Riding Dog - Dungeons on Automatic Bestiary

Animal · SM -1 Riding Dog [Monster Manual, page 272]

Attributes

ST6

DX12

IQ4

HT10

HP6

Will10

Per12

FP13

Basic Speed5.5

Basic Move9

Dodge8

DR0

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
Sharp TeethSharp Teeth (14): thrust 1d-4 cutting (KYOS: 1d-6 cutting), Reach C.	14	thrust 1d-4 cutting (KYOS: 1d-6 cutting)	C

Traits (17)

Acute Taste and Smell 3
Born Biter 2
Chummy
Discriminatory Smell
Domestic Animal
Enhanced Move 0.5 (Ground)
Extra Legs (Four Legs)
Fur
Gluttony (12)
Horizontal
Lifting ST 2
Night Vision 5
No Fine Manipulators
Reduced Consumption 2 (Cast-Iron Stomach)
Short Lifespan 2
Temperature Tolerance 1 (Cold)
Ultrahearing

Skills (5)

14Brawling
10Intimidation
12Mount
10Running
15Tracking

Notes

GCS ancestry draft: gcs/riding-dog.gct
Source template total: -80 points.
Library-rebuilt template total: -80 points.
CER was computed from parsed Typical Stats using the Dungeons On Automatic baseline CER path.
Review attacks, special abilities, encounter frequency, treasure, grappling, and GCS modifiers before approval.

Encounter rating

CER5

Offense9

Protection-4

Threat tierminor

Appearing6

Wandering4

GCS v5 downloads

Where this one came from

Source record: Riding Dog [Monster Manual, page 272]
Source system: gurps_4e_fan_conversion / author_permission
Released under: cc_by_4_0
Conversion: 0.2.0-reviewed
Review status: approved
Credit: Original GURPS conversion by Enraged Eggplant, from Monsters (May 11, 2024); adapted and republished with permission.

GCS ancestry draft: gcs/riding-dog.gct
Source template total: -80 points.
Library-rebuilt template total: -80 points.
CER was computed from parsed Typical Stats using the Dungeons On Automatic baseline CER path.
CER recomputed from the reviewed Typical Stats through the canonical Dungeons on Automatic CER path: OR 9, PR -4, CER 5, threat tier minor.
Conversion baseline reported OR 10, PR -4, CER 6 (tier minor). The reviewed values come from the consumer CER implementation, which rounds damage once after the damage-type multiplier and credits ranged accuracy; the conversion baseline ceilinged the damage base first and ignored range.
Encounter metadata derived (gregarious): average number appearing 6, wandering weight 4. Encounter metadata derived for 0.2.0 from the reviewed threat tier and creature class (appearing: minor 4 / standard 2 / major 1 / severe 1, forced to 1 for solitary classes — including swarms, which are a single multi-body creature — and raised to 6 for gregarious minor creatures; wandering weight: minor 4 / standard 3 / major 2 / severe 1). The fan-conversion source states no appearing-in-numbers or wandering values, so these are derived, not source mechanics.
Lair, treasure, and grappling remain unpopulated in 0.2.0 by package policy: the authorized fan-conversion source states no lair, treasure, or grappling values, and review declines to invent them. See review/policy/0.2.0-empty-field-policy.md.
Review approved by automated-mechanical-review on 2026-07-26 (batch ee-2026-07-26-b4-special-mechanics); GCS fidelity check passed, DOA playability check passed.
Special-mechanics record. Mechanics the CER path cannot price are named per record in review/reports/cer-audit.md rather than folded into the number, and encounter counts are capped where a save-or-disable attack is present.

Enraged Eggplant GURPS monster conversions; used, adapted, and republished with unrestricted permission from the author. Portrait and tokens are AI-generated original art. Sources and credits.