Bestial
  • Brachiator
  • Cannot Speak
  • Catfall
  • Combat Reflexes
  • Discriminatory Smell
  • Enhanced Move 0.5 (Ground)
  • Extra Legs (Four Legs)
  • Fur
  • Horizontal
  • Night Vision 6
  • No Fine Manipulators
  • Restricted Diet (Carnivore)
  • Sharp Claws
  • Sharp Teeth
  • Silence 2

Skills (3)

  • 16Brawling
  • 16Climbing
  • 17Stealth

Notes

  • GCS ancestry draft: gcs/panther.gct
  • Independent build total: 30 points of racial traits plus 24 points of racial skills.
  • Answers the SRD heading(s): Panther (SRD 5.1). 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 6, 9 at a sprint (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.

Encounter rating

CER22
Offense15
Protection7
Threat tierminor
Appearing1
Wandering4

Tags

  • monsters-on-automatic
  • ai-generated
  • doa-authored
  • srd-5-1
  • animal
  • mammal
  • predator
  • jungle
  • ambusher
  • wandering-encounter

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Where this one came from
Source record
Panther [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): Panther (SRD 5.1).
  • Racial template: 30 points across 23 traits, plus 3 racial skill(s) worth 24 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.