Plesiosaurus

Animal · 3 hexes · SM +2 Plesiosaurus (Monsters on Automatic; answers SRD 5.1)

Fifteen feet of barrel-bodied reptile rowing itself along on four flippers, with a neck that arrives before the rest of it does. It hunts fish and holds no particular opinion about people, right up until a boat sits between it and the shoal.

Attributes

ST24

DX12

IQ3

HT13

HP24

Will9

Per10

FP13

Basic Speed6.25

Basic Move6

Dodge9

DR2

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
BiteBite (14): 2d cutting, Reach C,2. A mouth full of interlocking needles, delivered on a neck that reaches over a gunwale.	14	2d cutting	C,2

Traits (14)

• Amphibious
• Bestial
• Breath-Holding 3
• Cannot Speak
• Cold-Blooded
• Damage Resistance 2 (Tough Skin)
• Enhanced Move 0.5 (Water)
• Horizontal
• Nictitating Membrane 2
• Night Vision 3
• No Fine Manipulators
• Pressure Support 1
• Restricted Diet (Carnivore)
• Sharp Teeth

Skills (2)

• 14Brawling
• 14Swimming

Notes

• Racial cost: -2 points of traits plus 6 points of skills.
• Body weight: 1,100 lb.
• Movement: ground Move 6; water Move 6, 9 at a sprint (primary).

Encounter rating

CER38

Offense18

Protection20

Threat tierstandard

Appearing1

Wandering3

Tags

• monsters-on-automatic
• ai-generated
• doa-authored
• srd-5-1
• animal
• reptile
• dinosaur
• aquatic
• coastal
• ocean
• predator
• prehistoric

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Where this one came from

Source record

Plesiosaurus [Monsters on Automatic, SRD coverage: dinosaurs and prehistoric beasts]

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): Plesiosaurus (SRD 5.1).
• Racial template: -2 points across 20 traits, plus 2 racial skill(s) worth 6 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/plesiosaurus.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.
• Fifteen feet, which is the SM +2 row.
• ST from Basic Lift: it carries off a 265 lb. piece of whatever it took.