Quipper - Dungeons on Automatic Bestiary

Animal · 1 hex · SM -5 Quipper [Monsters on Automatic, SRD coverage: mundane birds, fish and aquatic animals; answers Quipper (SRD 5.1)]

A hand-length carnivorous fish with a bad temper and worse company. Alone it can barely break skin. In the numbers it actually appears in, a quipper shoal strips a fallen pack animal to bone in the time it takes to wade to the bank.

Attributes

ST2

DX15

IQ3

HT10

HP2

Will8

Per9

FP10

Basic Speed6.25

Basic Move6

Dodge9

DR0

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
BiteBite (16): 1d-7 cutting, Reach C. One bite is a scratch. The point of a quipper is that there are never one of them.	16	1d-7 cutting	C

Traits (10)

Bestial
Bloodlust (12)
Cannot Speak
Doesn't Breathe (Gills) (Gills)
Gregarious
Night Vision 6
No Fine Manipulators
No Legs (Aquatic)
Restricted Diet (Carnivore)
Sharp Teeth

Skills (1)

16Brawling

Notes

GCS ancestry draft: gcs/quipper.gct
Independent build total: -141 points of racial traits plus 2 points of racial skills.
Answers the SRD heading(s): Quipper (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.
Body mass used to scale this build: 0.4 kg. ST, Size Modifier and DR are checked against it; see the gurps-animal-sanity-check skill for the bands.
Movement: ground Move 6; water Move 6 (primary). The published Move is the primary medium's cruising Move; sprint figures are stated here and not folded into it.
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.
About 25 cm, which is the SM -5 row.
Rated as a single fish. The shoal is the threat and belongs in the swarm batch, not here.

Encounter rating

CER1

Offense1

Protection-8

Threat tierminor

Appearing12

Wandering6

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Where this one came from

Source record: Quipper [Monsters on Automatic, SRD coverage: mundane birds, fish and aquatic 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): Quipper (SRD 5.1).
Racial template: -141 points across 15 traits, plus 1 racial skill(s) worth 2 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.