Reef Shark

Animal · 1 hex · SM +0 Reef Shark [Monsters on Automatic, SRD coverage: mundane birds, fish and aquatic animals; answers Reef Shark (SRD 5.1)]

Small as sharks go and rarely interested in anything person-sized, until several of them are and the water is already cloudy. Reef sharks hunt in loose company over coral, and what makes them dangerous is arithmetic rather than size.

Attributes

ST11

DX12

IQ3

HT12

HP11

Will8

Per10

FP12

Basic Speed6

Basic Move6

Dodge9

DR1

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
BiteBite (14): 1d-2 cutting, Reach C.	14	1d-2 cutting	C

Traits (12)

• Bestial
• Cannot Speak
• Damage Resistance 1 (Tough Skin)
• Discriminatory Smell
• Doesn't Breathe (Gills) (Gills)
• Enhanced Move 0.5 (Water)
• Gregarious
• No Fine Manipulators
• No Legs (Aquatic)
• Restricted Diet (Carnivore)
• Sharp Teeth
• Vibration Sense (Water)

Skills (2)

• 14Brawling
• 11Tracking

Notes

• GCS ancestry draft: gcs/reef-shark.gct
• Independent build total: -56 points of racial traits plus 8 points of racial skills.
• Answers the SRD heading(s): Reef Shark (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: 60 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, 9 at a sprint (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 two metres, which is the SM 0 row.
• ST from Basic Lift: 25 kg carried off, which is a bite's worth and no more.
• Added after a post-hoc comparison against independent GURPS fan conversions of this creature: the Tracking skill, which a creature with Discriminatory Smell should always have. The comparison surfaced the gap; the build is still ours.

Encounter rating

CER12

Offense8

Protection4

Threat tierminor

Appearing4

Wandering5

Tags

• monsters-on-automatic
• ai-generated
• doa-authored
• srd-5-1
• animal
• fish
• aquatic
• predator
• reef
• pack

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Where this one came from

Source record

Reef Shark [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): Reef Shark (SRD 5.1).
• Racial template: -56 points across 18 traits, plus 2 racial skill(s) worth 8 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.